Benjamin Höppner

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Benjamin Höppner (* 1974 in Salisbury , Rhodesia , today Harare, Zimbabwe ) is a German actor .

Life

Benjamin Höppner grew up in Brussels and Hamburg . He completed his acting training from 1997 to 2000 at the Bochum Drama School of the Folkwang University of the Arts . In the 1999/00 season he was a guest at the Schauspielhaus Bochum as Benedict in Much Ado About Nothing in a production by Leander Haußmann .

From 2000 to 2005 he was permanently engaged at the Hanover Theater. In the following years he continued to give regular guest performances there until 2009. At the State Theater in Hanover he worked a. a. with the directors Michael Talke , Igor Bauersima , Axel Dürkop , Elias Perrig , Sandra Strunz , Christina Paulhofer , Robert Schuster , Sebastian Nübling , Luk Perceval , Lukas Langhoff , Anselm Weber , Peter Kastenmüller and Christoph Frick .

His stage roles at the Hanover Theater include a. a. Beaumarchais ( Clavigo ) Trileckej in Platonov , Lopachin ( The Cherry Orchard ), Vlas ( Summer guests of Maxim Gorky ), Max ( Beautiful View ), the Merkl Franz ( Kasimir and Karoline ) and Franz Biberkopf .

In the summer of 2000 he was a guest at the Schwerin Castle Festival as Porthos in The Three Musketeers . At the Salzburg Festival in 2003 he played the young Peer Gynt in Johann Kresnik's Ibsen production . He also had guest engagements at the Thalia Theater Hamburg , the Schauspiel Frankfurt and the Theater Freiburg .

From 2009 to 2013 he was a member of the drama ensemble of the Dresden State Theater . In Wolfgang Engel's production of Bulgakov's Der Meister and Margarita (premiere: 2011/12 season), Höppner embodied the roles of “Der Meister” / “Levi Matthäus”. In Dresden he played a. a. in productions by Jan Gehler , Julia Hölscher , Franz Wittenbrink , Jan Neumann , Andreas Kriegenburg and Stefan Bachmann . In the 2012/13 season he was the “brutal”, corrupt police president Tiger Brown in Friederike Heller's new production of Brecht / Weill's Die Dreigroschenoper at the Dresden State Theater .

Since the 2013/14 season he has been a permanent member of the ensemble at the Schauspiel Köln . His main roles included u. a. Alceste in Der Menschenfeind (2014–2017, director: Moritz Sostmann ), Graf Guiche in Cyrano de Bergerac (premiere season 2016/17, director: Simon Solberg ), Ben in Tod einer Salesperson (premiere season 2017/18, director: Rafael Sanchez ) and Escalus / brother Lorenzo in Romeo and Juliet (premiere season 2017/18, director: Pinar Karabulut ).

From 2009 Höppner was seen increasingly in film and television roles. He shot for the cinema with Agnieszka Holland , Christian Alvart and Isabel Prahl . He has appeared in leading and supporting roles in numerous TV series. He had a continuous series role in the RTL crime series Die Draufgänger . In the 10th season of the ZDF series SOKO Wismar (2013) he took on a dramatic leading role in the episode as the suspicious, irascible taxi entrepreneur Sascha Weinert. In the skit - comedy series Bad Mother (2016-2017) he had, on the side of Milena Thirty (Ulrike), a solid supporting role as her husband. In the three-part television series The Wonderful Years , which was broadcast on Das Erste in March 2020 , he played Dr. Roters, the lawyer for the Wulf family.

Höppner is the founder of the music comedy trio Nordkvark , with which he won the Prix ​​Pantheon in 2010. He lives in Cologne .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f g h Benjamin Höppner . Vita. Official website of Schauspiel Köln . Retrieved March 20, 2020.
  2. a b c d e f g h i Benjamin Höppner . Vita and profile at CASTFORWARD. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
  3. a b Benjamin Höppner at schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
  4. Johann Kresnik kills "Peer Gynt" . Performance review. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of August 3, 2003. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
  5. In the cabinet of Dr. Stromboli . Performance review. In: ZEIT of August 7, 2003. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
  6. The Master and Margarita . Production details and cast. Official website. State Theater Dresden . Retrieved March 20, 2020.
  7. Staatsschauspiel Dresden "The Master and Margarita" based on the novel by Michail Bulgakow . Extracts. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
  8. Old evergreens that cannot be killed . Performance review, taz, September 17, 2012. Accessed March 20, 2020.
  9. ^ SOKO Wismar: Speechless . Plot and cast. Official website of the ZDF . Retrieved March 20, 2020.