Alexander Scheer

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Alexander Scheer at the German Film Award 2019 , with Lola for his leading role in Gundermann

Alexander Scheer (born June 1, 1976 in Berlin ) is a German actor and musician .

Life

Scheer attended the Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gymnasium in East Berlin with a focus on music . In addition to singing , he played piano and drums in various bands . He left school after the 11th grade and took up various occupations. During this period he also appeared as an actor in product advertisements and made his own amateur films with friends. The film series “American Showdown” by André Jagusch, in which Scheer was in front of the camera, was a small festival hit and was shown, for example, at the Young Film Scene Workshop and at the Weiterstadt Open Air Film Festival . At a casting he became a directorLeander Haussmann discovered who cast him in his film Sonnenallee . After the shooting, Scheer Haußmann followed the Schauspielhaus Bochum . There he played in plays such as Much Ado About Nothing , Leonce and Lena and Der Sturm .

Alexander Scheer singing in 2019 in Madrid at the presentation of the film Gundermann whose songs

Subsequently he worked with directors such as Christoph Marthaler , Frank Castorf and Stefan Pucher and appeared in productions such as “Berlin Alexanderplatz” and “Der Idiot” at the Volksbühne Berlin and “Die Möwe” at the Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. He was awarded the Ulrich Wildgruber Prize for his acting performance. For the embodiment of the English Shakespeare actor Edmund Kean in Frank Castorf's 2009 Volksbühne production of the same name, Alexander Scheer from Theater heute was voted actor of the year. In addition to his theater engagements, he has also appeared in national and international film productions such as Viktor Vogel - Commercial Man , Das wilde Leben , Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution or Carlos - The Jackal , which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010.

To prepare for the portrayal of Keith Richards in the film Das Wilde Leben , Scheer founded the band The Rockboys , which played concerts for one summer. In 2007 he joined Jan Opoczynski as a guitarist in his band The International Competition . The following year he became the front man of the Viennese band group level . In 2009 he toured Europe as a percussionist with The Whitest Boy Alive . In 2012, he appeared as Mephistopheles in Goethe's tragedy Faust on.

Scheer played a total of 16 years under Castorf at the Volksbühne. He was critical of the decision of the Berlin Senator for Culture, Tim Renner , not to extend Castorf's contract as artistic director. He then asked Renner not to enter the theater again. When he met him there in 2018 after a film screening, he poured a glass of beer over his head.

Scheer played the title role in Andreas Dresen's biography Gundermann about the East German songwriter, rock musician and excavator operator Gerhard Gundermann , singing all the songs himself. For this role he was awarded the German Film Prize 2019 for Best Actor .

Scheer had a long relationship with the fashion designer Esther Perbandt .

Filmography (selection)

Theater (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

  • 2005: Jörg Böckem : Let me survive the night , Roof Music
  • 2005: Ermanno Cavazzoni : Short résumés of idiots , Wagenbach
  • 2009: Kai-Uwe Kohlschmidt : Im Feuer , director: Kai-Uwe Kohlschmidt (HR)
  • 2009: Kai-Uwe Kohlschmidt: Leichhardt , director: Kai-Uwe Kohlschmidt (rbb)
  • 2013: Kai-Uwe Kohlschmidt: Insorbia , director: Kai-Uwe Kohlschmidt (rbb)
  • 2013: Henri Alain-Fournier : The Great Meaulnes - Director: Leonhard Koppelmann (radio play - DLF)
  • 2013: EM Cioran : On the disadvantage of being born - Director: Kai Grehn (radio play - SWR)
  • 2015: David Zane Mairowitz : Hornet Memory - Director: David Zane Mairowitz (radio play - SRF / ORF)
  • 2017: Kai-Uwe Kohlschmidt: Detzman walking , director: Kai-Uwe Kohlschmidt (rbb)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Alexander Scheer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulf Lippitz, Christiane Peitz: "I want to ride the beast" . In: Der Tagesspiegel Online . August 20, 2018, ISSN  1865-2263 ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed August 21, 2018]).
  2. ↑ "I want to ride the beast". Retrieved December 14, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Caroline Bock: Alexander Scheer plays Gundermann. In: Märkische Allgemeine. October 23, 2017. Retrieved October 29, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Claire Beermann, Johannes Dudziak: Alexander Scheer: "You don't play the text, the text plays you" . In: The time . February 19, 2019, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed December 14, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Günter Rohrbach Film Prize 2018 awarded. In: Filmportal.de. November 5, 2018, accessed July 4, 2019 .
  6. ^ Bavarian Film Prize in Munich: winners announced . Article dated January 25, 2019, accessed January 25, 2019.
  7. ↑ Art Prize Berlin 2019 , Akademie der Künste Berlin from March 18, 2019, accessed April 10, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Scheer, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and musician
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin