Janette Rauch

Janette Rauch grew up in Berlin as the daughter of a Swiss father. She was one of the original cast members of the musical Linie 1 at Berlin's Grips-Theater. She played the main role of "girl" until 1989. Since then, Rauch has been active in numerous German cinema and television films and series.

She became known to a wider audience through her role as Sister Christine in the 1990 movie Non-Stop Trouble in the Hospital [de] and her role in the ZDF series Zwei alte Hasen. She was often seen alongside Hape Kerkeling in some of his films. Since 6 November 2006, she starred in the telenovela Rote Rosen; after the departure of Angela Roy in episode 214, she took over the lead role of gardener Alice Albers.

Since 2011, she has been a permanent fixture on the ZDF evening series Notruf Hafenkante.

Rauch claims to have survived the 2006 tsunami in Sri Lanka.^[1]

She lives in Bremen, Germany.^[1]

Janette Rauch is a Children's Ambassador for Bremer Children's Day and was, until 2010, the patron of the children's hospice Löwenherz in Syke (near Bremen).^[2]