Christoph Letkowski

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Christoph Letkowski (2012)

Christoph Letkowski (born June 16, 1982 in Halle ) is a German actor and musician .

Life

Education and theater

Letkowski grew up in Groß Börnecke . After High School on school Egeln he did his military service from. He then completed an acting training from 2002 to 2006 at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig .

In 2004 he played the role of John Fryer in a stage version of the mutiny on the Bounty in a theater production at his college . He completed his main studies from 2004 to 2006 at the drama studio of the Leipzig University, which is affiliated with the Chemnitz Theater , where he participated in other theater performances. Among other things, he appeared in a stage version of the film Sonnenallee in 2004, in 2005 he played Sacco in Schiller's The Fiesco Conspiracy in Genoa and Bergetto in Schade den Sie ist ein Whore by John Ford . With this production, the Chemnitz studio also made a guest appearance in 2005 at the Theatertreffen German-speaking drama students in Frankfurt am Main.

From 2006 to 2008 Letkowski had a permanent engagement as a theater actor at the GRIPS Theater in Berlin . There he appeared in the musical Line 1, among others . He also played there the Sven in the play one on the face of Rainer Hachfeld that John in Brave New World , a musical by Volker Ludwig and Achim Gieseler based on the novel by Aldous Huxley , and Rico in the play Cengiz & Locke after the novel by Zoran Drvenkar . Letkowski's portrayal of John in Brave New World , which he endowed with intensity and physicality, was positively mentioned several times by critics.

From 2008 to 2017 Letkowski was a member of the ensemble at the Volksbühne Berlin . There he played in the productions The Man with the Golden Denture by Nelson Rodrigues , The Measure by Bertolt Brecht and Mauser by Heiner Müller . He was also involved in Frank Castorf's production of Fuck Off, Amerika based on motifs by Eduard Limonow . In 2009 he appeared in Birds Without Borders , a production based on the comedy The Birds by Aristophanes , directed by Jérôme Savary . In March / April 2010, in Werner Schroeter's last directorial work, Letkowski took on the role of the emigrant's son Fak in the play Quai West by Bernard-Marie Koltès at the Volksbühne . From June 2011, Letkowski played the role of the lawyer Dr. in a production by Herbert Fritsch . Fritz Gerlach in the Schwank Die (s) panische Fliege by Franz Arnold and Ernst Bach . Letkowski performed regularly in this role at the Berliner Volksbühne until summer 2017.

Movie and TV

From 2006, Letkowski was regularly seen in film and television productions. For a few episodes he played briefly in the RTL series Gute Zeiten, Bad Zeiten in 2008 . In 2008 he played the autonomous Mitch in the film Chaostage - We Are Punks! by Tarek Ehlail . In Marc Rensing's debut film Parkour , which was completed in 2009 , Letkowski embodies the main character Richie, a young scaffolding builder who overcomes great challenges in the sport of parkour , but fails because of his jealousy in his relationship with his girlfriend. In 2010, in the ARD fairy tale adaptation, Das Blaue Licht , he played the main male role of the soldier Jakob, who was cheated out of his pay and who finally married the king's daughter. In 2012, he played the knight Bertolt in the ZDF fairytale film adaptation of Beauty and the Beast , who woos the favor of the beautiful landlord's daughter Elsa. In January 2012 he was seen in the television film The Long Wave Behind the Kiel at the side of Christiane Hörbiger . He played Sigi Klein, a history and philosophy student who accompanied his great-aunt Margarethe Kämmerer on a cruise .

In the Tatort episode Die Ballade von Cenk und Valerie was seen in May 2012 in the first as a young banker Andreas Dobler; he embodied an unscrupulous trader . 2012 took on a leading role in the Italian movie Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood . Directed by Daniele Vicari, he played the role of the student Rudy. Letkowski has been part of the investigative team of the ZDF crime series Nachtschicht since January 2013 . He embodies the young commissioner Yannick Kruse, who has just left the university.

In 2012 Letkowski stood in front of the camera for the film adaptation of the novel Wetlands and played the male lead, the male nurse Robin. In the scene of the crime film Brothers (Original Air Date: February 2014) he played the "complex" role of the mentally angeknacksten patrolman David Forester. In the ZDF film series Blochin - The Living and the Dead , Letkowski played the young police investigator Yorik Geier in a continuous role from September 2015. Letkowski later took on the role of police investigator Yorik Geier for the final film of the Blochin miniseries, which was first broadcast on ZDF in August 2019 under the title Blochin - The Living and the Dead . In March 2016, Letkowski was seen in a leading role as airport employee and smuggler Roman Kovac in Tatort - Zorn Gottes , the first Hamburg “crime scene” by the new investigator duo Falke and Grosz .

In the movie The Remains of My Life , which premiered at the Max Ophüls Preis film festival in Saarbrücken in January 2017 and was released in German cinemas in May 2017, Letkowski played the male lead alongside Luise Heyer . He embodies Shimon, who falls head over heels in love with a new woman two weeks after the tragic death of his pregnant wife. In the German- Austrian - Czech television production Die Ketzerbraut (first broadcast: February 2017) Letkowski also had the male lead as painter Ernst Rickinger, a follower of Luther who fell in love with his childhood friend while drawing nude figures . In the romantic comedy film On the Other Side, the grass is much greener (release: July 2017), with Jessica Schwarz in the lead role, Letkowski embodied the “sensitive”, “non-conformist” artist Mathias Lenzen, with whom the main female character Kati falls in love. Letkowski played the male lead in the feature film Die Vierhändiger (2017), which was nominated for the “New German Cinema Award” at the Munich Film Festival and which was released in German cinemas at the end of November 2017. Letkowski also starred in the short film You're welcome by the Swiss director and screenwriter Rebecca Panian , which premiered in September 2017 at the Encounters Festiva in Bristol (UK). The films The Remains of My Life and You're Welcome received several awards at the “South Film and Arts Academy Festival” (STAAF) in Rancagua (Chile); Letkowski was named "Best Lead Actor" for his role in The Remains of My Life .

Letkowski played one of the supporting roles in the TV tragicomedy We love life , staged by Sherry Hormann and first broadcast on ZDF in April 2018; he was the nurse Siggi. In the ZDF television film Lotte Jäger und die Tote im Dorf , which was first broadcast in September 2018, Letkowski played one of the suspects, the charming Florian Grasso, a former soccer player and now the owner of a flight school, who worked with special investigator Jäger ( Silke Bodenbender ) tried to flirt. In the TV series Die Heiland - Wir sind Anwalt , which first aired on Das Erste in September / October 2018 , Letkowski played one of the main roles in the series, the ambitious and “dazzling” lawyer Max Baerfeld. In the 5th season of the ZDF crime series Ein Fall für Zwei (first broadcast from October 2018) Letkowski had a leading role in the episode; he embodied Daniel Krause, the suspected murderer of an established Frankfurt apple tavern .

In the 10th case of the ZDF crime series Helen Dorn , entitled Prague Embassy (first broadcast: December 2018), Letkowski played the young BKA commissioner Felix Schwarz, who asked investigator Helen Dorn for her help in solving an old case, its traces lead to Prague , please. In the Weimar crime scene: The hellish Heinz , who had in December 2018 at the German National Theater Weimar , Letkowski played one of the main roles as cowboy, riding show director and “horse whisperer” Tom Wörtche, who flirts intensely with undercover detective Kira Dorn ( Nora Tschirner ) . In the historic television film Lotte am Bauhaus (first broadcast: February 2019) Letkowski was seen as the Swiss painter and “ Bauhaus ” master Johannes Itten . In the ARD television series Der Zürich-Krimi , Letkowski was used in the crime thriller Borchert and the Fall of Man (first broadcast: March 2019) as an opponent of the police investigator Hauptmann Furrer ( Felix Kramer ). He played Captain Ulf Markwart, the ambitious head of the “Milieu and Drugs” department, and an old friend of Furrer's. In the three-part ZDF family epic Bella Germania (2019), he played the main role of Alexander Schlewitz, a young German engineer from Silesia , full of energy and optimism, who fell in love with the main character Giulietta ( Silvia Busuioc ) in Italy in the 1950s . In the TV film Die Undertatterin - Death pays all debts (2019), Letkowski embodied, at the side of Anna Fischer , the investigating Stuttgart inspector Zellinger, who has to solve a “rural-bizarre” criminal case. In the crime film Die Toten am Meer (2020), Letkowski plays the "grounded and homely" colleague and assistant of the young inspector Ria Larsen ( Karoline Schuch ), a young man with a protective instinct, who supports and stands by her as the only one in the investigative team to bring down a "copy killer".

Christoph Letkowski also played in a few short films .

Radio plays

Letkowski also works as a radio play speaker . 2017 he worked together with Anton Because , for the rbb in a radio play version of the coming-of-age -Bestsellers Auer House of Bov Bjerg with. In September 2018 the label Hörbuch Hamburg published an unabridged reading of the novel With my fist into the world by Lukas Rietzschel .

music

He is also active as a musician and appears as a singer and guitarist for the pop band Volkskind . Since 2013 he has also performed together with the musician Ilker Aydin with the music project ilker & christoph ; their songs represent a mixture of pop , folk and indie . In August 2013 Letkowski and Aydin founded the band " Von Eden " together. Letkowski is the band's front man, lyricist and singer. Your song Land in Sight was part of the soundtrack for the film Wetlands . In August 2015 Letkowski released his second single called " Summer Is " together with "Von Eden" . In November 2016, the single and a music video for the song Gezeiten was released in the Wadden Sea and on Föhr . In January 2017 the new song The Remains of My Life was released.

In August 2017 Letkowski and “Von Eden” released their first album Wir sind hier, which was co-financed by a successful crowdfunding campaign . In August 2017 the album was “Album of the Week” on the radio program Bremen Eins and was presented as “CD Tip of the Week” on SR 3 Saarlandwelle . In September / October 2017, “Von Eden” also went on tour through Germany with the album and performed in Hanover, Leipzig, Munich, Saarbrücken, Berlin, Cologne and Hamburg.

In July 2016, he took on the lead role in the music video for the piece Breathe deeply from the album Labyrinth by Kontra K.

Letkowski also works as a director in the music field. He directed the music video for gasoline and potato chips , the third single from the hit album Me vs. we from the German band Kettcar . In 2018 Letkowski also directed the music video for the song Nobody Like You from the punk band Feine Sahne Fischfilet ; the video in which u. a. Anna Thalbach , Nellie Thalbach , Max Gertsch and Jörg Westphal contributed, was officially published in June 2018.

Filmography

Radio plays

Awards

Web links

Commons : Christoph Letkowski  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The "whore" at the 2005 theater meeting for German-speaking drama students (PDF; 64 kB) Homepage of the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater
  2. ↑ Line 1, 80s version revisited, program details and reviews, Musicalzentrale homepage
  3. ↑ Christoph Letkowski played GRIPS Theater on the GRIPS homepage
  4. ↑ Brave New World ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press reviews and reviews, GRIPS Theater website  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / grips-theater.de
  5. ↑ Ensemble Volksbühne Berlin ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Christoph Letkowski on the homepage of the Volksbühne Berlin  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.volksbuehne-berlin.de
  6. ↑ What the fuck is dramaturgy? Nachtkritik.de; February 29, 2008
  7. ↑ In the Comedy Gulag Review of May 27, 2009
  8. ^ "Quai West" splashes along Berliner Morgenpost , March 11, 2010
  9. ↑ Meaning shadow in front of a wall of darkness Nachtkritik.de
  10. ↑ The (s) panic fly . Performance review
  11. ↑ Volksbühne serves as the setting for the song "Mein Ende" . In: Berliner Morgenpost of August 9, 2017. Retrieved October 10, 2017.
  12. ↑ Richy turns through Potsdam's Latest News, October 29, 2009
  13. ↑ “Wetlands” will be released in 2013 in: Märkische Oderzeitung from November 19, 2012
  14. ↑ The film moves latently at the borders between perpetrators and victims. Interview with Christoph Letkowski. Press kit for the crime scene: Brothers (2014) . Retrieved February 25, 2014
  15. ↑ Crime scene: Christoph Letkowski convinces as a revenge police officer in "Brothers" ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Promipool.de from February 24, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.promipool.de
  16. ↑ "Blochin - The Living and the Dead": Forever in Purgatory . TV review. In: Frankfurter Rundschau from July 30, 2019. Retrieved April 25, 2020.
  17. ↑ THE SECRET WEAPON: Is “Rocky” Christoph Letkowski coming back as a police officer? . In: BILD of March 21, 2016. Retrieved April 25, 2020.
  18. ↑ The Remnants of My Life ( Memento of the original from January 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Official website of the Max Ophüls Preis film festival . Retrieved January 26, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.max-ophuels-preis.de
  19. ↑ That's what “The Heretic Bride” is all about . Background information. Official website of the Golden Camera from February 12, 2017. Accessed October 10, 2017.
  20. ↑ ON THE OTHER SIDE THE GRASS IS MUCH GREENER . Official website of Neue Filmproduktion tv GmbH. Retrieved October 10, 2017.
  21. ↑ "On the other hand, the grass is much greener": Which man do I take? . Movie review. rp-online of July 13, 2017. Accessed October 10, 2017.
  22. ↑ Christoph Letkowski on his role in THE FOUR HANDS . In: Ajouré of November 21, 2017. Retrieved December 1, 2017.
  23. ↑ YOU'RE WELCOME . Production details. Retrieved March 20, 2018.
  24. ↑ Winners: March 2018 . Retrieved March 20, 2018.
  25. ↑ We love life . ZDF press kit. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
  26. ↑ Second case of the crime series: Lotte Jäger: Between delusion and reality . TV criticism at Prisma.de. Retrieved September 4, 2018.
  27. ↑ Christoph Letkowski plays Max Baerfeld . Role profile on Das Erste . Retrieved September 19, 2018.
  28. ↑ A case for two | The divided apple . Plot and cast on ZDF.de . Retrieved October 19, 2018.
  29. ↑ Series "Helen Dorn - Prague Embassy" . TV review at tittelbach.tv . Retrieved December 2, 2018.
  30. ↑ Crime scene: The hellish Heinz: Are there rare earths in Germany? . TV review. In: stern from January 1, 2019. Retrieved January 2, 2019.
  31. ↑ Conversation with actor Christoph Letkowski . Official website Das Erste . Retrieved January 2, 2019.
  32. ^ The Zurich crime thriller: Borchert and the fall of man . Official website Das Erste . Retrieved March 13, 2019.
  33. ↑ Series "The Zurich Crime - New Episodes 2019" . TV review at tittelbach.tv . Retrieved March 13, 2019.
  34. ↑ L'amore - love (1) . Plot and cast. Official website of the ZDF . Retrieved March 10, 2019.
  35. ↑ Alexander Schlewitz, played by Christoph Letkowski . Roller profile. Official website of the ZDF . Retrieved March 13, 2019.
  36. ↑ The Undertaker - Death pays all debts . Plot, cast and picture gallery. Official website Das Erste . Retrieved April 25, 2020.
  37. ↑ Christoph Letkowski plays Inspector Zellinger . Interview with Christoph Letkowski. Official website Das Erste . Retrieved April 25, 2020.
  38. ↑ The dead by the sea . Plot, cast and picture gallery. Official website Das Erste . Retrieved April 25, 2020.
  39. ↑ Christoph Letkowski reveals: "I am a punk without tattoos" . Interview with Christoph Letkowski. Goldene Kamera.de from April 24, 2020. Retrieved April 25, 2020.
  40. ↑ Bov Bjerg's surprise bestseller "Auerhaus" appears as a radio play by Der Audio Verlag, produced by rbb . Retrieved March 20, 2018.
  41. ↑ STRIKING INTO THE WORLD WITH YOUR FIST (with audio sample). Retrieved September 24, 2018.
  42. ^ Volkskind on MySpace , accessed December 10, 2009
  43. ↑ ilker & christoph ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Music program; Junction Bar, Berlin, April 2013; Retrieved July 6, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.junction-bar.de
  44. ↑ Video premiere: From Eden - "Land in Sight" . (Music video and background information on VIVA.tv)
  45. ↑ a b c Album of the Week: From Eden "We Are Here" . Official website of Bremen Eins . Retrieved October 10, 2017.
  46. ↑ From Eden - Land in Sight . (Official Wetlands Movie Version)
  47. ↑ Who are these guys who sing about the Berlin summer? . In: BZ of August 7, 2015.
  48. ↑ VIDEO AND INTERVIEW WITH CHRISTOPH LETKOWSKI AND HIS BAND VON EDEN . Indie Berlin on November 16, 2016. Retrieved January 15, 2017.
  49. ↑ QUESTIONNAIRE: Christoph Letkowski (Von Eden) . Pencilrocker.de of January 14, 2017. Retrieved January 15, 2017.
  50. ↑ a b From Eden: "We are here" ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Official website of SR 3 Saarlandwelle . Retrieved October 10, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sr.de
  51. ↑ From Eden . Official website. Retrieved October 10, 2017.
  52. ↑ Against K - Take a deep breath (Official Video). In: YouTube. Retrieved August 3, 2016 .
  53. ↑ NEWS: Kettcar publish video for “Petrol and Potato Chips” . Pencilrocker.de of February 15, 2018. Retrieved February 15, 2018.
  54. ↑ NOBODY LIKE YOU . Official website of the actor Jörg Westphal. Retrieved June 10, 2018.
  55. ↑ Fine cream fish fillet - Nobody like you . Music video at Vimeo.com. Retrieved June 10, 2018.
  56. ^ Studio Hamburg : Günter Strack Television Prize 2010 - The Nominees. Retrieved August 3, 2016.
  57. ↑ German Film Award, Nominations 2011 (Munich Film Festival) ( Memento from August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Letkowski, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)