Karim Chérif

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Karim Chérif at the award ceremony of the German Academy for Television (DAFF) 2017.

Karim Chérif (born May 31, 1977 in Frankfurt am Main ) is an actor with French and Swiss citizenship.

Life

Karim Chérif was born in Germany . His mother is French and his father is from Algeria . Chérif grew up speaking French with his parents. In addition to his mother tongue, he learned German and English . He attended different schools. He spent a trimester in England at the Anglo European School in Ingatestone in Essex . He completed his school education with an International Baccalaureate ( International Abitur ).

Chérif graduated from 2001 to 2005 a drama school at the University of the Arts in Berlin . In 2004, while still studying, he played in the play Peanuts by Fausto Paravidino in the studio of the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin . With this production he also made a guest appearance in 2004 at the Theatertreffen German-speaking drama students in Hanover . There followed in 2005 a piece of contract at the Schauspielhaus Bochum , where he in Cathy of Heilbronn by Heinrich von Kleist occurred.

From 2005 to 2009 Chérif was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Burgtheater in Vienna . In the 2005/06 season he took over there in a new production of Chevalier Dumont in Ferdinand Raimund's magical fairy tale The Spatter . He also starred in Seriously Is The Life ( Bunbury ) of Oscar Wilde . Other roles were Schnauz in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (2006), the policeman Klein in the comedy Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring (2006), the Trebonius in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (2007) and Sampson in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (2007). In 2008 he played in the Austrian premiere of The mystical reason of civilization by David Lindemann .

Since the 2009/10 season, Chérif was still tied to the Burgtheater with a guest contract. In 2009 he played there in the play Meine Elektra by the Dutch playwright and director Koos Terpstra and in Man Shoots Horses , a stage version of the novel by Horace McCoy , which was also made into a film under the title Only horses are given the coup de grace . In December 2009 he played at the 6th Strasbourg-Méditerranée Festival in Strasbourg in the French-language theater production Beyrouth adrénaline .

In 2011 he appeared at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm in Berlin in the comedy Achtung Deutsch! by Stefan Vögel . He played the young Syrian Tarek Al-Hassan, who is waiting for his naturalization process. In March / April 2012 he took on the role of biology professor Nick in Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf? At the Theater am Kurfürstendamm . .

From 2004, Chérif was also regularly seen in German-language television roles. He took on continuous series roles, several episode and guest roles. Cherif had a continuous series role in 2004 as Lukas in the TV comedy series Wilde Jungs . He had episode roles in Berlin, Berlin , Der Ermittler and Turkish for Beginners . In 2008 he played the role of Ramon Guzman on the side of Diego Wallraff in the television film Late Revenge - A family defends itself . The ZDF committed Cherif for the role of the nurse Nile in the TV comedy Lotta & the scrap heap that was sent in January of 2010. In late summer 2010 he shot the family comedy The Mother of the Bride in Rovinj , Croatia for ARD ; The film ran in 2012 on ARD under the title Advice times, who comes to the wedding . Chérif played the Croatian Mato Tomasevic in it. In April 2013 he was seen on ZDF in the crime film series Crimes after Ferdinand von Schirach in a leading role in the episode. He played Karim Fataris, a young Lebanese man from a family of criminals . In the ARD television series Die Füchsin (2015), with Lina Wendel in the lead role, he played Youssef El Kilali, the Arab-born investigator at her side. In January 2016, Chérif was seen in the ZDF series Notruf Hafenkante (as an escaped prisoner Deniz Wörner) and The Public Prosecutor (as a nurse Erik Seyfert) in episode roles . In March 2017 he was also seen in an episode role in the ZDF series SOKO Stuttgart ; he played the suspect paramedic and family man Timo Waldmann. In December 2018, Chérif was seen in the ZDF television series Notruf Hafenkante in a dramatic episodic lead role as the gay soccer player Roman Brenner, who, after an involuntary outing, is afraid for his career as a soccer player and of losing his family.

Chérif also acted in some feature films , short films and diploma films.

In November 2010, Chérif made his directorial debut with the German premiere of the play The Sunshine Play by the Romanian playwright Peca Stefan , a production by Wiener Wortstätten at the Theater an der Gumpendorfer Straße (TAG) in Vienna.

He lives alternately in Vienna and Berlin .

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays and features

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karim Chérif  ( 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. . Vita and profile at CASTFORWARD@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / actors.castforward.de  
  2. ↑ Karim Chérif . Profile at Schauspielervideos.de
  3. ↑ Chérif Karim . Portrait at the agency Agence Citelya (no longer available online)
  4. ↑ How fun ends . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 2, 2004; Performance review
  5. ^ Die Theatertreffen 2004 Homepage of the Theatertreffen, archive 2004
  6. ↑ Karim Cherif course in acting . University of the Arts
  7. ↑ Burgtheater the spendthrift . ferdinandraimund.at, archive 2005
  8. ↑ Alice in Woundland . Performance review from March 25, 2009 at www.nachtkritik.de
  9. ↑ Beyrouth adrénaline  ( 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. . Homepage Taps Scala@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.etecour-etejardin.eu  
  10. ↑ Attention German! ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2013 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. Theater on Kurfürstendamm @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.komoedie-berlin.de
  11. ↑ Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2013 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. . Theater on Kurfürstendamm @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.komoedie-berlin.de
  12. ↑ Emergency call harbor edge | Offside . Plot and cast. Official ZDF website . Retrieved December 15, 2018.
  13. ↑ Karim Cherif ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2010 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. . Short biography of the TAG @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dastag.at
personal data
SURNAME Chérif, Karim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cherif, Karim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French-Swiss actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main