Biography

Her parents soon lived apart. The girl first grew up with her mother, but then attended a high school in Itzehoe. Hummer was also on Trebe for some time and was placed in a youth home. After the 11th grade she dropped out of school to go to Hamburg. Hummer came to film by chance: after her portrait appeared on the cover of "jetzt" magazine in 1998, director Sebastian Schipper discovered her. Hummer appeared in front of the camera for the first time in Schipper's comedy "Absolute Giganten" (1999). In the same year, although she had never attended drama school, she also appeared in the TV crime film "Stahlnetz: The Witness". The following year, Hummer was seen in Sören Voigt's comedy "Tolle Lage" and in Hans-Christian Schmid's film "Crazy" (2000). For television she took on a role in "Tatort - The Little Witness" (2000), for which she was awarded the Günter Strack Television Prize the following year.

At the same time, Hummer also celebrated her first major success in 2000 with her role as the terrorist's daughter "Jeanne" in "Internal Security": for her performance in Christian Petzold's terrorist film, the actress received a nomination for the German Film Prize as Best Young Actress. Hummer was subsequently seen in 2001 in the television crime drama "Tatort - Dead sind du!", in the children's film "Heidi" and in the episodic film "Honolulu". "Because I'm good!" followed in 2002. and "99 Euro Films". Hummer then starred in the tragic comedy "Eierdiebe" in 2003; She also took on the lead role in the film "Northern Star", appearing on screen for the first time as a singer. In the meantime, Hummer had also turned to music by teaching herself to play the guitar and sing.

In the fall of 2004, the singer undertook her first tour of Germany with the Julia Hummer Band, where the pieces she wrote herself are primarily folk music. In London, Hummer had their first single "Boxy, Where Are the Spangles" produced, which was released at the end of 2004. The first long CD was released in spring 2005. Even though Hummer discovered music as her true artistic medium, she did not turn away from film. In 2005, Petzold once again turned to the proven actress to cast a leading role: in "Ghosts", Julia Hummer played the daughter of a French woman who was kidnapped as a toddler in Berlin. The film was shown as one of the three German competition entries at the 55th Berlinale in February 2005.
- IMDb mini biography by: Christian_Wolfgang_Barth