Christian Rudolf

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Christian Rudolf, 2017

Christian Rudolf (born March 9, 1965 in Rathenow ) is a German actor , presenter , singer and voice actor .

Theater and singing

Singing performance, 2017

Christian Rudolf grew up in Premnitz near Rathenow. In 1981 , when he was 10th grade, he and school friends founded the band Utopia , where he was the front man and singer. The amateur band had an official license to play and toured the former GDR in a Robur LO 2000 bus in the early 1980s . From 1986 to 1990 Rudolf studied singing and acting at the "Hanns Eisler" Academy of Music in Berlin . For his leading role in the musical Nerf - The Colossal Plot , Rudolf received first prize from IG Medien at the 1997 German Musical Congress .

As a singer of various bands, Rudolf has been on stage since 1981 and has performed around 1500 to date (2017). In 2001 he appeared together with Helmut Lotti in the ARD show Ein Platz an der Sonne . In addition, Rudolf acted as Falco in his eponymous show.

Christian Rudolf is a fan of the Ton Steine ​​Scherben singer Rio Reiser, who died in 1996 . Rudolf tours Germany with his Hamburg band Komitee für Unterhaltungskunst, founded in 2003, and interprets Reiser's songs, including a performance on the 20th  anniversary of his death in 2016 in Hamburg.

watch TV

Rudolf is known to the German television audience through a large number of guest roles in television series such as Die Rettungsflieger , Doppelter Einsatz , Der Bulle von Tölz , Die Cleveren , Polizeiruf 110 , SK Kölsch and Großstadtrevier . He also played supporting and guest roles in many German soap operas such as Gute Zeiten, Bad Zeiten , Verbotene Liebe , Unter uns and So ist das Leben! The Wagenfelds . He played leading roles in the series Marienhof in 2002 and in Storm of Love from 2005 to 2006; in both series an ambivalent role. From 2008 to 2011 Christian Rudolf played the role of "Jimi Stadler" in Lindenstrasse , a craftsman and honest family man. In 2017 and 2018, Rudolf played as one of the main characters of the 14th season of the telenovela Rote Rosen, the archaeologist striving for scientific fame “Dr. Arne Fries ”, who, according to the film plot, wanted to prove that the Varus Battle at Höhbeck on the Elbe took place.

Moderation

Christian Rudolf, moderation

In addition, he acts as a moderator of major events (including at the Ecumenical Church Congress 2003 in Berlin and on the cruise ship AIDA ) and designed warm-ups for various television programs; among others for ran - Sat.1 Bundesliga and the Champions League for TM3 .

He presented at the Travel Channel Airport Festival and the Hein Gas Summer Festival in Hamburg, as well as for Vaillant at the ISH trade fair ; the Gerry Weber Open and the children's television show Im Reich der Wild Kinder on TV Munich . In MDR he played in a sketch of the Heinz Rennack show . He also moderated and sang in the MDR New Year's Eve show in 2001, where he appeared in various skits. Rudolf also worked on the radio as a presenter and editor at Jazz Welle plus Hamburg .

speaker

As a voice actor he lends his voice to Robert Downey jr. in the DVD version of Natural Born Killers , Brad Dourif in Chucky II , Matt Letscher in the television series Almost Perfect , Deezer D in the series Emergency Room and J. August Richards as Charles Gunn in the mystery series Angel of darkness . His best-known dubbing work also includes the anime cartoon series The Great Football Stars , in which he lends his voice to the main character Tsubasa Ohzora .

In addition, Rudolf also works as a speaker in commercials and was heard in a large number of radio spots, he also worked for TV spots . Christian Rudolf often works as an off-speaker . In the radio comedy section , Rudolf could be heard in “Goethe & Schiller”. This project was produced on CD . Rudolf also played the role of the farmer "Cord Husemann" as a walkact , whose character was created for the PR campaign "Alternating Current" of an energy supply company to attract customers. For example, he can be heard as a spokesperson for documentary programs on the TV station Arte and discussed the audio book Rise and Fall of the USA Brand

family

Christian Rudolf is the father of two children. He has lived in Hamburg since 1989. His younger brother is the actor Stefan Rudolf .

Filmography (selection)

Synchronized work (selection)

Web links

Commons : Christian Rudolf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ René Wernitz: Guitarist Frank Basner on the beginnings of the Premnitzer Band in: Märkische Oderzeitung from June 28, 2011
  2. ^ Biography of the band Tor 11
  3. ↑ a b Simone Weber: 35 Years of Utopia in Märkische Oderzeitung from September 7, 2016
  4. ↑ biography at myFanbase
  5. ↑ for the band name see: Committee for entertainment art
  6. ^ Rio Reiser's legitimate heirs in Eckernförder Zeitung of August 8, 2017
  7. ↑ "Rio Reiser is up to date to this day" at ndr.de from August 16, 2016
  8. ↑ Description of the role of Jimi Stadler
  9. ↑ Christian Rudolf as Arne Fries ( memento from July 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) at ard.de on Rote Rosen
personal data
SURNAME Rudolf, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, presenter, singer and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Rathenow , Brandenburg