Christian Sengewald

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Christian Sengewald (* 1977 in Dresden ) is a German actor .

Life

Sengewald comes from Erfurt , where he attended school and graduated from high school. His father was involved in the GDR youth warden at the church and in the peace and environmental movement. Because his parents were critical of the state , he did not have to join the young pioneers he did not want to join. As an exchange student, he went to San Diego for a year immediately after reunification , where he played theater for the first time and took part in a musical production by The Sound of Music . After his return from the United States , he went to the Children's and Youth Theater in Erfurt, where he appeared in productions by Woyzeck and Midsummer Night's Dream . He studied at the "Ernst Busch" Academy of Dramatic Arts , Puppetry Department, in Berlin . There, among other things belonged Annegret Hahn his teachers. In 2001 he got his first engagement at the Thalia Theater Halle , where Annegret Hahn had brought him. There he appeared in 2003 as Rosalinde in As You Like It and as Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet . He also played in pieces by Franz Xaver Kroetz , Philippe Minyana , Kristina Lugn , Koffi Kwahulé , Xavier Duranger and Christophe Pellet .

Subsequently, from 2004 he was a guest at the Maxim Gorki Theater (2004/05; inter alia as Lord Alfred Douglas in Oscar Wilde - Ein Rausch , director: Bruno Cathomas ) and at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz (2005; as Paul Freund in bewilderment , Directed by Falk Richter and engaged as Aeneas in Troilus and Cressida , directed by James MacDonald). In 2005 he appeared at the Burghofspiele Eltville as Shakespeare's Hamlet . After a few years in which Sengewald had mainly turned to the cinema, further theater engagements followed at the Theater am Potsdamer Platz in Berlin (from 2011; as Elmar, the brother of the girl from East Berlin, in the world premiere and the follow-up performances of Udo Lindenberg - Musicals Hinterm Horizont ), at the St. Pauli Theater in Hamburg (2012; as Biff in Death of a Salesman with Burghart Klaußner as Willy Loman) and at the Theater Neubrandenburg / Neustrelitz (2013).

In April 2016 he appeared as Biff Loman in Death of a Salesman at the Stadttheater Fürth

He has been an actor at the Halle Puppet Theater since 2014. Since 2010 Sengewald has also been the voice of Pittiplatsch in the puppet theater games about Pittiplatsch and Schnatterinchen , with which he appears in Cottbus and at numerous guest performances.

From 2004 Sengewald also worked for cinema and television. In the French film Die Zeit der ist (2005) by director François Ozon , he played Sasha, the friend and lover of the successful homosexual fashion photographer Romain , who had cancer . He had a supporting role in the Russian-German anti-war film Halbdunkel - Straflager 23 (2006); he embodied the young German prisoner of war Peter. In the German comedy No Bund für's Leben (2007) he played the "wimp" Justus von Bülow, a spoiled son from a wealthy family. In the film comedy Robert Zimmermann Wonders about Love (2008) by Leander Haußmann , he was Ole, the best friend of the main male character. In the historical thriller Anonymus (2011) by director Roland Emmerich , he had a small role as a servant and spy listening behind a curtain.

In the television film adaptation of Der Turm (2012), he played the role of the young surgeon Thomas Wernstein. Im Tatort: ​​Maybe (first broadcast: November 2014) he took on the supporting role of Malte Steiner. In October 2015 Sengewald was in the television film Das Dorf der Mörder (2015), starring Anna Loos , in a major supporting role; he played the zookeeper Marten Wahl.

In the film Jesus Cries with Sabin Tambrea in the leading role as Jesus of Nazareth, a retelling of the biblical story in modern images, which premiered in April 2016, Sengewald plays the role of the Jewish high priest Caiaphas, directed by Brigitte Maria Mayer .

Sengewald has a daughter and lives in Leipzig.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Sengewald profile and vita at Schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved May 5, 2016.
  2. ^ A b Christian Sengewald profile at CAST FORWARD . Retrieved May 5, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b c d Christian Sengewald Official website of Bühnen Halle. Retrieved May 5, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b c d e Christian Sengewald: Premature baby measures a proud 1.80 meters ; Portrait of Christian Sengewald; in: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of February 7, 2002. Accessed May 5, 2016.
  5. ↑ a b c d e Erfurt actor is on stage in the Lindenberg musical ; Interview with Christian Sengewald; in: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of February 7, 2002. Accessed May 5, 2016.
  6. ↑ Burghofspiele: Danish Prince on New Feet, performance review; in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from July 18, 2005. Retrieved May 5, 2016.
  7. ↑ Big father, little son: Burghart Klaußner as Willy and Christian Sengewald as Biff in the direction of Wilfried Minks in the Hamburg salesman photo; in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . Retrieved May 5, 2016.
  8. ↑ Death of a traveling salesman plot / cast / production details. Retrieved May 5, 2016.
  9. ↑ On the Hunt for Big Money, performance review; in: Fürther Nachrichten of April 18, 2016. Retrieved on May 5, 2016.
  10. ↑ a b Faces of the Puppet Theater - Short Portraits No. 3: Christian Sengewald, Puppeteer ; Vita. Retrieved May 5, 2016.
  11. ↑ Between Woyzeck and Schnatterinchen ; Portrait of Christian Sengewald; in: Lausitzer Rundschau from May 28, 2010. Accessed May 5, 2016.
  12. ↑ No bond for life plot / cast / production details. Kino.de . Retrieved May 5, 2016.
  13. ↑ No bond for life plot / cast / production details. Official website of Constantin Film. Retrieved May 5, 2016.
  14. ↑ Film adaptation of Uwe Tellkamp's “The Tower”: We weren't a people TV review; in: Tagesspiegel of October 2, 2012. Retrieved on May 5, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Sengewald, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden