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Actor's Nausea – Former Members
Christina Anders | Antje Schumacher | Tilman Floehr | Michele Gurr | Lea Scheer | Tanja S. Romich | Nico Siegmund | Manuela Sonntag | Benedikt Sonntag | Sabrina Wczasek | Soeren Wellens | Jan Winkler
Christina Anders
Real life occupation: Reading, writing, teaching students
Joined: 2009
Plays: Dear Octopus, Midsummer Night's Dream, Metamorphoses
Favourite Quote: There are so many...
Antje Schumacher
Real life occupation: Research assistant
Joined: April 2008
Plays: The Crucible, Pride & Prejudice, Dear Octopus, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Metamorphoses, Lysistrata (director), Death Actually (director)
Favourite Quotes:
"That homicidal feeling is creeping over me that invariably attacks me at tea parties." - Mr Bennet, Pride & Prejudice
"You really need to learn how to focus."
Tilman Floehr
Real life occupation: Does his PhD in biology
Joined: April 2008
Plays: "The Crucible", "Pride & Prejudice", "Dear Octopus" (backstage), "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Metamorphoses", "Lysistrata"
Favourite Quote: "That homicidal feeling is creeping over me that invariably attacks me at tea parties." - Mr. Bennet, Pride & Prejudice
"You have made your magic now, for now I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor. Not enough to weave a banner with, but white enough to keep it from such dogs." - John Proctor, The Crucible
"Damn, it's hell outside!" - Anna after the Wrap Party
Michele Gurr
Real life occupation: Editor - Assistant to the General Management
Joined: 2006
Plays: Wyrd Sisters, Maskerade
Favourite Quote: "Is this a dagger I see before me?" - "Of course it's a bloody dagger!" (actors in Wyrd Sisters)
"Ja, erigier mir den Hamster!" (Konrad/King Verence backstage)
"He was hung." - "Hanged! People are hanged! It is dead meat that is hung!" - "I appreciate the information. First he was strangeled - and then he was hung." (Mr. Salzella and Mr. Bucket in Maskerade)
"SQUEAK!" (Death of Rats, Maskerade)
Anecdotes and comments: Galoppierender Irrsinn und Spaß sind näher beisammen, als man meinen mag - überzeugt euch selbst!
Tanja S. Romich 
Real life occupation: Online Editor
Joined: April 2002
Plays: Politically Correct Fairy Tales, Poetry in Motion, Bums on Seats, Wyrd Sisters, Arsenic and Old Lace (Director), The Crucible (Light and Sound), Pride & Prejudice, Dear Octopus, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Metamorphoses, Lysistrata, Death Actually
Favourite Quote: "When you hear the word 'concept' in theatre, you know you're in deep shit...!" (Mo, Bums on Seats)
Lea Scheer
Real life occupation: Studies to become a teacher
Joined: Spring 2010
Plays: Metamorphoses (Spirit of the Tree, Woman at the Door), Lysistrata (Eugenia), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Frog-Footman, Knave of Hearts)
Favourite quote: "[...]and if he tries to force me, I will notdo this thing where I put my legs over his head [...] nor will I pretend to be a lioness he has caught in the forest" (Lysistrata)
Nico Siegmund
Real life occupation: Teacher
Joined: Summer 2006
Plays: "Maskerade", "The Crucible", "Pride and Prejudice", "Dear Octopus" (Light)
Favourite Quote:
"It's hell outside" (Anna after a wrap party)
"'e's gone" (Soeren as Milo Perrier in Murder by Death and as bystander in Maskerade)
"Spaghetti Carbonara con leche" (me as Enrico Basilica in Maskerade)
Anecdotes and comments: Well, when I think about the chaos that emerges every sinlge time before a performance, about everyone panicking before / during / after the last dress rehearsal and how everything turned out well in the end, I finally understand what "positive stress" means!
Manuela Sonntag 
Real life occupation: English Literature/History & Philosophy M.A.
Joined: WS 2002
Plays: Lunch with God, Poetry in Motion, God, Shakespeare auf dem Korridor, Wyrd Sisters, Arsenic and Old Lace (technical staff), Maskerade, The Crucible, Pride and Prejudice, Dear Octopus, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Favourite Quote : "Thirty fucking seconds!" (Lunch with God)
"Gather round ye greeks..." (on AND off stage quote God;)
"Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things...but I don't hold with encouraging it!" (Wyrd Sisters)
"You recognize him because he's got a mask on??? You know who he is, because you don't know how he is??!!??" (Maskerade)
"I am very... displeased!" (Pride & Prejudice)
Anecdotes and comments: Come and join, you get wrap-parties! Quote: "Tell me, Néo, just how late do wrap parties end?" - "I can't remeber any..."
Benedikt Sonntag 
Real life occupation: real life?
Joined: 2000
Plays:Opposites Attract, Joseph Andrews, Politically Correct Fairy Tales, Bums on Seats, Lunch with God, Poetry in Motion, God, Wyrd Sisters, Arsenic and Old Lace, Maskerade, The Crucible, Pride and Prejudice, Dear Octopus, A Midsummer Night's Dream + Mitarbeit bei Shakespeare auf dem Korridor und Comfort and Despair, Metamorphoses
Favourite Quote : "Even if I should succumb to a testosterone-induced coma of passion for you and your increasingly saggy physical charms, this thing would be of about as much use to me as a ham sandwich at a bar mitzvah, wouldn't it!?" - Hugo Roscoff, Bums on Seats
"Da muss mehr Eiter drauf!" - The Michele Gurr approach to make-up
"Opera works, because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong." - Mr Salzella, Maskerade
Anecdotes and comments: "Come to the theatre", they said! "That is an experience!", they said. They were so right... One could go on and on and on with anecdotes and quotes. I own this lot loads of wonderful moments. Let's just say: It honestly was and is a pleasure.
Sabrina Wczasek
Real life occupation: studies engineering at the RWTH
Joined: Autumn 2009
Plays: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Favourite quote: It's not the size of the dog in the fight. It's the size of the fight in dog...
Anecdotes snd comments: This is a veeery nice group...
Soeren Wellens
Real life occupation: German, French and Spanish teacher in England
Joined: April 2002
Plays: Politically Correct Fairy Tales; Bums on Seats; Poetry in Motion; God; Pilk's Madhouse; (Wyrd Sisters - cameo); Maskerade
Favourite Quote : I can only recall one at the moment: HAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Anecdotes and comments: * I'll never forget the moment during Bums on Seats when I forgot my line, jumped three pages ahead and lookd at Tanja in total panic and she in the same panic telepathically told me that she could not help me at all.
* Silvia's performance of Girls just wanna have fun was and is and will be uncomparable and unforgettable.
* There is a life after Actor's Nausea - but it's not the same!!!
* I've never met such a chaotic lot that always manages to have neither lines nor props at hand one week before opening night and then totally rocks!!!
Jan Winkler
Real life occupation: studying, music, work.
Joined: 2005
Plays: Arsenic and Old Lace (Dr. Einstein), Maskerade (Light), The Crucible (Light); Pride and Prejudice (Charles Bingley), Dear Octopus (Light), A Midsummer Night's Dream
Favourite Quote: "Look, it's hell outside" ; " Tschonnie, I schlippt."