Anna Maria Mühe: "The great love exists in many forms"

In front of the altar: Diana (Anna Maria Mühe, l.), Lily (Jeanette Hain) and Matthias (Devid Striesow)

Good news for the Friday evening: Instead of the usual heartbreak shows the ARD tonight a really successful and heavily populated love movie. In "Divine Sparks" (no, the title is not the best thing), Matthias (Devid Striesow) and Diana (Anna Maria Mühe) are married by Matthias' childhood sweetheart Lily (Jeanette Hain). She, in turn, married a former classmate (Barry Atsma) years ago. At first everyone believes that they are in control of the situation, but when Diana goes on a business trip, Matthias and Lily can no longer suppress their (old) feelings. It comes to an affair - and after the confession of a surprising reaction of the deceived ...

Interview with Anna Maria Mühe

Anna Maria effort

ChroniquesDuVasteMonde: The focus of the film are two couples: On the one hand Diana, you play, and Matthias, on the other Lily and Jan. What distinguishes their relationships?

Anna Maria effort: With Diana and Matthias it is an incredible love of life and a good sense of humor. Until the plot starts, they never had problems with each other. Lily and Jan are already very long together, they have a strong base, there is great trust.

Two couples who are suddenly cross-caring for each other - that's a grateful dramatic material. Has something like that ever happened to you in real life?

No, luckily not.

And have you ever met a childhood sweetheart, as it happens to Matthias in the film?

Yes, hit it, but nothing came up again.

But you could still understand that there was something?

There was someone here and there, and I could say yes, I can understand that. But there were also the cases where I thought: What was going on there? (Laughs)

Is there a recipe for success for love?

If that were the case, all relationships would be happy. Communication and trust are the nuts and bolts. And you have to force yourself not always to act immediately after the first impulse.

Is an infidelity the end of love?

That always depends on how the base is. Even what that was for an infidelity - so flat there is no answer.

They filmed "Divine Sparks" with Maria von Heland, the director who at the time discovered "Big Girls Do not Cry" for her. What does Anna still have to do with Anna from today?

There is still a lot, but of course that was also a need to rediscover. I'm just not the fifteen-year-old who you have to take by the hand and you have to explain the movie. This time it was an encounter at eye level, which was very nice and exciting.

In the film, the two couples drive together for the Abi meeting, it is the prelude to a turbulent evening. Do you regret that there will be no Abi meeting for you? At the age of 16, you decided to go to acting and school.

Luckily not. Because I changed schools so often, there were no other class reunions for me. Sometimes I find that a pity, because I would like to know what has become of the people.

Do you still have friends from school?

I still have a school friend in Berlin. Everyone else got lost because we moved so much. As a teenager, you do not even write letters back and forth for years. And e-mail and SMS were not that commonplace back then.

It's also about how popular you were at school. How was that with you?

When I started working as an actress during school, it was not always easy for me. For my classmates, it was hard to understand that someone was suddenly in the movie business. In addition, right in front of the school a poster of "Big girls do not cry" hung on the advertising pillar. I was very uncomfortable.

Did you feel jealousy?

Yes, but I tried to get away from it. Luckily, I have friends who have noticed that I do not change, just because I turn now, and not suddenly think I'd be better.

The pastor who plays Jeanette Hain in "Divine Sparks" is so sympathetic that one immediately thinks that if all were like her, the churches would not be so empty. Can you start something with church?

Clearly: no. Of course this has to do with my background. However, when we lived in Hamburg, I was on a very strict Catholic school because it had such a good reputation.I also participated in a nativity scene where I was allowed to play the sheep in the fourth row from the right, but apart from that I do not care much about church.

You do not believe in God?

No, I believe in destiny. And to the big love?

Absolutely. I believe that great love can come in different forms. I also feel a great love for my friends and my daughter, but of course I also believe in the great love in the partnership.

Stalking for Love (May 2024).