Acting
Sep 4, 1987
München, Germany
Anja Sommavilla
Acting
Biography
Anja Sommavilla grew up bilingually in Munich as the daughter of Italian parents, where she also attended Gymnasium. Beginning in 1996, she appeared in various television productions, including traffic safety videos with Michael Schanze (1996), *Auweia* (1998), *Kein Geld der Welt* (a dance performance, 1998), and *Unser Wasser* (an educational film for schools, 1999). She rose to fame in 2001 for her role as Pony Hütchen in the film *Emil und die Detektive*. Alongside her acting career, she competed in hip-hop competitions; in 1995, she became the German champion in the group category, and in 2000, she took second place at the German Hip-Hop Championships. She is no longer active as an actress. From 2008 to 2011, she studied psychology at the University of Vienna, and from 2011 to 2013 at the University of Amsterdam.
Feature Films (4)
The twelve-year-old Emil and his father are haunted by bad luck. To take a break from a series of family disasters, Emil is allowed to spend a few days with a friend of the family, the female priest Hummel in Berlin. In the train he runs across the slick Max Grundeis who anaesthetizes Emil and steals his savings of 1500 DM. When he finally arrives in Berlin, Emil and a gang of street kids, led by the cheeky girl Pony Hütchen, try to find the gangster, who haunts the posh Hotel Adlon as a hotel thief. Meanwhile, to prevent anyone from finding out about Emil's mishap, Gypsi, a member of the gang of kids, passes himself off as Emil, thus wreaking havoc on the home of the priest.
Emil and the Detectives
Poor Bibi - due to her bad marks in maths she has to spend the whole summer in the boarding school of Altenberg to scrape through a series of exams - otherwise she'd stay down in school, being forced to repeat the year. No camping, no white-water rafting, no vacation at all. So it doesn't surprise anyone that the young witch is quite disgruntled when arriving at Altenberg Castle. Her roommate is a touchy unpleassant fashion victim and headmaster Quirin Bartels is so muddle-headed that he can't even remember the names of his students properly. But then Bibi makes friends with Elea, a girl wheelchair-bound since a terrible accident where she also lost her beloved parents. Now Bibi is determined to help the sensitive Elea, searching a way to heal her from her palsy legs.
Bibi Blocksberg and the Secret of Blue Owls
Elation in Neustadt: by the means of a little witching, Bibi Blocksberg saved two kids from burning to death. While her mother Barbara, a witch of flesh and blood herself, is very proud of her daughter, father Bernhard, overworked and stressed, disapproves greatly of her supernatural antics. Then Bibi gets a message from Walpurgia, the senior witch: she is going to receive her crystel ball, that will make a "real" witch of her, early. Proudly, Bibi jumps up her broom to fly to the Blocksberg, the witches' headquarters. But Rabia, one of the few evil witches, aging in misery and with a secret, begrudges her all the glory...and her youth. And so Rabia sets off events that will soon make Bibi's life fall into pieces.
