Andreas Grötzinger

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Andreas Grötzinger (* 1974 in Gothenburg ) is an actor and radio play speaker who is both Swedish and Swiss.

Life

Andreas Grötzinger, whose mother tongues are Swedish and English, attended the Rostock University of Music and Drama from 1993 to 1997 . After guest appearances at the Schauspiel Frankfurt and the Stuttgart State Opera , he took up an engagement at the Schauspiel Köln in 1998 . Here he played under directors such as Frank-Patrick Steckel , Torsten Fischer , Günter Krämer and the artistic director Karin Beier , whom he followed in 2013 to the Deutsche Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, of which he was a member until 2016. During his years in Cologne, Grötzinger made trips to the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus , the Staatsschauspiel Dresden and the Malmö Stadsteater.

Some of Grötzinger's numerous roles were Mortimer and the Duke of Alba in the Schiller plays Maria Stuart and Don Karlos , Reverend Samuel in Arthur Miller's witch hunt or as one of several roles at the Malmö Stadsteater the Mackie Messer in the Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill . In 1998 Grötzinger played Osmin in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail . This production by Hans Neuenfels was awarded the Bavarian Theater Prize in the same year and in 1999 by the specialist magazine Opernwelt as "Performance of the Year". In 1997 Grötzinger had already received a solo and an ensemble award at the theater meeting of drama schools.

Since the beginning of the 2000s, Andreas Grötzinger has also been working in front of the camera, mostly as a guest actor in series. You could see him in Wilsberg , Die Wache , SOKO Cologne , Stolberg , Tatort and in Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac . Around the same time, Grötzinger began working extensively for radio, mainly in productions for West German Radio .

Andreas Grötzinger lives in Hamburg with his two children, a son and a daughter.

Filmography

Radio plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Profile at filmmakers.de , accessed on May 4, 2016
  2. ↑ Axel Hill, Zik: Jubilee! Heavily in love with the theater. In: Express . February 12, 2009. Retrieved May 4, 2016
  3. ^ Heinrich Oehmsen: Premiere of Dürrenmatt's Mad Doctor in the Schauspielhaus. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . April 24, 2015. Retrieved May 4, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Grötzinger, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish-Swiss actor and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Gothenburg