27. September 2024Premiere at the Hamburg Film Festival: The Investigator and the Syntax of Death
The time has come: On September 27th, THE INVESTIGATOR AND THE SYNTAX OF DEATH (DIE POLIZISTIN UND DIE SPRACHE DES TODES) will premiere at the HAMBURG FILM FESTIVAL at 6:30 p.m. in Cinemaxx 3. Tickets are available here.
Socially critical neo-noir thriller with long-term effect. A woman’s body is found close to the Danish border and police analyst Gloria Acheampong (Thelma Buabeng) is called in. The murder is reminiscent of the deeds of the imprisoned serial killer Rudi Butscher (Nicholas Ofczarek). Is there a copycat killerat work? Gloria is not only confronted by the riddles of the case, but also racism and sexism that rain down on her from all sides and obstruct her investigation.
photo: © ZDF / Christina Schroeder
22. August 2024two productions at FILMFEST HAMBURG
This year it is once again a very special joy that Sonja is premiering two productions at FILMFEST HAMBURG! It is a special honor that once again it is a film by Lars Becker (screenplay and direction): DIE POLIZISTIN UND DIE SPRACHE DES TODES (THE INVESTIGATOR AND THE SYNTAX OF DEATH) is the opening film for the TELEVISIONS section!
The second premiere is something very special and means a lot to the actress: The first two episodes of the new PFEFFERKÖRNER season (episode 263 & 264, director: Philipp Scholz) will be shown at Michel!
We are looking forward to these great events! More info to follow!
Picture: © FILMFEST HAMBURG
06. August 2024on set WaPo Bodensee
Another early evening series! This time the actress is playing Dr. Shahyar in two episodes of the German series WaPo Bodensee. We are excited to see the result!
11. July 2024on set die Pfefferkörner
The summer block for filming the series die Pfefferkörner is starting, the "new" Pfeffis are going into the next round! Sonja is looking forward to her mother role Fariba!
Photo © diePfefferkoerner_offiziell
03. July 2024on set Morden im Norden
In the ARD early evening series Morden im Norden, Sonja plays one of the main roles, Leila, in the episode "Böse Schwester". We're looking forward to the broadcast next year!
01. July 2024World Premiere at Munich International Film Festival
We´re happy to announce the world premiere of the movie IM ROSENGARTEN (IN THE ROSE GARDEN) directed by Leis Bagdach at the Munich International Film Festival! Please join us on July 1st at 3pm at Filmtheater Sendlinger Tor and meet our actress Sonja Hurani and the rest of the cast.
Cast: Kostja Ullmann, Safinaz Sattar, Husam Chadat, Verena Altenberger, Tom Lass
Yak, a troubled pop musician, receives shocking news. His father, who’d rushed back to his home country of Syria decades ago, and whom Yak had nearly forgotten about, is in a coma in a Cologne hospital. There’s another surprise: Yak has a 15-year-old half-sister named Latifa, who speaks only Arabic. Circumstances compel him to travel across Germany with her.
Picture Copyright: FILMFEST MÜNCHEN
07. June 2024radio plays Betthupferl
This week, the actress recorded radio plays for the Betthupferl. A radio play podcast from Bayerischer Rundfunk with bedtime stories for children.
06. May 2024on set Silent War
Shooting for the Babelsberg Film Academy begins today. In the short film by Lilith Kugler (screenplay and direction), Sonja takes on the role of Mona. Mona is the mother of the protagonist, who guides us through the film.
03. May 2024on set series Women of the Dead
The actress has completed filming in Austria for the second season of the Netflix / ORF series Totenfrau (Women of the Dead). She plays the role of Sabire under the direction of Daniel Prochaska.
04. March 2024on set die Pfefferkörner
Filming has finally started for the Pfefferkörner season 21 (ARD, NDR)! With Sonja Hurani as Fariba Ahmadi-Moreau, the mother of two Pfefferkörner children in the new season. The first block is directed by Phillip Scholz. We are already looking forward to the new Pfefferkörner family!
10. August 2023on set Schattenspiele
A great collaboration with the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg and SWR Südwestrundfunk! Under the direction and screenwriter Lea Marie Lembke, Sonja will take on the role of Sophie in the wonderful short film Schattenspiele (Shadow Games). We are already looking forward to the result!
05. July 2023on set die Polizistin
Sonja is pleased to be part in a new Lars Becker film series! DIE POLIZISTIN (THE INVESTIGATOR) is a neo-noir crime thriller by the director and screenwriter and will be shown on ZDF as a Studio Zentral production. Sonja plays the supporting role of the doctor Samira El Atrache.
20. June 2023on set Missing Link
This month, the actress will begin filming in the Black Forest for the cinema movie MISSING LINK, directed by Michael Baumann (screenplay by Sabine Westermaier and Michael Baumann). Sonja will be seen in the supporting role of Semra.
20. March 2023on set film academy Baden-Württemberg
Sonja Hurani is on set as the leading role Dorna for the project Nicht ohne uns 14% (Not without the 14% of us), directed by Christiane Muñoz. We are delighted to be working with the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg!
27. February 2023on set Im Rosengarten
The actress is on set for the cinema film Im Rosengarten. Sonja will play the role of Shikrie under the direction of Leis Bagdach. We are looking forward to this wonderful project!
08. December 2022SOKO Stuttgart on ZDF
Already available in the media library from December 1st, 2022, on December 8th. The broadcast on ZDF at 6 p.m.: SOKO Stuttgart - Was geschah mit Rabea K.? (What happened to Rabea K.?)
(season 14, episode 11).
photo: © Markus Fenchel, ZDF
18. November 2022Die Macht der Frauen on ARTE
After the premiere at the Hamburg Film Festival, the TV broadcast today at 8:15 p.m. on ARTE: Die Macht der Frauen (The Power of Women).
Written and directed by Lars Becker
Sonja can be seen here as judge Tuba Söyüncü. In other roles: Natalia Wörner, Nurit Hirschfeld, Sabrina Amali, Fritz Karl, David Schütter, Oceana Mahlmann, Slavko Popadic, Mira Elisa Goeres, Antonia Bill, Patrick von Blume, Clelia Sarto, Thelma Buabeng and others.
photo: © ZDF
14. November 2022NEULAND available in ZDF media library
The series NEULAND is available in the ZDF media library from today.
Sonja Hurani plays the role of Sahar Aziz, the main roles also include Franziska Hartmann, Peri Baumeister, Mina Tander, Anneke Kim Sarnau, Christian Erdmann, Godehard Giese, Steve Windolf, André M. Hennicke, Lucas Prisor, Serkan Kaya, Angelina Häntsch and many others.
photo: © ZDF
10. October 2022Nachtschicht today on ZDF
Premiere at the Hamburg Film Festival, today at 8:15 p.m. on ZDF:
NACHTSCHICHT - Die Ruhe vor dem Sturm
Director & screenplay: Lars Becker
Production: Network Movie
Casting: S. Köppe
photo: © Marion von der Mehden
02. October 2022Filmfestival Hamburg
The actress is represented at this year's Hamburg Film Festival with two productions!
In competition:
DIE MACHT DER FRAUEN
(Director and screenplay: Lars Becker)
Out of competition:
NACHTSCHICHT - DIE RUHE VOR DEM STURM
Director and screenplay: Lars Becker
We are really looking forward to this event!
photo: © Filmfest Hamburg
30. July 2022Kommune Barkenhoff revival cancelled
This year's revival of the play Kommune Barkenhoff has been cancelled at short notice due to illness.
Like almost every summer, a play was scheduled to take place in Worpswede. The wonderful play Kommune Barkenhoff, which premiered in the summer of 2019, was now to be performed again after it had to be cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic. This time, Sonja Hurani was again to take on the lead role of Marie Griesbach.
06. June 2022premiere Zimmer 111
Today the short film Zimmer 111 (Room 111) premieres at the Movieworld cinema in Gunzenhausen. Sonja plays the role of Yasmin Amran in this gripping and touching short film. The script and direction are by Saher Iskaf, we thank you for the great collaboration!
16. May 2022on set SOKO Stuttgart
We are very excited about filming for the series SOKO Stuttgart! Sonja takes on an episode role in the popular ZDF crime TV series under the direction of Ann-Kristin Knubben.
26. April 2022on set ERGO advertise
The actress is starring in an ERGO Insurance commercial with the theme of "diversity". We are looking forward to filming this important topic!
01. March 2022on set Die Macht der Frauen
This year the Arab actress is shooting again for a ZDF movie. She plays judge Tuba Söyüncü in Die Macht der Frauen (The Power of Women) from the film series Wahrheit oder Lüge (Truth or Lie). Direction and screenplay by Lars Becker. It's a pleasure to work again with this great director!
18. December 2021on set DEUTSCHE WELLE
"Because I am a woman" is the translation of the show لأني امرأة - a series from DW Arabia in which strong Arab women around the world are sought out and presented. For Sonja Hurani, the request for this show was a great honor and it was also a matter of honor to take part as the protagonist.
The actress, singer and athlete was accompanied and filmed by the Deutsche Welle team for two days.
17. October 2021new agency CRISS CROSS
We are very pleased to announce that Sonja Hurani will now be represented by the CrissCross Agency under the management of Nadine Baier!
Here's to a great collaboration...
01. October 2021on set Nachtschicht
The actress begins filming today for the ZDF film series NACHTSCHICHT - die Ruhe vor dem Sturm. In this episode, Sonja Hurani plays the role of Anissa Megdish. Of course, the screenwriter and director is Lars Becker!
You can find further information here.
08. September 2021on set House of Hope
Today the shooting for the commercial film House of Hope is taking place. Sonja is starring as the main role in this project directed by Michael Prümmer.
18. August 2021on set Zimmer 111
Today the filming of the very moving short film Zimmer 111 (Room 111) begins. Under the direction of Saher Iskaf, Sonja Hurani takes on the role of Yasmin Amran. A movie that gets under your skin!
28. July 2021PAULA premiere
Today is the premiere of the open air theater project PAULA! Sonja plays, sings and dances in one of the leading roles, Clara Westhoff. The play can be seen every day on the grounds of the Barkenhoff Garden until August 8th, 2021.
06. July 2021on set NEULAND
Filming has begun! Sonja Hurani is taking on the lovely supporting role of Sahar Aziz in ZDF's new series NEULAND. We are particularly excited about this project! Jens Wischnewski is the director, and Orkun Ertener is the author of this 6-part series.
01. July 2021rehearsals for PAULA
It's finally starting! After a long, involuntary break, we are happy to announce that this year's summer theater is taking place! Today the rehearsals for the open air piece PAULA begin in Worpswede. Under Oliver Peuker's direction, the Cosmos Factory stages the life of Paula Modersohn-Becker.
05. July 2020KIDS SHOW ON MS EUROPA CANCELLED
The anticipation was great to set out to sea again! Unfortunately, this wonderful event also fell through this year...
The planned staging of the Kids and Teens Show on the MS Europa is canceled due to current circumstances.
28. June 2020Christmas fairy tale cancelled
This year it was again “Curtain open!” for a Christmas fairy tale. In the new production of "The Jungle Book" in das kleine Hoftheater Hamburg, Sonja Hurani was supposed to take on the leading role of Mowgli.
Unfortunately, this fairy tale ends before it begins. The performances will not take place due to current circumstances.
17. May 2020revival of Kommune Barkenhoff cancelled
The play Kommune Barkenhoff, which was so successful last year, was to be revived in Worpswede. Of course again with Sonja Hurani in the leading role of “Red Marie” Marie Griesbach.
Unfortunately, the resumption has to be canceled for current reasons.
21. December 2019kids show on MS Europa 2
This year, actress Sonja Hurani and her colleague Till Nau are once again staging a kids and teens show on the MS Europa 2! This year's theme is "Only love remains"...
22. November 2019Puss in Boots Premiere
Today the Christmas fairy tale Puss in Boots (der gestiefelte Kater) celebrates its premiere in das kleine Hoftheater Hamburg. Together with Andreas Prüst, Ebba Ekholm and Pascal Pfeiler, Sonja Hurani plays the role of the cat Mikesch in a modern, modified production of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, with new music by Stefan Vermehren. The wonderful Petra Behrsing is directing again this year.
10. October 2019Puss in Boots radio play
This year's Christmas fairy tale "Puss in Boots" with Sonja Hurani as the leading actress is now also available as a radio play!
08. September 2019die kleine Laterne in St. Pauli
Today the Arabic-German children's play die kleine Laterne is performing at the Kölibri in St. Pauli.
07. September 2019Hamburg Theater night
The actress is taking part in the Hamburg Theater Night again this year. She can be seen in das kleine Hoftheater, where she will play and sing an excerpt from "Puss in Boots". The whole piece will be performed from November. Sonja plays the role of Mikesch the cat.
31. July 2019Premiere Kommune Barkenhoff
Today at 8 p.m. there is the premiere of Kommune Barkenhoff in the Bötjersche Scheune in Worpswede. The play tells of the founding and failure of Heinrich Vogeler's commune, which Vogeler founded on his Barkenhoff property in 1919. Sonja plays the role of Marie Griesbach, also known as "Red Marie".
The play can be seen daily from July 31 to August 11.
01. July 2019Rehearsals for Kommune Barkenhoff
Rehearsals begin today for the new theater production at the Cosmos Factory, Kommune Barkenhoff. The actress is spending a summer in Worpswede for the third time to take part in the theater production. Once again Oliver Peuker is directing. Also included are Judith Mann, Thomas Lindhout, Citlali Huezo Sanchez and Anouk Falkenstein. Live music will be provided by guitarist Jon Geiger.
06. April 2019On Stage kids show
This year Sonja's students will appear again at the big On Stage KIDS Gala! For the fourth year in a row, the actress is staging a great show with her courses, where the big little talents can show what they're made of!! Under the motto "in the Land of Dreams" the acting, dancing and singing students will enchant the audience at the First Stage Theater Hamburg on April 6th and 7th. We are very happy about this eventful weekend!!
05. April 2019the little lantern in Eidelstedt
And once again it's curtain up for the Little Lantern (die kleine Laterne)...This time as a guest performance in the Eidelstedt community center, we are looking forward to the Arabic-German play!
08. March 2019acting workshop
From March 8th to 14th, Sonja will be giving an acting workshop as part of the Women Only Week at the ABC Education Center. This will be part of a very extensive and exciting training week at the ABC Education and Conference Center in Hüll.
19. February 2019the little lantern at Fundus theater
Today, the Arab-German children's play "The Little Lantern" is being performed at the Fundus Theater as part of the Children's Theater Meeting. As usual, the Arab actress plays the role of the princess. We are really looking forward to it!
14. February 2019dubbing voice safe harbor
Today the Australian series “Safe Harbor” (German: Ein sicherer Hafen) is broadcast on ARTE. Sonja Hurani dubs the main role of Zahra in all four episodes of the series.
23. November 2018Premiere the Frog King
Today it´s premiere for the Frog King. The actress plays the main part as Schubidu, a cute and sympathic role that you will love. Get your tickets here.
28. October 2018Jungle Book in Balingen
Today the musical theater actress will be again seen as Kaa in the musical Jungle Book at the Stadthalle Balingen.