The chaot and the planner
Interview with music recording: Stephan Bartels is listening.Liefers jingles, Loos tells,
The Organizing Committee meets today with a view. In front of the windows the sky is blue and white above Berlin, ten stories down the zoo, the window front on the other side of the room allows the viewer a view of Gedächtniskirche and KDW. Inside, in the PanAm lounge, Anna Loos sits at the dressing table and plans her life. For example, she is on the way tonight, "there has the Jan child service". Jan Josef Liefers nods. Then, says Anna Loos, while the make-up artist's eyebrows are subtly following her, it is important to organize tickets for the Belgian singer Milow's concert tomorrow, which must not be forgotten.
Delivery grunts, Loos grins
A few meters further, her PR agent, who is also the one of Jan Josef Liefers, leafs through her calendar and recapitulates the dates scheduled for the actor and musician couple in the coming weeks. There are more than enough, Anna Loos has plenty to do, because her first CD comes out as a singer from Silly, Jan Josef Liefers has to learn Swedish; he is shooting in Scandinavia soon, it's an international production, the filming of a book by Marianne Frederiksson, a big deal. Liefers growls a bit. Anna Loos grins.
This is a photo shoot for ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN. But not only. The couple Loos and Liefers are busy in their various professions, have two children together and also a lot of people around the ears. Every scrap of time must be used for planning. And you can see very clearly how the roles are distributed: Anna Loos is the boss of the service, she always keeps the overview and provides the structure. That's not the thing of Jan Josef Liefers anyway. "I said goodbye to the concept of planning, because then I will not go crazy if everything changes," he says, "and it always comes differently, so I hate to structure more than the next day." Of course, that's not the way to go through it if you want to live in a family, "and that's what I want, but the unpredictability will always keep its fascination for me." Loos can live with it. "We know each other very well and do not try to educate ourselves or change others," she says, "dealing with each other's weaknesses and strengths also means compensating them in part."
I liked Anna's energy, her positive nature, her physicality.
For ten years, they have been doing it that way. During the filming of the movie "Halt mich fest" you got to know each other in 1999. Actually, both of them were not open to a new relationship at the moment, but love is not impressed by this kind of objection. "I looked at Jan Josef, listened to him and fell in love with him," says Anna Loos. She was a singer in this film, Liefers played a musician, they rehearsed together the songs from the film. Two people making music together: a pretty intimate situation. In any case, Liefers was also fascinated by the blond woman in the great singing voice: "I liked Anna's energy, her positive nature, her physicality," he says, "and that she liked to celebrate the full program, just thinking: when does this woman sleep? ? "
It fits in with both of them that it was the combination of music and acting that brought them together. The Brandenburg Anna Loos had paid as a child of her own pocket money a singing teacher. Before the Wall was opened, she fled to the West, continued singing in Hamburg, and trained as an actor. The Dresdener Liefers, child of an actress and a director, already made music in GDR times. And with his band Oblivion, a few years after his breakthrough as a pan-German actor, he also had success as a singer - his song "Jack's Baby" from a Sat.1 movie made it into the charts.
That's why Liefers brought a guitar to the PanAm Lounge. If there is music in a love, you should also see that in the pictures. So he sits on a bench against the wall, jingling, more casually, "I Am Beautiful" by Christina Aguilera, and his wife begins to sing, powerful, intense. Liefers agrees, and when they run out of text at some point, they invent one, just sing nonsense and have fun doing it. The music creates such moments, to which even a good conversation simply can not reach.
Anna Loos and Jan Josef Liefers: A pair with backbone
Together in films, they have often been, they have no fear of contact, says Anna Loos: "With us, there is no clear line between work and private life anyway." They finally got to know each other through the work, says Liefers, and that was "reason enough to pay homage to this coincidence and to trust us professionally." But a common record, that did not exist.Not yet, says Anna Loos: "We've been wagering for ten years: when one of us ends up in the top ten, there's a duet."
She is not far away. Since 2006 she has been singing with Silly - a band that is very high up in the iconography of Ostrock. Not least because Silly with Tamara Danz had one of the charismatic pop stars of the fallen Republic as a singer. She died of breast cancer 14 years ago. Loos claims a legacy that outweighs lead vests. But she does it self-confidently, independently and without fear. This seems to be one of Anna Loos' great qualities: doing things without fear. That, too, has something to do with her biography. The GDR, she says, has given her a backbone: "I've learned there that I have to believe in my ideals and dreams, and that this belief can sometimes bring a mountain."
Liefers also showed his backbone at that time. He was not allowed to do a high school diploma - because of a bad stinginess and because he was not a working child. Had he committed to the army, Abi would have been possible, but he did not want to do military service. At drama school he was therefore always critically eyed. When the idea of leaving for the West took shape, the story was faster. "The time and my compatriots came to my aid, bringing the GDR to their knees together," says Liefers.
Victims of the GDR regime, says Liefers, they both did not become, "we have survived the sinking of the Titanic well". Whether the identity as East Germans plays a role in their common life? Yes, says Anna Loos: "We have the same roots, the same sensations in special situations, there is a connection, you can not deny that." No, says Jan Josef Liefers: "Anna left the GDR at the age of 16, I was 24 when the wall came down, and our identities have long since been written down." They are, he says, "Germans who feel in best hands in Europe".
Do Anna Loos and Jan Josef Liefers have no bodies in the cellar?
And indeed: Liefers is perhaps the first truly all-German actor. When his film career really got going in 1997 with "Rossini" and "Knockin 'on Heaven's Door" nobody asked about his background - his talent alone was important. Today he is one of the most popular actors in German-speaking countries. Even more: Actually, you will not find anyone who does not like him. He is also friendly to everyone, smart and often original, you know that since his genius "Tatort" -figure of the Münsterian forensic scientist Professor Börne. In addition the music, the many audio books - Liefers dances at many weddings, and Loos dances along. The two even have surprisingly little contact fears with the boulevard. They are probably the most-watched couple on red carpets and galas, with a ready-to-go set for each RTL microphone they hold. Among other things, the "Bunte" reports about her wedding in 2004; In this sheet, they also explained the reasons for their marriage: "The test phase is declared over, it makes nails with heads and is no longer available for other pairings."
If you read stories about the two, often a word falls: dream couple. And then you keep reading and looking for breaks, for abysses. And finds nothing. This can mean two things: Either Loos and Liefers manage to keep their bodies in the cellar perfectly. Or they just belong to the lucky few, where everything is right, fits, wobbles and has air.
Our biggest project is called: our life together
Playing is the two yes. But despite all the art of staging - the ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN shoot is a demonstration of perfect staging - they really do not affect you and the world on this day in Berlin. Familiar, recorded, fully admiring each other. And different: Anna Loos lively, approaching, contagiously cheerful. Jan Josef Liefers introverted, self-contained. It seems to work. Perhaps also because the two grant themselves free space, which would be a stress test in other relationships. Three years ago, when Liefers and his best old friend, the actor Tobias Langhoff, wanted to cross South America on motorcycles - during Christmas, Loos became very pregnant with their second child together. Oh well, says Loos, no problem: "Jan and Tobi had a dream and I understood that dream very well," she says, "for me it was just important that Jan be present at the birth of our daughter."
That's what he was. It was the fourth child for the actor, in 2002 Anna Loos got her first daughter. He has a son since 1997 with Ann Kathrin Kramer, his daughter Paulina is soon 22 and comes from his first marriage with the Russian actress Alexandra Tabakowa. "Not a day goes by that I do not think about Paulina and Leo," says Liefers, "if Anna, Lilly, and Lola were not, I'd spend days pondering why it's so complicated, though it could be quite simple ,I probably share that with 90 percent of my fellow human beings. "His family ideal, says Jan Josef Liefers, is not new:" The extended family, in which all generations have their place. We would have been left as parents without the help of grandma and grandpa, could not work as hard as we do without the children getting too short. "
And Anna Loos also has this picture in mind, shaped by her parents, who are happily married to this day. "I come from a family that is full of love and cohesion," she says, leaving no doubt that this is the way it should be. A Liefers / Loos clan headquartered in Berlin-Steglitz, an organization full of emotion. And planning security. In the end, it has to go very fast: "We have to trigger our nanny," says Anna Loos "she has an appointment."
So it is with people who constantly have something to hear, film after film turn, sing records, in between stand on stages. Who always have some projects going. "But our biggest project," says Anna Loos, "is our life together."
Anna Loos
Anna Loos, born in Brandenburg on the Havel in 1970, started her career as a singer and was educated at the Hamburg Stage School of Music, Dance and Entertainment after her escape to the West in 1989. About the music, she then came to the movie. She became known to a wider audience mainly through her roles in "Anatomy" or "The Mambo Game" and as "Tatort" assistant Lissy. When Anna Loos is not filming or as a frontwoman of the rock band Silly goes on tour, she lives together with Jan Josef Liefers and their daughters Lilly and Lola in Berlin.
Jan Josef delivery
Jan Josef Liefers, born 1964 in Dresden, went to the Thalia Theater in Hamburg immediately after reunification and became a theatrical star with two roles in 1997: as a neurotic poet in Helmut Dietl's "Rossini" and as an incurable patient on the side of Til Schweiger in "Knockin ' on Heaven's Door ". "Tatort" spectators love him as a competent as well as funny forensic physician Karl-Friedrich Boerne. For the episode "Frauenflüsterer" he stood in 2005 together with Anna Loos in front of the camera. Jan Josef Liefers has been awarded numerous prizes for his work. a. the Adolf Grimme Prize and the Bambi. But he also remained true to the music: With his band Oblivion brought recently the program "Soundtrack of my youth" on the stage.
