Joachim Meyerhoff

Joachim Meyerhoff as Kreon in Antigone , Burgtheater 2015

Joachim Philipp Maria Meyerhoff (* 1967 in Homburg ) is a German actor , director and writer .

Life

family

Joachim Meyerhoff was born as the youngest son of the psychiatrist Hermann Meyerhoff (1935–1993) and his wife Susanne Meyerhoff (* 1937). From 1972, his father was the medical director of child and adolescent psychiatry in Hesterberg , Schleswig-Holstein. The family lived in a building on the clinic grounds. Joachim Meyerhoff spent his childhood there with two older brothers, Martin and Hermann. In 1985, Martin, his middle brother, died in a car accident while Joachim was in the United States for a year. He is the grandson of actress Inge Birkmann , who was married to the philosopher Hermann Krings for the second time .

With the castle actress Christiane von Poelnitz, Joachim Meyerhoff has two daughters and a son from another relationship. Until 2019 he lived in Vienna and since then he has lived in Berlin.

Artistic career

After returning from the USA, Joachim Meyerhoff graduated from high school and initially wanted to do community service as a swimming master in the hospital on the right of the Isar in Munich . Instead, he trained as an actor from 1989 to 1992 at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich. After engagements at the Staatstheater Kassel , in Bielefeld , Dortmund and at the stages of the city of Cologne , he became a member of the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin in 2001 , where he often directed. In 2002 he moved to the Deutsche Schauspielhaus in Hamburg , where he remained committed until 2005 and played in productions by Jan Bosse and Sebastian Hartmann , among others . From September 2005 Joachim Meyerhoff was a member of the Vienna Burgtheater ensemble . After the end of the 2018/19 season, Meyerhoff moved to the Berlin Schaubühne . Meyerhoff is also on stage in individual pieces at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg.

In addition to his acting activities, Joachim Meyerhoff also regularly designs his own programs. His project All the dead fly high regularly kept the house full at the Burgtheater in Vienna. In this autobiographical program, divided into six parts, Meyerhoff tells his own story and that of his family. He reports on his siblings, his grandparents in Munich, his father, growing up on the prison grounds and his exchange year in America. The first three parts of this series were invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen 2009 . Between 2011 and 2020, five parts were published in book form by Kiepenheuer & Witsch ; the latter both were created without a previous stage template. In 2017 Meyerhoff suffered a stroke with temporary paralysis of the left half of the body. In September 2020 the novel "Hamster im hinter Stromgebiet" will be published, in which Meyerhoff also deals with the consequences of this serious illness on his life and his artistic work.

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Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg

• 2002: Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen , director: Sandra Strunz
• 2003: As You Like It by William Shakespeare , directed by Jürgen Gosch
• 2002: Before / After by Roland Schimmelpfennig , Director: Jürgen Gosch
• 2004: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett , directed by Jan Bosse
• 2004: The Broken Jug by Heinrich von Kleist , Director: Jürgen Gosch
• 2004: Mephisto in Faust I by Johann Wolfgang Goethe , director: Jan Bosse
• 2014: The School of Women in Molière , role: Arnolphe, director: Herbert Fritsch
• 2018: The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare , role: Shylock, director: Karin Beier

Schauspielhaus Zurich

• 2007: Hamlet by William Shakespeare , role: Hamlet, director: Jan Bosse

Burgtheater Vienna

• 2005: We want the Messiah now or Accelerated family of Franzobel , Role: Jesus, directed by Karin Beier
• 2005: Kleinbürger by Maxim Gorki , role: Tetrew, director: Karin Beier
• 2006: Torquato Tasso by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , role: Alfons II, the Duke of Ferrara, director: Stephan Kimmig
• 2006: Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare , role: Benedikt, director: Jan Bosse , Salzburg Festival
• 2006: Hell fear by Johann Nestroy , role: Thuming, director: Martin Kušej (coproduction with the Salzburg Festival )
• 2007: The Storm by William Shakespeare , Role: Ariel, Directed by Barbara Frey
• 2007: The Karamazov Brothers by Fyodor M. Dostojewski , role: Ivan, director: Nicolas Stemann
• 2008: The God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza , role: Alain Reille, director: Dieter Giesing
• 2008: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee , role: George, director: Jan Bosse
• 2009: Mea Culpa - A ReadyMadeOper by Christoph Schlingensief , director: Christoph Schlingensief
• 2009: Faust I as a substitute for the injured Gert Voss , director: Matthias Hartmann
• 2009: Faust II , directed by Matthias Hartmann
• 2010: Othello by William Shakespeare , role: Othello, director: Jan Bosse
• 2010: What you want from William Shakespeare , role: Malvolio, director: Matthias Hartmann
• 2011: Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler , role: Prof. Bernhardi, director: Dieter Giesing
• 2011: Die Kommune , by Mogens Rukov, Thomas Vinterberg Role: Erik, Director: Thomas Vinterberg
• 2012: Robinson Crusoe , role: Robinson Crusoe, director: Jan Bosse
• 2012: The Ignorant and the Insane by Thomas Bernhard , role: Doctor
• 2013: Tartuffe by Molière , role: Tartuffe, staging: Luc Bondy
• 2014: Danton's death by Georg Büchner , role: Danton, director: Jan Bosse
• 2015: The Imaginary Invalid by Molière , Role: Argan, directed by Herbert Fritsch
• 2016: Bella Figura by Yasmina Reza , role: Boris, director: Dieter Giesing
• 2017: The world behind you by Thomas Melle , director: Jan Bosse
• 2017: An enemy of the people by Henrik Ibsen , role: Doctor Tomas Stockmann, director: Jette Steckel

Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin

• 2019: Amphitryon after Molière, role: Sosias, director: Herbert Fritsch

Filmography

• 2005: Tatort - Silent Days , directed by Thomas Jauch
• 2005: Double commitment - fling to death , directed by Peter Patzak
• 2011: Rubbeldiekatz , as a US director
• 2017: Bibi & Tina: Tohuwabohu Total , directed by Detlev Buck

Direction and projects

• 2001: Wenedikt Erofejews Moscow - Petushki
• 2003: Erich Kästner's Fabian
• 2005: When will it finally be the way it never was?
• 2006: Marathon: 2:04:55
• 2007–2009: All the dead fly high (Parts 1–3 invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen 2009)
  • 2007: All the Dead Fly Up, Part 1: America
  • 2008: All Dead Fly Up, Part 2: At Home in Psychiatry
  • 2008: All the Dead Fly Up, Part 3: My Grandmother's Legs
  • 2008: All the Dead Fly Up, Part 4: Theory and Practice
  • 2009: All the dead fly high, part 5: Today you would be twelve
  • 2009: All the Dead Fly Up, Part 6: Oh this void, this horrific void

Literary works

• America . In: All the dead fly high . No. 1 . Kiepenheuer & Witsch , Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-462-04292-4 .
• When is it going to be the way it has never been . In: All the dead fly high . No. 2 . Kiepenheuer & Witsch , Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-462-04516-1 .
• Oh, this gap, this terrible gap . In: All the dead fly high . No. 3 . Kiepenheuer & Witsch , Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-462-04828-5 .
• The togetherness of loners . In: All the dead fly high . No. 4 . Kiepenheuer & Witsch , Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-462-04944-2 .
• Hamster in the rear stream area . In: All the dead fly high . No. 5 . Kiepenheuer & Witsch , Cologne 2020, ISBN 978-3-462-00024-5 .

honors and awards

• 2006: Nestroy Theater Prize - Nomination - Best Actor for Overall Acting Performance in the 2005/06 season
• 2007: Nestroy Theater Prize - Nomination - Best Actor Benedict in " Much Ado About Nothing "
• 2007: Actor of the Year - Critics' Prize from the specialist journal " Theater heute "
• 2011: Nestroy Theater Prize - Nomination - Best Actor Professor Bernhardi in " Professor Bernhardi "
• 2011: Franz Tumler Literature Prize for the novel “ All the dead fly high. America "
• 2012: Nestroy Theater Prize - Best Actor Erek in " The Commune "
• 2012: Sponsorship award for the Bremen Literature Prize for the novel “ All dead fly high. America "
• 2014: Rolf Mares Prize - Outstanding performance as a performer in “ The School of Women ”, Schauspielhaus Hamburg
• 2016: Nicolas Born Prize (debut prize)
• 2016: Euregio pupil literature prize for " When will it finally be like it never was again "
• 2017: Carl Zuckmayer Medal
• 2017: German audio book award in the category "Best Entertainment" for his reading " Oh, this gap, this terrible gap "
• 2017: Admission to the Berlin Academy of the Arts
• 2017: Actor of the Year
• 2017: Nestroy Theater Prize - Best Actor for " The World at Your Back "
• 2019: Gustaf Gründgens Prize
• 2019: Bavarian Book Prize : Honorary Prize of the Prime Minister

See also

• Burgtheater occupations from 2013 to 2014
• Burgtheater casts from 2014

literature

Alexander Košenina: Lawbreaker: Joachim Meyerhoff's literary self-invention of the actor . In: Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 67 (2017), pp. 339–346.

Web links

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

• Literature by and about Joachim Meyerhoff in the catalog of the German National Library
• Joachim Meyerhoff in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Joachim Meyerhoff at filmportal.de
• Joachim Meyerhoff at the Horwitz + Fromm agency
• Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg: Joachim Meyerhoff. Retrieved February 17, 2018 . 

• WDR 5 table talk: actor and author Joachim Meyerhoff . In: WDR 5 . Westdeutscher Rundfunk, January 17, 2018, accessed on February 17, 2018 . 
• One to one. The talk. Joachim Meyerhoff, actor. In: Eins zu Eins (a talk show by Bavarian Radio). 2016, accessed on September 7, 2018 (repeated on 2018-09-06). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ute Koithan, Tanja Mayr-Sieber, Helen Schmitz, Ralf Sonntag: Aspects junior C1. Exercise book with audios: intermediate level German . Klett Sprachen GmbH, 2019, ISBN 978-3-12-605259-7 ( google.de [accessed June 30, 2020]).
2. ↑ shz.de; When Stoltenberg was lying in the mud
3. ↑ Meyerhoff reports on this in his autobiographical novel When will it finally be like it never was again .
4. ↑ Meyerhoff, Joachim, 1967-: America. 3rd edition Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-462-04292-4 .
5. ^ Joachim Meyerhoff: All dead flies high - America . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, ISBN 978-3-462-04436-2 , pp. 321 .
6. ^ Kester Schlenz: bestselling author Joachim Meyerhoff about great successes and even greater self-doubt. In: stern.de. November 12, 2017, accessed January 31, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Meyerhoff reports on this in his autobiographical novel Ach, this gap, this appalling gap .
8. ↑ Joachim Meyerhoff: “Today's young people are great!” In: Aachener Zeitung . ( Online [accessed May 3, 2018]).
9. ↑ Joachim Meyerhoff: "I never recovered from the loss of my brother" . In: Tagesspiegel . ( Online [accessed October 12, 2019]).
10. ↑ Meyerhoff reports on this in his autobiographical novel Ach, this gap, this appalling gap .
11. ↑ Actor Joachim Meyerhoff goes to Berlin , nachtkritik.de, published and accessed June 3, 2019
12. ^ Ensemble. Retrieved September 1, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Joachim Meyerhoff. Retrieved September 1, 2019 . 
14. ↑ All the dead fly high. (No longer available online.) Burgtheater Vienna, 2012, archived from the original on February 26, 2012 ; accessed on January 8, 2018 . 
15. ↑ Christian Rakow: All dead fly high. Part 1: America. Nachtkritik.de, March 23, 2011, accessed on March 28, 2011 (review). 
16. ↑ Joachim Meyerhoff | Kiepenheuer & Witsch , kiwi-verlag.de, accessed on August 26, 2020
17. ↑ ZEIT ONLINE | I knew immediately what was happening to me. Retrieved August 28, 2020 . 
18. ^ ^{A b} Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg: Joachim Meyerhoff. In: Deutsches Schauspielhaus . Retrieved December 10, 2018 . 
19. ↑ Annette Stiekele: Hamburgs Theatermacher: Rolf Mares Prize for the first time for an entire ensemble. Hamburger Abendblatt Online, October 27, 2014, accessed on October 27, 2014 . 
20. ↑ Interview with Joachim Meyerhoff. (No longer available online.) Aachener Nachrichten, April 21, 2016, archived from the original on February 18, 2018 ; accessed on February 17, 2018 . 
21. ↑ Four female authors included. boersenblatt.net, July 7, 2017, accessed February 17, 2018 . 
22. ↑ Joachim Meyerhoff voted "Actor of the Year". derStandard.at, August 31, 2017, accessed on February 17, 2018 . 
23. ^ Nestroy Awards: Meyerhoff and Jonasson best actors. derStandard.at, November 13, 2017, accessed on February 17, 2018 . 
24. ^ Gustaf Gründgens Prize to Joachim Meyerhoff. In: derStandard.at. February 14, 2019, accessed February 14, 2019 .