Christoph Franken

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Christoph Franken (born March 3, 1978 in Cologne ) is a German actor .

life and work

Franken studied at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich from 2001 to 2005 and already played before and during his training at the Münchner Kammerspiele , the Munich Volkstheater , the Teatro Sesc in Rio de Janeiro and the State Theater Stuttgart . In 2005 he studied at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy in Ludwigsburg. After completing his studies, he was committed to the Hanover Theater , of which he remained a member of the ensemble until 2009. In Hanover he played Chekhov and Shakespeare directed by Jürgen Gosch , Sophokles and Lessing in productions by Wilfried Minks and Schiller and Wedekind directed by Nuran David Calis . He also worked with the directors Sebastian Baumgarten ( Richard III. ), Christoph Frick ( Die Räuber ), Tilmann Köhler and Sebastian Nübling . Two Hanoverian productions in which Franken was involved were invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen : in 2006 Chekhov's Three Sisters , staged by Gosch, and in 2008 Stephen's Pornography , staged by Nübling.

In the summer of 2009, Franken made his debut at the Salzburg Festival - as Semjon Semjonowitsch Medvedenko in Jürgen Gosch's highly acclaimed production of Chekhov's Seagull . This co-production by the Deutsches Theater Berlin and the Volksbühne at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin was also invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen 2009.

Since the 2009/10 season, Franken has belonged to the ensemble of the Deutsches Theater Berlin and played there, among others, in Büchner's Woyzeck (director: Jorinde Dröse ), in Nur Nachts von Sibylle Berg (director: Rafael Sanchez ) and in Criminal from a lost honor after Schiller ( Directed by Simon Stolberg , 2012). Franken was seen in several productions by Stephan Kimmig : in Chekhov's Kirschgarten , Gorkis Wassa Schelesnowa , in Worries and Power after Peter Hacks and in Tabula rasa: Group dance and class struggle after Carl Sternheim . He took on the title role in Stefan Pucher's production of Brechts Baal .

In 2013 he appeared again at the Salzburg Festival as Charles the Seventh, King of France, in Schiller's Jungfrau von Orleans , staged by Michael Thalheimer . It was again a co-production with the Deutsches Theater Berlin. In 2015 and 2016 he took on the role of the devil in Hofmannsthal's Jedermann in the Salzburg Festival production on Domplatz, staged by Brian Mertes and Julian Crouch , and in 2018 that of Mammon.

In addition to his stage appearances, Franken is also regularly in front of the camera. In the cinema she has appeared in films by Sven Taddicken , Hendrik Hölzemann , Kanwal Sethi , Bill Condon and Sigrid Hoerner , on television in series such as Tatort and SOKO Cologne , as well as in TV films such as Brennendes Herz (directed by Manfred Stelzer , 2006 ), or in literary adaptations, such as I am the other ( Margarethe von Trotta , 2006). In the Woyzeck film adaptation by Nuran David Calis (2013), he took on the role of Andres.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ orf.at - Buhlschaft ends again . Article dated August 30, 2016, accessed August 30, 2016.
  2. ↑ Program page of the Salzburg Festival: Jedermann 2018 , accessed on July 24, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Franconia, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stage, film and television actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne