August Wittgenstein

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August-Frederik Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (born January 22, 1981 in Siegen ), known as August Wittgenstein , is a German - Swedish actor .

Life

Wittgenstein comes from the old noble family of Sayn-Wittgenstein , his family belongs to the line "Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg". He was born to a German father and a Swede. His father is Ludwig Ferdinand Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (* 1942); his mother Yvonne, a née Countess Wachtmeister af Johannishus (* 1951), who was born in Bärbo, Nyköping municipality , in Sweden . He grew up with his older brother Carl-Albrecht (born 1976), his older sister Anna (born 1978; married Princess of Bavaria) and his younger sister Theodora (* 1986) bilingual in German and Swedish as mother tongues in Bad Laasphe in the Wittgensteiner country on . Even in elementary school he was interested in acting. At the age of 15, he moved out of his parents' home and attended boarding school in Sweden . After graduating from high school in Great Britain , various internships in Paris and a stay in Australia followed . After his return he decided to take a professional acting education. At the request of his parents, he first studied. He earned a bachelor's degree in history from Georgetown University in Washington, DC .

He completed his acting training in the United States , a. a. from August 2005 to May 2007 at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City , later at The Berg Studios in Los Angeles . He began his film career in 2008/2009 with the participation in several short films . In Hollywood he had supporting roles in the films Illuminati (2009; as a soldier of the Swiss Guard ), and, alongside Robin Wright , in the science fiction drama The Congress (2013; as Travis).

In 2011 he had a supporting role as Michel in the Swedish thriller Avalon , the debut film by the Swedish director Axel Petersén (* 1979). In the German historical film Ludwig II , he embodied the historical figure of Ludwig's confidante Alfred Graf Eckbrecht von Dürckheim-Montmartin (1850–1912). Wittgenstein had his breakthrough on German television in 2013 with his first leading role in the road movie Wüstenherz - The Trip of my Life . In the film, shot in English in Morocco , he played the attractive dropout, adventurer and loner Ben, alongside Jennifer Ulrich . Wittgenstein's voice was dubbed for the German version, as he was not available for the dubbing due to scheduling reasons. In the tragicomic TV film Die Schlikkerfrauen (2014) he played the son of the drugstore chain owner Theo Schlikker , alongside Sky Du Mont and Catherine Flemming as parents.

Wittgenstein also had episode roles in some television series , including a. in the series SOKO Leipzig (2013, as a friend of the victim) and Josephine Klick - Alone Among Cops (2014; as a member of a student union). In February 2015 he appeared again in the episode To Be or Not to Be in the crime series SOKO Leipzig , this time in a leading role as the charismatic director and acting coach Ivo Novack. In the crime series SOKO Cologne (December 2015) he played the victim's grandson in the episode Alte Wunden . In February 2016 he played an episode role in the ZDF crime series SOKO Munich , in which he played a former high school colleague of the SOKO investigator Dominik Morgenstern ( Joscha Kiefer ).

In the ZDF three-parter Ku'damm 56 (first broadcast: March 2016), Wittgenstein was seen in one of the leading roles as the young homosexual public prosecutor Wolfgang von Boost. He also took on this role in the three-part sequel Ku'damm 59 , which premiered in March 2018.

In the crime series Alles Klara (first broadcast: March 2016), he had a leading role in the episode as the paraplegic Eric Simon, who runs a flight school in the Harz Mountains together with his murdered brother . In the television film A Smile at Night at Four , which was broadcast for the first time in December 2017 as part of the “ZDF Herzkino” series, he played the male lead, the “charming” actor Max Severin, who portrayed the life of the main female character Jule ( Natalia Belitski ) messes up. In the RTL television series Jenny - really fair (first broadcast from April 2018), Wittgenstein took on the role of lawyer Maximilian Mertens, alongside Birte Hanusrichter as an unskilled paralegal. In the television series Das Boot (2018), Wittgenstein played the role of First Lieutenant Karl Tennstedt, laid out as a "bad guy" and villain .

Wittgenstein has dual citizenship ; he is a German and a Swedish citizen. He has been living in Berlin-Mitte since spring 2011 .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ August Wittgenstein . Profile and vita at Schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved February 13, 2015
  2. ↑ a b c d e When a Wittgensteiner is sent into the desert Portrait in: Der Westen.de from October 7, 2013. Retrieved on February 13, 2015
  3. ↑ a b c d A heart for dropouts ( memento from February 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) in Heilbronn voice . Retrieved February 13, 2015
  4. ↑ "The nature around Bad Laasphe calms me down". In: ikz-online.de. February 27, 2015, accessed March 3, 2017 .
  5. ↑ a b Jörg Seewald: Swap adventure for love in: Der Tagesspiegel from October 7, 2013. Accessed on February 13, 2015
  6. ↑ A smile at four at night ( Memento from December 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Plot and cast. Retrieved December 10, 2017.
  7. ↑ Jenny - really fair • New RTL series about legal assistant . In: Hörzu of March 7, 2018. Retrieved March 28, 2018.
  8. ↑ THE STAR-FIESLING FROM "BOOT": "Queasy feeling when you keep the swastika on your chest" . In: WELT from December 3, 2018. Retrieved January 11, 2020.
  9. ↑ August Wittgenstein . Crew-united profile. Retrieved January 10, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Wittgenstein, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, August-Frederik Prinz zu (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swedish actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Wins