Verena Altenberger

[6] In 2016, Altenberger landed the title role in the German comedy series Magda macht das schon!, in which she plays a Polish geriatric nurse.

[19] In 2018, Altenberger succeeded Matthias Brandt in the German crime series Polizeiruf 110 and took on the role of Munich investigator Elisabeth "Bessie" Eyckhoff in the episode Der Ort, von dem die Wolken kommen.

[20][21] In the third season of the crime series Shades of Guilt ("SCHULD nach Ferdinand von Schirach") she played the role of Sheryl.

[25] In late 2019, she was shooting for the ORF/BR comedy Schönes Schlamassel by Wolfgang Murnberger alongside Maxim Mehmet, in which she embodied Anne, a non-Jewish bookseller who is very passionate about Judaism.

[29][30] In the tragicomedy Me, We, which premiered at the Graz Diagonale in June 2021, she embodied the role of Marie, who sets off for Lesbos to provide initial care for refugees arriving at an NGO camp on the coast.

[32] In November 2021, Verena Altenberger took over the presidency of the Austrian Film Academy together with director and producer Arash T. Riahi from their longtime predecessor duo Stefan Ruzowitzky and Ursula Strauss.