Dominique Horwitz

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Dominique Horwitz at the Berlinale 2010

Dominique Horwitz (born April 23, 1957 in Paris ) is a French actor , singer and writer living in Germany .

Life

Dominique Horwitz first grew up with his sister and brother in Paris, where their parents ran a deli . His parents are German Jews who fled to France from Nazism. In 1971 the family came back to Germany for professional reasons. He graduated from the French high school in West Berlin and received his first television role in 1977 in Eine Jugendliebe ; the first film role followed a year later in Peter Lilienthal's David . From 1978 to 1979 Horwitz played cabaret in the Berlin “CaDeWe”. Theater engagements followed: From 1979 to 1983 at the Zimmertheater Tübingen , then until 1985 at the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel inMunich and from 1985 to 1988 at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg . Horwitz became known to a wider audience through his roles in Dieter Wedel's Der große Bellheim (TV) and Joseph Vilsmaier's Stalingrad (movie).

As a singer he made his name with his Brecht / Weill program The Best of The Threepenny Opera (premiered in 1993 at the Hamburg Chamber of games) and his interpretation of songs by Jacques Brel (the fall of 1997, 2005 and in subsequent years with the NDR Pops Orchestra under Enrique Ugarte ).

In addition to numerous film roles, Horwitz later played regularly at the theater: at the Berliner Ensemble , the Deutsches Theater in Berlin and the Schauspielhaus Zurich . In 2001 he played in the world premiere of Café Umberto by Moritz Rinke at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus . At the Bad Hersfeld Festival in June 2006, he directed and staged the Threepenny Opera on stage for the first time.

In December 2007 he took on the leading role in Neil LaBute's How It Works in Vienna at the Theater in der Josefstadt . After the German premiere at the Berlin Renaissance Theater in March 2008, Horwitz played the one-person play I do what I want by Doug Wright about the true life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf at the Hamburger Kammerspiele . In 2010 Horwitz directed Der Midsummer Night's Dream at the Meininger Theater . In 2017 he played the leading role in the three-person play Death of a Comedian by Owen McCafferty at the Kosmos Theater Bregenz. He and his child Heinrich Horwitz were responsible for the direction .

In 2015 Horwitz's first crime novel Tod in Weimar was published , in which a coachman and tour guide investigates mysterious deaths in an old people's home for stage artists. According to Elmar Krekeler, the author steers the novel, peppered with quotes from the classics, "with elegance and stubbornness through the labyrinthine fall".

Horwitz is a member of the Federal Drama Association (BFFS) .

He lived in Hamburg for about 20 years . From his first marriage (since 1982) with his wife Patricia, he has two children, Heinrich Horwitz and Laszlo Horwitz. While shooting the film Duds , he met his second wife. Today he lives with her and two other children near Weimar in Thuringia.

Horwitz is committed to helping girls affected by Rett Syndrome .

Dominique Horwitz 2015

Literary works

Quotes

"I have never been stressed about being Jewish and never stressed that my ears stick out."

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Awards

Web links

Commons : Dominique Horwitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ceryx.de ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2012 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.ceryx.de
  2. ↑ dominique-horwitz.de Vita ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2015 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.dominique-horwitz.de
  3. ↑ "We judge far too quickly" ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2008 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. Interview about his role as a transvestite Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, Hamburger Morgenpost, March 10, 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mopo.de
  4. ↑ Elmar Krekeler: Dominique Horwitz murders himself through Weimar . In: Die Welt from August 26, 2015.
  5. ^ BFFS: List of Members , Bundesverband Schauspiel, bffs.de, accessed on December 14, 2015
  6. ↑ Vita on his official website ( Memento of the original from December 29, 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.dominique-horwitz.de
  7. ^ Metropole, Vattenfall Magazin for Hamburg 4/2011
  8. ^ The Jewish calendar five thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight (2007–2008) , Ölbaum Verlag, Augsburg, April 21, 2008/16 Nissan 5768
personal data
SURNAME Horwitz, Dominique
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris