David Kross

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David Kross at the German premiere of the film 'Boy7' on August 16, 2015 at Commerz Real Cinema in Düsseldorf.
David Kross at the Berlinale 2009

David Kross (actually: David Kroß ; born July 4, 1990 in Henstedt-Ulzburg , Schleswig-Holstein ) is a German actor .

Life

David Kross grew up in Todendorf in the Stormarn district and attended Eckhorst-Gymnasium in Bargteheide until 2007 . In his free time he played basketball at TSV Bargteheide from 2004 to 2006 . In December 2003 he had his first major acting appearance in Kirsten Martensen's production of Help, The Herdmanns, with the children's theater group Blaues Wölkchen from the Small Theater in Bargteheide . This was followed by other supporting roles in stage versions of Momo and the Feuerzangenbowle .

In 2005 Detlev Buck's daughter Bernadette made her father aware of Kross. Kross went to the casting for the film Knallhart , and Buck hired him for the lead role. The shooting took place during the summer vacation 2005. Kross played the 15-year-old student Michael Polischka , who moves with his mother Miriam ( Jenny Elvers-Elbertzhagen ) from the wealthy Berlin district of Zehlendorf to the migrant hotspot Neukölln . For this role he not only earned a lot of praise at the Berlinale 2006 , but also received (together with Constantin von Jascheroff for Falscher Bekenner ) the award for best leading actor at the Nuremberg Film Festival Turkey / Germany .

In 2006 he made a guest appearance in Detlev Buck's Hands Off Mississippi as an apprentice baker. In autumn 2006, the shooting of Marco Kreuzpaintner's Krabat began in Romania . In this film adaptation of Otfried Preussler's book for young people , Kross plays the leading role, the miller's boy Krabat ; Christian Redl , Daniel Brühl and Robert Stadlober can also be seen in other roles . The film was shot on September 19, 2007 and was released in theaters in October 2008.

In September 2007 filming began on Der Vorleser ; was rotated u. a. in Berlin , Cologne and Görlitz . In Stephen Daldry's film adaptation of Bernhard Schlink 's bestseller , Kross again played the lead role, together with Kate Winslet , Ralph Fiennes and Bruno Ganz . The world premiere took place on December 3, 2008 in New York's Ziegfeld Theater. The film ran out of competition in the Berlinale competition program in 2009 . In May 2009 he was awarded the Chopard Trophy for his performance in The Reader at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival . Months later, he was nominated for the European Film Awards for Best Actor .

His next project was to star in Detlev Buck's Same Same But Different . The script follows an autobiographical article by Benjamin Prüfer . The shooting of this love story between a German backpacker and an HIV-positive Cambodian woman took place from November 2008 to January 2009 in Cambodia as well as in Kuala Lumpur and Hamburg .

From summer 2009 Kross lived in London . There he began a three-year acting course at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) in September 2009 , which he dropped out again at the end of 2009. He has lived in Berlin-Charlottenburg since 2010 .

In Steven Spielberg's 2011 film Companions , he played the role of the German soldier Günther. In Marcus H. Rosenmüller's film Trautmann (2018) he plays the leading role of the German goalkeeper Bernd "Bert" Trautmann .

Filmography

David Kross at the gala for the presentation of the Romy TV Prize 2010 in the Hofburg in Vienna.

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Awards

  • 2006: Film Festival Turkey Germany in Nuremberg - Best Actor for Knallhart
  • 2008: Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards - Sierra Award - Youth in Film for The Reader
  • 2008: EDA Special Mention Award, Best Depiction of Nudity or Sexuality (together with Kate Winslet ) for Der Vorleser
    • 2008: Nomination for EDA Female Focus Award - Best Newcomer for Der Vorleser
    • 2008: Nomination for Chicago Film Critics Association Award - Most Promising Performer for The Reader
  • 2009: Shooting Star of the European Film Promotion
  • 2009: Trophée Chopard at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival for his performance in The Reader
  • 2009: Named in People Magazine's Top 100 "Most Beautiful People"
    • 2009: Nomination for the Broadcast Film - Critics Association Award, Best Young Actor (Under 21) in The Reader
  • 2009: Online Film & Television Association - OFTA Film Award, Best Youth Performance in Der Vorleser
    • 2009: Nomination for Online Film & Television Association - OFTA Film Award, Best Breakthrough Performance: Male in Der Vorleser
  • 2010: Jupiter Award for best German actor for Krabat
  • 2010: Austrian film and television award Romy as a shooting star
  • 2010: Askania Award
  • 2010: Audi Generation Award
  • 2018: Bavarian Film Award 2017 together with Frederick Lau for Simpel

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Nicola Pohl: The dream that began in the poetry album . BILD on Sunday, February 15, 2009.
  2. ↑ Capelight Pictures: press booklet "Into the Whiite", 2013, p. 5: "DAVID KROSS (born 1990, Bargteheide)."
  3. ↑ a b Ruth Kastner: Bargteheider conquers Berlin . Hamburger Abendblatt, February 14, 2006.
  4. ↑ a b Ruth Kastner: David's flair for nuances . Hamburger Abendblatt, March 8, 2006.
  5. ↑ abendblatt.de or abendblatt.de
  6. ↑ spiegel.de
  7. ↑ fftd.net ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fftd.net
  8. ↑ studiobabelsberg.com ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.studiobabelsberg.com
  9. ↑ cf. Report ( memento of April 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) at WDR , March 3, 2008
  10. ↑ neon.de
  11. ↑ samesame-themovie.com ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / samesame-themovie.com
  12. ↑ schleswig-holstein.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.schleswig-holstein.de  
  13. ↑ David Kross in an interview: "Lust auf Reisen" ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (December 18, 2009) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / samesame.unikosmos.de
  14. ↑ Cinema star David Kross: I'm now a Berliner , message on bild.de from March 19, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Kross, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kroß, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Henstedt-Ulzburg