Jonathan Berlin

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Jonathan Berlin (2019)

Jonathan Berlin (* 1994 in Ulm ) is a German actor .

Life

Jonathan Berlin grew up as the second of three children in Günzburg in Swabia . At first he wanted to be a puppet player . From 2007 to 2012 he was a member of the Young Ensemble of the Ulm Theater . There he played u. a. Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream (2010) and Florindo in The Servant of Two Masters (2011). In 2012 he took on the role of Hagen in the operetta Die lustigen Nibelungen . In 2011 he worked at the Ulm Theater in the "martial and threatening figure" of Amok in the play Good Morning, Boys and Girls by Juli Zeh .

From September 2012 to November 2015, Berlin completed his acting training at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich.

In the 2013/14 season he appeared at the Münchner Kammerspiele as Johannes in episode 2 (Etienne) of the four-part theater series Schnapsbudenbestien - The Fall of a Family based on motifs by Émile Zola . From January 2015 he played at the Münchner Kammerspiele in the third year production of the Otto Falckenberg School with the title Glow! Box BRD . In 2015 he played the leading role of Ernö in Rebellen by Sándor Márai at the Münchner Kammerspiele (director: Swen Lasse Awe). From November 2015 he played in auditions at the Münchner Kammerspiele in the 2015/16 season (concept and direction: Boris Nikitin ).

In 2015 he received for his participation in “Glow! Box BRD ”won the ensemble award at the theater meeting of German-speaking acting students in Bochum .

Berlin had its first television roles in the children's and youth series Ein Fall für BARZ (2007) and Krimi.de (2010; as a pupil Philipp subsequently Netzangriff ). In the movie And Tomorrow I Am Dead (2012), Berlin embodied Benji, who had cystic fibrosis , the brother of the terminally ill, main female character Lea , played by Liv Lisa Fries . In the ZDF crime series Commissioner Lucas Berlin had in 2014 in the wake chain reaction a supporting role as a student Gregor.

In the ZDF three- parter Tannbach - Schicksal eines Dorfes (first broadcast: January 2015) he embodied Walter Imhoff, the son of the innkeeper Cilly Imhoff ( Inga Busch ), who was an ardent National Socialist with the Hitler Youth as a teenager and then, after the village was divided Tannbach, serving as a border soldier; Berlin also played his role as a border policeman who had a secret homosexual relationship in the sequel, which was broadcast in January 2018.

In the two-part television series Die Himmelsleiter - Sehnsucht nach Morgen (first broadcast: February 2015), he played Michel Roth, the son of the Cologne rubble woman Anna Roth ( Christiane Paul ), who tried to support her family in the post-war period. He was also in a leading role for the web series Raseiniai in front of the camera (director: Teresa Hoerl ). The series was produced by the band Claire and released in 2015. He also played one of the two leading male roles in the short film Terrier (director: Ozan Mermer), which premiered in 2016 at the Max Ophüls Preis film festival .

In autumn 2015 he was seen in the ZDF crime series Der Alte (as a Munich Corps student) and Notruf Hafenkante (as a trainee at a Hamburg funeral home). In February 2016, Berlin was also seen in a leading role in the ZDF television series Der Bergdoktor ; he played the young philosophy student David Richter , who was suffering from bone cancer . In December 2016, the ZDF TV series SOKO Munich followed another episode lead role as a law student interested in serial murders and a friend of the female murder victim.

In the fairy tale film Prince Himmelblau and Fee Lupine (first broadcast: December 2016), he embodied the male lead, the young Prince Himmelblau, who wants to choose his bride himself. In the ZDF crime series Helen Dorn , he played the drug addict Tristan in the crime thriller Gnadenlos (first broadcast: January 2017), who has a sex relationship with a married criminal judge ( Heino Ferch ) and dreams of being with his friend, an escaped intensive care offender ( Sebastian Urzendowsky ) to start a new life in the USA.

In the coming-of-age film Die Freibadclique (2017), Berlin took on one of the leading roles alongside Theo Trebs ; As “uncle” he embodied one of the two central characters from a clique of 16-year-old boys from Schwäbisch Hall who, despite the war propaganda and the heroism prescribed by the “ Führer ”, want to live their dream of swing music , sex and freedom . In April 2018 he received the new faces award, the most important prize for young actors in Germany, for this performance , and in September 2018 he was awarded the German Acting Prize in the young talent category. In the film drama Schneeblind (2017), set in the Black Forest in the winter of 1946 and the directorial debut of director Arto Sebastian , Berlin played the 16-year-old blind Peter, who was on the run from the Allies with his father, a former SS officer wants to cross the border into Switzerland .

In 2018, Berlin played the main role of Edgar Bendler in the ARD television film Kruso alongside Albrecht Schuch as Kruso, who spends the summer of 1989 on the island of Hiddensee after the accidental death of his girlfriend . In the television film Nachts baden (2019) he played one of the main roles, the young business informatics student Kasimir, who wants a relationship with his fellow student, but at the same time feels drawn to her mother, the rock musician Pola ( Maria Furtwängler ). Berlin plays one of the leading roles in the three-part ZDF miniseries Preis der Freiheit (2019): Markus Welsch, an employee of the GDR's Commercial Coordination Department , who also acts as the off-narrator for the film.

Berlin now lives in Berlin.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Jonathan Berlin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Jonathan Berlin Profile and Vita at Schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved January 17, 2015
  2. ↑ a b c Jonathan Berlin ; Vita. Otto Falckenberg School . Retrieved November 20, 2015.
  3. ↑ Dragonslayer meets Amazone performance review in: Südwestpresse from July 2nd, 2012. Accessed January 17th, 2015
  4. ↑ From the inner workings of a gunman, performance review in: Augsburger Allgemeine from October 10, 2011. Retrieved on January 17, 2015
  5. ↑ Schnapsbudenbestien - The case of a family  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Occupation. Official website of the Münchner Kammerspiele . Retrieved January 17, 2015@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / muenchner-kammerspiele.de  
  6. ↑ Terrier ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Official website of the Max Ophüls Preis film festival . Retrieved April 12, 2016.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.max-ophuels-preis.de
  7. ^ Nazi drama "Die Freibadclique" on ARD: Sex and War . In: DER SPIEGEL of March 28, 2018. Retrieved March 28, 2018.
  8. ↑ Germany: Jonathan Berlin and Lisa Vicari honored as best young actors . In: ZEIT ONLINE . ( zeit.de [accessed on May 8, 2018]).
  9. ^ German Acting Award: The Night of the Winners . Article dated September 14, 2018, accessed September 14, 2018.
  10. ↑ Debut in the third: Schneeblind . Official website of the SWR. Retrieved April 12, 2016.
  11. ↑ SNOW BLIND . Plot and cast. Official website of the 2017 Biberach Film Festival. Accessed November 25, 2018.
  12. ↑ Kruso . Official website Das Erste . Retrieved September 27, 2018.
  13. ↑ ANTI-MACHO WITH ATTITUDE: Jonathan Berlin today in the ARD film “Nachts baden” . In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung of September 25, 2019. Accessed on September 29, 2019.
  14. ↑ Interview with Jonathan Berlin . Official website Das Erste . Retrieved September 29, 2019.
  15. ↑ Multi-part "Price of Freedom" . TV review. Tittelbach.tv . Retrieved October 31, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Berlin, Jonathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm