Christian Baumann (actor)

Christian Baumann (2016)

Christian Baumann (* 1967 in Landshut ) is a German actor and speaker.

Career

Christian Baumann has been on stage since 1996. At the Metropol-Theater in Munich he worked in The Black Rider by Tom Waits , The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol by John Berger ( Bavarian Theater Prize ) and Lantana by Andrew Bovell, each directed by Jochen Schölch . At the Munich State Theater on Gärtnerplatz he could be seen in Die Dubarry , directed by Valentina Simeonova.

Baumann played in the movie Feindliche Takeover by the director Carl Schenkel ) and was seen on television, among others, in SOKO Munich and Café Perjury , in Tatort , as Dracula in the ZDF series Terra X and in the multiple award-winning Sky production Der Pass .

He can be heard as a speaker in documentaries and reports such as the ZDF series 37 ° , on Bayerischer Rundfunk or as a narrator for the knowledge magazine Welt der Wunder and also in audio books . For example, he spoke the role of Onno Quist in the radio play production The Discovery of Heaven . His readings of the novels The Red Sailors and The First Spring by Klaus Kordon were featured in the hr2 audio book best list . He is also the station voice of the BR news channel B5 aktuell and Deutschlandfunk Kultur .

Since April 2019 he has been the spokesman for the ZDF broadcast Aktenzeichen XY ... unsolved and thus the successor of the late Michael Brennicke .

Filmography (selection)

2001: Hostile Takeover - althan.com
2001: Tatort - Wolf in Sheep's Clothing (ARD)
2001: Sinan Toprak - Beauty passes (RTL)
2002: Café Perjury - Good Night Munich (BR)
2003: SOKO 5113 - A question of feeling (ZDF)
2004: Tatort: Six to Eat (ARD)
2005: The Rosenheim Cops - The Silence of the Pigs (ZDF)
2008: The Rosenheim Cops - Rendezvous resulting in death (ZDF)
2010: SOKO 5113 - Headless (ZDF)
2010: The Rosenheim Cops - An Honorable House (ZDF)
2011: Hubert and Staller - Murder in the Märchenpark (ARD)
2011: Munich 7 - The Search for Nothing (ARD)
2013: Munich Murder - I am Hell (ZDF)
2013: Dracula - the real story - Terra X (ZDF)
2014: The Rosenheim Cops - Deadly Fairy Tale Hour (ZDF)
2014: Schwarzach 23 - The Hand of Death (ZDF)
2014: SOKO 5113 - The children of Agathe S. (ZDF)
2015: The Strategy (short film)
2017: The Rosenheim Cops - The Trace of Money (ZDF)
2018: SOKO Munich - Five Minutes (ZDF)
2018: The Pass (Sky)
2019: Polizeiruf 110 - The lie we call the future (ARD)
2020: Catacombs - (JOYN / Pro Sieben)
2020: The Pass - Season 2 (Sky)

Theater (selection)

1997: Mirandolina by Carlo Goldoni, role: Graf von Albafiorita, director: Dominik Wilgenbus, Seebühne Westpark Munich
2001: Shake the Speare roles: Polonius, Buckingham, Banquo, Claudio, director: Jochen Schölch, Metropol Theater Munich
2001: The three lives of Lucie Cabrol by John Berger, role: Emile Cabrol, director: Jochen Schölch, Metropol Theater Munich, (Bavarian theater award, audience award at the "Impulse Festival")
2003: On the way to the wedding of John Berger, role: The blind, director: Jochen Schölch, Metropol Theater Munich
2006: Die Dubarry by Karl Millöcker, role: actor, director: Valentina Simeonova, Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz Munich
2006: I Furiosi by Nanni Balestrini, role: Tuffetto, director: Jochen Schölch, Metropol Theater Munich
2006: Lantana by Andrew Bovell, director: Jochen Schölch, Metropol Theater Munich
2008: Terrorism by the Presnjakow brothers ( Oleg and Wladimir ), director: Jochen Schölch, Metropol Theater Munich
2008: The Black Rider by William Burroughs, Robert Wilson, Tom Waits, role: Der Oheim, director: Jochen Schölch, Metropol Theater Munich
2009: Tannöd by Andrea Maria Schenkel, role: Georg Hauer, director: Jochen Schölch, Metropol Theater Munich
2009: We walk the path of freedom by Sarah Kohrs, role: Eusebius Amort, director: Sarah Kohrs, Cuvilliésheater Munich
2016: Drank based on the novel by Carlos Eugenio López, adaptation and direction: Alia Luque, Metropol Theater Munich

Audiobooks (selection)

1999: Dietrich Schwanitz's campus , Hörverlag
2000: Caretta Caretta by Paulus Hochgatterer, Hörverlag
2000: With his back to the wall by Klaus Kordon, Hörverlag
2001: The Lazarus Child by Robert Mawson, Höverlag
2005: Shit happens by Hakan Nesser, Hörverlag
2005: Rascal stories by Ludwig Thoma, Argon audio book
2006: The Red Sailors by Klaus Kordon, Hörverlag (HR audio book best list)
2007: Caravan by Marina Lewycka, read by Anna Thalbach, Stefan Kaminski, Carin C. Tietze, Christian Baumann and Lisa Wagner, Hörverlag
2007: Fabulus tells ... various stories for children, read by Beate Himmelstoss and Christian Baumann, Hörverlag
2007: The legacy of the old pilgrim by Rainer M. Schröder, Hörverlag
2007: Der Münchner im Himmel by Ludwig Thoma, Argon audio book
2008: Schuhhaus Pallas by Amelie Fried, read by the author and Christian Baumann, Hörverlag
2008: The cement garden by Ian McEwan, radio play with Paul Herwig, Sissy Höfferer, Laura Maire, Christian Baumann u. a., Hörverlag
2008: Through the Deutsches Museum with Oskar: Sun, Moon and Star Driver by Gaby Rebling, Igel Records
2008: Through the Deutsches Museum with Oskar: Water, wind and horsepower by Gaby Rebling, Igel Records
2009: Through the Deutsches Museum with Oskar: Fire, Sparks, Steam Engines by Gaby Rebling, Igel Records
2009: Through the German Museum with Oskar: feathers, kites, sky fliers by Gaby Rebling, Igel Records
2009: Oskar meets Alexander von Humboldt from Gaby Rebling, Igel Records
2009: World history in stories by Volker Ebersbach, Charlotte Kerner, Tanja Kinkel, audiomedia
2010: Ancient Egypt by Sascha Priester, audiomedia
2011: The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch, radio play with Christian Baumann, Udo Samel, Jochen Striebeck, Lisa Wagner a. a., Hörverlag
2011: Small Country by Nick Hornby, read by Christian Baumann, Simone Kabst, Patrick Güldenberg, Hörverlag
2012: Voodoo by Nick Stone, Hörverlag
2012: Death ritual by Nick Stone, Hörverlag
2012: The Dead Master by Nick Stone, Hörverlag
2012: Adventure World History by Ulli Kulke, audiomedia
2012: Secret codes and lost treasures by Bernd Flessner, audiomedia
2012: Four values that children carry for a lifetime by Jesper Juul, Argon Balance
2013: The whole world of knowledge. 1 - series of the Bayerischer Rundfunk, Bayern2, Hörverlag
2013: Herzblut - Inspector Kluftinger 7 by Volker Klüpfel, Michael Kobr, read by the authors and Christian Baumann, audio book Hamburg
2013: Fabulous Heroes by Bernd Flessner, audiomedia
2013: Shakespeare's restless world by Neil MacGregor, read by Thomas Loibl, Stefan Wilkening, Helmut Stange, Christian Baumann a. a., Hörverlag
2014: Cold Shadow Tales by Sweden's most famous crime writers, read by Christian Baumann, Axel Milberg, Dietmar Bär, Nina Petri, Hörverlag
2014: Grandfather's Stories or The Bed with the Flying Trees by Erwin Moser, Argon audio book
2014: Recognize the World A History of Philosophy Volume 1, by Richard David Precht, Hörverlag
2014: The 50 year old who went to India and stumbled upon the meaning of life by Mikael Bergstrand, audiomedia
2015: The whole world of knowledge. 2 - series of the Bayerischer Rundfunk, Bayern2, Hörverlag
2015: Handel's Messiah - work introduction by Markus Vanhoefer, BR-Klassik, Bayerischer Rundfunk
2015: Bach's Johannes Passion - work introduction by Markus Vanhoefer, BR-Klassik, Bayerischer Rundfunk
2015: The Boy Who Saw with the Heart by Virginia Macgregor, audiomedia
2016: The Tiger Strategy by Lothar Seiwert, read by the author and Christian Baumann, Random House Audio
2016: The 50-year-old who couldn't get his butt up until a tiger helped him by Mikael Bergstrand, audiomedia
2016: The Manns. Story of a family by Tilmann Lahme, Hörverlag
2016: You don't get my hatred from Antoine Leiris, Random House Audio
2016: Write to me or I'll die - love letters from famous women and men by Petra Müller, Rainer Wieland, Random House Audio
2017: Your heart in my Christmas stocking - love letters from famous women and men from Petra Müller, Rainer Wieland, Random House Audio
2017: Mister Frank's Fabulous Talent for Harmony by Rachel Joyce, Argon Audiobook
2017: The declaration of love by Jean-Philippe Blondel, audiomedia
2018: The Apple Blossom Guru by Mikael Bergstrand, audiomedia
2019: The Book of Joy, Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu by Douglas Abrams, Random House Audio
2019: Letters to Obama from Jeanne Marie Laskas, read by Julia Cortis, Christian Baumann, Juliane Köhler, Franz Pätzold, Hörverlag
2019: Aunt Poldi and the Black Madonna by Mario Giordano, Lübbe Audio
2019: The excited company of Philipp Hübl, Hörverlag
2020: Aunt Poldi and the song of the sirens by Mario Giordano, Lübbe Audio

Documentaries: Narrator (selection)

2002: August Sander - People of the 20th Century by Reiner Holzemer, (arte)
2003: My strange child by Dominique Klughammer, - 37 ° (ZDF)
2004: Monika Baumgartner - the popular actress, by Reiner Holzemer, (BR)
2005: The Streuner - a street cat in Paris by Angela Graas, (BR)
2005: The Unadulterated - artist group "Die Brücke" by Franz Deubzer / Birgit Eckelt, (BR / arte)
2007: William Eggleston - photographer by Reiner Holzemer, (arte)
2007: Che Guevara - The Body and the Myth, (arte)
2007: Mahatma Gandhi - Death for Peace, (ZDF / arte)
2008: The Varus Battle - how the legions perished by Christian Lappe (BR)
2009: Animals in Climate Change, 7-part documentation, (BR / arte)
2010: Mission Mars, 2-part documentary by Thomas Bausenwein, (ZDF)
2010: Janis Joplin - Look behind the legend by Ray Müller (arte)
2010: My family's secret, 4-part documentary (ARD)
2010: And the forests die forever by Tobias Streck (arte)
2010: Niki de Saint Phalle & Jean Tinguely by Anne Julien / Louise Faure, (arte)
2011: Brown Babies - Germany's lost children by Michaela Kirst, (BR / arte)
2011: Over the islands of Africa, 5-part documentary by Filmquadrat, (SWR / arte)
2011: America: The Story, 12-part film series by Ed Fields / Daniel Hall, (Pro7)
2011: Caroline Link - my life by Reiner Holzemer, (arte)
2012: Summer again for Wenke by Max Kronawitter, (BR / ARD)
2012: Wassily Kandinsky - The Sound of Color by Angelika Lizius, (BR / arte)
2012: Andy Warhol - Godfather of Pop, 2-part documentary by Ric Burns, (arte)
2013: Fukushima - Nothing is as it was by Patrick Hörl / Kei Matsumoto, (BR)
2013: The Spanish Islands, 5-part documentary by Filmquadrat, (arte)
2013: Charlie Chaplin - how it all began by Serge Bromberg / Eric Lange, (arte)
2014: The Voice of the Danube by Jürgen Eichinger, (ARD)
2014: Anton Corbijn - most wanted, by Reiner Holzemer, (BR)
2014: Generation forest dieback, by Reinhard Kungel, (WDR)
2014: Medicine in the Middle Ages by Hannes Schuler, documentary for the film "Der Medicus" (ARD)
2014: Picasso - his legacy from Hugues Nancy / Olivier Wildmaier Picasso (BR)
2015: Cities by the Sea, 5-part documentary by Filmquadrat, (SWR / arte)
2015: The Pope and the Mafia by Jesus Garces Lambert, (arte)
2015: Nobody should know - Corinne and her secret by Maike Conway, 37 ° (ZDF)
2015: Shannon River - a river like a poem by John Murray, (ARD)
2016: Fukushima - Living with the disaster by Patrick Hörl (BR)
2016: Gondola - a Venetian story by Sabine Scharnagel (BR)
2017: 20-40-60: Our life - 37 ° (ZDF)
2016: Barenboim or The Power of Music by Sabine Scharnagel (BR)
2017: GDR 1990 journey through a disappearing country by Reinhard Kungel (MDR)
2017: Freedom: George Michael by David Austin & George Michael (arte)
2017: The poison of the Mafia by Christian Gramstadt (arte / ARD)
2018: 20.40.60 Our life three-part documentary in the 37 ° series (ZDF)
2018: Nollywood by Johannes Preuss (Ludwigsburg Film Academy)
2018: The Bohemian Forest - A wilderness in the middle of Europe by Lisa Eder-Held (NDR)
2018: Garbage dump sea - Fight against plastic waste by Tango Film Munich (N24)
2018: The Doom of Doctor Frankenstein by Jean Froment (arte)
2018: Real Life - several documentaries - (BR / ARD)
2019: Playing with Fire - The Advance of Populists and Nationalists in Europe by Claus Singer (ARD-alpha)
2020: ZDF report - Der Brenner - Free travel south by Daniela Agostini (ZDF)

Web links

Literature by and about Christian Baumann in the catalog of the German National Library
Christian Baumann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Own website

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Baumann, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German actor and speaker
DATE OF BIRTH	1967
PLACE OF BIRTH	Landshut