Nutcase
09-08-2006, 06:40 PM
Jasmin Tabatabai first saw the light of the day on 8 June 1967 in Iranian Teheran as the daughter of a German mother and an Iranian father. Together with her elder brother and two sisters, she grew up with her family in Iran.
Before the fall of the Shah and the putsch by revolutionary leader Khomeini, there were already disturbances in the whole country during September 1978, whereupon the German School Teheran, which Jasmin Tabatabai attended, was closed down. Uncertain of how the "Iranian Revolution" would turn, Jasmin's Persian father sent his family hurriedly to the "safe" homeland of his German wife near Munich. "We actually thought the situation would calm down in Iran and we could soon return", remembers Jasmin Tabatabai.
Instead, Jasmin with her siblings and her mother stayed permanently in Germany. Her father however went back to Iran where he died in 1986. It took a long while before Jasmin Tabatabai got along with life in Germany.
As a little child Jasmin already wished to become an actress, when she grew up, acting had always been her "dream job", as she always loved to "entertain people". In 1973 at the German School Teheran she performed her first appearance on stage in the musical "Struwwelpeter", where she played "Naughty Friederich" ("I was already then the "Bad Girl"). Later on she played the role of "Josef" in Christmas plays, and she wrote little theatre screenplays which she performed with her brother and her cousins. At her school in Bavarian Planegg, Jasmin Tabatabai played the role of madam "Celestina" in Max Frisch's play "Don Juan".
After her A-levels in 1986, Jasmin Tabatabai studied music and art at the Stuttgart High School for Drama and Arts. During her studies which she financed among others by participating at various radio plays, she acted on Stuttgart stages in pieces such as "Booty" or "Samun". On graduating in the autumn of 1992, Jasmin took on an engagement at the Potsdam Hans-Otto Theatre, where she played roles in "Macho, Macho", in Michael Ende's "Momo" or in the play "My Sister Sulamith".
Since the beginning of the nineties, Jasmin Tabatabai has been active in two ways: as an actress and as a musician.
Both professions profit from each other: the acting side from her over 150 concerts with the "Cowgirls": "With appearing live on stage, I've become a better actress. During my concerts I've learnt to assert myself. That's really the best school of life. And by thinking as a playwright, my songs have become better. And until now my career as an actress has always received an impetus when I had released a record." Jasmin does not want to make a final decision between both professions, and if she had to do it whe would chose the life of a pop star. She once gave the reasons for it self-ironically: "More fame. More money. More sex." :-)
Jasmin Tabatabai's career as a movie star began in 1991 when she was still a student at the Drama High School: She acted in the feature film "Children of the Open Road" in the role of a gipsy girl who has to fight for the life of her own child. To get the role in this feature film, Jasmin Tabatabai had at the casting to come out on top against sixty other applicants.
She experienced her first commercial success and also a breakthrough in her career with Katja von Garnier's music road movie "bandits". This film is Jasmin's dream project where she can combine music and action and "do what I want". She composed nearly the entire sound track to this film and consequently received a "Golden Record" in 1997. With over 700,000 CDs sold, "bandits" is the most successive sound track of a European feature film.
Soon after "bandits" Jasmin Tabatabai turned into a girl and scene star: "I always like to represent unusual, strong but not necessarily tough women", explains Jasmin of her choice of roles. And: "I take the liberty of only playing parts which really turn me on". In her later roles too she has attracted attention: As a scheming woman in Helmut Dietl's "Late Show", or as the lascivious singer Billie in Xavier Koller's adaption of Tucholsky's "Gripsholm".
At long last in February 2002 Jasmin Tabatabai's long-awaited debut album "Only Love" was released, a quite "personal" record, as she repeatedly emphasizes. Numerous sold-out concerts in Germany and Austria were to follow.
Since October 2005, Jasmin Tabatabai is after a long period at long last again to be seen in the lead part of a feature film, namely in the "most challenging role of her carrer", as "Variety", the largest US movie magazine, wrote in its review: In the film "Unveiled" Jasmin Tabatabai plays a young Iranian woman who has to flee her country because she is accused of being homosexual and because she is threatened by the death penalty. For this role, Jasmin Tabatabai was nominated as best actress in a leading role for the German Film Award (see also: opinions of film critics about the actress Jasmin Tabatabai).
In this year, Jasmin Tabatabai will of course also be seen in several films, among others in the feature film "Four Minutes" as well as a singer in the movie "Blood and Chocolate", a Werewolf Film produced by "bandits" director Katja von Garnier. And in August 2006 Jasmin Tabatabai will even take part in the world-famous Nibelungen Festival in Worms: under the direction of Dieter Wedel in the role of "Kriemhild".
Before the fall of the Shah and the putsch by revolutionary leader Khomeini, there were already disturbances in the whole country during September 1978, whereupon the German School Teheran, which Jasmin Tabatabai attended, was closed down. Uncertain of how the "Iranian Revolution" would turn, Jasmin's Persian father sent his family hurriedly to the "safe" homeland of his German wife near Munich. "We actually thought the situation would calm down in Iran and we could soon return", remembers Jasmin Tabatabai.
Instead, Jasmin with her siblings and her mother stayed permanently in Germany. Her father however went back to Iran where he died in 1986. It took a long while before Jasmin Tabatabai got along with life in Germany.
As a little child Jasmin already wished to become an actress, when she grew up, acting had always been her "dream job", as she always loved to "entertain people". In 1973 at the German School Teheran she performed her first appearance on stage in the musical "Struwwelpeter", where she played "Naughty Friederich" ("I was already then the "Bad Girl"). Later on she played the role of "Josef" in Christmas plays, and she wrote little theatre screenplays which she performed with her brother and her cousins. At her school in Bavarian Planegg, Jasmin Tabatabai played the role of madam "Celestina" in Max Frisch's play "Don Juan".
After her A-levels in 1986, Jasmin Tabatabai studied music and art at the Stuttgart High School for Drama and Arts. During her studies which she financed among others by participating at various radio plays, she acted on Stuttgart stages in pieces such as "Booty" or "Samun". On graduating in the autumn of 1992, Jasmin took on an engagement at the Potsdam Hans-Otto Theatre, where she played roles in "Macho, Macho", in Michael Ende's "Momo" or in the play "My Sister Sulamith".
Since the beginning of the nineties, Jasmin Tabatabai has been active in two ways: as an actress and as a musician.
Both professions profit from each other: the acting side from her over 150 concerts with the "Cowgirls": "With appearing live on stage, I've become a better actress. During my concerts I've learnt to assert myself. That's really the best school of life. And by thinking as a playwright, my songs have become better. And until now my career as an actress has always received an impetus when I had released a record." Jasmin does not want to make a final decision between both professions, and if she had to do it whe would chose the life of a pop star. She once gave the reasons for it self-ironically: "More fame. More money. More sex." :-)
Jasmin Tabatabai's career as a movie star began in 1991 when she was still a student at the Drama High School: She acted in the feature film "Children of the Open Road" in the role of a gipsy girl who has to fight for the life of her own child. To get the role in this feature film, Jasmin Tabatabai had at the casting to come out on top against sixty other applicants.
She experienced her first commercial success and also a breakthrough in her career with Katja von Garnier's music road movie "bandits". This film is Jasmin's dream project where she can combine music and action and "do what I want". She composed nearly the entire sound track to this film and consequently received a "Golden Record" in 1997. With over 700,000 CDs sold, "bandits" is the most successive sound track of a European feature film.
Soon after "bandits" Jasmin Tabatabai turned into a girl and scene star: "I always like to represent unusual, strong but not necessarily tough women", explains Jasmin of her choice of roles. And: "I take the liberty of only playing parts which really turn me on". In her later roles too she has attracted attention: As a scheming woman in Helmut Dietl's "Late Show", or as the lascivious singer Billie in Xavier Koller's adaption of Tucholsky's "Gripsholm".
At long last in February 2002 Jasmin Tabatabai's long-awaited debut album "Only Love" was released, a quite "personal" record, as she repeatedly emphasizes. Numerous sold-out concerts in Germany and Austria were to follow.
Since October 2005, Jasmin Tabatabai is after a long period at long last again to be seen in the lead part of a feature film, namely in the "most challenging role of her carrer", as "Variety", the largest US movie magazine, wrote in its review: In the film "Unveiled" Jasmin Tabatabai plays a young Iranian woman who has to flee her country because she is accused of being homosexual and because she is threatened by the death penalty. For this role, Jasmin Tabatabai was nominated as best actress in a leading role for the German Film Award (see also: opinions of film critics about the actress Jasmin Tabatabai).
In this year, Jasmin Tabatabai will of course also be seen in several films, among others in the feature film "Four Minutes" as well as a singer in the movie "Blood and Chocolate", a Werewolf Film produced by "bandits" director Katja von Garnier. And in August 2006 Jasmin Tabatabai will even take part in the world-famous Nibelungen Festival in Worms: under the direction of Dieter Wedel in the role of "Kriemhild".