JOHANNA POLLEY

[she/her] Expert for chronic diseases and inclusion

 

Johanna Polley was born in Berlin in 1992. She already enjoyed writing as a teenager, starting with reviews of books for children and young people, later writing her own monologues and an as yet unperformed play. While studying acting at the Film University Babelsberg “Konrad Wolf”, she began working as a film actress, which she has done with passion ever since. She has appeared in films and series such as (TW: racist terms) “Es war einmal I********land”, “Sam - ein Sachse” and “Die geschützten Männer”. Increasingly, also due to her own chronic diagnoses, she became aware of unjust, discriminatory social structures and began to educate herself, first in the field of anti-racism and later on ableism and possibilities of empowerment.

 

Since 2019, she has been involved with ProQuote Film e.V. for more gender equality, diversity and inclusion in film, e.g. in the specially founded Inclusion Network, an exchange opportunity for filmmakers with disabilities and their allies. From 2022 to 2024, she was on the board of ProQuote Film. She is also an assessor on the board of Vielfalt im Film e.V. Her curiosity about discrimination-sensitive knowledge and her strong desire for empowering networking means that she is constantly educating herself and keeping up to date with the latest debates.

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