Johannes Walenta

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Johannes Walenta (born October 6, 1991 in Potsdam ) is a German voice actor , illustrator , 3D artist, musician and photographer .

Life

Johannes Walenta grew up in Potsdam, where he attended the Evangelisches Gymnasium Hermannswerder in a high-speed class . His younger brother Leonard Walenta, the beat producer Fewtile, also worked a few times in the dubbing business. Johannes Walenta studied communication design / illustration in Halle at Burg Giebichenstein from 2010 to 2016 .

In terms of music, Johannes Walenta initially worked as a keyboardist for the Potsdam rock band Sidewalk , which was founded in 2006 and existed until 2009. He is currently the keyboard player of the Potsdam band Stonehenge, which was founded in 2010 .

synchronization

At the beginning of 2004, his piano teacher arranged the first contact with the dubbing company of Babelsberg Studios . His successful participation in several reading competitions and his sense of rhythm through his musical education should prove to be a good preparatory exercise for dubbing. The first role, which only consisted of one sentence, spoke Walenta for a series of the KiKA . This was followed by smaller offers for movies up to the invitation of the casting for the main character in Roman Polański's Charles Dickens film adaptation. He was selected from four applicants for the role of Oliver Twist . The sound recordings took place over five afternoons in November 2005.

Since then, Walenta has received major dubbing jobs and has starred in several films. In 2006 he dubbed Cameron Bright in Thank You for Smoking , in the action thriller Running Scared and its guest appearances in the science fiction series Stargate - Kommando SG-1 . He had comedic roles in The Bears Are Going on as Tanner Boyle and in Evan Almighty for Johnny Simmons . In the award-winning Belgian youth drama Abseits for Gilles , which opened in German cinemas in 2008, he was heard in the leading role of the same name and in the Norwegian literary film adaptation of The Orange Girl , he lent his voice to the main character Georg in 2009 . In the same year he voiced Josh Hutcherson in the adventure film Journey to the Center of the Earth , the first film adaptation of the Jules Verne book series. In the second part, The Journey to the Mysterious Island, he was heard again in 2012 as Sean Anderson .

In television series, for example, Johannes Walenta could be heard as protagonist Aang in the Nickelodeon cartoon series Avatar - The Lord of the Elements from 2006 to 2008 . In the second season of the mystery series Ghost Whisperer - Voices from the Beyond , which was broadcast on kabel eins in 2007 , he spoke Ned Banks and in the Canadian sitcom Teen Buzz , which Super RTL showed for the first time from 2008 to 2009, he took on the role of Michael Davies . In the 2010 teen drama series The Secret Life of the American Teenager , he got the role of the good-natured Ben Boykewich . In the fantasy television series Locke & Key , published in 2020 on Netflix, he is the German dubbing voice of Tyler Locke , who is one of the main protagonists of this comic adaptation.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homepage of the band Sidewalk. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 27, 2013 ; Retrieved December 19, 2011 .
  2. ^ Johannes Walenta: Official website of the band Stonehenge. Retrieved May 21, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Katrin Bischoff: The voice of Oliver Twist. Berliner Zeitung, January 2, 2006, accessed December 19, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Dieter Salzmann: The voice of Oliver Twist. Berliner Morgenpost, January 9, 2006, accessed on December 19, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Walenta, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam