Anna König

ANNA KÖNIG is an actress and speaker. She grew up in the Tuscany of Germany, the Southern Palatinate. She studied acting at the Zurich University of the Arts and has performed at the Schauspielhaus Zurich, Thalia Theater Hamburg and the Staatstheater Karlsruhe, among others.

She achieved great attention with Hannah Schweier's feature film "Aufrecht stehen", in which she starred alongside Clemens Schick and which opened the "Perspektive Deutsches Kino" at the Berlinale 2007.

She was also seen in feature films such as "Freunde von früher" (director: Tim Moeck), "Feuchtgebiete" (director: David Wnendt), "Das Floss!" (director: Julia C. Kaiser), alongside Moritz Bleibtreu as the Bavarian waiter's daughter Fanny Huber in Sam Gabarski's "Auf Wiedersehen Deutschland", "Zu weit weg" director: Sarah Winkenstette, as well as in "5 Frauen" (director: Olaf Kraemer) and "Die Hannas" (director: Julia C. Kaiser), for which she was awarded "Best Actress" at the achtung berlin - new berlin film award.


Her first major exposure to television audiences came with her lead role in the ZDF film "Lügen, die von Herzen kommen" (directed by Imogen Kimmel), which aired in early 2018.
This was followed by leading roles in "Polizeiruf 110 - Heimatliebe" (director: Christian Bach), the Katie Fforde adaptation "Das Kind der Anderen" (director: Helmut Metzger) as well as in the ARD/Degeto film "Ein Ferienhaus auf Teneriffa" (director: Sabine Bernardi), "Dark" director: Baran Bo Odar (Netflix), "Tatort-Borowski und das hungrige Herz" (director: Maria Sólrun) and many others ...

The Italian feature film "Assandria" (director: Salvatore Mereu) with Anna König in the female lead role screened at the Venice Film Festival 2020, among others.


She has recorded over 20 audio books, as well as commercials and voice-overs and lives with her husband in Berlin/Kreuzberg after Zurich, Hamburg and London.