Alexander Gamnitzer

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Alexander Gamnitzer (* 1978 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) is a German actor , speaker and theater director .

Life

education

Gamnitzer completed his acting training from 1998 to 2002 at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art in Berlin . During his training he played at the bat studio theater from 1999 to 2002 . From 2001 to 2002 he was a guest at the Berliner Ensemble . In 2001 he received the Max Reinhardt Prize for the best individual performance at the Theatertreffen German-speaking drama students in Bern .

theatre

Gamnitzer had his first permanent engagement at the Freiburg Theater (2002–2006). There he played u. a. Adonis in Venus und Adonis (2002; directed by Sybille Fabian), Gernot in Kriemhilds Traum von Moritz Rinke (2002; directed by Sebastian Baumgarten ), Max Piccolomini in Wallenstein (2004; directed by Gerd Heinz ), Queequeg in Moby Dick (2004; Director: Amélie Niermeyer ) and Graf F ... in Die Marquise von O .... (2004; Director: Sybille Fabian).

He then worked at the Leipzig Theater from 2006 to 2008 . Here u. a. Ruprecht in Der zerbrochne Krug (2006; Director: Deborah Epstein ), the title role in Liliom (2006; Director: Jan Jochymski ), Mosca in Volpone (2007; Director: Marc Lunghuß ) and Lövborg in Hedda Gabler (2007; Director: Markus Dietz ) to his stage roles.

From summer 2008 he worked as a freelance actor and appeared regularly as a guest at the Dresden State Theater . He played there u. a. Haimon in Antigone (2008; as role takeover, director: Yael Ronen ), Tempelherr in Nathan der Weise (April 2009; as role takeover with Dieter Mann as partner in the title role, director: Holk Freytag ) and took on minor roles in King Lear (2008) and Wilhelm Tell (2009). In 2010 he was a guest at the LOFFT Leipzig and the Societätstheater Dresden , in December 2011 again at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden (as “Spirit of the Present Christmas” in the current production of Charles Dickens ' Christmas story A Christmas Carol ), in 2013 at the Halle Opera House . He also worked in independent theater productions.

Since summer 2013 he has been engaged as an actor and studio manager at the Neue Theater Halle . Here he stepped u. a. as Molières Tartuffe (inaugural role, premiere: November 2013; director: Matthias Brenner ), as Herr John in Die Ratten (premiere: January 2014; director: Henriette Hörnigk ), as chief Bromden in Eine flew over the cuckoo's nest (premiere: March 2014; Director: Niklas Ritter ), as Danton von Dantons Tod (premiere: July 2014; director: Jörg Steinberg) and as Stanley Kowalski in Endstation Sehnsucht (premiere: May 2015; director: Andreas Rehschuh). In A Streetcar Named Desire was Danne Suckel as Blanche DuBois his stage partner. In the 2015/16 season he took on the role of Captain Otto in a stage version of Goethe 's Elective Affinities at the Neue Theater Halle (premiere: September 2015; director: Henriette Hörnigk).

Teaching and directing

Since 2011 Alexander Gamnitzer has been working as an acting lecturer at the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy University of Music and Theater in Leipzig .

Gamnitzer has also been working as a theater director since 2014. His first own production was the play Salzwasser by Conor McPherson at the New Theater Halle in May 2014 , where he also took on the role of Ray. In September 2014 followed by his second directorial work with students from the drama studio Halle, Die Flinte, die Laterne und Mary Monroe, based on motifs from the book by Clemens Meyer . In June 2016 Gamnitzer's first summer theater production premiered. He staged the Shakespeare comedy Much Ado About Nothing in the courtyard of the Grassimuseum in Leipzig with the 2nd year students of the theater school "Hans Otto" Leipzig of the HMT Leipzig .

Movie and TV

In addition to his main work at the theater, Gamnitzer has taken on mostly medium and small roles in film and television since 2002. Often played unpleasant, violent characters or the villain.

In the RTL television series Hinter Gittern - Der Frauenknast , he had a recurring supporting role from 2003-2004. He was 'Toast', the long-haired henchman of the series character Erich Gomulka. In the SAT1 series Alphateam - Die Lebensretter im OP he had a leading role in the episode Blutrausch (first broadcast: February 2004); He played the musical actor Frederik Franzen, who was injured during a stage performance and who continues to play his role as a vampire in the musical Tanz der Vampire in the emergency room.

In the following years he had other episode roles. a. in veterinarian Dr. Mertens (2008; as animal keeper Peter Müller) and Alarm for Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei (2011; as gangster and accomplice Lars Waldeck, at Florian Fitz's side ). In the Wilsberg crime film For Lack of Evidence (first broadcast: January 2012), he played the small role of the chubby Fredi Düsterbeck.

In November 2014, Gamnitzer was also in front of the camera for an international cinema production. In the Franco-German film L'Origine de la Violence by director Elie Chouraqui , he played Jan, Gabi's brother ( Miriam Stein ), who tries to save her relationship with the main male character Nathan ( Stanley Weber ).

Gamnitzer played several small supporting roles in the ZDF crime series SOKO Leipzig , where he a. a. played a bouncer, the sheriff of a western town, and twice a bartender who is questioned as a witness. In January 2017, Gamnitzer was again seen in an episode role in the ZDF series SOKO Leipzig. He played the police officer Thomas Lechner, who gave false information to cover his superior ( Simon Schwarz ).

Speaker work

In addition to his work as an actor, Gamnitzer also works as a narrator for radio plays and TV documentaries. As a reciter he performed a. a. with texts by Thomas Mann ( Confessions of the impostor Felix Krull , Der Zauberberg , Royal Highness , Buddenbrooks ), Edgar Allan Poe , Mark Twain and Grigori Kanowitsch .

Private

Gamnitzer lives in Leipzig. He is married. His wife runs a fashion label; she has been running a fashion store in downtown Leipzig since 2010.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Alexander Gamnitzer ; Profile and vita at Schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Alexander Gamnitzer ; Profile and Vita at CASTFORWARD.de. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Alexander Gamnitzer . Vita. Official website of LehnschulzenHofbühne Viersen. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Gamnitzer, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director and speaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Karl-Marx-Stadt , German Democratic Republic