Cem-Ali Gültekin

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Cem Ali Gültekin (* 1981 in Hamburg ) is a German actor , comedian , presenter, author, producer and entrepreneur. He is the owner and managing director of CEMYAS Filmproduktion, as well as JWH Entertainment GmbH, an event agency that operates the ComedyTour throughout Germany.

Life and career

Cem Ali Gültekin was born and raised in a working-class family in Hamburg-Wandsbek . His parents are of Turkish-Syrian descent. Gültekin grew up in poor conditions and attended the comprehensive school in Hamburg Steilshoop . After dropping out of commercial college, he worked in various areas before starting an apprenticeship as a media clerk in 2002, where he specialized in film. During this training he did an internship at Extra Faces, an agency for extras a. Small actors. Here he already gained his first experience in front of the camera, including in the ARD series Der Dicke .

After successfully completing his training in 2004, he decided to become an actor. He studied from 2004 to 2008 at the Schule für Schauspiel Hamburg and was already active in various theater and film productions during his training. In 2008 Gültekin graduated with honors and devoted himself fully to the acting profession. Against all advice that he had to choose between a career in film, television or in the theater, he decided to pursue both careers. There was also a career in comedy. From 2014 onwards, after various productions at various theaters in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, he was unable to pursue acting for reasons of time.

Film and television career

He is still very active in the film and television sector today, so that he has worked with numerous directors in recent years. In 2013 he played in the ZDF crime series Notruf Hafenkante and worked there with director Sebastian Marka . After this collaboration, Marka Gültekin cast for four more of his directorial work at the Tatort : 2015 Das Haus am Ende der Straße , which was the last with Joachim Krol as a commissioner, also 2015 Hinter dem Spiegel together with Magarita Broich and Wolfram Koch , 2016 then The Truth , who was nominated for the Grimme Prize , and in 2019 the Bayreuth Tatort A day like any other . In 2017 he also played the leading role in the episode in Tatort - Zorn Gottes directed by Özgür Yildirim .

In addition to episodic roles in Die Pfefferkörner and Großstadtrevier , he has appeared in the Thursday evening crime series Nord on Nordwest on ARD with his continuous role "Mehmet Ösker". At the side of Hinnerk Schönemann , Marleen Lohse and Henny Reents , he plays the lovingly crazy from Schwanitz. For this role, Cem Ali Gültekin was nominated for the German Acting Award in 2018 and for the Golden Camera in 2019 in the "Heimatfilm" category.

After an appearance at the NDR Comedy Contest 2012 and he was invited by NDR to be part of the satire show Extra 3 . Since then he has been known to many as the street reporter “Rollo”, who asks citizens about political issues. The late night show Extra 3 Night Live emerged from this format in 2019, in which Gültekin was part of the main cast alongside Petra Nadolny , Max Giermann and Linda Zervakis, among others .

In 2017 he played an episode role in the episode Merhaba in the Pro7 / Maxdome series Jerks alongside Christian Ulmen and Fahri Yardim .

In 2018 he starred in the gangster drama 4Blocks alongside Kida Khodr Ramadan , directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel . Here he played together with Neil Malik Abdullah , with whom he also attended drama school. In the same year he was also part of the ZDF satire show Thank you Germany, directed by Holger Schmidt. He worked with him from 2015 to 2016 in the ZDF early evening series Sibel & Max , in which he played 24 episodes alongside Idil Üner . Gültekin also produced his first feature film this year with his production company CEMYAS Film, which is expected to be shown from 2020. This is a horror - psychological thriller directed by Tom Bewilogua and Gültekin himself in the lead role.

In 2019 Gültekin appeared in the ARD feature film Risk Pill directed by Isa Prahl. He also moderated the German Acting Award at the Berlin Zoo Palace together with actress Nadine Heidenreich .

On Youtube he has been part of the satirical web series Jihadi Fool since 2019 . Here he has his own character and rubric with Bashka in a bombastic mood.

Comedy tour

Since 2007 Gültekin has hosted the ComedyTour, a bus tour that combines sightseeing with comedy. Initially only with a few tours in Hamburg, the Comedy Tour now takes place in all major cities in Germany. In Hamburg there has also been the Comedy Boat since 2012, a harbor tour paired with comedy. In a broader sense, Gültekin also sees the ComedyTour as an opportunity to bring artists together across Germany and to realize projects together. A web series, a sketch format and a mockumentary about the ComedyTour are also being planned and prepared for 2020 . The ComedyTour belongs to the creative event agency JWH Entertainment, of which Gültekin has been the sole owner and managing director since 2018. With over 50,000 show guests a year, this agency is now one of the largest comedy providers in Germany. It also includes the School for Comedy, where Gültekin and his team have been successfully teaching young artists the craft of comedy since 2014.

Filmography (selection)

Theater (selection)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Peters: Cem-Ali Gültekin: The "Tatort" terrorist usually makes comedy. March 20, 2016, accessed on February 7, 2020 (German).
  2. ^ Cem-Ali Gültekin | That's how funny the "crime scene" terrorist is in truth. Retrieved February 7, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Conversation with Cem-Ali Gültekin - Tatort - ARD | The first. Retrieved February 7, 2020 .
  4. ↑ http://steinbrennermueller.de/allgemein/deutscher-schauspielpreis-2018-die-nominieren/. Retrieved on February 7, 2020 (German).
  5. ↑ Golden Camera 2019: These are the nominees. March 25, 2019, accessed on February 7, 2020 (German).
  6. ↑ Annika Schönstädt: German Acting Award: This is how celebrities get in the mood for the award ceremony. August 31, 2019, accessed on February 7, 2020 (German).
  7. ↑ Moritz tree Stieger: The jihadist as a laughing stock. Retrieved February 7, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Reiner Burger: Protection of the Constitution on Youtube: Humor against Jihadism . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed February 7, 2020]).
  9. ^ Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com): Germany fights Salafists with Youtube satire | DW | 08/25/2019. Retrieved on February 7, 2020 (German).
  10. ↑ Comedy School - A Teacher to Laugh. Retrieved on February 7, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Gültekin, Cem-Ali
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gültekin, Cem Ali
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and comedian
DATE OF BIRTH 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg