David Simon (actor)

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David Simon (* 1986 in Flensburg ) is a German actor .

Life

David Simon grew up in Silberstedt in Schleswig-Holstein . He came to the theater at the age of six or seven when the Schleswig-Holstein State Theater was looking for children as extras. He made his first appearance in the theater in The Golden Fleece . Later he was a member of the theater youth club of the Schleswig-Holstein State Theater under the direction of Ilona Januschewski. In his youth he played handball and soccer ; in the district league north-east (NO) he was part of the team of FC Ellingstedt-Silberstedt, with whom he won the 2002 district cup.

From 2006 to 2010 he completed his acting studies at the University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" in Leipzig . From 2008 to 2010 he was a member of the studio of the Centraltheater Leipzig under the direction of Sebastian Hartmann .

In 2011 he played the young journalist Jacob Neuhaus in the play Casanova (director: Martina Eitner-Acheampong ) in a production of the Centraltheater Leipzig at the Gohliser Schlösschen . From 2010 to 2015 he had a permanent guest contract at the Schauspiel Essen . There he played u. a. the secretary Wurm in Kabale und Liebe (2012, director: Martina Eitner-Acheampong) and the king's son Malcolm in Macbeth (2013, director: Wolfgang Engel ).

He had other theater engagements at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg (2012), at the Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin (2015) and at the Lichthof Theater (2016). At the Hamburger Lichthof Theater he worked together with Christoph Jöde , Amadeus Köhli and Jannik Nowak in the production Das Totenschiff , which received the Hamburg Theater Prize in the category “Outstanding staging / performance” .

In the 2016/17 season he made guest appearances at the Braunschweig State Theater . In 2018 he appeared as a guest at Theater Oberhausen in the comedy Pension Schöller .

David Simon has also worked in a number of film and TV productions. In the ARD thriller Die vermisste Frau (2016) with Corinna Harfouch and Jörg Hartmann in the leading roles, he played the detective assistant in several scenes. In the television film Fischer sucht Frau , which premiered at the Hamburg Film Festival in autumn 2018 and was first broadcast on Das Erste in October 2019 , Simon took on one of the leading roles as Fischer Ole alongside Sebastian Fräsdorf and Uwe Rohde . In November 2018, Simon was seen in the ZDF crime series SOKO Wismar in an episode role as the falconer Lukas Draheim.

David Simon also works as a promotional actor, including a. for Tchibo . In addition, as a “man in a green suit” he was the face of the advertising campaign for Freenet TV and the aerial television DVB-T2 HD , which began broadcasting in 2017. He lives in Berlin.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c David Simon at schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved November 1, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b David Simon . Vita and profile at CASTFORWARD. Retrieved November 7, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i FREENET TV: The green man from Silberstedt . Portrait. In: Schleswiger Nachrichten of April 3, 2017. Accessed November 7, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b David Simon . Vita. Official website of Theater Oberhausen . Retrieved November 7, 2018.
  5. ↑ It was nice . Performance review from July 4, 2011. In: LeipzigAlmanach. The online feature section . Retrieved November 7, 2018.
  6. ↑ THE DEATH SHIP . Production details, cast and photos of the scene. Official website of the Lichthof Theater . Retrieved November 7, 2018.
  7. ^ BRAUNSCHWEIG: Treasure of Silberstedt. David Simon is new to the State Theater . In: Braunschweiger Zeitung of September 21, 2016. Accessed November 7, 2018.
  8. ↑ Pension Schöller . Production details, cast and photos of the scene. Official website of Theater Oberhausen . Retrieved November 7, 2018.
  9. ↑ FISCHER IS LOOKING FOR WIFE . Production details, cast and photos of the scene. Official website of the Hamburg Film Festival . Retrieved November 7, 2018.
  10. ↑ Fischer is looking for a wife . Plot and cast. Official website Das Erste . Retrieved October 5, 2019.
  11. ↑ Lord of the Skies . Plot and cast. Official ZDF website . Retrieved November 7, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Simon, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg