Jan Viethen

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Jan Viethen (* 1978 in Aachen ) is a German actor .

Life

Jan Viethen grew up in the Rhineland. From 2000 to 2004 he studied at the Folkwang University of the Arts , where he graduated with an acting diploma. He also received training in acrobatics , contemporary dance, stick fighting and clowning . During his training he made guest appearances in productions at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus , a. a. as choir leader in Die Bakchen . In 2003 he was awarded the Folkwang Prize for his role as Khaled in Ilan Hatsors piece hooded excellent.

From 2004 to 2007 he had his first permanent engagement at the Aachen Theater . There he played u. a. Stanley Kowalski in Endstation Sehnsucht (Director: Ludger Engels ), Hänschen Rilow in Spring Awakening (Director: Christian Sedelmayer ) and the Doctor Fleischer in Der Biberpelz (Director: Uwe Dag Berlin ). Since then he has worked exclusively as a freelance actor. This was followed by engagements at the Nationaltheater Mannheim (from 2007, as Melchior Gabor in Spring Awakening , director: Simon Solberg ) and in the Berlin Sophiensælen (2008–2009).

From 2008 to 2015 he performed at the Munich Volkstheater . There he played u. a. the title hero in Faust , Lionel in The Maid of Orleans and Harding in One flew over the cuckoo's nest , where he worked with Simon Solberg. Between 2009 and 2015 he was a regular guest at Theater Basel . Here u. a. Spiegelberg / Swiss in The Robbers , Dr. Hahn / Minister of the Interior in Graf Öderland , Marquis von Posa in Don Karlos , again directed by Simon Solberg, as well as Eisenring / Carlos Sika in Biedermann und die Brandstifter (Director: Volker Lösch ) and Ernesto Roma in The Resistant Rise of Arturo Ui (Director: Robert Gerloff ) on his roles.

In 2013 he was a guest at the Theater am Neumarkt in Zurich as Vincenzo in Rocco and his brothers (director: Peter Kastenmüller ). He had other guest engagements at the Nationaltheater Weimar (2015), at the State Opera Hanover (2015-2018, with Daniel Drewes in Candide ), at the Volksbühne Berlin (2017), at the Theater an der Parkaue (2017, as Erich Spitta in Die Ratten , Director: Katrin Hentschel ) and at the Oberhausen Theater (2019, inter alia as Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream ). He is also frequently active as an actor and author in the independent theater scene. In the 2019/20 season he will be a guest author and actor at the Berlin ACUD Theater .

In addition to his theater work, Viethen has worked in feature films, short films and several TV productions such as Stromberg , Pastewka and SOKO Cologne . In the 7th season of the ZDF series Heldt (2019) he took on one of the episode roles as Viennese guest commissioner Major S. Mayerhofer.

Viethen lives in Berlin .

Filmography (selection)

  • 2004-2005; 2012: Stromberg (TV series)
  • 2005: Arnie's World (TV movie)
  • 2007: No longer works (movie)
  • 2009: Pastewka : The Tariff (TV series, an episode)
  • 2009: SOKO Cologne : Fruits of Anger (TV series, an episode)
  • 2019: Heldt : The Man from Vienna (TV series, one episode)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Jan Viethen at schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved November 21, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Jan Viethen . Profile and vita at CASTFORWARD. Retrieved November 21, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b c d Jan Viethen . Vita. Oberhausen Theater . Retrieved November 21, 2019.
  4. ↑ Faust - Gone with the Wind . Theater reviews Munich. Retrieved November 21, 2019.
  5. ↑ ONE FLY OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST . Production details and trailer. Retrieved November 21, 2019.
  6. ↑ Everything crazy or what? . Performance review at Nachtkritik.de on May 7, 2011. Accessed November 21, 2019.
  7. ^ Leonard Bernstein's "Candide" in the Hanover State Opera . Production details at Theaterkompass.de. Retrieved November 21, 2019.
  8. ↑ Paul-Georg Dittrich stages the “Midsummer Night's Dream” as a multimedia spectacle . In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine, June 4, 2019. Retrieved November 21, 2019.
  9. ↑ MATE . Retrieved November 21, 2019.
  10. ↑ Heldt: The man from Vienna . Plot and cast. Official website of the ZDF . Retrieved November 21, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Viethen, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen