Heiko Senst

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Heiko Senst (* 1968 in Eisenach ) is a German actor , theater director , radio play speaker and acting teacher.

Life

From 1990 to 1994 Heiko Senst studied at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin . After his stage debut at the Hebbel-Theater in 1992 , his first permanent engagement took him from 1994 to 1998 at the Bremen Theater . Senst has been working as a freelancer ever since. He had guest contracts at the Nationaltheater Weimar , in Berlin at Ballhaus Ost , at the Schaubühne at Lehniner Platz , at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm and at the Berliner Ensemble , as well as in Switzerland at the Theater Basel , at the Schauspielhaus Zürich and at the Theaterhaus Gessnerallee and in Austria on Schauspielhaus Graz . At the Thuringia Theater , the audience saw him as the title character in Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and as George in Edward Albee's Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , each directed by Amina Gusner .

Senst has also worked repeatedly with director Robert Wilson . In Gertrude Stein's production Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights , he embodied the role of Red Mephisto and was thus on the European tour from 1992 to 1995, as well as at Lincoln Center New York, in Montreal, Jerusalem and Hong Kong. In 1998 he appeared with the Berliner Ensemble under Wilson's direction with Danton's death by Georg Büchner at the Salzburg Festival . In 1999, Senst took on the role of Fritzi Haberlandt in the production The days before (Umberto Eco) and appeared alongside Fiona Shaw and later Isabella Rossellini in Madrid and Porto, and in 2000 in Santiago de Compostela and Istanbul. Senst himself also directs and staged, for example, at the Deutsches Theater Göttingen , the Berlin Maxim-Gorki-Theater , the Bremen Schwankhalle and the Theater Phönix in Linz.

Heiko Senst is a member of the performance group WEIRD (or WIERD), which in 2009 was a prize winner at the 100grad Festival in Berlin with WEIRD what you want. They performed three productions at HAU (Hebbel am Ufer) and theater discounter in Berlin, as well as at the Pathos Transport Festival in Munich, twice at the Wunder der Prärie festival in Mannheim and at the Euroszene festival in Cologne. Senst was involved in various performance projects at the theater discounter Berlin: Von Wegen (Solo), Everyone and Such (Direction: Michael Müller), no time for revolution ( Direction: Tomi Paasonen ) shoving on the mountains top (with Daniel Hinojo Baca), guest performances in Zurich and Mannheim. Since 2000, Senst has lectured at various drama schools, including the drama course at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin and the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz .

Senst has also been working in front of the camera and as a radio play speaker since the mid-1990s. In the past he was mainly seen on television as a guest actor in various series formats, in 2004 Edgar Reitz cast him in the third part of his Heimat trilogy with the role of Tobi . In 1999 Senst took on a role in the radio play production Das Dekameron , which was also published as an audio book . Senst has had a full professorship for drama in Graz since 2015. Heiko Senst lives in Graz and Berlin.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b biography on the website of the Theater am Kurfürstendamm , accessed on July 15, 2017
  2. ↑ a b Profile at schauspielervideos.de , accessed on July 15, 2017
  3. ↑ Thomas Stich on the Folkwang University website , accessed on July 15, 2017
  4. ^ Actress Stephanie Stremler's website , accessed July 15, 2017
  5. ↑ Schwankhalle's schedule for July 2005 , accessed on July 15, 2017
  6. ^ Biography of the actress Nora Undine Jahn on the website Theater & Philharmonie Thüringen , accessed on July 15, 2017
  7. ↑ WEIRD in “Miracles of the Prairie” , accessed on July 15, 2017
  8. ↑ HfS website , accessed on July 15, 2017
  9. ^ Website of the Kunstuni Graz , accessed on July 15, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Senst, Heiko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, theater director, radio play speaker and acting teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach