Edgar Eckert

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Edgar Eckert as a minstrel in Overwhelming at the Nibelungen Festival in Worms (2019)

Edgar Eckert (* 1982 in Toronto , Ontario Province , Canada ) is a Swiss actor .

Life

Edgar Eckert grew up in Basel . He gained his first stage experience at the “Junge Theater Basel”. He first attended the Cours Florent drama school in Paris for two years (2001–2003) . He completed his acting studies from 2006 to 2010 at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Theater in Leipzig .

From 2009 to 2013 he was permanently engaged at the Centraltheater Leipzig , where he worked with directors such as Mirko Borscht , Sascha Hawemann , Jürgen Kruse , Rainald Grebe and Sebastian Hartmann . In Martin Laberenz 's production of Dostoyevsky's Guilt and Atonement (premiere: 2012/13 season) he played one of the three Raskolnikovs there.

At the beginning of the 2013/14 season, Eckert moved to the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus for two seasons . There he played u. a. the private tutor Aleksej Iwanowitsch in Martin Laberenz's stage version Dostojewski's The Player , Titania, as “Oberon's male muse”, in A Midsummer Night's Dream (premiere: September 2014, director: Álex Rigola ) and Bruno Mechelke in Die Ratten (2014, director: Volker Lösch ). He also appeared there in productions by Alia Luque and Nurkan Erpulat .

He has been a permanent member of the ensemble at the Deutsches Theater Berlin since the 2015/16 season . Here he played u. a. Franz Biberkopf's crook buddy Reinhold in Berlin Alexanderplatz (premiere: May 2016) and the son Osvald Alving in Gespenster (premiere: February 2017, director: Sebastian Hartmann). He also played in productions by Anne Lenk , Dušan David Pařízek and Philipp Arnold at the Deutsches Theater . In the 2018/19 season he took part in the premiere of Ferdinand Schmalz 's play “Der tempelherr” in the Kammerspiele of the Deutsches Theater .

In the summer of 2019 he performed at the Nibelungen Festival Worms as nameless minstrel in the piece being overwhelmed by Thomas Melle .

Occasionally Eckert also works for television. He had episode roles in the TV series Animals up to the roof (2015, as the bon vivant Marius) and Betty's Diagnosis (2017, as a Greek and “mother's son” Jannis Xidopoulos, at the side of Adriana Altaras ).

In the television film Frau Holles Garten (2019), which is broadcast as part of the ZDF - "Herzkino.Märchen" series, Eckert, alongside Klara Deutschmann and Lavinia Wilson , as the gardener Costas Nikolaidis and best friend of the main female character Mia his first leading television role.

Edgar Eckert lives in Berlin .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Edgar Eckert at schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved December 3, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c Edgar Eckert . Profile and vita at CASTUPLOAD.com. Retrieved December 3, 2019.
  3. ^ Raskolnikov's head cinema . Performance review at Nachtkritik.de from December 20, 2012. Accessed December 3, 2019.
  4. ↑ Murder as the Incarnation . Performance review by Deutschlandfunk Kultur on December 20, 2012. Accessed December 3, 2019.
  5. ↑ The demon under the table . Performance review at Nachtkritik.de from January 11, 2014. Accessed December 3, 2019.
  6. ^ "The player" collapses at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus . Performance review by Der Westen on January 12, 2014. Accessed December 3, 2019.
  7. ↑ Great playfulness . Performance review by Deutschlandfunk Kultur on September 20, 2014. Accessed December 3, 2019.
  8. ↑ With Döblin from heaven to hell . Performance review by Deutschlandfunk Kultur on May 12, 2016. Accessed December 3, 2019.
  9. ↑ Revenge for the sins of parents . Performance review by Deutschlandfunk on February 25, 2017. Accessed December 3, 2019.
  10. ↑ The ruin builder . Performance review. In: Berliner Morgenpost of March 5, 2019. Retrieved on December 3, 2019.
  11. ^ Nibelungen Festival in Worms: Ortlieb does not want to die . Performance review. In: Frankfurter Rundschau of July 14, 2019. Retrieved on December 3, 2019.
  12. ↑ Mrs. Holle's garden . Plot and cast. Official website of the ZDF. Retrieved December 3, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Eckert, Edgar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario Province , Canada