Joachim Hall (actor)

Joachim Hall , also Achim Hall , (born August 4, 1941 ) in Braunschweig , is a German actor, director, speaker and TV puppeteer.

Life

After graduating from the Martino-Katharineum in Braunschweig, Hall studied art history, philosophy, pedagogy and theater studies in Tübingen and Munich. After further training as an actor and TV puppeteer, he worked on off-, private and city theater stages in Tübingen, Munich, Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Esslingen.

Together with other local artists, he founded the off-theater TIK (Theater in der Kreide) in Munich in 1969 and worked there for over ten years as managing director, dramaturge, director and actor. During this time, in addition to world premieres of Gert Heidenreich's pieces, there were also new versions of classics in the style of Ariane Mnouchkin , as well as a production of Bertolt Brecht's "Threepenny Opera" (with Achim Hall in the role of Macheath), which were performed over 200 in Munich and in cooperation achieved with the Goethe-Institut abroad.

As a television actor, artistic speaker and TV puppeteer, he then followed engagements at German television and radio companies. As a puppeteer, he designed the characters in the NDR children's programs "Spencer" (title character in Hallo Spencer ) and "Rumpel" ("Oscar" relative in Sesame Street ). In 2007 he lent his voice to Astrid Lindgren's title character Tomte Tummetott in the animated film by the Hamburg production company TRIKK17 ( Grimme Prize 2008).

In 2009 he followed a tour engagement by the Eurostudio Landgraf for the stage version of the film "The Marriage of Maria Braun" by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, directed by Katja Wolff . In May of the same year he was represented on the jury of the Berlin Youth Media Festival.

Radio plays

2005: Lloyd Alexander : Taran and the Magic Mirror (Morda) - Director: Robert Schoen (children's radio play - SWR )

Radio features / documentation (selection)

2010: It's more like raining ink - The Hagedorn murder and a forbidden film - Author: Thomas Gaevert - SWR2 feature, 55 min.
2012: Long shadows - GDR border guards , the "Runge murder case" and a trial - Author: Thomas Gaevert - SWR2 feature, 55 min.

Web links

Joachim Hall in the Internet Movie Database (English)
It's more like raining ink ...
Long shadows
Joachim Hall Short biography as a member of the jury of the 18th Youth Media Festival Berlin

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Hall, Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hall, Achim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German actor, director, speaker and TV puppeteer
DATE OF BIRTH	4th August 1941

[1] ttp://www.hoerspielland.de/hl-2.1.3990.html

[2] ttp://www3.ndr.de/sendung/sesamstrasse/puppen/index.html