Jacob Matschenz

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Jacob Matschenz (2014)

Jacob Matschenz (* 1984 in East Berlin ) is a German actor .

Life

Beginnings and first roles

Jacob Matschenz was born in Berlin-Pankow and grew up in Berlin . He was in high school when, by chance, he came into contact with film and acting through a children's agency, where he took part in a casting . The young Jacob Matschenz did not receive the role offered there, but he was engaged by director Jakob Hilpert in 2001 for his graduate film Kleine Kreise , with which Matschenz made his film debut.

In 2002 he played in Police Call 110: The player played the young Daniel Dietzel, who knocked his father down out of anger. In the same year he starred in the dramatic science fiction film Mutanten (2002) at the side of Karoline Teska and took over the lead role of 16-year-old Jul in the television film Jul's girlfriend , which was shown at the Hamburg Film Festival in September of that year Rosenberg, who falls in love with Phoebe Panizzi ( Anneke Kim Sarnau ) , who is nine years her senior , and pursues her. In the two television films Sex Up - Jungs Have It Also Not Easy and Sex Up - I Can 'Again (2003 and 2005) he played Bunny alongside André Emanuel Kaminski , Joseph Bolz and Jonas Jägermeyr .

In 2004 Matschenz got his first Tatort role in Waidmanns Heil as Michael Voss, the stepson of a suspected hunting tenant. Matschenz had other Tatort roles in Nachtwanderer (2006) as Andi Schwab, in Alle Meine Jungs (2014) as garbage man Sascha Decker and in 2017 in Stau as Chauffeur Bernd Hermann.

Breakthrough and further career

For his leading role of 17-year-old Malte in Till Endemann's coming-of-age film The Smile of the Deep Sea Fish , which meant Matschenz's breakthrough as a film actor in 2005, he received the Max Ophüls Prize for Best Young Actor. In Neandertal (2006) he played the leading role of the 17-year-old boy Guido, who had neurodermatitis .

In 42plus (2008), Matschenz played the young hitchhiker Tamaz, who starts an affair with 42-year-old Christine ( Claudia Michelsen ). For his portrayal of the young GDR border soldier Alexander Karow in the television film An die Grenz (2007) he received the Adolf Grimme Prize in 2008. In the ZDF crime thriller Death in the Eifel (2008), he was in one of the next Christian Redl and Maria Simon Main roles can be seen as the young village policeman Tim Wenning. In the fairy tale film Puss in Boots (2009) he was the miller's son Hans.

In 2010 he played the leading role of the Würzburg adolescent Tommy Weber at the side of Burak Yiğit in the youth drama Up to the Blood - Brothers on Probation ; he embodied a young person who, after a prison term, tries not to get back on the wrong track, but fails. He received the Bavarian Film Prize 2010 in the “Young Actor” category, together with his fellow actor Burak Yiğit. In Renn, if you can (2010), a love triangle between a wheelchair user, his civilian and a busy student, he embodied the figure of the “friendly, nice” Christian who did community service. In the two- parter Laconia (2011), Matschenz played the role of first watch officer Mannesmann. In the Bella Block crime thriller The Passenger and the Girl (first broadcast: February 2012) he was also seen as a young student Lenny Gravert.

Film and television from 2014

In the historical two-parter Die Pilgerin (2014), Matschenz played alongside Josefine Preuss, Sebastian Laux, the mayor's youngest son. He took on the title role in the two-part children's film Till Eulenspiegel (2014). In the movie Everyone dies for himself (2016), Matschenz played Dietrich Necker in an international production alongside Brendan Gleeson ,  Mikael Persbrandt  and  Emma Thompson  .

In 2017, Matschenz also appeared in front of the camera for the crime series Babylon Berlin and was seen on the big screen as Max, who is completing a training course as a hotel manager , in My Blind Date with Life (2017). Jacob Matschenz is part of the main cast of the 2nd season of the successful historical television series Charité , which will be broadcast from February 2019 (shooting time: November 2017 to early March 2018). He played the homosexual surgeon Martin Schelling, whose left leg was amputated below the knee after a serious injury at the front, and who has to withhold his affection for the medical officer Otto Marquardt ( Jannik Schümann ) in order not to end up in a concentration camp .

In the ZDF film adaptation of Juli Zeh's social novel Unterleuten - Das zerrissene Dorf , which was shown on TV for the first time in March 2020, he played Frederick Wachs, the game developer and partner of the character Linda Franzen ( Miriam Stein ), who are moving to Unterleuten in Brandenburg together , where they bought a small plot of land including a villa. In the Swiss cinema production Wanda, mein Wunder (2020) he played the youngest son Gregi of the Wegmeister-Gloor family.

Private

Jacob Matschenz's hobbies include motorcycling , horse riding and archery . He lives in Berlin .

theatre

At the Hamburger Kammerspiele in 2017, Matschenz was to be seen under the direction of Henning Bock as the “revolutionary” son in the German premiere of Philipp Löhle's play Schlaraffenland .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Jacob Matschenz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Jacob Matschenz at schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved November 28, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b c d Jakob Matschenz: Life and Work . In: Kino.de . Retrieved November 28, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c Peter Zander: Jacob Matschenz has "such a strange complex" . Portrait and report. In: Berliner Morgenpost from September 20, 2010. Retrieved November 28, 2017
  4. ↑ a b c d Jacob Matschenz: Promising young star ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Portrait via JM Official website ZDF . Retrieved November 28, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zdf.de
  5. ↑ Jakob Matschenz: Life and Work . In: Kino.de . Retrieved November 28, 2017.
  6. ↑ Peter Zander: Jacob Matschenz has "such a strange complex" . Portrait and report. In: Berliner Morgenpost from September 20, 2010. Retrieved November 28, 2017
  7. ↑ Jacob Matschenz: Promising young star ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Portrait via JM Official website ZDF . Retrieved November 28, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zdf.de
  8. ↑ Jacob Matschenz as Martin Schelling (25, fictional) . Role profile on Das Erste .
  9. ↑ Land of milk and honey . Official website of the Hamburger Kammerspiele . Retrieved November 27, 2017.
  10. ^ Revolution in the land of milk and honey fails . NDR.de, October 3, 2017. Retrieved November 27, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Matschenz, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin