Christoph Quest

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Christoph Quest (born October 8, 1940 in Berlin ; † January 18, 2020 there ) was a German actor , director and writer .

Life

Education and early theater positions

The son of the actor and director Hans Quest and the actress Charlotte Witthauer grew up in Munich , where he received his artistic training at the Otto Falckenberg School . His first theater engagement brought him to Freiburg . Commitments followed, which initially led him to Kiel and Wuppertal . In Berlin, viewers saw him at the Schillertheater and the Freie Volksbühne , in Hamburg Quest performed at the Thalia Theater and the Schauspielhaus . Engagements at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf and the Schauspielhaus Zurich followed . Among his most important theater roles were the Prospero in William Shakespeare's The Tempest , the Helmer in Henrik Ibsen's Nora , the Consul Bernick in pillars of the company of the same author, and the title roles in Othello , Nathan the Wise and Faust . His directors included Peter Zadek , George Tabori , Jürgen Flimm and Hans Hollmann .

Opera engagements

Since 1999 Christoph Quest has also appeared at the opera and directed there. He celebrated an early success with Bassa Selim in Mozart's three-act singspiel Die Entführung aus dem Serail . He took up this role again for two TV versions (2000 and 2011). In the 2000s, he staged several times at the Frankfurt Opera , such as Udo Zimmermann's White Rose in March 2007 . Opera guest appearances have taken Quest to La Monnaie in Brussels , to the Geneva Opera House , to Covent Garden in London , to the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and to the Atlanta Opera . A domestic engagement brought Quest to the State Opera Unter den Linden in Berlin.

Film and television work

Since his debut with the little part of the officer von Gebsattel in the man filming Wälsungenblut (1964), Quest has also been in front of the camera regularly. The following year he appeared for the first time with his father Hans: in Peter Schulze-Rohr's NDR production Über Deutschland . Since then, Christoph Quest has played in an abundance of individual productions, especially for television, and later, now bald, also repeatedly as guest appearances in series. In the SK Kölsch series he was the detective chief Heinrich Haupt. In addition to countless supporting roles, he also played one of his few main roles in front of the camera in 1989 with Jesus in It would be good that a man would be killed for the people .

further activities

Christoph Quest has also participated in numerous radio programs from an early age. In the early 1970s, he also dubbed films several times.

As a writer, he published the volume of poetry Das Morgentor in 1995 , the volume of stories Menschenkinder in 2009 and the volume of poetry Ein Glockenton and the play Wie ein Hauch in 2012 .

Private

From his marriage to the painter Doris Quest, Christoph Quest had two sons. Since 2009 he has lived with his family in a house in Wilhelmshorst designed according to his designs . He also had two sons from his previous marriage to Frauke Quest.

Quest died on January 18, 2020 at the age of 79, two weeks after his wife Doris, in the Berlin Charité from the consequences of a heart condition. The couple are to be buried together on January 24, 2020.

Filmography

as an actor on television, unless otherwise stated

  • 1964: Wälsungenblut (cinema)
  • 1965: no man's land
  • 1965: Your own four walls
  • 1965: About Germany
  • 1969: Goya
  • 1970: Tartuffe or The Deceiver
  • 1970: The visit
  • 1972: Flint
  • 1972: the piano
  • 1974: Hamburg Transit (one episode)
  • 1974: A perfect couple
  • 1975: Polly or Die Bataille on Bluewater Creek
  • 1975–1978: PS (several episodes)
  • 1978: Union of the firm hand
  • 1978: The miracle of education
  • 1978: Stories from the Future (TV series)
  • 1979: 1 + 1 = 3 (cinema)
  • 1980: Sunday children (cinema)
  • 1982: Faithful to the mother
  • 1983: The Oppermann siblings
  • 1983/1984: Mate in 13 moves (series)
  • 1985: Lindhoop's wife
  • 1986: Hike through the Mark Brandenburg
  • 1986: Fathers and Sons (multi-part)
  • 1988: Gamer Stories (multiple episodes)
  • 1988: Tatort - Haunted Ice Age
  • 1989: The State Chancellery
  • 1991: It would be good that a person were killed for the people
  • 1993: City Clinic (several episodes)

Radio plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ TV actor Christoph Quest dies , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on January 21, 2020.
  2. ↑ Quest, Christoph. In: synchronous database. Retrieved January 20, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Well-known TV actor dies two weeks after his wife. In: New Osnabrück Newspaper . January 20, 2020, accessed January 31, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Actor Christoph Quest dies two weeks after his wife Doris. In: LZ . January 19, 2020, accessed January 31, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Quest, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 2020
Place of death Berlin