Julian Greis

Julian Greis (born June 6, 1983 in Hattingen ) is a German actor .

Life

Greis grew up in Hattingen / North Rhine-Westphalia . During his school days at Waldstrasse grammar school, he spent a year in the USA as part of the parliamentary sponsorship program of the German Bundestag and the American Congress. He gained his first theater experience at the Junge Schauspielhaus Bochum , before completing his acting training at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts from 2003 to 2006 under the direction of Volker Canaris . During his studies he already played as a guest at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus and the Württembergische Landesbühne Esslingen . At the drama school meeting in Munich in 2006, he received the young talent award from the German Ministry of Education for his role in " Merlin or Das wüsten Land ". After completing his training, he worked at the Schauspielhaus Graz from 2006 to 2009 under the direction of Anna Badora . There he worked with Viktor Bodó , Tom Kühnel , Anna Badora, Christina Rast , Franz Wittenbrink and Ingo Berk, among others .

Since the 2009/2010 season he has been a permanent member of the ensemble at the Thalia Theater (Hamburg) under the direction of Joachim Lux . He works there a. a. with Jette Steckel , Antú Romero Nunes , Luk Perceval , Leander Haußmann , Maria Ursprung, Tiit Ojasoo, Christopher Rüping and Bastian Kraft .

In addition to the theater, Greis works as a film and television actor as well as a speaker for audio books and radio plays.

In December 2012 he was awarded the Boy Gobert Prize for young actors on Hamburg theaters by the Körber Foundation . In October 2014 he and his ensemble colleagues received the Rolf Mares Prize for best actor for their performance in "Moby Dick". In 2017 he was awarded the German Children's Audio Book Prize BEO for the audio book "George" and in 2018 for the audio book "What we thought, what we did" .

Theater works (selection)

Württemberg State Theater Esslingen

2005: Mother Courage by Bertolt Brecht - Director: Carlos Manuel - Feldwebel, Soldat

Wilhelma Theater Stuttgart

2006: Merlin or The Desert Land by Tankred Dorst - Director: Titus Georgi - Parzival, King of Cornwall, Sir Persant

Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus

2006: FernwehDROMOMANIA by Nicoletta Esinencu - Director: Andrej Kritenko - Mr. Makowka

Schauspielhaus Graz

2007: Sissi - a project - director: André Rößler - Kaiser Franz-Josef / Karl Heinz Böhm
2007: As You Like It by William Shakespeare - Directed by Anna Badora - Phoebe
2007: Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - Director: Viktor Bodó - Humpty Dumpty, Champignon, Diverse (invited to the Salzburg Festival 2009 and the radikal jung Festival 2008)
2008: Othello by Feridun Zaimoglu - Director: Christina Rast - Cassio
2008: Go West - a project by S. Stanicic, S. Wächter and T. Kühnel - director: Tom Kühnel - Johannes
2008: let's go! a recital by Franz Wittenbrink - Director: Franz Wittenbrink - Gregor der Piefke
2008: Builder Solness by Henrik Ibsen - Director: Anna Badora - Ragnar Brovik
2009: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee - Director: Tom Kühnel - Nick
2009: Radetzkymarsch based on the novel by Joseph Roth - Director: Ingo Berk - Rittmeister Taitinger, Kapturak, Diverse

Thalia Theater (Hamburg)

2009–2012: Festzeitstory - Series - Director: Maria Ursprung
2009: Gospel of Judas or betrayal is your passion - Director: Kornél Mundruczó - Franz
2009: Life is Serious (Bunbury) - Director: Anna Bergmann - Dr. Chasuble (invited to the radikal jung Festival 2010)
2010: Woyzeck based on Georg Büchner in a version by Waits / Wilson - Director: Jette Steckel - Karl, an idiot
2010: Great Freedom No. 7 based on Helmut Käutner - Director: Luk Perceval - Karl Fiete Brinkmann
2010: Atropa. The Revenge of Peace by Tom Lanoye - Director: Antú Romero Nunes - the beautiful Helena
2011: Merlin or The Desert Land by Tankred Dorst - Director: Antú Romero Nunes - Parzival
2011: The Stranger According to Albert Camus - Director: Jette Steckel - Meursault
2011: Insectarium by Gert Jonke - Director: Maria Ursprung - the room
2012: Fuck your Ego! a project by Tiit Ojasoo and Ene-Liis Semper - Director: Tiit Ojasoo - Ensemble
2012: The Broken Jug by Heinrich von Kleist - Director: Bastian Kraft - Ruprecht
2012: Ghost Knight after Cornelia Funke - Director: Christine Rast - William Longspee, Stuart Chrenshaw
2013: Moby Dick after Herman Melville - Director: Antú Romero Nunes - Ensemble
2013: Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen - Director: Jan Bosse - Maid Berte
2013: The Seagull by Anton Chekhov - Director: Leander Haußmann - Semjon Semjonowisch Medwedenko
2014: tonight: FRAKTUS by and with Studio Braun - Director: Studio Braun - Peter Tschäck Hensel
2014: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare - Director: Jette Steckel - Mercutio
2014: The ridiculous darkness by Wolfram Lotz - director: Christopher Rüping - sloth bear, Stojkoviç, parrot
2015: The hour when we didn't know about each other - Director: Tiit Ojasoo and Ene-Liis Semper - Ensemble
2015: Angels in America - Director: Bastian Kraft - Louis Ironson
2016: Wut / Rage by Elfriede Jelinek / Simon Stephens - Director: Sebastian Nübling - Ensemble
2017: Mother Courage and her children by Bertolt Brecht - Director: Philipp Becker - Schweizerkas
2017: Atlas of Fear by Dirk Gieselmann and Armin Smailovic - Director: Gernot Grünewald - Ensemble
2017: In the loneliness of the cotton fields by Bernard-Marie Koltès - dealer
2017: Auerhaus by Bov Bjerg - Director: Franziska Autzen - Harry
2018: Panikherz by Benjamin von Stuckrad Barre - Director: Christopher Rüping - Ensemble
2018: Witch Hunt by Arthur Miller - Director: Stefan Pucher - Reverend Parris
2019: Liliom by Franz Molnar - Director: Kornél Mundruczó

Working as a speaker (selection)

2006: Crooked thoughts from martyrs, humans and ants. The fantastic worlds of Kurd Laßwitz by Thomas Gaevert

2011: Tschick by Wolfgang Herrndorf ( NDR radio play)

2012: Boy 7 by Mirjam Mous (audio book, Hörcompany Hamburg - HR audio book best list (children's / youth audio books) June 2012, 1st place )

2012: Legend, Fallender Himmel by Marie Lu (audio book, audio company Hamburg)

2013: The pursuit of Matt Hartley (NDR radio play)

2013: World literature for children: The Merchant of Venice (audio book, audio company Hamburg)

2014: Very fast and animal slow (audio book, audio company Hamburg)

2014: Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell (audio book, Hörcompany Hamburg) - nominated as best interpreter for the German Children's Audio Book Prize BEO 2015

2015: Teenie-Leaks by Paul Bühre ( Audiobook Hamburg )

2015: The ridiculous darkness by Wolfram Lotz - director: Leo Koppelmann ( SWR radio play)

2015: NDR Radio Tatort - The Grave of Little Birds - Director: Sven Stricker

2015: Don't call me Ismael after Michael Gerard Bauer - Director: Nicole Paulsen (SWR radio play)

2015: The Catholic Bull by Adrian McKinty - Director: Sven Stricker (NDR-Hördspiel)

2015: PARTY by Tom Leveen - Director: Christiane Ohaus (NDR radio play)

2016: Just three words (audio book Hamburg) - HR2 audio book best list April 2016

2016: George (audio book, Oetinger Media) - awarded as best interpreter with the German Children's Audio Book Prize BEO 2017

2016: Maria wants to travel ( NDR info , literary feature)

2016: Circus Mirandus (audio book, audio company Hamburg)

2016: Die Brüllbande (audio book, audio company Hamburg)

2016: Radio Tatort Saarland: Aladdin's Magic Lamp - Director: Stefann Dutt (SR radio play)

since 2016: The elementary school superheroes (radio play series, Amazon)

2017: England (audio book, Oettinger Audio) - HR2 audio book best list August '17

2017: Geronimo - Director: Christiane Ohaus (NDR radio play)

2017: What we thought what we did (audio book, Hörcompany Hamburg) - HR2 audio book best list August 2017, BEO 2018 as best interpreter

2018: Sumatra (radio play NDR)

2018: The Promise (NDR Feature)

2018: Thabo - Detective and Gentleman (NDR radio play)

2018: Yo-Yo and the Jungle Gang (radio play, Jumbo Medien)

2018: Collins Secret Channel (Audiobook, Randomhouse)

2018: Holy Beloved (NDR radio play)

2018: We are beautiful, for ugly people (SRF radio play)

2018: The Traveler (NDR radio play)

2019: Sunny - the sound of the world (audio book, audio company Hamburg)

Filmography (selection)

2012: Die Pfefferkörner (TV, NDR)
2012: SOKO Wismar - plug-in shot (TV, ZDF )
2012: You're dead in the end - Director: Daniel Lommatzsch
2013: Marie Brand and the Angels of Death (TV, ZDF) - Director: Florian Kern
2016: Aminas Breve (tamtam film) - Director: Jakob Bitsch
2017: LIVE (li-ke filme) - Director: Lisa Friederich
2019: From the diary of an Uberfahrers (joyn) - Director: Julian Pörksen
2019: Grossstadtrevier (ARD) - Director: Félix Koch
2019: A Foreign Daughter (NDR) - Director: Stefan Krohmer

Radio plays (selection)

2018: Sabine Stein: Sumatra - Director: Roman Neumann ( NDR )

Awards

2006: Ensemble and single actor award at the drama school meeting in Munich

2012: Boy Gobert Prize from the Körber Foundation

2014: Rolf Mares Prize for Moby Dick

2017: BEO - German Children's Audio Book Award as best interpreter for George

2018: BEO- German children's audio book award as best interpreter for What we thought, what we did

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personal data
SURNAME	Old man, Julian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German actor
DATE OF BIRTH	June 6, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hattingen