Alexander Fehling

Fehling at the Berlinale 2011

Alexander Fehling (born March 29, 1981 in East Berlin ) is a German actor .

Life

Alexander Fehling was born in 1981 as the son of journalist Wolfgang Kohrt in Berlin-Lichtenberg . His cousin Niklas Kohrt is also an actor.

From 2003 to 2007 he studied acting at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin . Since then he has worked on several theater plays and attracted attention with his first film roles. In 2007 he received the German Film Award in the Acting category for the leading role of Sven in the film At the End Tourists Come . Previously, he had already received the OE Hasse Prize of the Academy of the Arts (sponsorship prize for young actors). In the 2010 movie Goethe! he played the title role as the young Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which earned him a nomination for the German Film Prize. Fehling was recognized as one of the shooting stars of European film during the Berlinale 2011 . There also was Andres Veiel feature film If Not Us, with Fehling in the role of Andreas Baader in competition. In June 2015 he was hired for a leading role in the fifth season of the American television series Homeland alongside Claire Danes .

Fehling lives in Berlin-Friedrichshain and was Nora Tschirner's partner from 2007 to 2011 . After that he was in a relationship with Peri Baumeister until 2015 .

theatre

• 2005: Snow White ( Robert Walser / Direction: Thorsten Lensing, Jan Hein / Role: Prinz )
• 2005: Faith, Love, Hope ( Ödön von Horváth / Director: Thomas Dannemann / Role: Alfons Klostermeyer )
• 2006: The Funny Nibelungs ( Oscar Straus / Director: Robert Borgmann / Role: Siegfried )
• 2007: Wallenstein's Camp / Die Piccolomini / Wallenstein's Death ( Friedrich Schiller / Director: Peter Stein / Role: Max Piccolomini )
• 2011: Madame Bovary ( Gustave Flaubert / Director: Nora Schlocker / Role: Charles Bovary )
• 2017: Seven against Thebes / Antigone (Aeschylus / Sophocles / Director: Ulrich Rasche / Role: Eteocles)
• 2018: One long day's journey into the night (Director: Andrea Breth )

Filmography

movie theater

• 2007: At the end there are tourists (Director: Robert Thalheim )
• 2008: Buddenbrooks (Director: Heinrich Breloer )
• 2009: Inglourious Basterds (Director: Quentin Tarantino )
• 2009: Sturm (Director: Hans-Christian Schmid )
• 2009: 13 semesters (Director: Frieder Wittich )
• 2010: Goethe! (Director: Philipp Stölzl )
• 2011: Who if not us (Director: Andres Veiel )
• 2012: We wanted to go out to sea (Director: Toke Constantin Hebbeln )
• 2012: The river was once a human (Director: Jan Zabeil )
• 2012: The Logan Conspiracy ( Erased , aka: The Expatriate; Director: Philipp Stölzl )
• 2013: Buddy (Director: Michael Herbig )
• 2014: In the Labyrinth of Silence (Director: Giulio Ricciarelli )
• 2014: The Art of Loving (Posthumous; Director: Lulu Wang)
• 2015: We Will Stay In Touch About It (short film; Director: Jan Zabeil)
• 2015: Atomic Falafel
• 2017: In times of waning light (Director: Matti Geschonneck )
• 2017: The Captain (Director: Robert Schwentke )
• 2017: Drei Zinnen (Director: Jan Zabeil)
• 2019: The End of Truth (Director: Philipp Leinemann )
• 2019: Gut gegen Nordwind (Direction: Vanessa Jopp )

watch TV

• 2005: Polizeiruf 110 - Remaining leave (Director: Hannu Salonen)
• 2006: KDD - Permanent Criminal Police Service - Trust (Director: Lars Kraume)
• 2006: The Criminalist - Burned Luck (Direction: Torsten C. Fischer)
• 2015: The Barschel Case (Director: Kilian Riedhoff)
• 2015: Homeland (series, season 5)
• 2018: Beat (Series, Season 1)

Radio plays and audio books

• 2008: Robert Walser : Jakob von Gunten (as Jakob) - adaptation and direction: Kai Grehn (radio play - NDR )
• 2008: Ingmar Bergman : Fisch ( als Fisch) - adaptation and direction: Kai Grehn (radio play - SWR / DKultur ) Arthaus Premium, EAN: 4006680044712
• 2009: Hans Henny Jahnn : Das Holzschiff (as Gustav) - adaptation and direction: Kai Grehn (radio play - NDR )
• 2010: Herta Müller : Atemschaukel (as Leopold Auberg) - adaptation and direction: Kai Grehn (radio play - NDR ) audio book Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-89903-697-8
• 2011: Charles Baudelaire : The artificial paradises (as Charles Baudelaire) - adaptation and direction: Kai Grehn (radio play - RB / HR / SR / RBB ) audio book Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-89903-033-4
• 2012: Ernst Jünger : The Adventurous Heart or Figures & Capriccios by Day & Night (as Ernst Jünger) - adaptation and direction: Kai Grehn (radio play - SWR )
• 2012: Marguerite Duras : That's all. C'est tout. (as Yann Andrea Steiner) - Editing and direction: Kai Grehn (radio play - RBB ) audio book Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-89903-892-7
• 2012: Emily Brontë : Sturmhöhe (as Heathcliff) - adaptation and direction: Kai Grehn (radio play (2 parts) - NDR / SWR ) Der Höverlag, ISBN 978-3-86717-931-7
• 2013: Emil Cioran : The Disadvantage of Being Born - adaptation and direction: Kai Grehn (radio play - SWR )
• 2013: Mark Twain : The Mysterious Stranger (as Satan) - adaptation and direction: Kai Grehn (radio play - DKultur ) audio book Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-89903-883-5
• 2013: Marguerite Duras : La Musica (as Michel Nollet) - Director: Kai Grehn (radio play - SR / RBB )
• 2014: Walt Whitman : Children of Adam. Children of Adam. - Translation and direction: Kai Grehn (radio play - RB / DKultur / SWR ) audio book Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-89903-914-6
• 2014: Kai Grehn : Marginal Notes - Director: Kai Grehn (10 throw-outs - DKultur )
• 2015: Franz Werfel : The forty days of Musa Dagh (as Gabriel Bagaradian) - adaptation and direction: Kai Grehn (radio play (2 parts) - SWR / NDR / HR ) Der Höverlag, ISBN 978-3-8445-1829-0
• 2016: Kai Grehn: Mu! or People must be punished (as Caesar) - Director: Kai Grehn (radio play - Radio Bremen ) Major Label, ISBN 978-3-945715-11-6
• 2016: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry : The Little Prince (as Little Prince) - translation, adaptation and direction: Kai Grehn (radio play - WDR ) audio book Hamburg / Silberfisch, ISBN 978-3-86742-309-0
• 2016: Marguerite Duras : The Lover (as Lover) - adaptation and direction: Kai Grehn (radio play - SWR ) audio book Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-95713-064-8

Awards

• 2005: OE Hasse Prize from the Academy of Arts for the role of the prince in Robert Walser's Snow White
• 2007: German Film Award in the Acting category for the role of Sven Lehnert in At the end of the tour
• 2011: Shooting star of European film
• 2011: Jupiter Award in the category Best Actor Germany
• 2011: German Director Prize Metropolis for his achievements in the films Goethe! (Director: Philipp Stölzl ) and Who if not we (Director: Andres Veiel )
• 2015: Bavarian Film Award 2014 in the Best Actor category for Im Labyrinth des Schweigens
• 2019: German Film Award - Best Male Supporting Actor for his role in The End of Truth
• 2019: Award of the German Film Critics as Best Actor for The End of Truth

Web links

Commons : Alexander Fehling  - Collection of Images

• Alexander Fehling in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Agency Hoestermann
• filmreporter.de
• Alexander Fehling: Please don't think it's awesome! - Portrait in the magazine U_mag (October 2010)
• Alexander Fehling in the German dubbing file

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alexander Fehling: My father Wolfgang Kohrt . Berliner Zeitung , January 16, 2019
2. ^ ZDF Theater Kanal ( Memento from September 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Announcement about the awarding of the OE Hasse Prize
3. ^ Nellie Andreeva: 'Homeland' Casts Miranda Otto Among Four New Series Regulars For Season 5 . In: Deadline.com . June 1, 2015. Accessed June 1, 2015.
4. ↑ Alexander Fehling at shooting-stars.eu