Christoph Gawenda

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Christoph Gawenda (* 1979 in Neuss ) is a German actor and radio play speaker .

Life

Christoph Gawenda was born in the Rhineland . His parents are legal clerks ; Gawenda himself played football in the Lower Rhine League for several years . After graduating from high school , he initially wanted to “study something, maybe philosophy ”. During his community service , he took on two roles in a church amateur performance of Molière's comedy Tartuffe and then decided to act. 2001-2005 spectacle he studied at the Academy of Music and Drama in Hannover. In 2004 he completed a guest study at the State Theater Arts Academy in St. Petersburg . 2005 guested at the Salzburg Festival . In 2007 he received the art promotion award of the city of Neuss.

After completing his studies, he was in his first permanent engagement at the State Theater in Stuttgart from 2005 to 2010 . There he stepped u. a. in productions by Friederike Heller , Volker Lösch , Michael Thalheimer , Hasko Weber , Thomas Dannemann and Árpád Schilling . During his time in Stuttgart he played a. a. the main character, the nihilist Jewgeni Basarow, in a stage version of the Turgenev novel Fathers and Sons (director: Friederike Heller, 2006), Rosencrantz in Hamlet (director: Volker Lösch, 2009), Ferdinand in Kabale und Liebe (director: Claudia Bauer , 2009) and the student and revolutionary Pjotr ​​Sergejewitsch Trofimow in Der Kirschgarten (Director: Michael Thalheimer, 2010).

After his engagement in Stuttgart, Gawenda worked briefly as a freelance actor with engagements at the Lucerne Theater (2010) and at the Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin (2010).

He has been a permanent member of the ensemble at the Berlin Schaubühne since the 2010/11 season . His engagement there came on the recommendation of the in-house director Friederike Heller, with whom Gawenda had already worked in Stuttgart. After participating in a reading at the “FIND” festival, the director and artistic director Thomas Ostermeier signed him permanently to the Schaubühne.

Gawenda's stage roles at the Schaubühne from 2011 included the naked and “humiliated” lover Gaveston in Edward II (director: Ivo van Hove , 2011), the “threatening and at the same time pitiful” servant Nikita in Die Macht der Darkis (director: Michael Thalheimer, 2011) and the artist Braun in Einsame Menschen (Director: Friederike Heller, 2011). In Friederike Heller's Antigone production, Gawenda was Antigone at the side of Tilman Strauss as King Creon, whom he portrayed as a drag queen "with passion, charm and elegance" . In Patrick Wengenroth's production Also sprach Zarathustra (premiere: January 2012) Gawenda embodied the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche at the Berlin Schaubühne .

Other roles Gawenda at the Schaubühne were the bath doctor Dr. Stockmann in Ein Volksfeind (director: Thomas Ostermeier, 2012), the young lieutenant Anton Hofmiller in a stage version of Impatience of the Heart (director: Simon McBurney , 2015), the thief Waska Pepel in Nachtasyl (director: Michael Thalheimer, 2015) and the State Secretary Dr. Winkler in Professor Bernhardi (Director: Thomas Ostermeier, 2016).

Gawenda also works as a film actor for the cinema and television. In 2005, the television station Sat.1 honored the "SAT.1 Talents Actor Class" as "Best Male Young Actor". His film works include a. Parkour (as a police officer, director: Marc Rensing , 2009), one like Bruno (as a barman, director: Anja Jacobs , 2011), Stalingrad (as Otto, director: Fjodor Bondartschuk , 2013) and in the ensemble film At Once (director: Aslı Özge , 2016).

In the 13th season of the ZDF crime series SOKO Stuttgart (2015) he played the suspect Sven Wiese; he embodied an unsympathetic guy with racist features. In the 13th season of the ZDF television series Notruf Hafenkante (first broadcast from October 2018), he can be seen in a dramatic episode lead role as ex- Bundeswehr soldier Alex Kaminski, who is a war veteran and suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder.

Since 2007 it is also extensive, u. a. for the SWR , as a radio play speaker.

Gawenda lives in Berlin.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Christoph Gawenda at schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Christoph Gawenda . Profile and vita at CASTFORWARD. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k "Nudity is like a costume": Christoph Gawenda . Portrait. In: Zitty, January 9, 2012. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b c PHOTO ROUTE World Men's Day: The sexiest Stuttgart celebrity boys . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten of November 3, 2010. Accessed October 29, 2018.
  5. ↑ Be a pig or not . Performance review at Nachtkritik.de . Retrieved October 29, 2018.
  6. ^ Lopachins World . Performance review at Nachtkritik.de . Retrieved October 29, 2018.
  7. ↑ Some things will hurt . Performance review. In: Tagesspiegel of February 5, 2011. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
  8. ↑ Classic reinterpretation: Antigone, this publicity-loving figure! . Performance review. In: DER SPIEGEL of January 29, 2011. Accessed October 29, 2018.
  9. ↑ Silicon Sally . Plot and cast at Fernsehserien.de. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
  10. ↑ Emergency call harbor edge | Last step . Plot and cast. Official website of the ZDF . Retrieved October 29, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Gawenda, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuss , North Rhine-Westphalia