Henry Arnold

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Henry Arnold (born May 10, 1961 in Hamburg ) is a German actor , musician and opera director .

life and career

Arnold was born in Hamburg and grew up in Munich . There he attended the Maximiliansgymnasium , where he graduated from high school in 1980. While still at school he was a guest student for piano at the Munich Music Academy . He studied German , musicology , history and acting in Munich, and in 1989 and 1990 'conducting' at the HdK Berlin (today: UdK Berlin ). In addition to his artistic activity, he also completed a degree in economics .

He began his career first on the stage (including Schillertheater Berlin , Schauspielhaus Zürich ) and in front of the camera - here he found himself playing the music student and later conductor and composer Hermann Simon in the films The Second Home - Chronicle of a Youth and Home 3 - Chronicle at a turn of the century by director Edgar Reitz also received international recognition.

He has worked in numerous film and television productions, primarily in Germany, but also in Italy (including Il Sogno della Farfalla, directed by Marco Bellocchio , 1994) and in Japan ( Ode to Joy - Baruto no Gakuen, directed by Masanobu Deme , 2006) .

In 1995, he was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize for his performance in the television play Ausgerechte Zoé (together with Markus Imboden , Rainer Klausmann , Nicolette Krebitz ).

In addition to his work as an actor in film and theater , he is also often active as a director . Thus he combines his two passions, music and theater. His change to directing was initially initiated by working with Hans Neuenfels , so in the summer of 2010 he took over the dramaturgy and co-direction of the new production Lohengrin at the Bayreuth Festival , and most recently the dramaturgy and new translation of the libretto by George Enescus Oedipe for the Frankfurt Opera (2013). In addition, he has been teaching dramaturgy at the HAW Hamburg since 2012.

Since 2000 he has realized numerous productions, including Lortzing's Zar and Zimmermann at the Staatstheater Darmstadt (2002), Hoffmann's stories (Offenbach, Oper Stettin, 2005), Endstation Sehnsucht (T. Williams, Berlin 2005/2006), The Bartered Bride (Smetana, 2006) and The Story of the Soldier (Stravinsky, 2008) at the Stadttheater Gießen, Der König Kandaules (A. Zemlinsky) at the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern (2009), again in Gießen The Merry Widow (November 2010) and most recently Fidelio (Beethoven, 2019) at the Vorarlberger Landestheater in Bregenz.

He was a member of the international jury at the Mannheim-Heidelberg Film Festival (2004), a guest at the German Film Festival in Australia (2005) and the Heritage Film Festival in Abu Dhabi (2011). Most recently he shot for the movies Halbschatten (2013), Viaggio sola (directed by Maria Sole Tognazzi , 2013) and Mein Bruder Robert, (directed by Philip Gröning , 2015)

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SURNAME Arnold, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, musician and opera director
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg