Christian Hockenbrink

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Christian Hockenbrink (* 1975 in Wickede , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German actor and theater director .

Life

Education and theater

Christian Hockenbrink grew up in Essen . From 1995 to 1998 he studied acting at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich .

He had various first theater engagements, a. a. at the Schauspielhaus Zürich (1998, as Stani in Der Schwierige ) and at the Schauspiel Frankfurt (2000/01 season, there, among others, as the title hero in Don Karlos , as Edmund in König Lear and as a singing teacher Alfred in the Strauss operetta Die Fledermaus in a version for Actor). From 2003 to 2006 he was a permanent member of the ensemble of the Nationaltheater Mannheim , where he played major roles in the classical field: Robespierre in Dantons Tod (2004), the title role in Torquato Tasso (2004), Herzog Alba in Egmont (2005), Matti in Mr. Puntila and his servant Matti (2005) and Melchthal in Wilhelm Tell (2006).

From 2011 to 2014 he played the student Trofimow in Der Kirschgarten (director: Thomas Langhoff ) at the Berliner Ensemble . He has been a guest at the Schauspiel Köln since 2013 .

Hockenbrink is also active on stage as a theater director. As a director he staged classic and modern plays (Brecht, Beckett, Hans Henny Jahnn and others), including premieres and world premieres, among others. a. at the Nationaltheater Mannheim, at the Staatstheater Oldenburg (2007), at the Landesbühne Wilhelmshaven (2007, 2009 and 2012), at the Staatstheater Karlsruhe (2007), at the Staatstheater Stuttgart (2007, 2009 and 2012), at the Theater Augsburg (2008), at the Schauspielhaus Bochum (2009), at the Theater Aachen (2010), at the Schauspiel Essen (2010, Kleist's drama The Prince of Homburg ) and at the Schauspiel Frankfurt.

Movie and TV

Hockenbrink works regularly in film and television productions. In the cinema he made his debut in a supporting role as Christian August Vulpius , the brother of the later Goethe wife Christiane Vulpius , in Egon Günther's film biography The Bride (1999). Since 2014 he can be seen regularly on television, where he has appeared in several television films and numerous television series, among others. a. also in continuous series roles.

In the television film The Dream of Olympia (first broadcast: July 2016), which portrays the fate of the Jewish high jumper Gretel Bergmann , he played Carl Diem , the general secretary of the Organizing Committee of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin . Im Polizeiruf 110: Im Schatten (first broadcast: October 2016) he had a supporting role as the corrupt customs officer Erik Lorch.

In the WDR television series Meuchelbeck he has played the local real estate agent Oliver in the fictional town of Meuchelbeck on the Lower Rhine since 2015. In the sixth season of the ZDF series The boss took over at the side of: (April 2016 Episode 25, Episode) Katharina Boehm , the continuous series role of the investigating prosecutor Dr. Sebastian Hartmann. He has or had continuous series roles in the ARD series Rentnercops (since 2015, as a lawyer and son-in-law Hanno), in the sketch comedy series Rabenmütter (2016-2017) and in the Sat1 series Einstein (2017, as Dr. . Rössler, the doctor of the two main characters Felix and Leon).

He took on leading and supporting roles in the episodes. a. in the TV series Mord mit Aussicht (2014, as a former baker and suspect hotel waiter Heinz Lindenhofen), SOKO Cologne (2015, as caretaker Mark Dettmer), guilt according to Ferdinand von Schirach (2015, as forensic doctor Dr. Meier), emergency call Hafenkante (2016 , as headhunter Lukas Gremme), Heldt (2016, as exterminator Jens Seiffert), Frau Temme sucht das Glück (2017, as real estate agent and groom Peter Wiegand, at the side of Theresa Scholze and Susanne Häusler ) and Betty's Diagnose (2017, as Wolfgang Owner, the husband of a patient).

In October 2017, Hockenbrink was again seen in an episode role in the ZDF crime series SOKO Cologne , this time as suspect management consultant Dr. Helmut Kirsch. In the crime scene: Böser Boden (first broadcast: November 2017) by the investigative team Falke and Grosz , he played Henry Fohlen, an expert from the State Office for Mining in Hanover . In the ARD television series Der Zürich-Krimi , Hockenbrink was seen in a supporting role in the television film Borchert and die last Hoffnung (first broadcast: February 2018); he played Dr. Bernd Kübler, the research manager of a criminal Swiss pharmaceutical company. Hockenbrink had another episode role in the ZDF series SOKO Wismar (first broadcast in March 2018), as the mail carrier Jochen Schubert, who becomes her husband's murderer out of excessive love for a former schoolmate.

In the movie Mackie Messer - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018) he played Ernst Josef Aufricht , the director of the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm , under whose direction Brecht / Weill's Die Dreigroschenoper premiered. In the 8th season of the ARD family series Familie Dr. Kleist (2018) he had a leading role in the episode as the seriously ill family man Gerd Böhmer, who comes to the hospital with acute danger to his life.

Private

Hockenbrink is a member of the German Academy for Television . He lives in Cologne .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Christian Hockenbrink at schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved October 24, 2017
  2. ↑ a b c Christian Hockenbrink . Vita and role directory at CAST FORWARD. Retrieved October 24, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c d Christian Hockenbrink . Vita. Official website of Schauspiel Köln . Retrieved October 24, 2017.
  4. ↑ The dream of Olympia . rbb-online.de of February 28, 2017. Accessed October 24, 2017.
  5. ↑ TV SERIES “MEUCHELBECK”: Will you get the corpse out of the cellar or me? . TV review. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of August 24, 2015. Accessed October 24, 2017.
  6. ↑ New cases and new colleagues for "Die Chefin": Eight episodes of the ZDF crime series with Katharina Böhm . ZDF press portal from April 12, 2016. Accessed October 24, 2017.
  7. ↑ Farewell . Plot and cast. Official website Das Erste . Retrieved October 30, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Hockenbrink, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Wickede , North Rhine-Westphalia