Alexander Khuon

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Alexander Khuon (born March 10, 1979 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German actor .

theatre

Alexander Khuon received his training from 1999 to 2003 at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig . In 2001 he was on stage as part of his studies at the Dresden State Theater studio. From 2003 he was engaged at the Schauspiel Köln , where he could be seen as Hamlet , Platonov or Ferdinand ( Kabale und Liebe ), among others. He has been a permanent member of the ensemble at the Deutsches Theater Berlin since the beginning of the 2004/2005 season . Here he was u. a. in Jürgen Gosch's production of Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to see. This production was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen 2005 and Alexander Khuon was nominated as actor or young talent of the year. This was followed by further work with directors such as Michael Thalheimer , Christian Petzold , Nicolas Stemann , Dimiter Gotscheff , Oliver Reese , Jürgen Gosch and others. v. a. He made several guest appearances at the Salzburg Festival, most recently in 2009 with Chekhov's Die Möwe , a production that was also invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen that same year. He was awarded the Gertrud Eysoldt Ring for his role as the writer Trigorin . In 2016 Daniela Löffner's production of Turgenew's Fathers and Sons with Khuon as Jewgeni Barzarow was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen.

Movie

Alexander Khuon is also present in front of and behind the camera. He directed and wrote the script for the short film PAUL (2000). In 2007 he played his first leading role in the movie The Discovery of Currywurst, based on the novel of the same name by Uwe Timm , for which he was nominated for the German Film Prize as the best young actor at the Munich Film Festival. In 2008 he stood in front of the camera for the ARD production Mein Leben - Marcel Reich-Ranicki together with Matthias Schweighöfer and Katharina Schüttler . This was followed by the cinema film Lila Lila with Daniel Brühl (an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Martin Suter ) directed by Alain Gsponer and the episode film Krankes Haus (director: Wolfgang Becker ). In 2016, his second short film, "The Fat Man," based on a story by Clemens Meyer with Ulrich Matthes and Philipp Hauss, will be released under his direction. He was invited to the Montréal Film Festival.

Reviews

In February 2004 the theater magazine Theater heute published a portrait of Alexander Khuon with the title Das Konstanzer Feeling . The longer article The Silent Prince was also published in the Kölner Stadtanzeiger in September 2004 . The Süddeutsche Zeitung describes him as impudently sovereign . The Internet magazine Die Deutsche Bühne Online calls him a sensitive, multi-layered human actor . His performance in Michael Thalheimer's Cologne production of Kleist's The Schroffenstein Family was recognized as grandiose by the Kölner Stadtanzeiger . The Kölnische Rundschau described his interpretation of Hamlet as heated and depressed, dangerous and charismatic .

speaker

Alexander Khuon has already recorded over 70 radio plays, audio books and features. In the episodes of ARD Radio Tatort produced by RBB , he speaks to investigator Alexander Polanski.

family

Alexander Khuon is the son of Ulrich Khuon , the artistic director of the Deutsches Theater Berlin . His sister is the dramaturge Nora Khuon .

Role selection theater

Cologne theater

German Theater Berlin

Filmography

Radio plays and features

Audiography

  • Kafka Collection - Patmos Verlag
  • Friedrich Hölderlin - Argon Verlag
  • The Heine Box - Argon Verlag
  • Heine, Die Harzreise - Argon Verlag
  • The Stefan Zweig Box - Argon Verlag
  • Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Nah - Argon Verlag
  • The Hör-Conrady, desire for loud poetry- Patmos Verlag
  • Sibylle Berg, did I actually tell you ... - HörCompany
  • Rafik Schami, A hand full of stars - BELTZ & Gelberg
  • Franz Kafka, Der Process - Patmos Verlag
  • Hans Henny Jahn, The Night of Lead - Hoffmann and Campe
  • Klaus Wagenbach, Kafkas Prague - DAV
  • Herzenspoesie - Eichborn Verlag
  • On Christmas Eve - Patmos Verlag
  • Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus - Argon Verlag

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gertrud-Eysoldt-Ring ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Echo-Online.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.echo-online.de
  2. ↑ Alexander Polanski alias Alexander Khuon on www.radiotatort.ard.de ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2012 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. (Accessed January 11, 2010). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ard.de
  3. ↑ Serious crush

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personal data
SURNAME Khuon, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau