Bastian Trost

Bastian Trost (born March 29, 1974 in Düsseldorf ) is a German performer and actor who became known for his role as Esau Matt in the film Der Laden . He is part of the performance collective Gob Squad . Trost lives in Berlin .

theatre

Trost attended the Westphalian Drama School in Bochum and at the age of sixteen was able to gain first experience in roles in Medea and King Lear at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus . He later appeared in plays such as Romeo and Juliet (1991), The Good Thief (1998) and The Beach (2001).

In 2003 he joined the artist group Gob Squad and has since played regularly at the Hebbel am Ufer Theater and the Volksbühne in Berlin (in Gob Squad's Kitchen (You've Never Had it So Good) and Western Society, among others ) and tours with many gob squads Projects worldwide.

Filmography (selection)

• 1994: Marie's song: I was, I don't know where, director: Niko von Glasow
• 1996: And tomorrow life begins, director: Anno Saul
• 1997: Faust (episode: dead people don't cry), director: Martin Enlen
• 1997: Leben in Angst, directed by Dagmar Damek
• 1997: Lawyer Abel (episode: The Trace of the Girl Murderer), Director: Marc Rothemund
• 1998: Der Laden , directed by Jo Baier
• 1998: The Campus, directed by Sönke Wortmann
• 1998: Andrea and Marie , directed by Martin Enlen
• 1999: Nothing but Truth , Director: Roland Suso Richter
• 1999: Aimée & Jaguar , directed by Max Färberböck
• 2000: False Liebe - Die Internetfalle, directed by Dirk K. van den Berg
• 2000: Donna Leon - Venetian Charade , directed by Christian von Castelberg
• 2000: Tatort - Blaues Blut , director: Helmut Förnbacher
• 2002: Solino , directed by Fatih Akin
• 2002: Tatort - The Dark Spot , Director: Peter F. Bringmann
• 2002: Drei Stern Rot, director: Olaf Kaiser
• 2002: Baader , directed by Christopher Roth
• 2003: Hamlet X , director: Herbert Fritsch
• 2003: God is dead, director: Kadir Sözen
• 2003: Red and Blue , Director: Rudolf Thome
• 2004: The Officer's Hour , Director: Hans-Erich Viet
• 2004: Woman drives, man sleeps , director: Rudolf Thome
• 2005: Sleeper , directed by Benjamin Heisenberg
• 2005: White Silence, directed by Philip Haucke
• 2006: Bella Block: Blackout , directed by Rainer Kaufmann
• 2006: The Lives of Others , directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
• 2007: After Effect , directed by Stephan Geene
• 2009: Very close to you , directed by Almut Getto
• 2009: Tatort - Architecture of a Death , Director: Titus Selge
• 2010: A flexible woman, directed by Tatjana Turanskyj
• 2011: The sad life of Gloria S., directed by Christine Groß & Ute Schall
• 2013: The Invention of Love, directed by Lola Randl
• 2014: Saphirblau , directed by Katharina Schöde & Felix Fuchssteiner
• 2015: Take What You Can Carry, directed by Matthew Porterfield
• 2016: August, directed by Omer Fast
• 2017: Out in my head, directed by Eibe Maleen Krebs
• 2018: Work without an author , director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmark
• 2018: From bees and flowers, directed by Lola Randl
• 2019: Carry on Sanssouci, director: Max Linz

Radio plays

• 2003: Holger Teschke : Jungfrau Maleen - Director: Barbara Plensat (children's radio play - DLR Berlin)
• 2004: Rolf Schneider : The Affair d'Aubray (Jean Babtiste Desgrais) - Director: Walter Niklaus (radio play - MDR / RBB )
• 2007: Stella Luncke / Josef Maria Schäfers : American Overflow - Director: Stella Luncke / Josef Maria Schäfers (radio play - SWR )
• 2013: Sarah Khan : The Ghosts of Berlin (Kristof) - Director: Clemens Schönborn (radio play - RBB)

Awards

• 1999: Trost was part of the cast team from Der Laden , for which Martin Benrath (together with director Jo Baier ) received the Adolf Grimme Prize with gold
• 2009: At the Impulse theater festival in Düsseldorf, he and the group Gob Squad won the Goethe Institute prize for the play Saving the World .
• 2012: With the performance Gob Squad's Kitchen (You've Never Had It So Good) in New York City he was awarded the Drama Desk Award as “best unique theatrical experience”.
• 2012: he was invited to the 49th Berlin Theatertreffen as part of Gob Squad with the play Before Your Very Eyes .
• 2020: he won the Tabori Prize with Gob Squad

Web links

• Bastian Trost in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Bastian Trost on filmportal.de
• Agency profile at the Britta Imdahl agency , accessed on August 18, 2020