Jeff Wilbusch

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Jeff Wilbusch at the Berlinale 2018

Jeff Wilbusch (born 1987 in Haifa , Israel , as Isroel Iftach Wilbuschewitz ) is a German actor .

Life

Wilbusch, who has German and Dutch roots, grew up in Jerusalem . Many members of his family were German Jews who fled Germany during the Nazi era and emigrated to Palestine . During his school days he made music and played in a band ( The Jeff Project ). He first studied economics in the Netherlands , the home of his Dutch mother, and graduated with a master's degree. However, he then decided to become an actor and was accepted at an drama school in Israel. During the final phase of his master's thesis, he applied to the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich , where he then completed his acting studies from 2011 to 2015.

During his acting training he already played at the Münchner Kammerspiele . There he worked a. a. with the directors Johan Simons , Stephan Kimmig and Martin Kušej . In the 2012/13 season he worked there in Johan Simons' theater project Urban Prayers . In his third year of study he played the role of Schöning in Christiane Pohle's production Lulu. A monstrous tragedy ; He also took on the role of the servant in Die Neger, alongside Sylvana Krappatsch (Director: Johan Simons, 2014). In the 2014/15 season he was a permanent member of the ensemble of the Münchner Kammerspiele. At the Münchner Kammerspiele he performed a. a. in stories from the Vienna Woods (in the roles of Erich, Emma and Hierlinger, director: Stephan Kimmig, 2014), in Oops, we're dying! (Director: Johan Simons, 2015) and as Rovo in hunting scenes from Lower Bavaria (Director: Martin Kušej, 2015). He also played in productions by Johan Simons at the Ruhrtriennale (2015), the Wiener Festwochen (2014) and at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg (2014).

Wilbusch has been a permanent member of the ensemble at the Munich Residenztheater since the 2015/16 season . His previous roles there included a. Rovo in hunting scenes from Lower Bavaria (when taking over the Münchner Kammerspiele), Sextus Pompeius in Antonius and Cleopatra (director: Thomas Dannemann , 2015), Stronzo in Pinocchio (director: Thomas Birkmeir , 2015), Kadett Biegler in The Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk im World War (director: Frank Castorf , premiere: 2015/16 season) and Abe in Geächtet von Ayad Akhtar (director: Antoine Uitdehaag , premiere: 2015/16 season).

Wilbusch also took part in a few film roles, including a. as Max in the film once please everything , which premiered in January 2017 at the Max-Ophüls-Preis Festival . In April 2016 he was on television in the ARD series Um Himmels Willen in an episode role; he played the drug addict, Dutch " loverboy " Ben de Vries. In the German- Luxembourgish television series Bad Banks , the first episodes of which premiered on February 21, 2018 as part of the Berlinale 2018 in the Zoo Palast , Wilbusch played the role of Noah Weisz, the partner of the young banker Jana Liekam ( Paula Beer ).

In Polizeiruf 110: Crash (first broadcast: September 2018), Wilbusch had one of the main roles, as perfumery salesman René Helms, a “swanky gamer” who has trouble with “ loan sharks ”, and as a member of a group of rascals who “Le Magdeburg ”, drives illegal car races. In the 4th season of the ARD series Die Kanzlei (2018) he played one of the episode roles as educator Bernd Riedel, who is charged with assault . In the 17th season of the ZDF series SOKO Cologne (2018-2019) he took on one of the episode roles as a previously convicted fence on leave . In the 14th season of the ZDF series Der Staatsanwalt (2019) he also took on one of the episode roles as LKA special investigator Nikos Weber.

In 2020 he took on the role of Moische Lefkovitch in the Netflix miniseries Unorthodox .

Wilbusch lives in Berlin and has been in a relationship with actress Anna Platen since 2015 .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Jeff Wilbusch ; Profile and vita at Schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved May 5, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f I am the new one . Interview with Jeff Wilbusch. In: MucBook . Issued October 17, 2014. Retrieved May 5, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b Jeff Wilbusch ; Profile and vita at Castforward. Retrieved May 5, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Jeff Wilbusch . Vita. Official website of the Münchner Kammerspiele . Retrieved May 5, 2017.
  5. ↑ First great love: Episode 192 . Plot and cast. Official website Das Erste . Retrieved May 5, 2017.
  6. ↑ TELEVISION: One should have made more of the speeder “police call” . TV review. In: Berliner Morgenpost of September 23, 2018. Retrieved September 24, 2018.
  7. ↑ Foreign feathers . Plot and cast. Official website Das Erste . Retrieved November 28, 2018.
  8. ↑ guilt . Plot and cast. Official ZDF website . Retrieved January 7, 2019.
  9. ↑ THE STAATSANWALT - New episodes on ZDF . Press release from January 2, 2019. Official ZDF website . Retrieved February 8, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Wilbusch, Jeff
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilbuschewitz, Isroel Iftach
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli-German actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Haifa , Israel