Karsten Spitzer

Karsten Spitzer (born February 12, 1961 in Hanover ) is a German actor . He lives with his family in Weil der Stadt .

Life

Karsten Spitzer gained his first theater experience in 1987 as an assistant director at the Lüneburg City Theater. After graduating from high school, he studied German, history and theater studies in Berlin. From 1991 to 1993 he trained as an actor and joined the Affekt theater group, directed by Stefan Bachmann . Spitzer played there alongside Gesine Cukrowski and Jenny Schily .

From 1992 to 1995 he worked as a freelance actor in Berlin, a. a. with the independent theater groups Neukölln and Vineta. From 1996 to 1998 he took a break from the theater and began training at IBM as a sales manager.

1998-2000 he did cabaret work (inter alia for IBM), since 2000 he took up acting again. Independent theater groups: Schaubühne Sindelfingen, Scene 03, Group Three with performances in Sindelfingen, Stuttgart, Hanover, Karlsruhe, Bad Mergentheim, Berlin, Altensteig, Weil der Stadt. Since 2008 he has also been the artistic director of the Schaubühne Sindelfingen.

Karsten Spitzer played and plays a. a. in the KKT Stuttgart, Wilhelma Theater Stuttgart, Theater am Olgaeck Stuttgart, Theater "Broken Window" Berlin, Theaterkeller Sindelfingen, Berlin, Neukölln Opera.

He can also be seen regularly on German television in various roles on ARD, SAT-1 and RTL, so far alongside Walter Sittler , Saskia Vester and Walter Schultheiss , among others .

Theater work

1987 Amadeus (Peter Shaffer) - Karsten Spitzer works as an assistant director at the Stadttheater Lüneburg
1991 Baal (Bertolt Brecht)
1992–1994 lecturer in the colloquium of the Free University of Berlin on the subject of "Theater as a method of foreign language teaching"
1993 The Jungle Book (after Rudyard Kipling)
1994–1995 The directors' group (Max Reinhardt)
1998–1999 cabaret program at IBM
2000–2001 Other People's Money (Jerry Sterner)
2000–2001 The Imaginary Sick (Molière)
2002 An ideal husband (Oscar Wilde)
2003–2004 The Thief Who Was Not Harmed (Dario Fo)
2003–2004 The Naked and the Man in Tailcoat (Dario Fo)
2003–2004 An inspector arrives (John B. Priestley)
2004–2005 The double bass (Patrik Süskind) solo evening
2004–2005 Loriot's Dramatic Works (Loriot)
2005 Open two-way relationship (Dario Fo)
2005–2008 The Last of the Fiery Lovers (Neil Simon)
2006 Strange Couple (Neil Simon)
2007–2008 An evening with Wilhelm Busch - solo evening
2008 The marriage proposal (Anton Chekhov)
2008 Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)
2008–2009 Closed Society (Jean Paul Sartre) - director
2008–2010 head of the Sindelfingen Schaubühne; Board of the KKT Stuttgart
2009 Reading: Turandot (Friedrich Schiller)
2009 Possible meeting (Paul Barz)
2009–2011 Staged reading: Das Apartment (Billy Wilder)
2010 Reading of the silk shoe (Claudel) - role: Don Camillo
2010 Reading of Lyrik von Chamisso - solo evening with musical accompaniment
2011 Winter under the table (R.Topor) - director
2011–2012 The God of Carnage (J.Reza) - director
2012 the bear and the marriage proposal (Anton Chekhov), role: Lomonow
2012–2013 The great moment of Josef Bieder - solo evening
2013 Altweiberfrühling (Stefan Vogel), role pastor Walther Ebinger
2013 The dance of death lyric with choir singing - Martinskirche Sindelfingen
2013 Reading in public space Sindelfingen - The work of August Schäfer
2013 Reading in public space: the park where paths cross (Thomas Vogel)
2013 Reading as part of the 750th anniversary celebration in Sindelfingen: The witch hunt in Sindelfingen
2013 Reading Martinskirche Sindelfingen: Schlucker and Schlemmer
2013 Reading Theaterkeller Sindelfingen: inheriting and dying (Friedericke Roth)
2014 End Station Sehnsucht (T.Williams) - role: Mitch
2014 Lyrik von Ringelnatz reading - solo evening with musical accompaniment, Odeon Sindelfingen
2014 Reading of the laundry room event in Stuttgart: Jud Süß Oppenheimer
2014–2015 Murder on Call (Hitschcock) - role: Inspector Hubbard
2015 Art (Yasmin Reza) - role: Serge
2015-2016 Urfaust (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) - role: Faust
2016 Rose and Walsh (Neil Simon) - role: Walsh
2016 Reading Theater Atelier in Stuttgart: Märchen 1001 Nights
2016–2017 in the white Rößl (Blumenthal and Kadelburg) - role: Giesicke
2016–2017 Play Chekhov - Roles: Various
2017 Biedermann und die Brandstifter (Max Frisch) - Theaterkeller Sindelfingen director
2017 denounced, persecuted, killed-witch persecution in Sindelfingen - role: Pastor Hermann
2017 The dog in the brain and other oddities (Curt Goetz) - director
2019 Goethe vs Schiller- a ballad duel- role: Goethe representative
2018 Amadeus (Peter Shaffer) - director
2018 The Room Battle (Martin Walser) - Role: Felix
2019 Gut gegen Nordwind (Daniel Glattauer) - Director
2019 Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyles) - role: Inspector Lestrade
2020 Goethe vs Schiller - a ballad competition - role: representative of Goethe
2020 Culture in the drive-in cinema - Loriot's or rather - role: Diverse

Film / TV

2002 "Tatort - Bienzle and the Taxi Murder" (ARD, series)
2004 "Ten Thousand and One Nights" (movie)
2006 "Never trust your son-in-law" (Sat1, feature film)
2007 image film "Bosch heat pump technology"
2007 Image film "The tasks of the police in Baden-Württemberg"
2007 image film "Mercedes Benz - workshop process 2010"
2007 short film "Screenwalker" (Ocean of Minds Entertainment)
2007 TV commercial “HanseMerkur” with Mario Gómez
2008 "Der Schwarzwaldhof" (ARD, feature film)
2008 "Dr. Mabuse, my friend "(Merz Akademie Stuttgart, assistant director and coaching)
2008 "My first date" (Ludwigsburg Film Academy)
2009 "S files" (Children's Film Academy Baden-Württemberg)
2009 "Der Schwarzwaldhof II" (ARD, feature film)
2009 "One for all - women can do it better" (ARD, evening series)
2009 Image film "Bosch PEBS"
2010 "Generation Internship" (ARD)
2010 "Behind the Thoughts" (ZDF, feature film)
2010 SOKO Stuttgart (ZDF) - role: Peter Neurath
2011 “What we are entitled to” (Film Academy Ludwigsburg) - role: Werner
2011 image film Mercedes "Techmaster" - role: customer
2011 Minol image film "Mr. Gehtschon" - role: Mr. Gehtschon
2012 cheerful to fatal “Fox and Goose” (ARD) - role: police officer
2012 image film for Bad Cannstatt
2012 Koos - the goldsmiths - image film
2012 Service Bosch - image film
2013 Soko Stuttgart (ZDF) - episode amnesia, role: husband
2014 Yabanci-Stranger - University of the Media Ravensburg- Role: Father
2015 Misconduct - feature film, role: investigator
2016 crime scene in Calw: eye to eye role: Berghammer
2018 a bad day - production KV film role: Carsten Dickbreder
2019 Caution trap ZDF episode: fur fraudsters - role: Gregor Leske

Web links

Karsten Spitzer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Karsten Spitzer Official Website
Website of Karsten Spitzer's body language training offer

personal data
SURNAME	Spitzer, Karsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German actor
DATE OF BIRTH	February 12, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover