Julia Stemberger

Julia Stemberger
Julia Stemberger
	Julia Stemberger in 2010
Born	Julia Stemberger; 29 January 1965 (age 59); Vienna, Austria
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1984-present
Children	Fanny Altenburger
Relatives	Katharina Stemberger (sister)

Julia Stemberger (born 29 January 1965) is an Austrian actress.

Early life

Stemberger was born in Vienna, Austria to actress Christa Schwertsik and medical doctor Heinrich Stemberger. Her younger sister, Katharina Stemberger also became a renowned actress.

Besides the acting classes with Dorothea Neff and Eva Zilcher she also learned singing ballet- and jazz dancing and playing flutes and the piano.

Career

Film and TV

Just after her Matura aged 19, Stemberger assumed the lead role in her first Film Herzklopfen in 1984. The film was very successful and yielded her a large public attention. She played in several German film productions for instance Xaver Schwarzenberger and also the TV Series Die Stein and 11er Haus

Theater

In theater, Stemberger's first success was as Paula in The Abduction of the Sabine Women at the

Salzburger Festspiele. She then played in several plays directed by Flimm and in Peter Zadek's adaption of The Merchant of Venice the first time at the Burgtheater

of Vienna.

She also starred in

Wiener Volksoper and other Theaters in Vienna, Hamburg and Munich

.

In addition to her work as a theater and film actress Stemberger performed together with the ensembles The Austrian Salonists and the String Quartet Sonare stage programs in which they mainly humorous from the works of writers such as

Vladimir Kaminer, Umberto Eco.^[1]