Jost Leers

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Jost Leers

Jost Leers (* in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German actor.

Leers received his training as an actor at the University of Music and Theater in Hanover and started his first engagement at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. Further stations: Celle, Frankfurt, Würzburg and from 1973 the Braunschweig State Theater. He was a permanent member of the ensemble there until 2003 and then made guest appearances in Magdeburg and Braunschweig. In addition to his stage work, Jost Leers has organized many readings (Lessing, Busch, Heine, Kästner, Tucholsky etc.) and is always putting together new programs.

Theatrography (selection)

• The double bass
• My Fair Lady (Lerner / Loewe): Colonel Pickering
• Arsenic and lace : Abby
• Othello mustn't burst : Director Saunders
• Nathan the Wise ( Lessing ): monastery brother
• Report to an academy : Red Peter, the monkey
• Six people are looking for an author ( Luigi Pirandello ): Father
• Amphitryon (Kleist): Sosias
• Mein Kampf ( George Tabori ): Schlomo Herzl
• Weisman and Red Face : Weisman
• What you want ( William Shakespeare ): Bleichenwang
• Hello Dolly : Cornelius
• The broken jug (Kleist): scribe light
• The Auditor ( Nikolai Gogol ): Chlestakow
• Barefoot in the park : Paul
• Scapin's pranks : Scapin
• Flea in the ear : Camille
• End stop longing (Tennessee Williams): Mitch
• A Midsummer Night's Dream ( William Shakespeare ): Puck
• The chaste bon vivant : Max Stieglitz
• Orpheus in the underworld : Styx
• King Lear ( William Shakespeare ): Fool
• Waiting for Godot ( Samuel Beckett ): tarragon
• Victor or the Children in Power ( Roger Vitrac ): Victor
• The difficult one ( Hugo von Hofmannsthal ): Stani
• Endgame ( Samuel Beckett ): Clov
• Above all magic love : Klarin

Film and television (selection)

• 1965 The Twins from Venice (Direction: Horst Braun): Florindo
• 1979 A chapter of its own (director: Eberhard Fechner): the French
• 1986 The Black Forest Clinic (director: Hans Jürgen Tögel): three episodes theater doctor
• 2008 The Painter (short film - director: Sandro Berndt)
• 2009 Of clowns and fish (short film - director: Sandro Berndt)
• 2010 Vis á vis : (Short film - Director: Christian Huck)

Readings

• Pictures and words by Jost Leers October 20, 2012 (texts by Erich Kästner ) in the SPIEGELSALON Berlin
• Beloved Impatience March 9, 2013 (Theodor and Emilie Fontane) in the Annette Schneeweiß gallery with Ulrike Luderer

Web links

• Jost Leers in the Internet Movie Database (English)