Hassan Akkouch

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Hassan Akkouch (* 1988 in al-Kharayeb , Lebanon ) is a German-Lebanese actor and dancer.

Life

Origin and family

Akkouch was born in southern Lebanon . In 1990 he came to Germany as a civil war refugee, where his parents had fled with his older sister and himself and grew up in Berlin-Neukölln . Akkouch has five other siblings, three sisters and two brothers. He attended a Berlin secondary school , where he was the student representative . During his school days he was part of a youth gang. Akkouch and his family were threatened with deportation several times . In April 2003 the family was deported to Lebanon for the first time, but returned to Germany after six weeks. In December 2005 the hardship commission spoke out in favor of Hassan Akkouch's right to stay ; the Berlin Senate , however, considered the family to be “legally obliged to leave the country”, since as Shiites they would not be subject to persecution in Lebanon. Portraits and documentaries about Akkouch and his family have appeared in the taz and the Federal Agency for Civic Education . Overall, Akkouch and his family lived “ tolerated ” in Germany for almost twelve years . Akkouch last lived in Germany with an unlimited residence permit; meanwhile he has been naturalized in Munich.

Career as a dancer

As a child and adolescent he discovered his passion for dancing; He had watched Michael Jackson music videos as a child . From 2000 he took breakdance lessons regularly and was active as a breakdancer. He made his first professional appearance at the age of 13 at the opening of the Forum Neukölln, for which Detlef Soost had booked him. In the next few years, other professional and paid dance performances followed, with which Akkouch could earn a living. He performed in André Heller's Circus Magnifico . From 2009 he was a member of the dance formation Fanatix . Akkouch also worked as a dance teacher himself; he trained dance and posture with young people at the Rütli School in Berlin .

As a teenager he worked in several dance theater productions by Constanza Macras , for example in Scratch Neukölln (2003; Hebbel am Ufer ) and Back to the Present (2004; Schaubühne ), where he was able to combine elements from acrobatics , breakdance and rap .

Drama and theater

Akkouch finally got into acting through a casting; he was the only actor without acting training. In 2011 and 2012 he played the young Muslim Musa in the play Verrücktes Blut by Nurkan Erpulat and Jens Hillje at Ballhaus Naunynstraße ; with this production, in which u. a. Sesede Terziyan and Tamer Arslan were his partners, he also appeared at the Dresden State Theater .

During his evening theater appearances in Verrücktes Blut he took his entrance exam for the drama school in Munich in the summer of 2012. From September 2012 to 2015 he completed his acting studies at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich .

During his training he already worked in various theater productions in Berlin, Mannheim and Munich. As part of the Berlin Autumn Salon, he appeared in September 2013 at the Maxim Gorki Theater with the dance performance The man who wanted to jump over his shadow by Nevin Aladağ . With the play X Firmen (director: Nevin Aladağ) he made a guest appearance in the summer of 2014 at the “Theater der Welt” festival in Mannheim. In September 2014 he performed at the Maxim Gorki Theater in the dance theater production Fallen (director: Sebastian Nübling ); again Tamer Arslan was his partner.

At the Münchner Kammerspiele Akkouch was in the productions Schnapsbudenbestien Episode 4: Nana (as George, Director: Matthias Günther, 2013) and as Chief Detective Inspector in Glow! Box BRD (Director: Jorinde Dröse , 2015) can be seen. Hassan Akkouch has been a permanent member of the Münchner Kammerspiele ensemble since the 2015/16 season. So far he has played there a. a. the roles of Jessica / Shylock in Kaufmann von Venice (Premiere: October 2015; Director: Nicolas Stemann ). From February 2016 he appeared at the Münchner Kammerspiele in the production of La Sonnambula (based on motifs from the opera of the same name by Vincenzo Bellini ) directed by the Hungarian director David Marton . In the production Der Fall Mersault - Eine Gegenendarung (premiere: 2016/17 season) based on the novel by Kamel Daoud , he played the role of Musa who was shot. In the world premiere of Christoph Marthaler's piece Tiefer Schweb (premiere: June 2017), Akkouch played a "model refugee" who was successfully naturalized and dances a Schuhplattler at the Münchner Kammerspiele .

In May 2017 Akkouch was awarded the “Association for the Promotion of the Münchner Kammerspiele” for his acting performances at the Münchner Kammerspiele.

Movie and TV

From 2006 to 2009 Akkouch was the protagonist in the multiple award-winning documentary film Neukölln Unlimited , in which the filmmakers Agostino Imondi and Dietmar Ratsch accompanied him and his two siblings Lial and Maradona with the camera through Berlin-Neukölln for several years.

Akkouch also received his first professional television role through an acting casting in 2011, a leading role in the ZDF crime series Verbrechen after Ferdinand von Schirach ; he played Abbas Porter, the suspect, gambling addict friend of a murdered medical student.

In the Munich Tatort: ​​Power and Powerlessness (2013) he was seen in the role of the suspect Birol Yenal. In the Frankfurt Tatort: ​​Who breaks the silence (2013) he played the prisoner Murat. In Dortmund's Tatort: ​​Another World (2013), he embodied the dealer Tarek Abboudi, the Lebanese ex-boyfriend of the 16-year-old crime victim Nadine Petzokat. In the Bremen Tatort: ​​Brothers he played Mo Nidal, the brother of the seriously criminal clan boss Hassan Nidal ( Dar Salim ). In one scene of his role, he spat in the face of detective inspector Inga Lürsen ( Sabine Postel ).

In March 2014 he was seen in the ZDF TV series SOKO Munich in an episode role as a convicted suspect. In the TV film The Pastor and the Girl (2015) he played the young person Ben, who witnessed and confessed to a rape . In February 2016, he appeared in a supporting role in the film The Last Job in the ZDF crime series Nachtschicht . He played the trained cook and Muslim asylum seeker Abdel Raz. In March 2016 Akkouch was seen at the Lucerne crime scene: Little Princes as Fahd Al-Numi; he played an Arab prince who goes to an elite boarding school in Switzerland. In April 2017 Akkouch was seen in the ZDF series Der Kriminalist in an episode role; he played the prisoner Karim Gökdal. In the satirical BR television series Hindafing (first broadcast: May / June 2017) Akkouch had a continuous supporting role as a former nurse and asylum seeker Nabil. In the feature film Strangers daughter of Stephan Lacant , which premiered at the in June 2017 Munich Film Festival , had he played the 19-year-old apprentice Farid, a young Muslim , who falls in love with Lena, a 17-year-old German, and despite the confesses cultural contrasts to his love. In the early evening series WaPo Berlin , which will be new on Das Erste from January 2020 , Akkouch is part of the regular cast of the investigative team as Chief Detective Fahri Celik.

In addition to his film and television activities , Akkouch also occasionally worked as a radio play speaker.

Trivia and private matters

As a teenager he was active as a rapper and rapped in German, French, English and Arabic. In 2007 he took part in the Berlin contest Rap for Q-Rage . Hassan Akkouch is the cousin of the Berlin rapper Samra . After living temporarily in a Munich artist shared apartment, he is now back in Berlin.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hassan Akkouch. In: Schauspielervideos.de . Retrieved February 6, 2016
  2. ↑ a b c d Hassan Akkouch. In: gorki.de . Retrieved February 6, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Hassan Akkouch. In: muenchner-kammerspiele.de , accessed on February 6, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Who has the best Rhymes? ) In: Fluter , January 14, 2008. Retrieved on February 6, 2016.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.fluter.de
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g May I introduce you? … Hassan Akkouch. Interview with Hassan Akkouch. In: Keeepondancingblog.com , April 18, 2013. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
  6. ↑ a b c d e Deportation of a Berlin student: Breakdance star is supposed to go to Lebanon. In: Spiegel online , May 9, 2006. Accessed February 6, 2016.
  7. ↑ a b Gorki Theater: Shermin makes theater. In: Die Zeit online , September 24, 2014. Accessed February 6, 2016
  8. ↑ Crazy Blood. ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2016 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. In: staatsschauspiel-dresden.de . Retrieved February 6, 2016.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.staatsschauspiel-dresden.de
  9. ↑ Hassan Akkouch. In: falckenberg2016.wordpress.com , accessed February 6, 2016.
  10. ↑ Opening up new spaces of experience. In: Morgenweb.de , June 6, 2014. Accessed February 6, 2016
  11. ↑ Fallen - Sebastian Nübling lets violence dance in front of the Gorki Theater Berlin. In: Nachtkritik.de , September 12, 2014. Retrieved February 6, 2016
  12. ↑ "The Meursault Case" in Munich: The dead have names. In: fr.de , September 30, 2016. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
  13. ^ Marthaler's "Tiefer Schweb" applauded in Munich. Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 25, 2017, accessed on August 25, 2020 . .
  14. ↑ a b Hassan Akkouch receives sponsorship award. In: sueddeutsche.de , May 9, 2017. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
  15. ↑ Disgusting shoot "Tatort" commissioner Sabine Postel is spat on. In express .de , February 21, 2014. Accessed February 6, 2016.
  16. ↑ STRANGER DAUGHTER . Plot, cast and production details. Retrieved November 27, 2017.
  17. ↑ FOREIGN DAUGHTER - Official trailer . Retrieved November 27, 2017.
  18. ↑ That's what "WaPo Berlin" is all about . Official website Das Erste . Retrieved January 29, 2020.
  19. ↑ Hassan Akkouch is Fahri Celik . Official website Das Erste . Retrieved January 29, 2020.
  20. ↑ Zina Luckow: Truth Hurts: Hassan Akkouch on "4 Blocks", German rap and naked men. In: rap.de. October 15, 2019, accessed on April 13, 2020 (German).
  21. ↑ Reason for the Actor Award 2018. Baden-Baden TV Film Festival, accessed on December 1, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Akkouch, Hassan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Lebanese actor and dancer
DATE OF BIRTH 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH al-Kharayeb , Lebanon