Herbert Schäfer (actor)

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Herbert Schäfer (2020)

Herbert Schäfer (born December 12, 1968 in Bonn ) is a German actor .

Life

education

Schäfer grew up in his native Bonn. During his school days he was a member of the theater group and also worked on theater projects at the VHS Bonn. After graduating from the Beethoven High School in Bonn in 1987 , Schäfer did 20 months of community service at the Johanniter Accident Aid . He then trained as an actor from 1990 to 1994 at the Otto Falckenberg School under its director Jörg Hube . Since then he has mainly worked as a theater actor .

theatre

In 1993, before completing his studies, he received an engagement at the Munich Kammerspiele ; there he played Kent in the drama Edward II by Christopher Marlowe under the direction of Christian Stückl . He had his first permanent engagement in 1994 at the Ulm Theater , where he was part of the ensemble until 1997. From 1999 to 2001 he was a guest there. In Ulm he played, among others, Valentin in Faust I (1994, directed by Ansgar Haag ), the Prince of Guastalla in Emilia Galotti (1995), State Secretary Antonio in Torquato Tasso (1995), Ruprecht in Der zerbrochne Krug (1996, Directed by Jens Pesel ), Franz Moor in Die Räuber (1997), the title role in Hamlet (2001, directed by Frido Solter ) and Mackie Messer in Brecht / Weill's Die Dreigroschenoper (2001), again directed by Ansgar Haag.

In 1998 he was a guest at the Bad Hersfeld Festival in the play Captain Cape Verde by Voltaire ; for his portrayal of the role of Count des Aprets he received the audience award of the Bad Hersfeld Festival. In 1998 he made other guest appearances at the Schwerin State Theater , where he impersonated the newspaper editor Hovstad in the play Ein Volksfeind . At the team theater in Munich he played the title role of King Oedipus in King Oedipus in 2000 . He played Edgar in King Lear at the Schwäbisch Hall open-air theater in 2000 , again under the direction of Frido Solter.

From 2002 he was engaged at the Freiburg Theater. There he appeared as Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream (2002, director: Amélie Niermeyer ), in the title role of the historical drama Richard III. (2002, directed by Gabriele Köstler ), as Crusius in Purgatory in Ingolstadt (2003), as Richter Brack in Hedda Gabler (2004), as Hofmarschall von Kalb in Kabale und Liebe (2005), as Shu Fu in Der gute Mensch von Sezuan (2006) and from 2005 to 2007 as Kulygin in Three Sisters , again directed by Amélie Niermeyer.

He had other engagements at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus (2006, guest appearance as Kulygin in Drei Schwestern ; 2007, as Biwoy in Libussa by Franz Grillparzer ), at the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel (2009, as a medical doctor Tinker in Gesäubert by Sarah Kane ) and at the Schauspielhaus Zürich (2010, as a knight in golden armor in Under High Heaven – Parzival by Kathrin Lange ). In 2010 Schäfer was a guest at the Stadttheater Fürth ; he played the war journalist Pierre Peters in the play The interview of Theodor Holman / Theo van Gogh (after van Gogh's film Interview ).

From December 2012 Schäfer appeared for three months in a total of 87 performances in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in a touring production of the Kempf touring theater in the play The King's Speech (based on the Oscar-winning film of the same name). He embodied David, Prince of Wales , the brother of the stuttering King George VI. ; his partner as king was Götz Otto . From autumn 2013 to November 2013, Schäfer played this role in a further 46 performances in the comedy at the Bayerischer Hof in Munich. In another 23 performances he was on tour again with this piece in 2016, this time in the role of the stuttering king "Bertie".

In the 2016/17 season he made his debut at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg in Ich Zarah or the wild meat of the last diva . In the 2017/18 season, Schäfer is again engaged as a guest at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg. There he plays Malvolio in What You Want .

Movie and TV

Schäfer has worked on various TV and film productions. In the crime scene: The last Wiesn (first broadcast: September 2015) he had a supporting role as Dr. Schosser, a ministerial official from the Home Office. He had episode roles u. a. in the television series Die Rosenheim-Cops (2014; as a suspect husband Wolfgang Brandl), SOKO Munich (2017; again as a suspect husband) and Hubert and Staller (2017; as the father of a suspect boy). In the Munich Tatort: ​​We'll get you all (first broadcast: December 2018) he played a pedophile family man. In the 18th season of the ZDF series Die Rosenheim-Cops (2019), Schäfer took on one of the main roles in the episode as the cousin of a murdered magician who was convicted of a greedy perpetrator. He was also seen in two episodes of the ARD series Lindenstrasse in 2019 as the therapist of the pedophile Konstantin Landmann (played by Arne Rudolf ).

Working as a speaker

Schäfer also works as a spokesperson for television, radio stations and audio book publishers. He also works as a voice actor in some computer games ; For example, he lends his voice to the male Commander Shepard from the action computer role-playing game Mass Effect and the hero Geralt von Riva from the role-playing game The Witcher in the German versions. However, he only lent his voice to the latter in one of two German language versions.

Private

Schäfer is married and lives in Augsburg and Munich.

Audiobooks (selection)

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "What you want": extreme poles of love . Performance review. In: Main-Post from October 2, 2017. Retrieved November 18, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Shepherd, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn