Julian Sengelmann

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Julian Sengelmann (born August 2, 1982 in Hamburg ) is a German actor , musician , theologian, author, speaker and presenter. He can be seen in television and cinema productions, works as a theologian in Hamburg and moderates various television formats and events. As an author he writes popular scientific non-fiction books in the field of theology. Sengelmann is also active as a speaker and sets documentaries, advertising, films and radio formats to music. He was best known to a wider public through his role in the third season of the ARD early evening series Turkish for Beginners , in which he appeared in 2008 as Young Inspector Mark.

Life

Musically, he was on stage for a long time as a front man, singer and guitarist. The third CD of his band Feinkost, “Alles was Ihr wollt”, was released in 2008. The band celebrated its greatest successes with their song “Since the day before yesterday”, with which they performed at Inas Nacht and won first place in the N-Joy - Reached listener charts. At the end of January 2012, the band announced their breakup.

Sengelmann studied theology at the University of Hamburg. In addition, in 2005 he completed the popular music contact course, POP course, at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater. And from 2008 to 2010 the Bandpool contact course at the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg.

Since 2014 he has the NDR his own television show Holiday! Sengelmann is looking for ... , in which he explores the origin of Christian holidays . He also contributed the title song Celebrate Yourself .

From February to June 2016 Sengelmann was on the road for a project together with the NDR culture presenter Philipp Schmid on behalf of the NDR. For four months they made music with refugee children at the Süderelbe district school in Hamburg in the choir project "Safe Voice", which they founded together with the children. The NDR reported about it on all channels and the whole project ended with a performance in Hamburg's Laeiszhalle together with the Young Classx.

Since 2017, Julian Sengelmann has been the presenter of his new series "Die Tatorte der Reformation" in the third programs of ARD and Swiss television. As part of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, he will use this format to search for criminal cases and crime scenes from the Reformation period in Germany and Switzerland.

Sengelmann was a research assistant and is a lecturer at the Institute for Practical Theology in Hamburg, where he is currently doing his doctorate .

In April 2017, after 17 years on stage, his debut album, entitled "13", was released on the Hamburg independent label Chateau LaLa. The two producers Benni Dernhoff and Tommy Peters are responsible for the production of the album. It was recorded in the HOME Studios in Hamburg.

In 2017, Sengelmann was on the road as a Reformation ambassador of the EKD at home and abroad as part of the Reformation anniversary, to speak in different formats and contexts about the importance of the Reformation today - on the occasion of the symbolic beginning of the Reformation with Martin Luther's theses posted 500 years ago . In this role he also moderated the big anniversary celebration service at the Evangelical Church Congress in Wittenberg, where he also appeared as a musician in front of 100,000 people.

In September 2017 Rowohlt Verlag published his first non-fiction book "Holiday. The meaning of our Christian festivals". Based on the experiences of his series on NDR television, Sengelmann deals in this mixture of travel report, theological treatise and funny informational work with around 20 Christian holidays that are celebrated in the different denominations in Germany.

Since October 2017, Sengelmann has been completing his vicariate at the main church St. Katharinen in Hamburg as part of a pilot project of the northern church as a so-called "part-time vicar".

In December 2018 the co-production of NDR and MDR "O du Fröhliche - The story of a Christmas carol" was released, in which Sengelmann searches for the origin of the world-famous song and sets out to search for traces and impact history across Germany.

Since October 2019 Sengelmann has been moderating the program "So Seen - Talk am Sonntag", which runs on Sat.1 and is a collaboration with the Evangelical and Catholic Churches.

In May 2020 his non-fiction book “Faith yes, church no? Why Church Must Change ”.

Filmography

Discography

  • 2005: Feinkost: Tasting (EP)
  • 2006: Feinkost: Nachschlag (EP)
  • 2008: Feinkost: Anything You Want (EP)
  • 2014: Julian Sengelmann: Celebrate Yourself (Single)
  • 2014: Julian Sengelmann: I'll bring you home (single)
  • 2017: Julian Sengelmann: 13 (album)
  • 2017: Julian Sengelmann: Paris (Single)
  • 2017: Julian Sengelmann: Time for Confetti (Single)
  • 2017: Julian Sengelmann: Sometime (Single)
  • 2018: Julian Sengelmann and the Lüneburg Symphony Orchestra: Willkommen Zuhaus (Single)
  • 2019: Julian Sengelmann: Until We Meet Again (Single)

Radio plays

  • 2014: Susanne Amatosero : ABCDE and I - Director: Susanne Amatosero (radio play - NDR)

Works

  • Creatures of the night, in: ... and the moon as light for the night: devotions for the night in the church year. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2013, ISBN 3525580401
  • The Orthodox Holy Fire. About the virtual dimension of the Good News in the Holy Land, in: Death and Mourning on the Net: Media Communications in Funeral Culture. Kohlhammer 2016, ISBN 3170292501
  • Pop (p) goes my Heart, in: Pop (p) goes my Heart. Religious and Pop Culture Conversations in the 21st Century. Springer 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-10402-3
  • Holiday. The meaning of our Christian celebrations. Rowohlt 2017, ISBN 978-3-499-63291-4
  • Believe yes, church no? Why Church Must Change. Rowohlt 2020, ISBN 9783499000553

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. St. Katharinen - Pastors. Retrieved August 7, 2018 .