Ahmad Mesgarha
Ahmad Mesgarha (* 1963 in Berlin ) is a German actor.
Life
Ahmad Mesgarha grew up in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg. He trained as a construction worker with a high school diploma and studied from 1985 to 1989 at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig . He then worked for a year at the New Theater Halle .
Mesgarha has been a permanent member of the Dresden State Theater since 1990 . Here he worked with the directors Volker Lösch , Klaus Dieter Kirst , Wolfgang Engel , Tilmann Köhler , Stefan Bachmann and Roger Vontobel . In 2004 he received the Erich Ponto Prize .
He can also be seen as a guest on the Theaterkahn Dresden , the Tom-Pauls-Theater Pirna and the Semperoper Dresden.
Ahmad Mesgarha's name comes from his Iranian father. He lives in Dresden- Weisser Hirsch, is married to the dance teacher Jana Mesgarha and has two daughters.
The actor is an avid marathon and long distance runner. In 2017 Mesgarha's first book about his running trip was published with the title What do you want on Iceland .
Theater (selection)
- 1992: Roberto Zucco by Bernard-Marie Koltès as Roberto Zucco, director: Valentin Jeker
- 1993: The Rocky Horror Show by Richard O'Brien as Frank 'n' Furter, directed by Klaus-Dieter Kirst
- 1996: Emilia Galotti by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing as Prince Gonzaga, director: Hasko Weber
- 2000: The Abduction from the Seraglio by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as Bassa Selim, director: Arturo Marelli
- 2003: Oresti von Ayschilos as Apollon, director: Volker Lösch
- 2004: Molière's misanthrope as Alceste, director: Klaus-Dieter Kirst
- 2005: Mephisto by Klaus Mann as Hendrik Höfgen, director: Holk Freytag
- 2006: Faust Part I and Faust Part II by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as Mephisto, directed by Holk Freytag
- 2007: The God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza as Alain, directed by Beath Fäh
- 2007: The merry widow of Franz Lehar as Njegus (Semperoper Dresden)
- 2009: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare as Capulet, directed by Simon Solberg
- 2012: Hamlet by William Shakespeare as Polonius, directed by Roger Vontobel
- 2013: The Parasite by Friedrich Schiller as Selicour, director: Stefan Bachmann
- 2014: The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde as a ghost, director: Susanne Lietzow
- 2015: The breakdown of Friedrich Dürrenmatt as a prosecutor anger, directed by Roger Vontobel
- 2016: Othello by William Shakespeare as Othello, directed by Thorleifur Oern Arnarsson
- 2016: Old Masters by Thomas Bernhard as Atzbacher, director: Anton Kurt Krause
- 2016: The Robbery of the Sabine Women as theater director Emanuel Striese, director: Susanne Lietzow
- 2017: The Phantast of Jan Dvořák as Winnetou , director: Philipp Stölzl
- 2017: Solo evening "Ja, Schatz!" With songs by Bodo Wartke , director: Philipp Lux (Theaterkahn Dresden)
- 2018: Maria Stuart by Friedrich Schiller as Count Leicester, directed by Thomas Dannemann
- 2018: Outlawed by Ayad Akhtar as Amir, directed by Nikolai Sykosch
- 2019: Kabale und Liebe by Friedrich Schiller as Miller, director: Dara Tavadze
Movies
- 1987: Prelude , directed by Peter Kahane
- 2004: The interrogation, directed by Rafael Kühn
- 2007: The Merry Widow, directed by Arturo Marelli
- 2016: The Eternal Pilgrim (documentary), director: Volker Schmidt-Sondermann
Works
- What do you want in Iceland: My running trip. zwiebook, Dresden 2017, ISBN 978-3943451306 .
Web links
- Ahmad Mesgarha in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website
- Ahmad Mesgarha at the Dresden State Theater
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mesgarha, Ahmad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |