Joel Basman

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Joel Basman at the 65th Berlinale in February 2015.

Joel Basman (born January 23, 1990 in Zurich ) is a Swiss actor and fashion designer .

Life

Joel Basman's parents both work in the joint fashion business, from whom he learned the craft of tailoring . His mother comes from a Catholic family in Sursee , his father is a Jewish Israeli from Petach Tikwa . At the age of 14, Joel was discovered for television. He played the rascal Zizou in the weekly television series Lüthi and Blanc from 2004 to 2006.

In February 2008 he received the Shooting Star award for his role as a Russian teenager in the film Luftbusiness directed by Dominique de Rivaz . The director Tobias Ineichen brought Joel Basman in front of the camera for the lead role in the film Jimmie , where he played an autistic boy. Joel was awarded the Swiss Television Prize in the Film category in September 2008 for his portrayal and received the prize for the best male leading role at the Cinéma Tous Ecrans in October .

At the Schauspielhaus Zurich, Joel Basman worked on the youth theater project in 2003 and in 2004 and 2005 on the theses of students at the Zurich Drama School. He completed his studies at the European Film Actor School in mid-October 2008. Basman has both Swiss and Israeli citizenship.

In 2012, Basman got the role of Bartel in the three-part play Our Mothers, Our Fathers . In the same year he played the role of the wheelchair user Valentin in Thank You for Nothing , for which he was awarded the Prix ​​Walo for Best Actor the following year .

In the 2015 film adaptation of the novel As Wir Träumten by Andreas Dresen and in the Oscar-nominated Danish drama Unter dem Sand - The Promise of Freedom , he played leading roles.

In 2018 Basman played the main role of Motti Wolkenbruch in the film adaptation of the bestseller Wolkenbruch miraculous journey into the arms of a Schickse by the Swiss writer Thomas Meyer , who also wrote the screenplay.

Basman is a member of the German Film Academy .

Filmography

Radio plays

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Daniel Röthlisberger: "I'll never play a Nazi again" . In: Swiss family . No. 41 . Tamedia, Zurich October 11, 2018, p. 10-15 .
  2. ↑ Pascal Krauthammer: Swiss Jews - 150 Years of Equal Rights - 15 Portraits (exhibition catalog) . Swiss Association of Israelites, Zurich January 2016, p. 28 f .
  3. ^ ZDF: Contemporary history, told in a contemporary way. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 26, 2013 ; Retrieved March 24, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Thank you for nothing. Retrieved July 25, 2014 .
  5. ^ Joel Basman. In: deutsche-filmakademie.de. German Film Academy , accessed on May 17, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Swiss Film Prize 2019: Only one prize for the audience's favorite . Article dated March 22, 2019, accessed March 22, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Basman, Joel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich