When Sarah Masuch is asked about her route from the Hamburger Schauspielhaus via “Lindenstraße” to “Rote Rosen”, she shrugs her shoulders calmly – and she knows exactly why she chose this path. “Of course it was a joke to get an engagement at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus right after the drama school in Munich,” recalls the 44-year-old. But at that time she had no children, no family, and was able to live out the exhausting life of the theater independently. Then came the offer from “Lindenstrasse”.
For eight years she played the doctor Dr. Iris Brooks. Since this spring, Masuch has been part of the cast of “Rote Rosen”, the daily soap that has been broadcast five days a week at 2:10 p.m. on ARD since 2006. Lüneburg plays a leading role, another per season a woman in her mid-40s and her love tangles. In the current season, that’s Sarah Masuch, or rather her character, the owner of the shipping company Anette Roth. She falls in love with the chief prosecutor, played by Hardy Krüger jr. Filming is currently underway.
“After the theater I noticed that I was much more interested in television,” says the actress, who grew up in Wellingsbüttel. So she can work out the roles alone at home and the fixed teams in series offer her a kind of security. Masuch has an even more intimate relationship with “Lindenstrasse”: “I’m proud to have been there,” she says.
From the beginning, the series set social signs, dealing with current topics such as a Christian who converted to Islam, right-wing extremism, and homosexuality. “There was already diversity on Lindenstrasse when nobody was talking about it,” says the daughter of a German mother and a Nigerian father.
Now that applies to the “Red Roses”. Jerry Kwarteng, Hamburger with Ghanaian roots, has belonged to Dr. Althaus to the team, transgender model Lucy Hellenbrecht was in the main cast in spring. “That shows that something has changed, even with ‘Red Roses'”.
