Cosma Shiva Hagen
Cosma Shiva Hagen (German: [ˈkɔs.ma ˈʃiː.va ˈhaːɡn̩] ⓘ) is a German actress. Although she speaks English, her acting roles have been largely confined to German-language films and television productions. She also starred in an Irish film called Short Order (2005).
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| Born | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1996–present |
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Personal life
Born in Los Angeles, California, Cosma Shiva Hagen is the daughter of German singer Nina Hagen and Dutch musician Ferdinand Karmelk. As a child, she lived in London, Berlin, Paris, Ibiza, Lüneburg and Hamburg. Her grandmother was actress Eva-Maria Hagen and her step-grandfather is the East German dissident writer and singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann. Hagen's unusual name was picked by her mother, who claimed she saw a UFO while pregnant. "Cosma" is a reference to the cosmos, and "Shiva" is a reference to the Hindu god Shiva.
Hagen's great-grandfather Hermann Carl Hagen, a German-Jewish banker and economist, was murdered at Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1945. Her non-Jewish great-grandmother Hedwig Elise Caroline Staadt, wife of Hermann Hagen, was also murdered at Sachsenhausen. Her paternal grandfather Hans Hagen was a Holocaust survivor, being held at a prison in Moabit between 1941 and 1945 until liberation by the Soviets.[1]
Selected filmography
- Das merkwürdige Verhalten geschlechtsreifer Großstädter zur Paarungszeit (1998), as Sandra
- 7 Dwarves – Men Alone in the Wood (2004), as Snow White
References
- "Stolpersteine in Berlin". stolpersteine-berlin.de. Retrieved 1 December 2021.