David Steffen

David Steffen (* 1966 ) is a German actor .

Life

From 1988 to 1992, Steffen trained as an actor at the State Drama School in Stuttgart . There he studied together with Jasmin Tabatabai, among others .

Steffen has appeared as an actor in feature films , television films and television series since the mid-1990s . In the cinema he was often used in literary adaptations and productions with a contemporary background. In the Austrian film Internationale Zone (1994), based on the novel of the same name by Milo Dor , he played the leading role of the former partisan Paul , who met his old friend Sascha again in post-war Vienna and discovered that he was involved in black market deals; a character that bears the features of the writer Paul Celan , with whom Dor was friends. In 1999 he took on the role of David in the film Der Vulkan , a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Klaus Mann , an artist friend of the chansonette Marion (played by Nina Hoss ).

On television, Steffen often starred in crime series , but also regularly in sophisticated television films and productions. In 1993 he played, together with Tabatabai, in the television film Then just with violence by Rainer Kaufmann , where he took on the role of Hassan . In the multi-part television series Die Manns - A Century Novel (2001) he portrayed the painter Ricki Hallgarten , who was friends with Klaus Mann and Erika Mann . In the multi-part Rosa Roth crime novel The day will come , he was involved as Omar Kurum in the criminal machinations of a Muslim terrorist group . In 2008 he was seen, together with Veronica Ferres , in the multi-part television film Die Patin - No way back as the BKA's straw man .

Steffen also took part in numerous television series. He took on several continuous and recurring series roles, leading episode roles and guest roles. Due to his appearance - Steffen is of Palestinian origin - he was often cast for characters with an exotic background or for characters from the Arab world or the Middle East . He had continuous series roles as the attractive, homosexual bar owner Gabriel Weyer in the RTL entertainment series Guten Morgen, Mallorca and as Moshe Rosenkranz , the lover of the female series lead role Lolle , in the ARD series Berlin, Berlin .

Steffen also had numerous episode roles in various television series, including Dr. Sommerfeld - News from Bülowbogen (as a homosexual business owner Tom , who fights for the love of his friend), Coast Guard , SOKO 5113 (as a dubious antique dealer Paul Rudek ), SOKO Kitzbühel or as a lawyer Simon Werle in Hinter Gittern - Der Frauenknast .

Steffen was the singer in Tabatabai's debut album Only Love in 2002 in the duet It all comes back to you . He also performed with Tabatabai at live concerts in Berlin .

Since 1999 he has been a guest lecturer at the Ludwigsburg Film Academy .