# Esther Schweins > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Esther_Schweins > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Esther_Schweins.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Schweins > Source revision: 1307188459 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) German actress and comedian (born 1970) This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This biography of a living person relies largely or entirely on a single source. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. 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Find sources: "Esther Schweins" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this message) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Esther Schweins Esther Schweins, 2012 Born (1970-04-18) 18 April 1970 (age 56) Oberhausen, West Germany Website www.estherschweins.de **Esther Schweins** (born 18 April 1970 in [Oberhausen](/source/Oberhausen)) is a German [actress](/source/Actress) and [comedian](/source/Comedian) who became famous through her appearances on the *[RTL Samstag Nacht](/source/RTL_Samstag_Nacht)* show for which she won the [Bayerischer Fernsehpreis](/source/Bayerischer_Fernsehpreis) in 1994. Esther Schweins (2012) Schweins survived the [2004 Indian Ocean earthquake](/source/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake) whilst on holiday with her mother in [Sri Lanka](/source/Sri_Lanka).[1] She provided the German voice of Princess Fiona for the dubs of the [*Shrek* franchise](/source/Shrek_(franchise)). She has a daughter (born 2007) and a son (born 2008) with a farmer from Mallorca in Spain whom she hasn't married because she does not believe in marriage.[2] In 2018, she played British suffragette and political activist [Emmeline Pankhurst](/source/Emmeline_Pankhurst) in the German docudrama *We are half the World* (*Die Hälfte der Welt gehört uns*) about the women's suffrage movement in Germany, France and the United Kingdom.[3] ## Selected filmography - *[The Superwife](/source/The_Superwife)* (1996) - *Sisters from Hell* (1997) - *[Höllische Nachbarn](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H%C3%B6llische_Nachbarn_(film)&action=edit&redlink=1) [[de](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B6llische_Nachbarn_(Film))]* (1998, TV film) - *[Klassentreffen – Mordfall unter Freunden](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Klassentreffen_%E2%80%93_Mordfall_unter_Freunden&action=edit&redlink=1) [[de](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klassentreffen_%E2%80%93_Mordfall_unter_Freunden)]* (2001, TV film) - *Die fabelhaften Schwestern* (2002, TV film) - *[The Calling Game](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Calling_Game&action=edit&redlink=1) [[de](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Anruferin)]* (2007) - *Whispers of the Desert* (2012, TV film) - *[Mara and the Firebringer](/source/Mara_and_the_Firebringer)* (2015) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-bm_1-0)** ["Esther Schweins kehrt Freitag aus Sri Lanka zurück"](http://www.morgenpost.de/printarchiv/berlin/article336354/Esther_Schweins_kehrt_Freitag_aus_Sri_Lanka_zurueck.html). *[Berliner Morgenpost](/source/Berliner_Morgenpost)* (in German). 5 January 2005. Retrieved 30 March 2010. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Hofmann, Esther (2014-09-06). ["Warum Esther Schweins nicht heiraten möchte"](http://www.bz-berlin.de/leute/warum-esther-schweins-nicht-heiraten-moechte). *BZ Berlin*. Retrieved 2019-11-09. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["We are half the World"](https://web.archive.org/web/20220317223339/https://gebrueder-beetz.de/en/productions/wearehalftheworld) (Press release). gebrueder geetz filmproduktion. 2017. Archived from [the original](https://gebrueder-beetz.de/en/productions/wearehalftheworld) on 2022-03-17. Retrieved 2019-11-09. ## External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Esther Schweins](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Esther_Schweins). - [Official website](http://www.estherschweins.de/) (in German) - [Esther Schweins](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0777806/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) - Esther Schweins has practiced yoga since she was 12 years old. Arte Documentary [https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/083923-003-A/sacred-varanasi](https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/083923-003-A/sacred-varanasi) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20221109021741/https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/083923-003-A/sacred-varanasi/) 2022-11-09 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) Authority control databases International ISNI VIAF GND WorldCat National United States France BnF data Artists MusicBrainz People Deutsche Biographie DDB This article about a German comedian or humourist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. - [v](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Germany-comedian-stub) - [t](/source/Template_talk%3AGermany-comedian-stub) - [e](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Germany-comedian-stub) This article about a German film and television actor is a stub. 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