Burkhard Heyl

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Burkhard Heyl

Burkhard Heyl (born May 20, 1956 in Berlin ) is a German actor .

Life

Burkhard Heyl completed an acting degree at the Folkwang University in Essen .

At the beginning of his career as an actor there were theater engagements . Heyl had permanent engagements at the Schauspiel Kiel and the Schauspielhaus Nürnberg, among others . Further engagements followed in Cologne , Munich and Zurich . At the beginning of his theater career, Heyl played the classic theater repertoire of the youthful lover and the youthful hero. In addition, he took on important character roles.

Heyl's major theater roles included Cléante in Der Geizige von Molière , Prince Agis in Der Triumph der Liebe von Marivaux , Sultan Saladin in Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , the title role in Der Prinz vom Homburg by Heinrich von Kleist , the Schweizererkas in Mother Courage by Bertolt Brecht , the Beckmann in Outside by Wolfgang Borchert and the Duke Karl Alexander in Jud Süß by Paul Kornfeld .

He also appeared in various larger and smaller roles in pieces by Woody Allen , Georges Feydeau , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Gerhart Hauptmann and Anton Chekhov .

Heyl has also appeared in front of the camera in several international cinema productions and television series since the 1980s . In 1986 he starred opposite Omar Sharif and Maximilian Schell in the American NBC mini-series Peter the Great , directed by Marvin J. Chomsky . 1988 followed a role in the US mini-series Firestorm and Ashes . He had a small role in 1989 in the film Triumph des Geistes . 1990 followed the role of Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim in the thriller Stauffenberg - Conspiracy against Hitler . The director Costa-Gavras brought Heyl in 2002 for the small but important role of a director for his film Der Stellvertreter , a film adaptation of Rolf Hochhuth's play Der Stellvertreter .

From the mid-1980s, Heyl also played regularly on German television. Heyl took on continuous series roles, recurring episode roles and guest roles.

Heyl was also often used on German television in demanding television games and productions with a contemporary historical background. He has made a name for himself as a sensitive and differentiated character actor. In 1986 he played the role of Carl Deutz in the multi-part series Fathers and Sons - A German Tragedy by Bernhard Sinkel . In the 1990s, ZDF also cast Heyl in the role of the romantic, good-looking lover in the television series Das Traumschiff and in the television film Summer by the Sea from the television series Rosamunde Pilcher .

Heyl achieved notoriety above all in the continuous series role of Dr. Thomas Maybach in RTL - TV series Behind Bars - The women's prison where he and Cheryl Shepard and Christine Schuberth played. He has played the enterprising and busy mayor Bernd Bossert in the ARD television series Alpenklinik since 2006 .

Burkhard Heyl works extensively as a reciter with literary programs. In the programs he has put together himself, he reads from novels , memories and correspondence by Walter Benjamin , Theodor Fontane , Marcel Proust and Vladimir Nabokov . He also interprets poems by Fernando Pessoa and Paul Celan .

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SURNAME Heyl, Burkhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin