Joachim Kaps

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Joachim Kaps at the tenants' festival 2013 in Berlin-Marzahn

Joachim Kaps (born November 3, 1952 in Görlitz ) is a German actor and voice actor .

Life

Joachim Kaps studied acting at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin . He then worked from 1976 to 1979 at the South Thuringian State Theater in Meiningen , where he appeared in 27 roles in three seasons. In 1979 he switched to the pantomime ensemble at the Deutsches Theater Berlin. At the same time he made a guest appearance at the Volksbühne Berlin on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. At this time he also began working for television, where he has appeared more than 200 times to date. He played the clownish host "Achim" on the children's program Brummkreisel a hundred times alone . Another well-known role was from 1983 to 1989 that of "Hans-Günther Koch" in the TV series of the GDR television holiday home Bergkristall . Thanks to his distinctive voice, he has also been active as a voice actor, speaker of audio books and in radio plays and since the turn of advertising for just as long. He spoke in more than 400 radio productions.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Kaps worked at the Berlin Theater Manufactory in the Schaubühne on Halleschen Ufer . For his role in the film Sherlock Holmes & the 7 Dwarfs , he was awarded the Golden Sparrow at the Gera Children's Film Festival. Other well-known roles were that of a criminal defense attorney in several episodes of the television series In the Name of the Law , the children's film Spuk aus der Gruft as well as guest roles in series such as In All Friendship and Einstein Castle . For the latter, he received another Golden Sparrow in Gera in 1999. As a narrator, he is known for several roles in the anime series Digimon . But also in the cartoon series Mummies Alive - The Guardians of the Pharaoh , he gave one of the main characters his distinctive voice. He is also the German voice of Tigger from Winnie the Pooh . In addition, since 2015, as the successor to the late Eberhard Prüter , Kaps has been synchronizing Thaddäus Tentacles in the cartoon series SpongeBob SquarePants . Since 2006 he has been employed at the Berlin Criminal Theater . His best known dubbing work was for Steve Zahn in " Crimson Tide " and David Schofield in " Gladiator ". Since 2012, Kaps can be seen in the role of Colonel von Schadowitz at the annual Krabat Festival at the Krabat-Mühle Schwarzkollm adventure farm . Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book is one of his works as an audio book speaker .

Joachim Kaps is the father of Susanne Kaps .

Filmography (selection)

Synchronous rollers (selection)

Movies

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Radio plays

Video games

Web links

Commons : Joachim Kaps  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joachim Kaps in SpongePedia (August 26, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Kaps, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd November 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Goerlitz