Genoveva Mayer

Genoveva Mayer was born and raised in Munich. She graduated from Schauspiel Munich Drama School and took additional acting classes at the renowned Theaterakademie August Everding in Munich. Upon graduation she became an ensemble member for two seasons at the municipal theater Pforzheim where she was given the great opportunity to play several leading roles in plays like The Imaginary Invalid, Die Strategie der Schmetterlinge, and Bungee Jumping. Moreover, she acted and sang in musical productions like Happy End and Sekretärinnen. An engagement at Munich's Komödie im Bayerischen Hof lured her back to her hometown. She performed in comedic plays like 8 Frauen and Der Damenschneider and took on a role in the British tragedy Honour, which then toured nationally. Genoveva Mayer has had roles in episodes of TV crime series like SoKo München, Der Bulle von Tölz, and Unter Verdacht and has played in films like Am Rande der Nacht, Der Kronzeuge, and In Letzter Sekunde. In 2010 she was picked by Til Schweiger to play in the box-office hit Kokowääh which went on to win the German Comedypreis in 2011. Big screen productions followed like Oscar Roehler's autobiography Quellen des Lebens and Hans Steinbichler's Q and A for which she was hand-picked by the director himself in 2012.