Cast
Düsseldorf

Biography

Anna Bachmann was born in 1998 in Dusseldorf. She gained first acting experiences as a high school student in the school's theatre group and at the Junges Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf. At age 18, she successfully applied for the lead role in the acclaimed TV film "Ich gehöre ihm" (2017), about a student who is ensnared by a so-called "Loverboy" and forced into prostitution. Shortly thereafter, she starred in the drama "Verlorene" ("Lost Ones", 2017) about two sisters who live with their father in the German province and whose lives are overshadowed by a dark family secret. "Verlorene" celebrated its premiere at the Berlinale in 2018 in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section.

In 2019, Bachmann began studying acting at the Babelsberg Film University "Konrad Wolf". In addition, she took on roles in several television productions. In "Wolfsland: Das heilige Grab" (2019) she had a leading role as the kidnapped daughter of Götz Schubert's Inspector Schulz; in the Bremen "Tatort" episode "Und immer gewinnt die Nacht" (2021) she played a suspected murderer. Bachmann had a leading role in the Holocaust drama "Der letzte Zug" ("Last Transport", NL/LU/DE 2022) as a German villager who is innitially loyal to the Nazis but then strikes up a friendship with a Jewish concentration camp survivor.