Hans-Eckart Eckhardt

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Hans-Eckart Eckhardt (born March 29, 1953 in Pforzheim ) is a German actor , speaker , presenter , director and voice actor .

Life

Family and education

Hans-Eckart Eckhardt is the son of a US administrative officer from Dallas , Texas , and a German mother. His mother came from Swabia and was a housewife . Eckhardt grew up as an illegitimate child with his mother and grandmother in simple circumstances. At the age of 14, he pretended to be “of legal age ”, which he managed thanks to his height, and earned money as a DJ and entertainer in local nightclubs . He first attended the Baden Drama School in Karlsruhe from 1970 to 1971 . After his mother's death, Hans-Eckart Eckhardt studied from 1972 to 1975 at the Max Reinhardt School for Drama (today: University of Music and Performing Arts (HdK)) in Berlin . He finished his acting training in 1975 with the stage entrance examination .

In order to be able to finance his studies, he applied to the broadcaster Free Berlin as a radio DJ. He belonged to the SFB, under the pseudonym Christian Eckhardt, for 25 years as a freelancer .

After studying in Los Angeles (2011), Hans-Eckart Eckhardt also worked internationally as an actor. Hans-Eckart Eckhardt lives in Berlin and London .

theatre

Eckhardt began his career as a stage actor in 1976 . Eckhardt had theater engagements at the Kiel Theater (1976–1978), the Landestheater Tübingen (1978/1979 season), the State Drama Theaters Berlin (1981–1985), the Free Volksbühne Berlin (1985–1986), and the Vagantenbühne Berlin (1986) and at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm (1988/1989).

His stage roles included: Melchior Gabor in Spring Awakening (Theater Kiel; director: Götz Burger), Wang in Der gute Mensch von Sezuan (Landestheater Tübingen; director: CH Meier), Junker Andreas von Bleichenwang in Was ihr wollt (Landestheater Tübingen; director : Stephan Stroux ), Peter Quint / Sequence in A Midsummer Night's Dream (premiere 1981 at the Schillertheater Berlin ; director: Klaus Emmerich ), Montano in Othello (premiere 1982 at the Schillertheater Berlin; director: Hans Gratzer), Artur in Der Balkon by Jean Genet (premiere 1983 at the Schillertheater Berlin; directed by Hans Neuenfels ) and the Guard Grenadier in Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (premiere 1985 at the Schillertheater Berlin; directed by Boy Gobert ).

Movie and TV

Since the late 1978s, Eckhardt also took on roles in film and television . In 1982 he had a small role (as a police officer) alongside Rainer Werner Fassbinder in the feature film Kamikaze 1989 . In 1983 and 1984 he was involved in two films by the director Hans Neuenfels: in the theater adaptations Heinrich Penthesilesa von Kleist (based on Kleist's play Penthesilea ) as an Aetolian and in Die Familie oder Schroffenstein (based on Kleist's Die Familie Schroffenstein ) as vassal Altdöbern. In 1985 he played the lead role in the short feature film Altmanns Regel ; the film premiered in October 1985 at the Hof International Film Festival.

Eckhardt also had numerous episode and guest roles in various television series, including Our Teacher Doctor Specht (1995; as Mr. Jänicke), SOKO Wismar (2006), Fünf Sterne (2008; as lawyer and notary Dr. Ehrenkötter), Die Rosenheim- Cops (2009) and In All Friendship (2010). In the television series Doc meets Dorf (2013) he was head of the clinic, Dr. To see Brandner.

In 2013, he played the grandfather of Niki Lauda in the movie Rush, directed by Ron Howard .

Occasionally Eckhardt also worked as a director for television. In 2005 he directed several episodes (episodes 2662-2666, 2697-2701 and 2778-2782) of the daily soap Unter Uns .

Eckhardt has also been working as a dubbing director since 2017.

Speaking activities

Between theater and film engagements, Hans-Eckart Eckhardt was also employed as a presenter and speaker on television. As the first voiceover in a US-American format, Hans-Eckart Eckhardt achieved greater popularity in the game show Wheel of Fortune on Sat.1 .

Eckhardt worked as a spokesperson for documentaries , television documentaries, features and radio plays . He worked for over twenty years as a radio presenter for the broadcaster Free Berlin ; as anchorman he presented various morning programs and morning magazines there.

Speaker for the radio

in NDR : news; in WDR , SWR , SFB and RIAS : radio plays and features. At the beginning of the 1970s he presented the music program Die deutsche Schlagerparade on SFB 2 .

Radio broadcasts (selection)

  • ARD night express, ARD radio alarm clock, ARD pop night
  • Good morning Berlin ; From the phone to the microphone
  • Melody for you ; Around the Berolina ; Good evening Berlin
  • The Big Sunday Radio Show ; Country time ; Hey Music , dream discotheque

VoiceOver

Eckhardt also worked intensively as a voice actor . He lent his voice to Kevin James (in Hotel Transylvania ), William R. Moses , Robert Picardo , Mike Pniewski , Craig Spidle , Jeffrey Tambor and Steve Ryan, among others .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

  • 1984: Lady Lilja's Hauer - best off-theater production
  • 1985: Altmanns Rule (short feature film; role: Robby Tapke ) - Best Actor in a Short Film (Toronto Short Film Festival)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hans - Eckart Eckhardt profile at the Osman agency; Retrieved September 25, 2013
  2. ↑ a b c d Hans-Eckart Eckhardt mini-biography; imdb.com; Retrieved September 25, 2013
  3. ↑ a b Country Time radio program in: zitty , Volume 18, Issues 15–17 (excerpts from Google Books; accessed on September 25, 2013)
  4. ↑ Altmann's rule . Entry at Filmportal.de
  5. ↑ Doc meets Dorf ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2013 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. Episode guide, cast list, photos of scenes  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.diethelm-glaser.net
  6. ↑ Unter Uns ( Memento from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Episode guide; more information about this on the agency website Agentur Osman
  7. ↑ Wheel of fortune contributors. on fernsehserien.de ; Retrieved September 25, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Eckhardt, Hans-Eckart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, speaker, presenter, director and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Pforzheim