Ivan Jurcevic

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Ivan Jurcevic at the award ceremony for
“Best Croatian Actor” 2016 in Bad Homburg

Ivan Jurcevic (born June 8, 1971 in Split , Croatia ) is a German kickboxer , actor and security service provider of Croatian descent. In kickboxing he became world champion several times. He became known to a wider public as part of the sexual assaults on New Year's Eve 2015/16 in Cologne , during which he helped victims as the doorman of a hotel and offered protection and later reported on his experiences in the media at home and abroad.

Life

Jurcevic completed his training as an industrial clerk and has been kickboxing since 1983. After European and national championship titles, he became world champion in 1998, 2004, 2006 and 2008 according to the version of the Martial Arts Association (MAA) and vice world champion in 2009. In 2011, the super heavyweight Jurcevic again won the world championship in kickboxing, ended his sporting career and then concentrated on his acting career.

In the late 1990s, Jurcevic completed an acting training at the Spielhaus cultural project in Stuttgart . Under the stage name "Ivan Stein" he then had a number of appearances in theater and television, including in the series Verbotene Liebe . Since August 2017 he has played the role of Tony Scibelli in Bodyguard-the musical at the Stage Palladium Theater in Stuttgart as the first cast .

Jurcevic also runs a security services company. Among other things, he protected an event with Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron .

Jurcevic was married twice.

New Year's Eve 2015/16 in Cologne

On New Year's Eve 2015/16 Jurcevic worked as a doorman in the Excelsior Hotel Ernst next to the Cologne train station forecourt. After the massive sexual assaults between the main train station and Cologne Cathedral began , frightened women who were persecuted by a group of young men asked him for help. With sentences like "this is our girl" (Eng. 'This is our girl') the drunken persecutors urged him not to interfere. Jurcevic first tried to drive the group away with words. Finally he used punches and kicks. The men then moved away, threatening “We kill you!” (Eng. “We'll kill you!”). He later described how the men spat on guests at the hotel's New Year's Eve party.

When the extent of the attacks was gradually publicly acknowledged after the police had initially spoken of a "peaceful celebration", Jurcevic posted a video about his experiences on his Facebook page, which was viewed 4.7 million times in a few days and almost Has been shared 142,000 times. In it he described, among other things, a knife stabbing and an attack in which men hit someone in the head of someone lying on the ground. He also reported how a mob of young men had targeted rockets at the cathedral and the crowd applauded every hit, as well as arrests by the police, in which people had lain on the ground for over an hour and did not take them to the overcrowded collection points can be. Eventually they were released, whereupon they spat at police vehicles. Like many others, he had always thought that such scenes “were right-wing propaganda - but this was just real”. The perpetrators were people who were greeted with teddy bears at the train station weeks ago .

After the director of the Excelsior Hotel Ernst initially distanced himself from Jurcevic's “xenophobic statements” in an official statement, the world erroneously reported in the January 10th edition that he had resigned Jurcevic. This resulted in numerous protests on the hotel's unofficial Facebook page. The hotel later declared that Jurcevic was self-employed, so he couldn't be fired. You are still working with the security company that employs him. They also did not explicitly distance themselves “from the help that Jurcevic provided on site”, but rather “instructed the security personnel to let in women who were harassed during the night”. Jurcevic said the hotel manager had always been correct to him and that his statement was misinterpreted. For him, it is less about the origin of the perpetrators, but more about the fact that something like this does not happen again - that criminals hide under the protective cloak of refugee aid, grabbing at women and thereby dragging integrated foreign citizens into the mud.

Numerous national and international media interviewed Jurcevic about the events, including CNN , BBC and a French television station. In addition, reported The Daily Caller (USA), La Gaceta (Spain) and Il Giornale (Italy).

Filmography

movie theater

Short films

  • 2000: premiere party
  • 2001: The Bewitched Music Box
  • 2013: SYN Flood
  • 2014: Last Order
  • 2015: The draftsman

Appearances in television shows / video-on-demand

watch TV

Music videos

  • 2014: Every one of my friends ( Bushido )
  • 2015: Ghetto veteran ( Kollegah )
  • 2015: Breaking Bread (Bushido)
  • 2016: Betrugo ( Jasko )

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ (VIDEO) IVAN JURČEVIĆ Junaku Silvestarske noći iz Kölna učiteljica rekla “da”. Retrieved October 25, 2017 (Croatian).
  2. ↑ a b Thomas Dorn: After resigning, top again , Heilbronn vote , September 19, 2008.
  3. ↑ a b Stefanie Pfäffle: The only difference is that no one has broken his nose , Heilbronn voice, July 28, 2006.
  4. ↑ Ivan Jurcevic Kickboxing Vice World Champion , Heilbronner Voice, November 25, 2009.
  5. ↑ World Championship title for the "Dino" ( Memento from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung , July 1, 2011.
  6. ↑ Ivan Jurcevic becomes a musical performer in Stuttgart . In: https://www.echo24.de . August 29, 2017 ( echo24.de [accessed October 25, 2017]).
  7. ↑ Heilbronn voice. Retrieved October 25, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Ivan Jurcevic ensures security in Aachen: This man from Lauffen protects Merkel and Macron , Echo24, January 23, 2019.
  9. ↑ Stefan Aust , Wolfgang Büscher , Anette Dowideit, Martin Lutz, Claus Christian Malzahn , Uwe Müller , Freia Peters, T.-R. Stoldt: Three hours in the fear zone: A reconstruction , Die Welt, January 10, 2016.
  10. ↑ a b c Claudia Hauser: Witness video viewed a million times on Facebook: Ivan Jurcevic - the "Croatian James Bond" on New Year's Eve in Cologne (with a link to the video), Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, January 9, 2016.
  11. ↑ Stefan Aust: The night that changes everything , Die Welt, January 10, 2016.
  12. ^ Claudia Hauser: Rosenmontag: Cologne continues to celebrate , Spiegel Online, February 9, 2016.
  13. ↑ Jenny Filon: Cologne Excelsior Hotel Ernst deactivates its Facebook page , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, January 11, 2016.
  14. ↑ a b After Shitstorm: Cologne bouncer and woman rescuer makes it clear that he is not "xenophobic" , Epoch Times , January 13, 2016.
  15. ↑ Jacob Bojesson: Eyewitness Describes 'Civil War Like' Sex Assault Situation In Germany , The Daily Caller, January 6, 2016.
  16. ↑ Un excampeón de kick boxing se enfrenta a los violadores de Colonia , La Gaceta, January 14, 2016.
  17. ↑ Andrea Riva: Ivan Jurcevic, l'eroe che ha salvato le donne di Colonia , Il Giornale, January 13, 2016.
  18. ↑ Fuck off, Snow White. Retrieved March 27, 2018 .
  19. ↑ Oskar Roehler: glorious times. May 3, 2018, accessed March 27, 2018 .
  20. ↑ Pastewka - Season 8 watch and stream online at Amazon Instant Video, Amazon's online video library. Retrieved March 27, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Jurcevic, Ivan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German kickboxer, actor and bouncer of Croatian descent
DATE OF BIRTH June 8th 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Split , Croatia