Valentina Himmelbauer 

Born on June 19, 1996 in Vienna, I grew up as a Burgenland-Croatian in a small town in the southeast of Austria. Fascinated by the film and theater world from an early age, after graduating from the Bilingual Federal High School in Oberwart, I began my actor training at the Vienna Film Academy - Drama School for Theater and Film, which I successfully completed in 2018. This was followed by the Paritätische Stage Matriculation Examination, which I took at the Vienna Kammerspiele.

Previous productions have taken me to, among others, the inclusive Theater Delphin, the Mödlinger Theater im Bunker and the Theater Spielraum in Vienna. I have also appeared in front of the camera in a number of productions, such as the film When the Woodlark Sings by the Austrian director Ana Bilić, in which I played the female lead.
As part of the experimental short film project The Question of the Window, on which I worked together with Myriam Angela and Tess Hermann, I also appeared as a screenwriter and director for the first time.

In addition to my passion for the world of acting, my interest in history also led me to take up a bachelor's degree in history at the University of Vienna, which I was able to complete in 2021.