Jens Harzer

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Jens Harzer (born March 14, 1972 in Wiesbaden ) is a German actor and has been a holder of the Iffland-Ring since March 2019 .

Live and act

Jens Harzer was born in Wiesbaden in 1972 and grew up there. He discovered acting for himself as a student in the theater group of the high school at Mosbacher Berg. In addition, he was a talented middle-distance runner in his youth and took part in German championships. At the age of 19, Harzer applied for training at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich. The members of the examination committee initially had doubts because Harzer seemed too cautious about them. Then Jörg Hube , the head of the school at the time, practiced the role of St. Just from Danton's death with Harzer , whereupon Harzer passed the entrance exam.

Münchner Kammerspiele and Residenztheater

Before the end of his training at the Otto Falckenberg School, Harzer moved to the neighboring Münchner Kammerspiele under the direction of Dieter Dorn . In Dorn, Harzer found a sponsor to whom he felt connected in his "language obsession" and with whom he worked from 1992 for almost two decades. At the Kammerspiele, Harzer played great roles early on, such as Roberto Zucco , Urfaust , Torquato Tasso and Amphitryon . The world premiere of the play Ithaka by Botho Strauss under the direction of Dieter Dorn in 1996 was to be groundbreaking for Harzer's further career . Harzer, who stood in for a colleague at Dorn's request, played the son of Odysseus, who was embodied by Harzer's idol Bruno Ganz . Although it was their only joint production, Harzer and Ganz were closely linked from then on.

Harzer broke off a move to Thomas Ostermeier at the Berlin Schaubühne in 1999 after only one production and returned to Dieter Dorn in Munich. When Dorn moved from the Kammerspiele to the Residenztheater in 2001 , Harzer followed him there. During this time, Harzer made guest appearances at the Burgtheater in Vienna and the German Theater in Berlin. In 2008, the production of Uncle Vanya , directed by Jürgen Gosch, celebrated its premiere there, in which Harzer played the doctor Michail Lwowitsch Astrow. The production was a resounding success and was voted “Production of the Year” by the jury of Theater heute magazine . Ulrich Matthes and Harzer were jointly voted “Actor of the Year” in 2008 for their roles as Uncle Wanja and Astrow . The piece will still be part of the repertoire of the German theater in 2020.

Salzburg Festival

As early as 2000, in addition to his ensemble engagement in Munich, Harzer appeared regularly at the Salzburg Festival . From 2002 to 2004 he played the role of death in Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Jedermann in Christian Stückl's production . In 2011, Harzer was seen in the world premiere of Peter Handke's Immer noch Sturm directed by Dimiter Gotscheff in the role of the first-person narrator. The production was taken over by the Thalia Theater and will still be on the program there in 2020, nine years after the premiere.

Thalia Theater

In 2009, after 16 years in Dieter Dorn's ensemble, Harzer moved to the Thalia Theater in Hamburg , where Joachim Lux took over as artistic director that year. Since 2009, Harzer has been reading once a year in Hamburg from the interrogation protocols of the Nazi resistance fighter Georg Elser , for whom Harzer says he feels “great sympathy”. For his role as Marquis Posa in Schiller's Don Carlos , staged by Jette Steckel , Harzer was again named “Actor of the Year” in 2011 by the jury of the magazine Theater heute .

Harzer is a great advocate of the idea of ensemble theater . In 2017, in a laudation at the awarding of the Boy Gobert Prize , he warned not to increase the number of premieres and events and to concentrate on playing.

After the death of Bruno Ganz , his decision was announced in March 2019, with which he had designated Harzer as the new bearer of the Iffland-Ring . A few days earlier, Harzer read the funeral speech at Ganz's funeral service. The handover took place on June 16, 2019 in the Vienna Burgtheater .

Film, television and radio play

Although Harzer's focus has always remained on the theater, he occasionally takes part in cinema and television films. In Requiem by Hans-Christian Schmid in 2006 he was seen in the role of a Catholic priest, in Bülent Akıncıs Der Lebensversicherer also in 2006 as a suicidal representative. In 2016 he played the role of the writer in the film adaptation of The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez by Wim Wenders based on the two-person play of the same name by Peter Handke. He was seen on television in two Tatort films, the final episode of the Tatort Cleaner and in Babylon Berlin . Harzer is also involved in radio plays and audio books.

Jens Harzer lives in Hamburg. Since 2013 he has been a member of the Akademie der Künste , Berlin, in the performing arts section; He is also a member of the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg .

Reviews

Christine Dössel wrote in the Süddeutsche Zeitung about Jens Harzer's portrayal in Salzburg in 2004 in One Long Day's Journey into the Night by Eugene O'Neill that he had “... James Dean qualities, ... this feverish actor with the aura of a strange saint ... Harzer Watching is addictive. ”In the online edition of Die Zeit , Sigrid Neudecker judged his portrayal of a“ malicious receptionist ”in the last episode of the series Der Tatortreiniger that one“ could watch him in a loop if this would not make guest appearances by Olli Dittrich , Florian Lukas , Anneke Kim Sarnau , Charly Hübner or Bettina Stucky ”.

Theater roles

Munich Kammerspiele

Bavarian State Theater

  • 2002: The fool and his wife tonight in Pancomedia by Botho Strauss, role: Zacharias Werner, director: Dieter Dorn
  • 2003: The walls of Jean Genet , role: Said, director: Dieter Dorn
  • 2005: One and the other by Botho Strauss, role: Timm, director: Dieter Dorn
  • 2005: Die Bacchen von Euripides, role: Pentheus, director: Dieter Dorn
  • 2007: Woyzeck by Georg Büchner , role: Woyzeck, director: Martin Kušej
  • 2008: Molières Misanthrop by Molière / Botho Strauss, role: Alceste, director: Hans-Joachim Ruckhäberle
  • 2009: easy game. Nine people from a woman by Botho Strauss, director: Dieter Dorn

Thalia Theater

  • 2009: Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen , role: Peer Gynt, director: Jan Bosse
  • 2010: Children of the Sun by Maxim Gorki , role: Protassow, director: Luk Perceval
  • 2010: What you want from William Shakespeare, role: Malvolio, director: Jan Bosse
  • 2011: Don Carlos by Friedrich Schiller , role: Marquis von Posa, director: Jette Steckel
  • 2012: Quijote - Trip Between Worlds by Miguel de Cervantes , role: Quijote, director: Stefan Pucher
  • 2012: Platonow by Anton Chekhov , role: Platonow, director: Jan Bosse
  • 2012: A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, role: Puck, director: Stefan Pucher
  • 2013: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor M. Dostojewski , role: Iwan Karamazov, director: Luc Perceval
  • 2013: Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, role: Tesman, director: Jan Bosse
  • 2014: The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, role: Trigorin, director: Leander Haußmann
  • 2014: In the end of a love by Pascal Rambert
  • 2014: German lesson by Siegfried Lenz , role: Jens Ole Jepsen, director: Johan Simons
  • 2015: Das Käthchen von Heilbronn by Heinrich von Kleist, role: Graf vom Strahl, director: Bastian Kraft
  • 2015: Srebrenica - I counted my remaining life in seconds by Armin Smailovic / Branko Šimić, director: Branko Šimić
  • 2016: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett , role: Wladimir, director: Stefan Pucher
  • 2016: Der Schimmelreiter by Theodor Storm , role: Hauke ​​Haien, director: Johan Simons
  • 2017: Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand , role: Cyrano de Bergerac, director: Leander Haußmann
  • 2018: Fountainhead by Ayn Rand , role: Howard Roark, director: Johan Simons
  • 2018: Iran conference by Iwan Wyrypajew , role: Daniel Christensen, director: Matthias Günther
  • 2019: Amphitryon by Heinrich von Kleist, role: Amphitryon, director: Leander Haußmann

Salzburg Festival

Elsewhere

  • 2001: Oedipus von Sophokles , role: Oedipus, director: Jan Bosse, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg
  • 2004: Open pits, open windows by Werner Schwab , role: he, director: Jennifer Minetti , Schauspiel Frankfurt
  • 2004: On target by Thomas Bernhard , role: A dramatic writer, director: Jan Bosse, Schauspiel Frankfurt
  • 2005: Nights underground by Albert Ostermaier , director: Andrea Breth, Ruhrtriennale / Essen
  • 2008: Uncle Wanja by Anton Chekhov, role: Astrow, director: Jürgen Gosch , Deutsches Theater Berlin
  • 2011: The beautiful days of Aranjuez by Peter Handke, role: The man, director: Luc Bondy, Wiener Festwochen
  • 2018: Penthesilea by Heinrich von Kleist, role: Achilles, director: Johan Simons, Schauspielhaus Bochum
  • 2020: Ivanov by Anton Chekhov, role: Ivanov, director: Johan Simons, Schauspielhaus Bochum

Filmography

Radio plays and audio books

Awards

Web links

Commons : Jens Harzer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dpa: Award: Iffland-Ring for Jens Harzer - Bruno Ganz was his idol . In: The time . March 22, 2019, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed February 1, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Jens Harzer in conversation - kulturwest.de. Accessed February 1, 2020 (German).
  3. ↑ “You have to overcome shame” - DER SPIEGEL 8/2011. Accessed February 1, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Jens Harzer - DER SPIEGEL 11/1996. Accessed February 1, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Jens Harzer - DER SPIEGEL 11/1996. Accessed February 1, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Christian Rakow: Press review from August 14, 2011 - Actor Jens Harzer in the FAS about his experiences with the directors Dieter Dorn, Thomas Ostermeier and Jürgen Gosch. Accessed February 1, 2020 (German).
  7. ↑ Ingolf Kern: Portrait: Jens Harzer is looking for a new home . In: THE WORLD . January 11, 2008 ( welt.de [accessed February 1, 2020]).
  8. ^ Rolf Michaelis: First performance of Botho Strauss' "Ithaka" . In: The time . July 26, 1996, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed February 1, 2020]).
  9. ↑ Anke Dürr, DER SPIEGEL: Iffland ring for actor Jens Harzer: Portrait of the Thalia star - DER SPIEGEL - culture. Accessed February 1, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Jens Harzer - DER SPIEGEL 11/1996. Accessed February 1, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Thomas Rogers: Is This Ring an Honor, or a Curse? In: The New York Times . June 12, 2019, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed February 1, 2020]).
  12. ↑ Ingolf Kern: Portrait: Jens Harzer is looking for a new home . In: THE WORLD . January 11, 2008 ( welt.de [accessed February 1, 2020]).
  13. ↑ Christian Rakow: Press review from August 14, 2011 - Actor Jens Harzer in the FAS about his experiences with the directors Dieter Dorn, Thomas Ostermeier and Jürgen Gosch. Accessed February 1, 2020 (German).
  14. ↑ Berliner Festspiele: House of the Berliner Festspiele - Uncle Wanja. Accessed February 1, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Peter Kümmel: Jens Harzer and Ulrich Matthes: "Then I would cry!" In: The time . May 27, 2020, accessed June 22, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Salzburg Festival | Biography Jens Harzer. Accessed February 1, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Christine Dössel: Jens Harzer is a worthy Iffland Ring bearer. Retrieved February 4, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Still storm. Retrieved February 4, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Jens Harzer • Salzburg Festival. Accessed February 1, 2020 (German).
  20. ^ NDR: Jens Harzer on the Hitler assassin Georg Elser. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
  21. ↑ ULRICH FISCHER: Jens Harzer, Actor of the Year: twice the best . In: The daily newspaper: taz . August 26, 2011, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 22 ( taz.de [accessed February 9, 2020]).
  22. ↑ a b Nikolaus Merck: Press review from December 11, 2017 - The actor Jens Harzer gives the eulogy for the award of the Boy Gobert Prize to the young colleague Steffen Siegmund and tells the director of the Thalia Theater a few necessary truths. Accessed February 1, 2020 (German).
  23. ↑ Falk Schreiber: Award for a versatile man. December 11, 2017, accessed on February 1, 2020 (German).
  24. ↑ Anke Dürr, DER SPIEGEL: Iffland ring for actor Jens Harzer: Portrait of the Thalia star - DER SPIEGEL - culture. Accessed February 1, 2020 .
  25. ^ New members of the Akademie der Künste. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
  26. ↑ archimania.de: Members - Free Academy of Arts in Hamburg. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
  27. ↑ Dössel, Christine: Good morning, dear worries . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, August 16, 2004, p. 13.
  28. ↑ By Sigrid Neudecker: "Tatortreiniger": Please do not disappear without a trace! Retrieved January 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Harzer, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden