Eduard Burza

Eduard Burza (* 1967 in Homel , Belarus ) is a Belarusian-German actor , voice actor and battle choreographer .

Life

Eduard Burza was born in Belarus and grew up in Leipzig. He completed his training as an actor from 1988 to 1992 at the Babelsberg Film University , since then he has made guest appearances at many stages, including the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam , the Leipzig Opera House , the Comedy Düsseldorf , the Altmark Theater in Stendal, the Berlin Criminal Theater , the Theater Koblenz and the comedy on Kurfürstendamm . Burza played including the Aston in caretaker of Harold Pinter , Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and the title role in The Soldier's Tale by Igor Stravinsky , and also he was in pieces like the Threepenny Opera ( Brecht / Weill ), Macbeth (Shakespeare) , Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story or The Olsen gang Goes by Peter Dehler seen.

In 1988 Burza made his debut in the DEFA feature film Mensch, mein Papa ...! in front of the camera, since then he has repeatedly worked in film and television productions. In 1996 he starred in the Police Call 110 episode The Horse Murderer , the first case of the commissioner duo Schmücke and Schneider . Occasionally Burza also works as a voice actor. He lent his voice to, among others, Jonathan Aris , Kevin Durand in the US series The Strain and Stojan Aleksiew in the French television film She knew too much .

Another field of activity of Burza since 1997 has been combat choreography. As a choreographer, he is and was responsible for sword, rapier and stick fights and all kinds of brawls both in film and at various theaters . In 2000, Burza founded the AEK, the center for Filipino stick and sword fighting in Potsdam, which he has directed ever since. In 2008 he took on a teaching position at the Film University Babelsberg for the subject “Combat Techniques-Acrobatics-Stunt”. In the 1990s, Burza was repeatedly German and international champion in stick fighting in the so-called "full contact". In this discipline he took 3rd place at the World Championships in Cebu City in 2000 .

After finishing school, Burza wandered through the taiga for several weeks in 1988. In addition to German as his mother tongue, he speaks fluent Russian and English. He is in possession of the CE driving license (truck trailer) and lives in Berlin.