Alex Brendemühl

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Alex Brendemühl (2017)

Alex Brendemühl , also Àlex Brendmühl Gubern , (born November 27, 1972 in Barcelona ) is a Spanish - German actor .

Life

Brendemühl, “half Spanish, half German”, was born to a German father and a Spanish mother. He grew up in Barcelona multilingual with German , Spanish and Catalan as mother tongues. He attended the German School in Barcelona and completed an acting training in the performing arts department at the Real Escuela de Arte Dramático (RESAD) in Madrid . After that he worked mainly as a stage actor and voice actor. In the course of his career, Brendemühl also played theater regularly. In 2004 he performed at the Sala Beckett theater in Barcelona in the world premiere of Pau Mirò's Catalan play Plou a Barcelona (English: Rain in Barcelona ) . In 2006 he played at the Teatre Lliure in Barcelona in the play Bales i Ombres by Pau Mirò. In 2010 he appeared in the play Más allá del Puente at the Teatre Borràs in Barcelona and at the Lara Theater in Madrid, directed by Roger Gual .

Since the mid-1990s, Brendemühl has appeared in numerous Spanish television series and films ; he initially played mainly larger and smaller supporting roles.

He made his cinema debut in 1995 in the episode film El perquè de tot plegat (Episode: Despit ). He had his first leading role in 1998 as Juan in the Spanish comedy Un banco en el parque by Agustí Vila . In it he played a young man who was recently abandoned by his girlfriend and who is now getting to know several women whom he meets on a park bench or in a bar . For his role interpretation he was awarded the prize for “Best Young Actor” at the 2000 Toulouse Film Festival .

His big breakthrough came in 2003 with the lead role in the crime drama Las horas del día by Jaime Rosales . Brendemühl embodied an "inconspicuous boutique owner who, as a serial killer, terrifies the residents of Barcelona". In the love drama En la ciudad (2003) he played the teacher Tomás, who is separated from his wife and has a relationship with his 16-year-old student. In the film drama 53 días de invierno (2006) he played the married security guard Celso, who is in great financial difficulties and learns that he is going to be a father again, this time to twins. Brendemühl received the Premio Sant Jordi in the “Best Actor” category for his role. In the film drama Yo (2007), set on Mallorca , he played the mysterious German guest worker Hans, who comes incognito on Mallorca to start a new life. For this role he was also awarded the Premio Sant Jordi in 2008 and at the Toulouse Film Festival in the category “Best Actor”.

In the biopic The Two Lives of Andres Rabadán ( Les dues vides d'Andrés Rabadán ) Brendemühl 2008 took over the title role. He played the murderer Andrés Rabadan, the "madman with the crossbow ", who killed his father in the 1990s, derailed several trains and thus achieved notoriety. In 2010 he was awarded the Premio Gaudí (Catalan Film Prize) as "Best Actor" for his acting performance in this role . In the thriller Rabia - Stille Wut (2009) he played as Alvaro Torres the son of the house. He had a supporting role as Father Zea in the film adaptation of the novel Die Vermessung der Welt (2012). In the Argentine film Wakolda (2013, intern. Title: The German Doctor ) he played the concentration camp doctor Josef Mengele in the lead role .

Alex Brendemühl appeared on German television in the love drama Die Liebe der Kinder (2009). He embodied, at the side of Marie-Lou Sellem , the pragmatic tree cutter Robert, whose 17-year-old son falls in love with the daughter of his new partner. In the ZDF crime series Kommissarin Lucas , he played the total dropout Peter Schwertz in the television film Der Wald (first broadcast: April 2015), who lives with his two daughters in the forest near the crime scene. In Dortmund's Tatort: ​​Inferno (first broadcast: April 2019) he was the psychiatrist and chief physician Dr. Dr. Andreas Norstädter, who does not have a license to practice medicine and built his career with falsified certificates; Brendemühl's portrayal was praised in TV reviews as "impressive", "fantastic" and "brilliant".

Brendemühl lives in Barcelona; he has Spanish nationality .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kino.kat: Catalan Film Days in Berlin  ( 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. . Program of the Ramon Lull Institute@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.llull.cat  
  2. ↑ a b Heinz Hoenig shoots on Mallorca: German-Mallorcan encounter in: Mallorca Magazin ; Issue 303, March / April 2006
  3. ↑ a b Àlex Brendemühl biography (span.)
  4. ↑ “Soy 'indie' a mi pesar; no es una elección, sino algo inevitable ” Interview with Alex Brendemühl in: El País from August 27, 2011 (Spanish).
  5. ↑ Alex Brendemühl biography at Eurochannel (English)
  6. ↑ a b biography of Alex Brendemühl. In: filmportal.de . Deutsches Filminstitut , accessed on September 16, 2016 .
  7. ↑ A lack of communication beyond the bridge  ( 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. Preliminary report@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / w3.bcn.es  
  8. ↑ "Inferno": That was the crime scene from Dortmund yesterday . TV review. In: Augsburger Allgemeine, April 15, 2019. Retrieved April 15, 2019.
  9. ↑ "Inferno" -Tatort from Dortmund: "Annoyed, but good" . TV review. In: Abendzeitung from April 14, 2019. Retrieved April 15, 2019.
  10. ↑ Risky self-experiments in the Dortmund "crime scene": Death comes in bags . TV review. Spiegel Online from April 12, 2019. Accessed April 15, 2019.
  11. ↑ Alex Brendemühl . Short biography at gazillionmovies.com
  12. ↑ Film review in the Popshot blog (accessed on May 13, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Brendemühl, Alex
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brendemühl Gubern, Àlex; Brendemühl, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish-German actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona