Bastian Semm

Bastian Semm as Klaus Störtebeker at the Störtebeker Festival

Bastian Semm (born September 26, 1979 in Bochum ) is a German actor , singer-songwriter and musician .

life and career

Bastian Semm grew up in Bochum and graduated from high school there in 1999. He studied acting at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig and was permanently employed at the Basel Theater until 2009 . He played Octavianus in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and was awarded the Rosenthal Young Talent Prize in 2009 for his portrayal of Peer Gynt at the Luisenburg Festival in Wunsiedel . Afterwards he worked at the theater of the city of Heidelberg . a. seen in Lennon or Beyond Eden . In summer 2011 he played Hamlet at the Bad Hersfeld Festival , for which he received the Hersfeld Prize . Since 2011 he has been touring Germany with Cash - a singer of songs , a musical program about the life of Johnny Cash . In 2012 he played Romeo at the Luisenburg Festival in Romeo and Juliet . From 2013 to 2017 Semm played Klaus Störtebeker in Ralswiek on the island of Rügen at the Störtebeker Festival . In 2015 Semm could be seen as Chief Detective Martin Vogt in Forbidden Love . In the series Friends - Bastian Semm plays GUFA boss Florian Berger.

Semm lives in Berlin.

Awards

• 2009: Rosenthal Young Talent Award of the Luisenburg Festival in Wunsiedel for the role of Peer Gynt
• 2011: Hersfeld Prize for the title role in Hamlet

Theater roles (selection)

• 2013–2017: Störtebeker Festival as Klaus Störtebeker
• 2012: Romeo & Juliet ( Luisenburg Festival ) as Romeo
• 2011: Hamlet ( Bad Hersfeld Festival ) as Hamlet
• 2009: Peer Gynt (Luisenburg Festival) as Peer Gynt

Filmography (selection)

• 2004: Hello Robbie! - Episode role
• 2004: Tatort-Friedhof - leading role
• 2004: The adventure of freedom - main role
• 2005: A chance for love
• 2006: A city is blackmailed
• 2014: Winnetou's son
• 2015: Forbidden Love - main role
• 2016: Heldt
• 2018: SOKO Munich (TV series, episode: 5 minutes)
• 2018-2019: Girlfriends - Now All the More (TV series)

literature

• Bastian Semm. In: Schauspielhaus Bochum: a book about making theater 2000-2005. Schauspielhaus Bochum. Klartext, 2005, p. 222.
• Bastian Semm. In: Theater of Time. Issues 9–12, Henschel, 2006, p. 35.
• Bastian Semm. In: Theater Today. Volume 49, Friedrich Verlag, 2008, p. 48.
• Bastian Semm. In: German stage yearbook. FA Günther & sohn a.-g., 2008, p. 606.

Web links

• Bastian Semm in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official homepage of the actor
• CASH - a singer of songs

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bastian Semm. In: Shakespeare Yearbook. Volume 145, F. Kamp, 2009, p. 219.
2. ↑ Bastian Semm. Winner of the Hersfeld Prize. on: bad-hersfelder-festspiele.de
3. ↑ Christoph A. Brandner: “Hamlet” actor Bastian Semm: My heart and soul is in this figure.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Fulda newspaper. July 7, 2011.  
4. ^ Cash - a singer of songs by Bastian Semm , official site, accessed on January 9, 2015
5. ^ Bastian Semm: Cash - A Singer of Songs. ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) 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. on: saarbruecken.de  
6. ↑ Cast list for the Störtebeker Festival 13 ( Memento of the original from August 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 10.5 MB) stoertebeker.de, accessed on July 24, 2013.