Lars Eidinger

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lars Eidinger at the opening of the Berlinale 2014

Lars Eidinger (born January 21, 1976 in West Berlin ) is a German actor . He first made a name for himself at the theater as a long-time ensemble member of the Berlin Schaubühne . With his first major film role in Maren Ade's relationship drama All Others (2009), he was also able to establish himself as a film actor .

Life

Training and theater work

Lars Eidinger was born as the son of a pediatric nurse and an engineer in West Berlin, where he grew up with a brother and attended the Gustav Heinemann High School in Marienfelde . Even as a child, he had a desire to become an actor. At the age of ten he acted out Bibi Blocksberg radio plays, while in the 1980s he gained his first professional experience as a child actor on the SFB youth program Moskito . In high school he excelled in sports and in the theater group, where he successfully appeared in performances of Woyzeck and The Resistant Rise of Arturo Ui (“I always wanted to be the first, always be the best ... I was always, anyway the clown, the one who wanted to laugh. Only then was I happy. ").

From 1995 to 1999 he trained as an actor in his hometown at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art together with Devid Striesow , Nina Hoss , Mark Waschke and Fritzi Haberlandt . During his training, guest contracts followed at the Deutsches Theater and the Kammerspiele, where he appeared in productions by Jürgen Gosch and Wolfgang Engel . Even during his time at the drama school, Eidinger had dreamed of an engagement in the house on Lehniner Platz , because he was fascinated by Thomas Ostermeier's staging and contemporary theater. In 2000 he joined the ensemble of the Berlin Schaubühne after he had won auditions a year earlier as Franz Moor from Schiller's Die Räuber . He made his debut at the Schaubühne with a leading role in Das Kontingent von Soeren Vomia (2000). Although he was initially ignored as an actor by Ostermeier and had to refuse film roles offered due to contractual obligations, Eidinger was to become one of the most formative actors in the theater in the following years.

During this time Eidinger took on roles in almost all productions by Ostermeier and Christina Paulhofer . Critic praise earned him, among other things, the role of the bisexual and AIDS- ill Doctor Rank in Ibsen's Nora (2002 and 2004), his nude appearance as cynical Hippolytos in Sarah Kane 's Phaidras Liebe (2003) alongside Corinna Harfouch and the male title role in William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida (2005) a. In autumn 2005 he played the role of the willless and nervous scientist Jörgen Tesmann in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler alongside Katharina Schüttler and a year later caused a sensation with a lascivious striptease in the opening scenes of Ostermeier and Constanza Macras' Shakespeare adaptation Ein Sommernachtstraum (2006). This was followed by the title role in Marius von Mayenburg's Der Häßliche (2007). In 2008 Eidinger was seen as Hamlet (2008) under the direction of Ostermeier, whom he interpreted as a breakdancer in guest appearances at the Hellenic Festival in Athens , in Avignon , Australia and at the Schaubühne.

At the beginning of December 2008 Eidinger made his debut as a theater director in the Schaubühnenstudio, where he staged Schiller's Die Räuber with students from the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts , for which he was invited to the Radikal jung theater festival . The reaction of the critics was different. While some attested that Eidinger was “worth seeing, lively production”, which would ultimately lack clear thought and sense of order, others saw “a fundamentally serious, clever and only superficially pop Schiller study.” The actor sees himself at work as a puppet player. “I always want to play with the awareness that I have a figure in my hand that I move,” says Eidinger, who also addressed his own fear of failure in interviews and in a book published in 2011 (EIDINGER) : “When I play, then I feel defenseless against the people who are watching me. Of course I'm scared too. Fear of failure, fear of not pleasing. But besides this fear there is also the desire to reveal oneself, to show oneself. There is this extreme range between fear of failure and fantasies of omnipotence. When things go well, suddenly everything seems possible, it's like being in a frenzy. I think then that I am the greatest actor in the world. "

In 2009 he successfully played Stanley Kowalski in Benedict Andrews 'production of Tennessee Williams ' drama Endstation Sehnsucht , and the Tagesspiegel highlighted his talent for "allowing the flaws of a character without distancing himself from them for the audience". Thomas Ostermeier attested him “self-confidence and the complete absence of fear of coming across as embarrassing or implausible.” According to his own statements, Eidinger also seeks the point at work at which he loses control of himself. “I totally enjoy the moments when physical exertion triggers the feeling that everything is happening by itself,” says Eidinger. The Berliner Morgenpost titled him in a portrait in 2011 as “experts for the excessive”.

In 2011, Eidinger worked with the Argentine director Rodrigo García on his text Should Goya rob me of my sleep rather than some asshole together as part of the Festival Internationale Neue Dramatik (FIND) organized by the Schaubühne . The monologue is about a father who puts elaborate answers to his wishes into his two sons' mouths.

In August 2011 Lars Eidinger made his debut in the role of Angelo in Shakespeare's Maß für Maß at the Salzburg Festival at the Salzburg State Theater . The FAZ wrote: “As Angelo himself, whom the great Lars Eidinger portrays less as a disgusting lecher than as a driven head of authorities.” In 2013, Eidinger staged William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at the Schaubühne .

In 2015, the press described Eidinger's appearance as Richard III as a “theater event with announcement” . Like Hedda Gabler and Hamlet before, Thomas Ostermeier's Schaubühnen production has since had numerous international guest performances.

In addition to his career as an actor, he is a lecturer at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts. Eidinger is a member of the German Film Academy .

Film and television actors

In parallel to his theater career, Eidinger initially worked sporadically for film and television. In 2003 he made guest appearances in the series Schloss Einstein and Berlin, Berlin , which was followed by major roles in the short film projects Ketchup Connection (2005) and Deutschland Deine Lieder (2007). He made his feature film debut in 2007 with a supporting role in Stephan Geene's drama After Effect . After further small roles on German television ( Der Dicke , 2005; Notruf Hafenkante , 2007; Minibar , 2008) and a film appearance in Helene Hegemann's award-winning drama Torpedo at the Max Ophüls Festival , he had his breakthrough as a film actor in 2009.

In Maren Ades' drama All Others , he played a young German couple with Birgit Minichmayr , whose relationship threatens to break up during a joint vacation in Italy after confrontation with another couple has questioned their own life plans and role models. The film premiered in the competition at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival , where it received high praise from the critics and won two Silver Bears . Also in 2009, Eidinger was seen at the side of Fritzi Haberlandt in the Police Call 110 episode The Poor Children of Schwerin , in which he played a suspected murderer of a family man and henchman of the Russian mafia, who earned his living by stealing scrap metal and copper pipes .

The "cool it-boy of his generation" appeared in 2010 in the documentary series Durch die Nacht mit ... together with Oda Jaune . A few months later, Eidinger was again directed by Ostermeier in Lars Norén's play Demons, alongside Brigitte Hobmeier , Tilman Strauss and Eva Meckbach , which reports on two different couples. The role of uptight, cynical mothers boy Frank earned him mixed reviews. While the daily newspaper pointed out similarities to the character from Alle Other and spoke of an “unbelievable copy of this prototype”, Die Welt celebrated him as a furious master of “partner-annoyance-terror (s)”. In the same year Eidinger took on larger television roles in Stefan Kornatz 's relationship drama Relationships with Devid Striesow and Nicolette Krebitz , again in the series Polizeiruf 110 (episode: Zapfenstreich ) and as a gentle and sadistic murderer alongside Ulrike Folkerts in the Ludwigshafen crime scene ( Breath of Death ) . Another role in Tatort followed in 2012 in the Kiel episode Borowski and the silent guest as the postman Kai Korthals, who initially stalks his female victims and, as soon as he is caught by his victims, murders them coldly. This episode was continued in 2015 with the crime scene: Borowski and the return of the silent guest , where Korthals, who this time chose Borowski's friend Frieda Jung ( Maren Eggert ) as the victim, can finally be overwhelmed.

On February 14, 2012, Eidinger premiered the feature film What remains (director: Hans-Christian Schmid) in the competition at the Berlinale . The film, in which he plays the leading role as Marko, is about a family get-together where parents and their grown children meet and are confronted with unspoken truths.

Outside Germany, Eidinger played Quadfrey in Peter Greenaway's film Goltzius and the Pelican Company (2012). In 2013 he was seen as a former SS officer in the episode Sunflower of the British TV series Foyle's War . He was invited to the Cannes Film Festival competition with Olivier Assayas ' films The Clouds of Sils Maria (2014, with Juliette Binoche ) and Personal Shopper (2016, with Kristen Stewart ) . In 2017, his leading role as Tsar Nicholas II in the Russian historical film Mathilde , which reached two million viewers in Russia, was politically explosive in the country of manufacture .

Eidinger with Adèle Haenel (Austrian premiere of The Flowers of Yesterday , 2017)

In 2016 Eidinger was appointed to the jury of the 66th Berlin International Film Festival . In the same year he played the defense lawyer Biegler in the ARD television film Terror - Your Judgment , which is based on a play by Ferdinand von Schirach .

In 2018 he played Bertolt Brecht in Joachim A. Lang's Mackie Messer - Brecht's Threepenny Film . With the leading role in the moped road movie 25 km / h at the side of Bjarne Mädel , he had his greatest success in German cinema to date. In 2018 he also played alongside Moritz Bleibtreu and Jasna Fritzi Bauer in the book adaptation Abgeschnitte by author Sebastian Fitzek .

DJ, musician and other artistic activities

Eidinger repeatedly works as a musician and DJ and organized parties at the Schaubühne under the motto Autistic Disco . In 2019 he stated that with his numerous bookings as a DJ he was earning more money than at the theater. In 1998 he published a title on the Stud! O K7 sub-label of the Berlin label ! K7 and a year later was represented with two pieces on the Fragments compilation by the Berlin label no.nine . In 1999 Eidinger produced the music for Ernst-August Zurborn's ARTE documentary Die Murder des Herr Müller and was also responsible for the music for Thomas Ostermeier's Schaubühnen productions of Nora , Der Würgeengel and Trauer muss Elektra . In 2018, Eidinger designed an episode of the documentary talk show The Story of an Evening ... for NDR television and invited the actress Sophia Thomalla , the politician Kevin Kühnert , the pop singer Stefanie Hertel and the cardiac surgeon Michael Hübler . The show was nominated for the Grimme Prize 2019 . Eidinger works with visual artists such as John Bock and Juergen Teller .

In 2019, Eidinger had a solo exhibition as an artist for the first time. Under the title Autistic Disco , mainly videos and photos are shown in the New Aachen Art Association . Eidinger had previously published many of the everyday observations on his Instagram account. In the same year appeared Eidinger at four music videos of Deichkind with.

At the beginning of 2020, Eidinger and fashion designer Philipp Bree released a bag made of cowhide, the design of which is based on the design of the Aldi bag by Günter Fruhtrunk . The bag was offered at a price of 550 euros. In photos he posed with it in front of a Berlin homeless shelter. For this he was criticized in numerous media. In reference to the campaign, the Düsseldorf homeless magazine FiftyFifty produced a bag based on the Lidl bag, which is given out free of charge to the homeless. The advertising campaign was based on Eidinger's photos.

Private

Lars Eidinger is married to the opera singer Ulrike Eidinger, with whom he has a daughter. He lives with his family in Berlin-Charlottenburg .

plant

Plays (selection)

year Play role stage
1997 Armaments for immortality Displacer German Theater Berlin
1998 Penthesilea Diomedes German Theater Berlin
1998 The Maid of Orleans You chatel German Theater Berlin
1999 Edward II various roles Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz , Berlin
2000 The contingent Bill Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
2000 A long time ago in May various roles Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
2000 A stranger from the Seine Albert Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
2000 Mr. Kolpert Bastian Mole Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz , Berlin
2001 Danton's death Philippeau Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
2001 Evil Dead II Young teenager Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
2001 Push up 1–3 Frank Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
2002 Golden times Bill Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
2002 Macbeth Malcolm Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
2002 Nora Doctor Rank Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz , Berlin
2003 Woyzeck Sergeant Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
2003 Phaidras love Hippolytus Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
2003 Nora Doctor Rank International May Festival Wiesbaden
2003 Suburban Motel Max Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
2003 The strangling angel Clemens Hoe Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
2003 Lulu Alwa Schöning Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz , Berlin
2004 Cleaned Graham Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
2004 Nora Doctor Rank Schauspielhaus Zurich
Det Kongelige Teater , Copenhagen , Denmark
2004 The Duchess of Malfi Ferdinand Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
2005 Troilus and Cressida Troilus Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
2005 The stupidity various roles Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
2005 Hedda Gabler Jörgen Tesmann Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
2005 Disturbance Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
2006 Cleaned Graham Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
2006 Hedda Gabler Jörgen Tesmann International May Festival Wiesbaden
Det Kongelige Teater , Copenhagen , Denmark
2006 A midsummer night's dream Elf / animator /
stripper / conférencier 		Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
2006 Nora Doctor Rank Chiang Kai Shek Cultural Center of Taipei
2007 The ugly one Latvian Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
2008 Hamlet Hamlet Hellenic Festival Athens
Avignon theater festival in
Berlin's Schaubühne
2009 What can a good standing
stage actually achieve ? 		Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
2009 End of the line longing Stanley Kowalski Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
2010 Demons Frank Schaubühne at Lehniner Platz,
Teatro Valle Inclán, Madrid, Spain
2010 Hamlet Hamlet Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz ,
Kronborg , Helsingør , Denmark
Territory - Theater of Nations, Moscow
Namsan Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
La Comédie de Reims, Reims, France
2010 The misanthropist Alceste Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
2011 Demons Frank Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz,
Célestins - Théâtre de Lyon, Lyon, France
2011 Measure for measure Angelo Salzburg Festival
Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz
2011 Hamlet Hamlet Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz,
Théâtre National de Bretagne, Rennes, France
Israel Festival, Jerusalem, Israel
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Santiago de Chile, Chile
Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Barbican Theater, London, UK
2011 Should Goya
rob me of my sleep rather than some asshole 		Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
2011 Hedda Gabler Jörgen Tesmann Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz,
Stage Theater, Melbourne, Australia
Brest, France
Rouen, France
2012 Demons Frank Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz,
Kléber-Méléau, Lausanne, Switzerland
Bergmanfestivalen, Dramaten, Stockholm, Sweden
2012 Hamlet Hamlet Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz,
Scène National, Clermont-Ferrand, France
International Theater Festival, Istanbul, Turkey
2012 The misanthropist Alceste Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz,
Odéon - Théâtre de l'Europe, Paris
2012 Measure for measure Angelo Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz ,
Odéon - Théâtre de l'Europe, Paris
2012 Should Goya
rob me of my sleep rather than some asshole 		Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
2012 Hedda Gabler Jörgen Tesmann Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
2013 Tartuffe Tartuffe Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
2015 Richard III Richard III Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin

Theater direction

Filmography (selection)

Music videos

Radio plays and audio books

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Lars Eidinger  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lars Eidinger in Through the Night with… - Oda Jaune and Lars Eidinger ( ARTE 2010).
  2. ↑ a b c cf. Flukesweed, Ortrun: Noise is always positive . In: Berliner Morgenpost , March 13, 2009, p. 20.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Matthias Kalle: The little prince . In: Die Zeit , June 10, 2010, pp. 10–16.
  4. ↑ a b c d e cf. Slevogt, Esther: Longing for the great . In: the daily newspaper , January 17, 2009, p. 32.
  5. ↑ a b c Matthias Heine: The eternal baby boy on Lehniner Platz . In: Die Welt , October 30, 2004, p. 28.
  6. ↑ Lars Eidinger: Inquired . In: Der Tagesspiegel , November 27, 2008, p. 18.
  7. ↑ Peter Hans Göpfert: Schiller's "Robber" very young. In: Berliner Morgenpost , December 7, 2008, edition 336/2008, p. 22.
  8. ↑ a b cf. Wildermann, Patrick: The male flaw . In: Der Tagesspiegel , March 26, 2009, edition 20214, Ticket, p. 1.
  9. ↑ Anne Peter: Wild and loud: The man for the excessive . In: Berliner Morgenpost , March 19, 2011, p. 23.
  10. ↑ Katrin Bettina Müller: Drugs, bears, taxi rides . In: the daily newspaper , March 7, 2011, p. 28.
  11. ↑ [1]
  12. ↑ André Mumot: Theater event announcement. Deutschlandfunk Kultur, February 7, 2015, accessed on November 24, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Richard III. Schaubühne, accessed on November 24, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Lars Eidinger. German Film Academy , accessed on March 17, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Jens Müller: Built on sand . In: the daily newspaper , April 7, 2010, p. 17.
  16. ↑ Katrin Bettina Müller: Under the skin . In: the daily newspaper , March 4, 2010, p. 17.
  17. ↑ Reinhard Wengierek: On the marriage war path . In: Die Welt , March 4, 2010, ed. 53, p. 24.
  18. ^ "Tatort" on voyeurism - Der Spanner, your friend and helper on spiegel.de from September 7, 2012; Retrieved October 25, 2016.
  19. ↑ "Tatort" sequel with Lars Eidinger - The monster now has a baby on spiegel.de of 27 November 2015; Retrieved October 25, 2016.
  20. ↑ SWR cinema coproduction in the competition at the Berlinale at presseportal.de, January 9, 2012 (accessed January 15, 2012).
  21. ↑ Official website for Foyle's War (English)
  22. ↑ Foyle's War - Sunflower in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  23. ↑ Christina Hebel: Target of pious hatred. In: Spiegel Online. October 23, 2017, accessed November 24, 2018 .
  24. ↑ Matilda. In: LUMIERE. European Audiovisual Observatory, accessed November 24, 2018 .
  25. ↑ Thomas Clausen: Lars Eidinger - Everything just theater. In: Rize Magazine. Retrieved June 30, 2019 .
  26. ↑ Lars Eidinger. Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, accessed on March 17, 2019 .
  27. ↑ 55th Grimme Prize 2019 - nominations. Grimme Institute, accessed on March 16, 2019 .
  28. ↑ The story of one evening. In: NDR.de. Retrieved March 16, 2019 .
  29. ↑ Berlinische Galerie shows westerns by John Bock. Retrieved August 20, 2018 .
  30. ↑ Gabriela Walde: It is served - Juergen Teller in the Martin-Gropius-Bau . ( Morgenpost.de [accessed on August 20, 2018]).
  31. ^ Autistic Disco. Lars Eidinger. New Aachener Kunstverein, accessed on June 30, 2019 (exhibition from June 23 to August 11, 2019).
  32. ↑ Photographs from the Insta feed. In: Deutschlandfunk Corso. June 24, 2019, accessed June 30, 2019 .
  33. ↑ Berliner Morgenpost- Berlin: Lars Eidinger sells luxury Aldi bags - and poses in front of the homeless. January 20, 2020, accessed on February 13, 2020 (German).
  34. ↑ Anna Fastabend: Lars Eidinger and Aldi: Does that have to go? In: The daily newspaper: taz . January 25, 2020, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed on February 13, 2020]).
  35. ↑ Boris Pofalla: Eidinger and Aldi: A defense . In: THE WORLD . January 20, 2020 ( welt.de [accessed February 13, 2020]).
  36. ↑ A homeless magazine has found the perfect answer to Lars Eidinger's luxury Aldi bag. March 3, 2020, accessed March 3, 2020 .
  37. ↑ Review and review review at Nachtkritik.de
  38. ↑ Director: Brigitte Maria Bertele . Border crossing  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Munich Film Festival 2013@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.filmfest-muenchen.de  
  39. ^ Frédéric Schwilden: Sad. But nice. In: Berliner Morgenpost. November 20, 2014, accessed March 16, 2019 .
  40. ↑ Maike Schultz: New video: Lars Eidinger is now playing in a band. In: Berliner Zeitung. February 16, 2017. Retrieved February 19, 2017 .
  41. ↑ DRANGSAL - A story / And you? (Official video). Retrieved March 17, 2019 .
  42. ↑ Deichkind - Really Good Stuff (Official Video). In: Youtube. deichkindTV, March 15, 2019, accessed on March 16, 2019 .
  43. ↑ Deichkind - Who Says That? (Official Video). In: Youtube. deichkindTV, June 12, 2019, accessed on July 1, 2019 .
  44. ↑ Deichkind - No Party (Official Video). In: Youtube. deichkindTV, August 19, 2019, accessed on August 19, 2019 .
  45. ^ Deichkind - things (Official Video). Retrieved September 24, 2019 .
  46. ^ Prize of the German Film Critics 2012 , accessed on February 14, 2013
  47. ↑ Austrian Film Prize 2018: Prize Winner . Accessed January 31, 2018.
  48. ↑ Film Festival Cologne starts tomorrow . Article dated October 4, 2018, accessed October 5, 2018.
  49. ↑ Roles in the comedy "25 km / h" Bjarne Mädel and Lars Eidinger receive the Lubitsch Prize , Berliner Zeitung of November 30, 2018, accessed December 4, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Eidinger, Lars
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin