Carsten Strauch

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Carsten Strauch and Paul Sedlmeir at the German Comedy Prize 2017
Amrei Haardt , Patrick Mölleken , Cordula Stratmann , Simon Böer , Susi Banzhaf, Carsten Strauch, Sabine Lorenz at the press conference for the new ARD comedy series “Die Kuhflüsterin”, June 2015

Carsten Strauch (born December 21, 1971 in Offenbach am Main ) is a German director , screenwriter , film producer and actor .

Life

After graduating from high school at the Albert Schweitzer School in Offenbach, Strauch moved to the Offenbach am Main School of Design . There he studied visual communication with a focus on film / AV and graduated in 2001 as a designer . He was already active as an actor during his studies, initially in two short films in 1995. In the following year he produced the short film Coming Out , which he wrote and which he also directed. In 1996 he produced the animated film Futter , for which he was responsible as an author, illustrator and director. Other short films followed, including Das Taschenorgan from 2000. Loosely based on this, Strauch shot the movie Die Aufschneider in 2007 , with Christoph Maria Herbst , Cosma Shiva Hagen and himself in the leading roles.

Strauch can also be found in other cinema, TV film and series productions - including Die Kuhflüsterin (ARD), Men ticken, Women different (ZDF), An island called Udo (cinema / ARD), Hin und weg (cinema / ZDF ), Tatort - Guardian of the Threshold (ARD). In 2012, Strauch was involved as the main actor, author, director and co-producer in the comedy format Gods Like Us nominated for the Grimme Prize . The six-part comedy series was awarded the German Television Prize 2013 in the Best Comedy category.

Strauch has been part of the ZDF comedy series Sketch History , which has been awarded the German Comedy Prize three times in a row, since 2015 . He has been running his own YouTube channel since 2018 . B. includes insights behind the scenes of Sketch History or self-produced skits.

Filmography (selection)

As a performer

As a director

  • 1996: Futter (short film)
  • 1996: Coming Out (short film)
  • 1999: Neighbors (short film)
  • 2000: The Pocket Organ (short film)
  • 2007: The Aufschneider
  • 2008: The Green Sheep (short film, speaking role)
  • 2012: Gods Like Us (TV series, 6 episodes)

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carsten Strauch. In: crew-united.com. Retrieved August 17, 2019 .
  2. ↑ 2013 Best Comedy: Gods Like Us. In: deutscher-fernsehpreis.de. Retrieved September 2, 2019 .
  3. ^ Vita of Carsten Strauch on his homepage, PDF 400 kB
  4. ^ Sophie Krause: Celebrating before shooting. In: tagesspiegel.de. September 18, 2019, accessed February 23, 2020 .
  5. ↑ The winners of the Hessian Filmrpeses 2013. RedCarpetReports, accessed on 17 June 2017 (German).

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SURNAME Strauch, Carsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director, film producer
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenbach am Main