Cosma Shiva Hagen (German: [ˈkɔs.ma ˈʃiː.va ˈhaːɡn̩] ) is an American-born German actress. Although she speaks English, her acting roles have been largely confined to German-language films and television productions. She also starred in an Irish film called Short Order (2005).
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| Born | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1996–present |
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Personal life
editBorn in Los Angeles, California, Cosma Shiva Hagen is the daughter of German singer Nina Hagen and Dutch musician Ferdinand Karmelk. As a child, she lived in London, Berlin, Paris, Ibiza, Lüneburg and Hamburg. Her grandmother was actress Eva-Maria Hagen and her step-grandfather is the East German dissident writer and singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann. Hagen's unusual name was picked by her mother, who claimed she saw a UFO while pregnant. "Cosma" is a reference to the cosmos, and "Shiva" is a reference to the Hindu god Shiva.[citation needed]
Hagen's great-grandfather Hermann Carl Hagen, a German-Jewish banker and economist, was murdered at Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1945. Her non-Jewish great-grandmother Hedwig Elise Caroline Staadt, wife of Hermann Hagen, was also murdered at Sachsenhausen. Her maternal grandfather Hans Hagen was a Holocaust survivor, being held at a prison in Moabit between 1941 and 1945 until liberation by the Soviets.[1]
Selected filmography
edit- Das merkwürdige Verhalten geschlechtsreifer Großstädter zur Paarungszeit (1998), as Sandra
- Der Laden (1998, TV miniseries), as Ilonka
- Die fabelhaften Schwestern (2002, TV film), as Effi
- 7 Dwarves – Men Alone in the Wood (2004), as Snow White
- Short Order (2005), as Catherine
- 7 Dwarves: The Forest Is Not Enough (2006), as Snow White
- Cutting Edge (2007), as Sylvia Göbel
- Schade um das schöne Geld (2008, TV film), as Gloria Hasselt
- Bible Code (2008, TV film), as Johanna Bachmann
- Fire! (2009), as Nicole Hart
- Schief gewickelt (2011, TV film), as Mona Müller
- The Man Cave (2014), as Connie
References
edit- ^ "Stolpersteine in Berlin". stolpersteine-berlin.de. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
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