Jeanette Spassova (Bulgarian: , born 27 January 1962) is a
Bulgarian-German actress.The daughter of actor and general theatre
administrator Vassil Spassov and his wife Teresa Azaryan (sister of
director Krikor Azaryan), Spassova grew up in Sofia. She attended the
Galabov Gymnasium, a German-language secondary school in Sofia, and
then studied drama at the Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre
and Film Arts. While still a student she met author and director Ivan
Stanev. She was one of the founder members of Stanev's first theatre
company, and together they developed their own special language for
theatre. This provoked a fierce reaction from the board of censors in
Bulgaria, an Eastern Bloc state at the time, and led to Stanev being
temporarily barred from exercising his professionIn 1987 Spassova was
engaged by the State theatre Sofia in Sofia, where she made her debut
in the role of Marie in Stanev's production Die Wunde Woyzeck. In 1988
Heiner Mller invited the company to stage the production in West
Berlin. After this guest performance, which formed part of the
Heiner-Mller Werkschau, Stanev did not return to Bulgaria. In 1989 he
invited Spassova to Munich, where she played the leading role in
Stanev's collage Betrogen/Gestern nach einem sonnigen Nachmittag at
the Studiotheater Mnchen. In 1990 Spassova moved to Berlin, founded an
international theatre company with Stanev and performed at the
Hebbel-Theater and the Podewil.In 1996 she signed on with the
Volksbhne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz and until 2000 performed there in
numerous productions by Frank Castorf, Christoph Marthaler and
Penelope Wehrli, among others. She went on to work as a free-lance
actress in Basel (Theater Basel), Munich (Mnchner Kammerspiele) and
Salzburg (Salzburger Festspiele) and continued to work with Ivan
Stanev and his ensemble in Berlin and France.
Bulgarian-German actress.The daughter of actor and general theatre
administrator Vassil Spassov and his wife Teresa Azaryan (sister of
director Krikor Azaryan), Spassova grew up in Sofia. She attended the
Galabov Gymnasium, a German-language secondary school in Sofia, and
then studied drama at the Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre
and Film Arts. While still a student she met author and director Ivan
Stanev. She was one of the founder members of Stanev's first theatre
company, and together they developed their own special language for
theatre. This provoked a fierce reaction from the board of censors in
Bulgaria, an Eastern Bloc state at the time, and led to Stanev being
temporarily barred from exercising his professionIn 1987 Spassova was
engaged by the State theatre Sofia in Sofia, where she made her debut
in the role of Marie in Stanev's production Die Wunde Woyzeck. In 1988
Heiner Mller invited the company to stage the production in West
Berlin. After this guest performance, which formed part of the
Heiner-Mller Werkschau, Stanev did not return to Bulgaria. In 1989 he
invited Spassova to Munich, where she played the leading role in
Stanev's collage Betrogen/Gestern nach einem sonnigen Nachmittag at
the Studiotheater Mnchen. In 1990 Spassova moved to Berlin, founded an
international theatre company with Stanev and performed at the
Hebbel-Theater and the Podewil.In 1996 she signed on with the
Volksbhne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz and until 2000 performed there in
numerous productions by Frank Castorf, Christoph Marthaler and
Penelope Wehrli, among others. She went on to work as a free-lance
actress in Basel (Theater Basel), Munich (Mnchner Kammerspiele) and
Salzburg (Salzburger Festspiele) and continued to work with Ivan
Stanev and his ensemble in Berlin and France.
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