Christian Ahlers

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Christian Ahlers (born July 25, 1974 in Bremen ) is a German actor.

Life

Ahlers grew up in the Neue Vahr Nord district of Bremen and in the Taunus. In 1998 he moved to Berlin and studied acting at the University of the Arts . His first engagements took him to the Berlin Maxim Gorki Theater in 2002 , to the Berlin Schaubühne and from 2002 to 2005 to the Osnabrück Theater . From 2012 to 2015 he played in the play Torquato Tasso in the theater discounter in Berlin and in the Rampe Theater in Stuttgart; According to Katrin Bettina Müller from the taz , Ahlers equips the role of Duke Alphons with a “supple and at the same time intellectual habit” and “slips into Goethe's language like an elegant and somewhat snobbish glove”.

In 2009, Ahlers was one of six main actors in the Grimmepreis- nominated film drama 66/67 - fair play was yesterday (according to FAZ one of “the few and important German generation films of the present”). Dietmar Kanthak from epd Film praised Ahlers for his "strong performance: [Christian Ahlers] as an archetypically corpulent and bespectacled» loser «Christian completes the trio by transforming himself from a bizarre fat man into a suicide candidate and gunman”.

He was seen in the movie Der Baader Meinhof Complex and in the TV film The Resignation of the Wulff Affair by Nico Hofmann , as well as in leading episode roles in Die Stein , SOKO Cologne and Großstadtrevier . Ahlers played polar researcher Herbert Schröder-Stranz in the Spiegel TV production Verschollen vor Spitzbergen for ZDF .

In addition to independent theater projects in Berlin, Ahlers produced numerous radio plays with the Swiss writer Michael Stauffer , appeared in commercials and in music videos, for example. B. the band Naughty North .

Ahlers is married and lives in Berlin. His grandfather was the Bremen horticultural director Erich Ahlers .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.taz.de/1/berlin/tazplan-kultur/artikel/?dig=2011%2F07%2F08%2Fa0231&cHash=6ab1271d8e
  2. ^ Tomasz Kurianowicz: Eintracht in Braunschweig. In: FAZ.net . January 29, 2011, accessed October 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Ahlers, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen