
Acting
Johanna Wokalek
Born
1975-03-03 (51)
Place of birth
Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Known for
Acting
Credits
47 titles
Johanna Wokalek (born March 3, 1975) is a German stage and film actress. A student of Klaus Maria Brandauer, she received critical recognition and three newcomer awards for her performance in the play Rose Bernd. Wokalek is best known for her award-winning appearances in the German films Hierankl, Barfuss, and The Baader Meinhof Complex. She received the Bambi award for her portrayal of the Red Army Faction member Gudrun Ensslin in 2008. She played the lead role in the film Pope Joan in 2009. Description above from the Wikipedia article Johanna Wokalek, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
4.7Every evening at 6:45 p.m. sharp, a prominent guest takes a seat on the red sofa—and DAS! provides daily updates on what's hot in the north.
DAS!
1991
6.2Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
Scene of the Crime
1970
4.3The Berliner Abendschau is the news magazine for Berlin.
Abendschau
2000
6.2Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.
Polizeiruf 110
1971
6.6No synopsis available yet.
NDR Talk Show
1979
No synopsis available yet.
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
1998
Film credits
2020s · 6 titles
6.2After an elaborate application process, Empress Elisabeth of Austria hires Countess Irma as her new lady-in-waiting and takes her to her summer residence on Corfu. As the two women become closer there, this soon leads to tensions back in Vienna.
Sisi & I
2023
6.7A lifeguard tries by all means to keep his home, an open-air swimming pool, from being closed.
Beckenrand Sheriff
2021
NRAlthough hostess Brigitte and life-loving schoolgirl Paula only meet in person once, their fates and lives are closely intertwined.
Women as Lovers
2026
NRRenowned German organist Anna discovers her Latvian husband's involvement in a corruption scandal, shaking the foundation of their life together. Can she come to terms with this new reality about her husband?
The Exalted
2024
6.1Anna is pregnant and thinks about castrations. Katinka may not be able to become a farmer and wears her bikini in the milking parlor, but grandma's tomatoes have turned out better this year than ever before. A summer on dying German farms.
Smell of Burnt Milk
2025
NRAfter a sexual assault, Toni (17) feels wrong and vulnerable—as if she no longer belongs in her own body. When she meets Anna, she feels a glimmer of hope that she can free herself from her past. But her experiences can catch up with her anytime, anywhere.
Run Me Wild
2026
2010s · 8 titles
5.9Insurance broker Max's life is about one thing - keeping his walnut brain tumour in check. He eats properly, exercises and lives properly, but all of this self-consciousness makes him more and more depressed. When he realises that his beloved wife plans to leave him, he decides to take his own life.
Exit Plan
2019
6.5In a small North German village a drama played out during and shortly after the Second World War about duty versus individual conscience and morality.
The German Lesson
2019
4.4Nora walks out on her husband Philip and their two children without a word of explanation. She’s driven by an irresistible force. She wants to be free.
Freedom
2017
5.0Welcome to 2020: The European Union has collapsed following the fourth Gulf War and massive barricades keep illegal immigrants out of cities that are barely functioning. In the middle of this highly volatile environment is the family of Walter Kuper, an energy conglomerate executive. Walter’s daughter, Cecilia, has joined the Black Storm terrorist group. Her sister Laura must choose between motherhood and the man she loves; their brother Philip has been called up to fight for Germany in a hopeless war to secure the last remaining oil fields. Starring leading actors Daniel Brühl, Johanna Wokalek and Jürgen Vogel, "The Days to Come" asks provocative questions about the current state of things as it depicts personal and political realities in a scarily believable near–future.
The Coming Days
2010
5.6Romantic comedy about the love confusion of four girlfriends, whose lives are properly turned upside down by their four-legged friends. After being abandoned by her boyfriend, Ella adopts a half-breed called Bozer, who jumbled up her everyday life, but also makes her happy again. Cecile, on the other hand, is about to divorce, but the meek four-legged Simpson averts the worst and is also there for the children. Silke works as a dog trainer and knows very well about the animals, but she has her problems with her fellow human beings. She meets former footballer Olli. And also Lulu has met someone, but her acquaintance is a dog lover, while she has a preference for cats.
Wuff
2018
5.9Based on the best-selling psychology book by Paul Watzlawick, the film tells the story of Tiffany Blechschmid, a neurotic, moony, superstitious, contradictory and, no surprises here, single young woman in her late-twenties.
The Pursuit of Unhappiness
2012
NRDepeche Mode's live performance in November 2013 on their Delta Machine Tour (cut together from two successive shows in Berlin's O2 World), intercut with interviews with the band and their fans and behind-the-scenes footage.
Depeche Mode: Alive in Berlin
2014
5.9When Maria meets Niels for the first time, he comes across as an angry and unsympathetic young man. His chronic illness has been concentrated into a single wish—to go to a Swiss nursing home for euthanasia. But in order to get there, he needs a volunteer escort.
In Your Arms
2015
2000s · 11 titles
6.8A 9th century woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises herself as a man and rises through the Vatican ranks.
Pope Joan
2009
7.0When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Meinhof rebels against her dishonest marriage, walks away from her children and joins radical anarchist Andreas Baader. Together with Baader's girlfriend, Gudrun Ensslin, they form the violent Red Faction Army, and together perpetrate a slew of terrorist attacks as a way of disrupting the fabric of what they see as an increasingly fascist state.
The Baader Meinhof Complex
2008
7.2North Face tells the story of two German climbers Toni Kurz and Andreas Hinterstoisser and their attempt to scale the deadly North Face of the Eiger.
North Face
2008
5.2Lene Thurner is standing on a train platform in Munich. She has to decide: back to Berlin where she lives, or toward the south, where at the foot of the Alps her family lives on the lonely farm “Hierankl”.
A Birthday to Remember
2003
6.8A hedonistic bachelor - he is his rich family's black sheep - falls for a suicidal mental patient.
Barefoot
2005
4.4At some point in the not-so-distant future, an unnamed European city has evolved into a bizarre dystopian metropolis, whose residents inhabit towering utopian high-rises and work, collectively, in a single compound.
Silent Resident
2008
10.0A fascinating chronology of 100 years of mountain film history in the Alps. This documentary focuses primarily on films shot on the Matterhorn, the Eiger, and the Grandes Jorasses, considered until the 1930s as the "last problems of the Alps," and shows the evolution of mountain filmmaking through numerous excerpts from documentaries and feature films – notably on the Matterhorn in 1901. The genre, appropriated as a means of mass exaltation by "fascist" regimes during the Second World War, was reinvented in the 1950s by Gaston Rebuffat, Marcel Ichac, and Lionel Terray in the Mont Blanc massif, avant-garde figures of French mountain cinema, who reintroduced, beyond performance, the values of the mountains – and in color – poetry, humor, and sharing among people from all walks of life.
Faszination Bergfilm - Himmelhoch und Abgrundtief
2008
NRCompilation of five shorts, including: The Stretch Marks (Der Schwangerschaftsstreifen), What Grown-Ups Know, Angesichts, Nacht in Wilhelmsburg, & Out Now! The short films revolve around coming out, the dangers of the big city, a stylish suicide, and, of course, love.
Kurz & schwul
2006
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Emilia Galotti
2003
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien
2005
No synopsis available yet.
Das letzte Versteck
2002
1990s · 2 titles
6.8In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women – one a Jewish member of the underground, the other an exemplar of Nazi motherhood.
Aimée & Jaguar
1999
No synopsis available yet.
Rose Bernd
1998
Series credits
4.7Every evening at 6:45 p.m. sharp, a prominent guest takes a seat on the red sofa—and DAS! provides daily updates on what's hot in the north.
DAS!
1991
6.2Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
Scene of the Crime
1970
6.2Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
Scene of the Crime
1970
6.2Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
Scene of the Crime
1970
4.3The Berliner Abendschau is the news magazine for Berlin.
Abendschau
2000
6.2Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.
Polizeiruf 110
1971
6.6No synopsis available yet.
NDR Talk Show
1979
No synopsis available yet.
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
1998
9.0The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.
Bambi
1948
Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.
Grimme Award
1964
No synopsis available yet.
German Film Award
1951
4.6Bella Block is a long-running German detective television series starring Hannelore Hoger, first broadcast in 1994 on ZDF. In 2010 the 30th series was produced.
Bella Block
1993
No synopsis available yet.
Bavarian Film Awards
1979
7.0After a defector is murdered, British agent Fielding Scott is assigned to track down a mole in his own ranks in 1961 Berlin. His investigation leads him into a deadly web of crime, betrayal and paranoia. Who can Scott trust in the city of spies?
Spy City
2020
7.7Explores the tragic shooting at the Sunshine City shopping centre, and the personal stories and underlying emotional anguish that culminated in this act of violence.
Breaking Point
2021
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Liberame - Nach dem Sturm
2022
5.9In the fall of 1938, two Jewish children from Berlin are sent to England by their parents to escape Nazi persecution.
Redemption Road
2017
3.3A journey in the footsteps of this century's most famous artist's muse, the last femme fatale. Alma Mahler -Werfel was worshipped by an entire generation of artists: Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius, Oskar Kokoschka and Franz Werfel.
Alma - A Show biz ans Ende
1999
NRRuth Goldfisch is 18 years young, self-confident, and determined. Even as a child, the daughter of a Berlin banker dreams of living on a farm with her own animals and growing vegetables and fruit. The opportunity arises when she meets the attractive officer Albert von Roll at a ball. She snatches up the impoverished landowner and marries him.
Die Kirschenkönigin
2004
