Jan Koester
Jan Koester (born December 29, 1953 in Braunschweig ) is a German actor , artistic speaker, word director in his own audio book edition, theater and music publisher NOA NOA.
Life
Koester was discovered for the film at the age of ten. His main roles were: Goat Peter in Spyri's film Heidi , Harry in Jack Popplewell's playground. In 1970 he took on the lead role in the popular youth problem film Angels Who Burn Their Wings , directed by Zbynek Brynich: "Two adolescent children slay their mothers' lovers in a luxury high-rise in Munich and, cornered, commit suicide".
After completing the stage entrance examination, Jan Koester played at the Münchner Kammerspiele, undertook a theater tour, was engaged at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, at the Bavarian State Opera (Graf Thorn in Penderecki's Ubu Rex 1993–1995), Akademietheater Munich. took on various theater guest roles. In 1980 Jan Koester played a double role Martellino / Minghino from Boccaccio's Decamerone in an international co-production with BR. His most important directors were Maximilian Schell (voice of John Moulder-Brown in his Oscar-nominated debut film First Love ( First Love after Ivan Turgenev)), Wolfgang Petersen, Wolfgang Staudte, Helmut Dietl, Michael Verhoeven, Franz Seitz, Norbert Kückelmann, Oswald Döpke, August Everding, Thomas Bohn (two crime scenes, SWR, NDR)
In 1995 Jan Koester launched the NOA NOA audio book edition with his wife Ernie Wilhelmi. The focus is on radio plays, audio documents and publications by Hans-Christian Blech and Ernie Wilhelmi. Other protagonists: Achim Höppner, Ulrich Matthes, Jens Harzer, Hans Kremer, Siemen Rühaak, Stefan Hunstein, Jacques Breuer, Daniel Friedrich. In addition to his acting work, Jan Koester has been working as a voice actor, speaker for radio stations, in numerous films, as an audio book speaker and word director since 1963. He dubbed Michael J. Fox in the family series Plenty of Family and is a voice-over speaker (Carlos Kleiber).
Filmography (selection)
- 1964: Happy ending at Lake Wörthersee
- 1965: Heidi
- 1966: Playground (TV)
- 1967: Blood flowed on Blendings Castle (TV)
- 1967: The Crime Museum (TV series) - The travel bag
- 1968: Peter and Sabine
- 1968: Always trouble with the timpani
- 1970: The Commissioner (TV series) - ... like wolves
- 1970: Hurray, our parents are not there
- 1970: Angels Burning Their Wings
- 1970: Fresh, pious, happy, free
- 1974 As curious as a child
- 1972: My daughter - your daughter
- 1977: Plan exercise (TV)
- 1980: Decamerone (BR)
- 1982: the white rose
- 1983: The Return of Dreams (TV)
- 1983: Solidarity film for Amnesty International (first prize in Cannes)
- 1988: The Investigator (Director: Max Färberböck)
- 1995: Tatort - The Campaign (SWR, NDR, Director: Thomas Bohn)
- 1995: Forester's House Falkenau - The Intrigue
- 1998: Forsthaus Falkenau - love at first sight
- 2003: Tatort - Tough Dogs
- 2011: I never told you (ZDF)
- 2013: Krailling's double murderer (Sat 1)
- 2013: The Habsburgs (role: Hermann Göring) (ZDF)
Remarks
- ↑ cit. According to Lexicon of International Films, Volume 2 DF, p. 867 f., Reinbek b. Hamburg 1987
- ↑ http://www.noa-noa-hoerbuch.de/jan/index.html
Web links
- January Koester in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- http://www.noa-noa-hoerbuch.de/ (audio samples at audible.de under the name Jan Koester)
- Acting demo tape: http://filmmakers.de/actor/view?rid=e3ec0962fbbcc0c7a38234535ade53c7&searchid=388852389
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koester, Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 29, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |