Brian Völkner

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Brian Völkner (born August 31, 1992 in Freiberg , Saxony ) is a German actor .

Life

Brian Völkner gained his first acting experience during his school days at the Freiberg Theater Youth Club, where he was a member from 2008 to 2012. In addition, from 2009 to 2012 he was involved in several productions at the Central Saxon Theater Freiberg / Döbeln .

After graduating from high school, he first studied horticulture for a year in Dresden before he decided to study acting and applied to three drama schools, two of which offered him a place to study. He received his acting training from 2012 at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig , where he studied at the "Hans Otto" drama institute.

From 2014 to 2016 he was a member of the drama studio at the Schauspiel Leipzig . There he played u. a. little Walter in the world premiere of the play The two and a half lives of Henrich Walter Nothing by Lukas Linder at the side of Ulrich Brandhoff . He has been a permanent member of the ensemble at the Schauspiel Leipzig since the 2016/17 season. He first appeared there as Roller / Grimm / Schwarz in Die Räuber (premiere: June 2016, director: Gordon Kämmerer ) and in the 2017/18 season in the world premiere of the Leipzig commissioned work Actually we should dance to the disaster novel by Heinz Helle . In 2018 he was the young Chevalier Danceny in dangerous love affairs at the summer theater of the Leipziger Schauspiel in the courtyard of the Gohliser Schlösschen .

In the 2018/19 season he was u. a. again as Chevalier Danceny, as Ben in Lazarus (authors: David Bowie / Enda Walsh ) and in Süßer Vogel Jugend on stage.

Brian Völkner has been responsible for and has presented the lieder recital Kitsch and Krempel at Leipziger Schauspiel for several seasons , in which he and his colleagues present hits and chansons . Together with Peter Treuner and Jens Eulenberger , he was part of the Leipzig cabaret ensemble “Academixer”. Since the 2018/19 season he has also headed the “Club ü31”, a game club for adults at the Leipzig Theater.

In film and television productions he worked a. a. with Tilman and Karl-Friedrich König , Volker Schmidt-Sondermann , Oliver Hirschbiegel , Dominik Graf and Gregor Schnitzler . For ZDF he played the Ulm shoemaker Hans Heberle , a chronicler of the Thirty Years' War, in the Terra X documentary series . In the TV film Lotte am Bauhaus (2019) he played the right-wing national student Gross.

Völkner appeared in several radio plays for the MDR . He lives in Leipzig.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Brian Völkner at schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved February 10, 2019.
  2. a b Brian Völkner . Profile and vita at CASTFORWARD. Retrieved February 10, 2019.
  3. a b c d Brian Völkner . Vita. Internet presence of the “Hans Otto” acting institute . Retrieved February 10, 2019.
  4. a b May I introduce: Brian Völkner . Interview with Brian Völkner. Retrieved February 10, 2019.
  5. The best zero in the world. Lukas Linder: The two and a half lives of Henrich Walter Nothing . Performance review. In: Die Deutsche Bühne November 28, 2014. Accessed February 10, 2019.
  6. The robbers . Occupation. The Schauspiel Leipzig website . Retrieved February 10, 2019.
  7. "Actually we should dance" premiered in Leipzig . Performance review. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung from January 21, 2018. Retrieved on February 10, 2019.
  8. "Dangerous Liaisons" at the Gohliser Schlösschens . Performance review. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung from June 6, 2018. Retrieved on February 10, 2019.
  9. Don't be afraid of kitsch and emperors . Press release. Retrieved February 10, 2019.
  10. "Then the man is a man" . Criticism. mephisto 97.6 . dated July 8, 2016. Retrieved February 10, 2019.
  11. ^ Brian time in the Academixer summer . Criticism. Retrieved February 10, 2019.