Tajna Tanovic

Biography

Performing Experience

  • 21 years of experience in the performing arts in Sarajevo, Ljubljana (Slovenia), Germany and New York
  • Leading actress at TAS Theater in Germany (1993-2004); the Project 3 tour included Munich’s Kammerspiele and Hamburg’s Thalia Theater among other major theaters; guest performance at the Cankarjev Dom, the Cultural and Congress Center in Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Performance at the UNESCO Charity Gala for Children in Need in Düsseldorf in 1993 with the poem This is Sarajevo speaking, I am an island in the heart of the world
  • Performed in the German Parliament on the Day of Human Rights, 1998
  • voice for the PUMA Soundtrip for FIFA World Cup 2006 in Germany
  • Singer of band Love in Shakespeare, performing Shakespeare’s sonnets
  • 2 concerts at Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Böll’s summer festival in Langenbroich, Germany (2001 and 2003)
  • Poetry readings included Cologne is reading Böll at the Mediapark in Cologne (Heinrich-Böll-Foundation) and the opening of the Rose Ausländer exhibition, both 2002

Personal

  • Born June 26, 1984, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Currently resides in New York City