André Eisermann

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André Eisermann (born October 28, 1967 in Worms ) is a German theater and film actor .

biography

Eisermann, who was born as the son of a married showman couple, helped his parents run their own rifle dump in his youth at the fair and therefore had no permanent residence. His great-grandfather was already active at the fair as "the strongest man in the world", his grandmother was a snake woman .

In 1988 he began a four-year acting course at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich . He then played at the Bavarian State Theater and at the Munich Kammerspiele before him director Axel Corti to Vienna to the theater in the Josefstadt for Bruckner The races took.

Eisermann made his screen debut in Peter Timm's East-West comedy Go, Trabi, Go in 1991 , followed by Durst . In 1993 he finally played the role of Kaspar Hauser in the Peter Sehr film of the same name . The film was internationally successful and Eisermann received positive reviews, prizes and awards for it, including the Actor Prize at the Locarno Film Festival , the Bavarian Film Prize and the German Film Prize . In preparation for the role of Kaspar Hauser, he read 30 books about him and gave up alcohol, nicotine and meat. As a preliminary work for Joseph Vilsmaier's film adaptation of Robert Schneider's novel Schlafes Bruder , he also prepared intensively. For the role of the fictional character, a musician who perishes from unfulfilled love, he learned to play the organ and lost ten kilograms. Schlafes brother received multiple awards and was nominated for a Golden Globe .

The next film, Hawaiian Gardens, shot in the US and the Bavarian Forest , was not very successful and was later renamed Dog Shit . In 2000 Eisermann played the Austrian pop star Falco in the musical F @ lco - A Cyber ​​Show by Jehoschua Sobol in the Ronacher in Vienna (director: Paulus Manker ). Since 2002 Eisermann has also been on stage at the Nibelungen Festival , of which he is co-initiator, in his hometown of Worms. In 2005 Eisermann played the role of Prince Otto, the brother of King Ludwig II, as a guest actor in the musical Ludwig² at the Füssener Festspielhaus. In 2011, he took on the role of Karl Hesselschwerdt for Warner Bros. Pictures in the feature film of the same name, Ludwig II. (Director: Peter Sehr ).

In 2014 he shot the pension landlord Stefan Brückner for Der Staatsanwalt (Director: Martin Kinkel ). In 2015 he started his Germany tour Goethe. Werther. Eisermann with the Reloaded Tour. He also played Zettel in Midsummer Night's Dreams at the 65th Bad Hersfeld Festival (director: Joern Hinkel , director: Dieter Wedel ).

In an interview with the BZ on February 28, 2015, Eisermann commented on his private life, in particular his homosexual orientation.

Filmography (selection)

Theater (selection)

Books / audio books

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Midsummer Night's Daydreams . Bad Hersfeld Festival , accessed on June 18, 2015
  2. ↑ Who does the "Sleep Brother" star sleep with? - BZ Berlin. In: bz-berlin.de. Retrieved July 29, 2016 .
  3. ↑ hessenschau.de: Bad Hersfeld Festival opens "witch hunt" at the beginning . In: hessenschau.de . June 25, 2016. Archived from the original on June 25, 2016. Retrieved June 25, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Eisermann, André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Worms