Christian Grashof

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Christian Grashof (2nd from left) as Danton in Danton's death in 1981

Christian Grashof (born August 5, 1943 in Gablonz an der Neisse , Sudetenland ) is a German actor .

Life

Grashof, who grew up in Löbau , studied at the State Drama School in Berlin from 1964 to 1967 and made his debut at the Karl-Marx-Stadt Theater , of which he was a member from 1967 to 1970.

He played there, among other things, Ferdinand in Kabale und Liebe , the title role in Prince Friedrich von Homburg and Franz in Kasimir and Karoline .

Since 1970 Grashof has had an engagement at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, interrupted by guest performances and a two-year engagement at the Schillertheater (1990–1992).

At the Deutsches Theater he played Beaumarchais in Clavigo (1971), Merkur in Hacks ' Amphitryon (1972) and particularly successfully the title character in Torquato Tasso (1975). Since 1976 he has worked closely with Alexander Lang . Other roles were Odysseus in Heiner Müller's Philoctetes (1977), the title role in Toller's Der unleashed Wotan (1979), Danton and Robespierre in Danton's Death (1981), Gundling in Heinrich Mann's The Sad Story of Frederick the Great (1982), Raikitin in Turgenev's A Month in the Country , the title character in Grabbe's Duke Theodor von Gothland (1984) and Captain Edgar in Strindberg's Dance of Death (1986).

Grashof was a guest at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg . There he played the Adrien in the German premiere of Koltès ' Return to the Desert in 1988 and the doctor in Chekhov's Platonov in 1989 .

During his acting studies he made his debut in front of a television camera in the DFF production The First Cavalry Army (1966). Numerous roles in film and television series followed, such as 1979/1980 in the title role of Levin in Horst Seemann 's Levins Mill . Another popular success at the time was Seemann's visit to van Gogh (1985).

Since 2000, Grashof has been a member of the Academy of Arts , Performing Arts section; since 2015 he has been the section's deputy director. The Deutsches Theater Berlin named him an "honorary member" on September 30, 2018. In the laudation, theater critic Hans-Dieter Schütt justified: Grashof is an actor who “has always been immune” to “the specific dangers of a cult-hungry mime aura”. (..) "Grashof's credo. He thinks in constellations. "

Christian Grashof is also a lecturer at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Filmography (selection)

theatre

Radio plays

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The fine gesture of the lower districts , Nachtkritik.de October 1, 201, accessed October 5, 2018
  2. ^ Words for Christian Grashof on the occasion of his honorary membership , Hans-Dieter Schütt on deutschestheater.de, accessed October 5, 2018
  3. ↑ Karin Lorenz: Riquet Und Mirabelle - A Fairy Tale - LP, 1984. Retrieved on August 10, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Berliner Zeitung from 2/3 October 2018, p. 19
personal data
SURNAME Grashof, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Gablonz on the Neisse , Sudetenland