Gero Nievelstein

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Gero Nievelstein (born April 29, 1969 in Mönchengladbach ) is a German actor in theater and film.

Life

Nievelstein attended the Maximilian-Kolbe-Gymnasium in Wegberg , where he graduated from high school in 1988. After his training at the Westphalian Drama School in Bochum (1989-1994), which he graduated with an acting diploma in 1994, he had his first engagements at the Schauspielhaus Bochum (1993/94 season) and at the Stadttheater Gießen (1994-1996). In 1996 he became a permanent member of the ensemble at the Schauspiel Nürnberg, which was then directed by Holger Berg (now the Staatstheater Nürnberg ). He was engaged there until 2003.

Further stations with guest engagements were the Ernst-Deutsch-Theater in Hamburg (2001), the Bad Hersfeld Festival (2003/04), the Stadttheater Fürth (2004; 2006), the State Theater Braunschweig (2004/05 season), again the State Theater Nuremberg (2007/08 season) and the Schauspielbühnen Stuttgart (2008; in Seven Sonnets by John von Düffel ).

From the 2009/10 season to 2015 he was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Salzburg State Theater . From 2015 to 2018 he worked as a freelance actor until he was hired by Klaus Kusenberg at the Regensburg Theater in 2018 .

Nievelstein has also appeared in a number of film and television roles. In 2002 he had an episode role in the action series Alarm for Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei ; he played the gangster and kidnapper Frank Kaschke. In 2007/2008 he was seen in a recurring supporting role as a criminal investigator in the ARD evening series Marienhof . He also acted in a few college films and short films.

Nievelstein has been production manager at the International Chamber Music Festival in Nuremberg since 2001 . From 2003 to 2009 he was a lecturer for scenic representation at the University of Music in Würzburg . Since 2015 he has been the artistic director of the Bridging Arts project in Salzburg.

Nievelstein is married to the Canadian mezzo-soprano and Bavarian chamber singer Frances Pappas , who was also engaged for several years at the State Theater in Nuremberg, and is the father of two children. He lives in Salzburg and Regensburg.

repertoire

As a theater actor, Nievelstein played a wide repertoire on the stage , which included plays by William Shakespeare , the German-speaking authors of the Classical and Romantic periods , the drama of the turn of the century , but also numerous pieces of modernity and contemporary theater.

In the course of his career his roles included a. a. Romeo in Romeo and Juliet , Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice , Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night's Dream , the title role in Nathan the Wise , Oswald in Ghosts , Kostja in The Seagull , Dr. Mauer in Das weite Land (Landestheater Salzburg, 2014/15 season), Max in Anatol (Landestheater Salzburg, 2014/15 season), Nick in Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf? , David Shane in Bullets over Broadway and Professor John in Oleanna by David Mamet (Landestheater Salzburg, premiere March 2013). In 2014 he played the man in the dialogue piece The beautiful days of Aranjuez by Peter Handke at the Salzburg State Theater .

At the Salzburger Landestheater he also worked in several stage versions of works from classical fiction. He played Karenin in Anna Karenina , K. in Das Schloß and without interruption the title role in Homo Faber (premiere: 2009/10 season).

In the 2013/14 season he appeared at the Landestheater Salzburg as father Efraim Longstocking in the children's play Pippi Longstocking . In the 2015/16 season he will play the roles of King Triton / Eric's father in Ariel, the Mermaid at the Salzburg State Theater . From April 2016 he will take over the Stauffacher in Wilhelm Tell at the Salzburg State Theater .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gero Nievelstein Profile and Vita at Schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved March 1, 2016
  2. ↑ The people behind it . Bridging Arts Salzburg. Retrieved May 14, 2019.
  3. ↑ In real life a family MeinBezirk.at. Retrieved March 1, 2016
  4. ↑ Saxony's glamor and Salzburg's Schickeria Performance reviews of the Salzburg Easter Festival 2014. Accessed on March 1, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Nievelstein, Gero
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor in theater and film
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Mönchengladbach , Germany