Frank Dukowski

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Frank Dukowski (birth and stage name, today after marriage: Frank Schäfer ; born August 20, 1967 in Wuppertal ) is a German actor and author .

Frank Dukowski

Life

Frank Dukowski is the youngest of five children. His father was a skilled forest worker, later a machinist, his mother trained as an umbrella seamstress and later a worker in a fireworks factory. He grew up in Remscheid , where he attended secondary school and the Gertrud-Bäumer-Gymnasium. After graduating from high school, he refused to work with the weapon and did his community service in a mental hospital. At the same time, Frank Dukowski began studying theater, film and television at the Ruhr University in Bochum . He was a co-founder of the comedy group “Hootons Wilde Komödianten”, became a member of the ambitious Remscheid ensemble and the theater and art collective “Bread and Games”, whose provocative short films have won multiple awards. His first directorial work "Kain" by Friedrich Koffka was also created at this time, he was invited to a smaller tour through New England (USA). Dukowski received acting lessons at the Remscheid Art School under Charles Wesseler, at the Ruhr University Bochum and at the Bigger Light School For Actors (Monterey, Mass./USA). His first theater engagements at the Schauspiel Bonn, among others at the side of ChrisTine Urspruch , and his first television appearances prompted him to drop out of his studies and devote himself entirely to acting. Frank Dukowski has lived in Berlin since 2001 (with interruptions), is married for the second time and has a son (* 2011).

Professional background

Frank Dukowski's theater career is shaped by extreme experiences: he appeared on stage around three hundred times as Max Drögel in the play "Wilder Panther Keks" for the DaS Theater ( Cologne ) in front of a young audience. On the other hand, he played with the “Freuynde & Gaesdte” ensemble in extremely unusual places, for example in a historical dungeon, in a tree or in a large water basin in the middle of a church. Dukowski's theater roles include the embittered "Captain Ahab" in a Melville adaptation, Franz and Karl Moor (in a double role) in " The Robbers " by Friedrich Schiller , the historical magician Alexander Heimbürger , a somewhat dumb Mina Harker in Bram Stoker's " Dracula " and an all the smarter Dr. Watson in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's " The Hound of Baskerville ". In 2014 he staged and played William Shakespeare's “ Hamlet ” in a bouncy castle for the Comédie Soleil theater . In spring 2018, Dukowski will also play Winston Smith in George Orwell 's 1984 at Comédie Soleil in a production by Julian Tyrasa .

Frank Dukowski was seen on television in comedy productions with Bastian Pastewka , Markus Maria Profitlich and Kaya Yanar , but also in “Die Wache”, “Balko” and “Tatort” (Cologne) and in the role of Jens Fricke the page of Janine Kunze in "Naughty like Janine". In the cinema he was seen alongside Franka Potente , Benno Fürmann and Joachim Król in “The Warrior and the Empress” (2000), but also in leading roles such as in the ensemble comedy “Harts 5” (2013). Since 2010 Frank Dukowski and the Pindakaas Saxophone Quartet have brought the musical-literary program “Ballads of Good Life” with music by Kurt Weill and Astor Piazzolla as well as texts by Mann, Kafka, Tucholsky, Kästner and others on stage.

Frank Dukowski is also active as an actor and author in the field of children's music theater. Here are the productions “The magical world of Mr. Alexander” (2011, author and actor; production: Pindakaas Saxophon Quartett; director: Bart Hogenboom) and “The darned dimensional machine of Dr. Bammel ”(2012, author and actor; production: Pindakaas Saxophone Quartet). In 2013 a stage adaptation of the art fairy tale “Nutcracker and Mouse King” by ETA Hoffmann began , with the music of Peter Tschaikowsky with the participation of the Pindakaas Saxophone Quartet. In 2016 the music fairy tale "Alla Turca" celebrated its premiere based on a story by Thomas Philipzen. Frank Dukowski plays the conductor Franz von Stock here, with him on the stage with actor Marcell Kaiser as the genie in a bottle “Flizmed” and the Pindakaas Saxophone Quartet .

Prices and references

  • 1994: German Youth Video Award 1994 “Remscheider Puppenkiste” with bread and games
  • 1994: Workshop of the young filmmakers (today the workshop of the young film scene )
  • 2001: Participation in the 11th International Schiller Days at the National Theater Mannheim with Don Carlos (Schauspiel Bonn)
  • 2009: Participation in the Max Ophyls Prize 2009 film festival with the film Amateurs
  • 2011: Participation in the Kurt Weill Festival Dessau

Filmography (selection)

  • 1995 The Guard (TV)
  • 1996–99 TV Kaiser (TV)
  • 1999 Zechenblues (TV series)
  • 1999 Independent (short film)
  • 2000 The warrior and the empress
  • 2000 Die Gefesselten (TV movie)
  • 2001 My Husband's Mother (TV Movie)
  • 2003 crime scene - Bermuda
  • 2003 Gamajavrij (documentary film)
  • 2004 Naughty Like Janine (TV Series)
  • 2004 Inspector Rolle - Herz in Not (TV movie)
  • 2006 Pastewka (TV comedy)
  • 2008 The Black Afghan (short film)
  • 2009 amateurs
  • 2013 HARTs 5 (feature film, leading role)
  • 2013 The Teacher's Room (sitcom pilot episode)
  • 2015 The Snow Queen (movie)

Theater works

Frank Dukowski has worked in numerous productions in the independent theater scene, including a. he played at Bread and Games , froebel f from Münster and the Bigger Light Theater Company (Mass./USA). He took on important leading roles for the Schauspiel Bonn and the DaS Theater Cologne as well as the theater company Freuynde & Gaesdte from Münster. He played the leading role in music theater productions by the Pindakaas Saxophone Quartet four times, and since 2013 he has also played leading roles for Comédie Soleil from Werder, where in 2015 he edited W. Shakespeare's "Hamlet" for three actors, played the title role and staged it in a bouncy castle.

Directorial work

  • Ensemble Remscheid: Kain by Friedrich Koffka
  • Freuynde & Gaesdte theater productions
    • Hauser K (collage with documents on the Kaspar Hauser case)
    • The color of the pole (by Zeha Schröder)
    • Chimeras (HG Wells adaptation by Zeha Schröder)
  • Comèdie Soleil: "HAMLET Prince of the Bouncy Castle"

List of publications as the author

  • Plays including:
    • Italian for Japanese
    • Dr. Bammel's darned dimensional machine
  • Poetry publications, including in:
  • Macabre Stories (written for the back room)
  • Novella: Before the mushroom court, Verlag Das Beben (2013)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PNN 26.03.2018 Kirsten Graulich
  2. ↑ German Youth Video Award - Winner
  3. ↑ http://amateure-film.de/
  • Portrait in the culture magazine "Westfalenspiegel", issue 1 (2012), p. 42

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personal data
SURNAME Dukowski, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schäfer, Frank (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH 20th August 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal