Alexander Finkenwirth

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Alexander Finkenwirth, Berlin 2018

Alexander Finkenwirth (* 1986 in Wiesbaden ) is a German theater and film actor .

Life

Finkenwirth grew up in Frankfurt am Main . His mother is from Brazil , his father from Germany. He also has ancestors of Russian descent, which is why he speaks fluent Russian , among other things .

After graduating from high school, he began studying law , which he broke off after two semesters. Through a friend he came into contact with a theater group in Frankfurt. From 2009 to 2013 he completed an acting training at the Babelsberg Konrad Wolf Film Academy (HFF).

From the 2012/13 season he was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam . His stage roles there included u. a. Franz / Karl Moor in Die Räuber (2012; in the final production of the students of the HFF), the main role of Wiggo Ritter in the world premiere of the play Der Eisvogel by Uwe Tellkamp (2013; each directed by Stefan Otteni ), Höfling and Schäfer in Das Wintermärchen ( 2013; Director: Tobias Wellemeyer ), the title role in Torquato Tasso (2013; Director: Tina Engel ), Sebastian in Was ihr wollt (2014; Director: Michael Talke ), Sascha in the world premiere of Der Kirschgarten - The Return of John von Düffel (2014), Erich in Tales from the Vienna Woods (2015; Director: Alexander Nerlich ) as well as the title role in the world premiere of the play My sister is a monk seal by Christian Fascella (2014). In the 2014/15 season he took on the title role in Hamlet at the Hans Otto Theater (2015; director: Alexander Nerlich). In the 2015/16 season he appeared at the Hans Otto Theater in new productions of Peer Gynt (as a young Peer Gynt; director: Alexander Nerlich, premiere: April 2016) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (as Lysander; director: Kerstin Kusch , premiere: June 2016) on. At the end of the 2015/16 season he left the permanent ensemble of the Hans Otto Theater in order to devote himself increasingly to other film tasks in the future. Finkenwirth u. a. continued to play the roles of Peer Gynt and Lysander in the 2016/17 season.

Finkenwirth has also been working regularly for film and television since 2011. In the crime scene: Borowski and the sky over Kiel (first broadcast: January 2015) he was seen in the role of Harald Wagner; he played a drug addict suspect. In Polizeiruf 110: The Price of Freedom (first broadcast: April 2016), he played the Ukrainian Anton Shevshenko, who works for a car slider ring. In the psychological thriller Beside the Trace - Death Wish (first broadcast: November 2016), with Ulrich Noethen and Juergen Maurer in the leading roles, he played the sex offender Leo Barreis, who has just been released from prison, in a larger supporting role.

He also had episode roles in the series Die Pfefferkörner (2013; as right-wing radical Richie), Großstadtrevier (2014; as a student Gregor Sander) and SOKO Wismar (2015; as suspect Mike Reichelt, convicted of negligent homicide and hit-and-run). In September 2016 he appeared in the ZDF crime series Ein stark Team in a supporting role as Alexander Krischka; he played a drug addict who is involved in a crime. In September 2016 he was also seen in the ZDF crime series SOKO Leipzig in a leading role as hacker and whistleblower David Bartz. In January 2018, Finkenwirth was also seen in the ZDF series Der Staatsanwalt in an episode role as Andreas Bender, the mentally handicapped son of a murdered farmer from the Taunus . In the "ZDF Saturday thriller" A strong team - fatal fling (first broadcast: October 2018), his second guest appearance in the series, Finkenwirth took on the role of night porter Tobias Kimmlinger, whose involvement in the crime is ultimately revealed. In the 17th season of the ZDF series SOKO Köln (2019), he took on one of the episode roles as Elias Anschütz, who wants to eliminate his older, formerly psychotic brother in the power struggle over the company succession. In the ZDF thriller Gritten , which premiered in the TV series “TV film of the week” in February 2019, Finkenwirth played the detective Henk Meyer, the assistant to the investigating LKA commissioner Sibylle Deininger ( Ulrike C. Tscharre ). In the six-part TV series Die Neue Zeit (2019), broadcast on arte , about the founding years of the Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar , he embodied the sculptor and painter Johannes Auerbach , the fellow student of the painter and graphic artist Dörte Helm, who was the focus of the series . In the 2nd season of the ZDF crime series SOKO Hamburg (2019), he took on one of the main episode roles as the junior boss of an elegant Hamburg custom tailoring company. In the ZDF series SOKO Leipzig (2020) he had another leading role as bar owner Jurij Petrow and suspected ex-lover of a professional climber who had been killed.

In 2014 he was nominated for the Max Ophüls Prize for his role as Stefan in the movie Totale Stille as the best young actor .

In 2016, Finkenwirth was nominated for his performance as Peer Gynt in the trade journal Theater heute in the “Young Actor of the Year” election.

Finkenwirth lives in Berlin .

Theater roles (selection)

Filmography (selection)

Nominations

  • 2014: 35th Max Ophüls Prize - nomination as Best Young Actor for the role Stefan in Total Silence
  • 2016: Theater heute - nomination young actor of the year for the role Peer Gynt

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The power of disruption ; Portrait of Alexander Finkenwerth in: Potsdamer Latest News from January 10, 2013. Accessed on September 13, 2015
  2. ↑ Lena Schneider: "Black and gray with heckling". Theater der Zeit, accessed October 3, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Alexander Finkenwerth ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Vita. Official website of the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf . Retrieved September 13, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.filmuniversitaet.de
  4. ^ "Hamlet" premiere in Potsdam mirror columns, but nothing behind them ; Performance review by Spiegel Online from February 2, 2015. Accessed September 27, 2016
  5. ↑ Alexander Finkenwirth leaves the HOT ; in: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung of May 24, 2016. Retrieved on September 27, 2016
  6. ↑ A crime scene in a crystal frenzy in: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of January 25, 2015. Accessed on September 13, 2015
  7. ↑ "Driven": Psychological thriller of extremes . Golden camera website. Retrieved February 25, 2019.
  8. ↑ Series "The New Era" . TV review at Tittelbach.tv . Retrieved September 9, 2019.
  9. ↑ SOKO Hamburg: Murder made to measure . Plot and cast. Official website of the ZDF . Retrieved October 18, 2019.
  10. ↑ SOKO Leipzig: Deep fall . Plot and cast. Official website of the ZDF . Retrieved January 11, 2020.
  11. ↑ Current - Alexander Finkenwirth. In: alexanderfinkenwirth.com. Retrieved October 3, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Finkenwirth, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden