Jürgen Tarrach

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Jürgen Tarrach (2008)
Tarrach in 2012

Jürgen Tarrach (born December 17, 1960 in Geilenkirchen ) is a German actor .

Life and career

Jürgen Tarrach grew up in the first years of his life in the Boscheln district of Übach-Palenberg . There he attended the St. Fidelis Boscheln kindergarten. His parents had an electronics store on Brünestrasse. He moved to Wassenberg with his parents . Tarrach attended the Cusanus grammar school in Erkelenz . In 1980 he played the leading role in Biedermann and the Arsonists in the school's theater group . In 1985 he completed the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna after being rejected in Essen, Berlin and Munich. He then played theater in Münster , Bonn , Nuremberg and Karlsruhe . In Karlsruhe he played Helmut Qualtinger's one-person piece Der Herr Karl .

He had his first television role in 1995 in the series Around 30 . An important step in the career of Tarrach from 1997 was Die Musterknaben . In this unconventional crime series, he played the Cologne drug investigator Docker as a partner of Oliver Korittke . In 1999, the two of them were awarded a special prize at the Baden-Baden Days of Television Play for their performance.

In 2000 he received the German Television Award for best actor in a supporting role for the title role in the Tatort episode Norbert . He also appeared in a number of other Tatort episodes. For his portrayal of Walter Sedlmayr in the television film Wambo , Tarrach was awarded another special prize in Baden-Baden in 2001 and, together with director Jo Baier , the Adolf Grimme Prize in 2002.

In 2003 he wrote a cookbook. The following year he played a urophile opera singer in the Austrian crime satire Silentium . Tarrach was seen in a supporting role as Schultz in the 21st James Bond film Casino Royale in 2006 .

In summer 2013, Jürgen Tarrach appeared on stage as Mammon in the Jedermann production at the Salzburg Festival .

In 2014 he sang chansons in the bar of every reason . He also played the speech therapist Lionel Logue in the play The King's Speech in Berlin's Schlosspark Theater .

Since 2016 he has been in front of the camera for the ARD television crime series Der Lisbon-Krimi , where he plays the male lead as lawyer Eduardo Silva alongside Vidina Popov as his assistant Marcia Amaya. In 2019 he released the Fado album, Fortunately Sad . He recorded the song Ein Schrei with film partner Vidina Popov.

In 2020 he appeared on the game show Did you know? as an expert on James Bond .

In the film, Jürgen Tarrach primarily embodies characters of the somewhat greasy kind: corrupt politicians ( under suspicion: gray area ), dubious used car dealers ( Suddenly a millionaire ), fraudulent lawyers ( crime scene : yesterday was not a day ), greedy managers ( Donna Leon : finally mine ), hypocritical Lay preacher ( Pastor Braun : a sign of God ) etc., but as an experienced all-rounder he also knows how to convincingly depict all other characters.

Tarrach lives in Potsdam and has two children.

Filmography (selection)

Synchronous roles

Tarrach was also active as a voice actor. He lent himself the voice in the following productions:

Radio plays

Audio books

Cookbook

Klaus Ortner , Jürgen Tarrach: Eat right. Recipes to fill you up. Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-462-03254-2 .

Awards

Web links

Commons : Jürgen Tarrach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual review 2003 of the city of Übach-Palenberg
  2. ↑ a b c 1st Euregio Film Prize celebrates a lavish premiere , Aachener Zeitung, July 12, 2003
  3. ↑ Stadtanzeiger Übach-Palenberg ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Actor Jürgen Tarrach: The supporting neighbor , taz, December 13, 2010.
  5. ↑ Chanson: Jürgen Tarrach sings Aznavour and Dutronc , Berliner Morgenpost from January 31, 2014, accessed on October 27, 2017.
  6. ↑ "The King's Speech": Jürgen Tarrach drives the king out of stuttering , Die Welt, January 26, 2014
  7. ↑ The first: Start of shooting for "The Lisbon thriller: The Dead in the Tejo" . Retrieved August 16, 2019.
  8. ↑ The first German-language Fado album. In: Weser Courier . August 16, 2019, accessed August 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Tarrach, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH 17th December 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Geilenkirchen