Kida Khodr Ramadan

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Kida Ramadan, 2019

Kida Khodr Ramadan (born October 8, 1976 in Beirut , Lebanon ) is a German actor . He has played roles in German film and television productions since 2003. For his portrayal of Ali "Toni" Hamady in the 4 Blocks series , he was awarded numerous prizes.

biography

Kida Khodr Ramadan was born in Beirut in 1976 as the fifth child of a Kurdish-Lebanese family. His father, Mohamad Ramadan, was a wealthy businessman and agent for Persil in Lebanon. In the wake of the worsening of the Lebanese civil war through the entry of the Syrian army in the second half of the 1970s, in which relatives of the Ramadans were also killed, the family decided to leave the country and flee to Germany. They moved to West Berlin , where they initially lived in a dormitory for asylum seekers in the Kreuzberg district .

According to its own statements, the secondary school was only moderately interested in Ramadan; he left her without a degree. Instead, he sought connection to the local hip-hop and breakdance scene. Together with Turkish and Arab youth, he performed street appearances, including in front of tourists on the Kurfürstendamm . In 1996 he married his girlfriend Meryem in Turkey , with whom he has six children. Since the end of the 1990s he has been playing boules as a hobby, which he also competes in.

The door opener to the world of film was the German-Turkish director Neco Çelik , whom he met at a summer camp for young people in Berlin . At that time, Çelik was preparing the film project Everyday - a story of two young people who attacked a Kreuzberg betting office and whose escape failed. After his film debut, roles in other films followed - including in Çelik's film Urban Guerillas , which was presented at the Berlinale 2005 , in Kebab Connection , Detlev Buck's social drama Knallhart , the Tatort episode Der tote Chinese , Hitler's Grave by Daryush Shokof and the web miniseries Blutsbrüder . He made his theatrical debut in 2010 in the play Waiting for Adam Spielman by Hakan Savaş Mican and Michael Ronen, which was performed in the Kreuzberg theater and cultural center Ballhaus Naunynstraße . In 2017 he took on the lead role of Toni Hamady in the series 4 Blocks , directed by Marvin Kren , for which he has received numerous awards.

His first solo directorial work In Berlin, no orange tree grows , in which he was also involved as a screenwriter (together with Juri Sternburg ), producer and actor, celebrated its world premiere on July 15, 2020 at the Munich Film Festival Pop-up, which was due to the screening the Covid-19 pandemic instead built in a movie theater in a specially Autokino Zenith presented.

Ramadan is friends with the actor Frederick Lau . In 2018, Ullstein published their book Together we are Kings. What makes men friends. In February 2018, Ramadan opened the Toni Hamady hairdressing salon together with 4-Block actor Veysel in Wrangelstrasse in Kreuzberg .

Filmography (selection)

Works

  • Frederick Lau, Kida Khodr Ramadan, Nana Heymann: Together we are kings. What makes men friends. Ullstein extra, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86493-066-9 .

Awards

For the role as Ali "Toni" Hamady in 4 blocks , he received the French jury award of the international press for best leading actor (Prix du jury de la presse internationale - Meilleure interprétation masculine) at the Séries Mania Festival in April 2017 . In January 2018 he was awarded the German Television Prize for Best Actor for the same role and in March 2018 the Grimme Prize .

Web links

Commons : Kida Khodr Ramadan  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lilian-Astrid Geese: Between Kiez and Cinema . In: Neues Deutschland , July 19, 2008, p. 17
  2. ↑ Conversation with Kida Ramadan: Dealer against his will. In: Die tageszeitung , May 20, 2010
  3. ↑ “4 Blocks” star has become a father for the sixth time. At: t-online.de , March 1st, 2019
  4. ↑ Artists NS ( Memento of the original from January 13, 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. , Website of Ballhaus Naunynstraße, accessed on January 7, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ballhausnaunynstrasse.de
  5. ↑ No orange tree grows in Berlin. In: Munich Film Festival. Accessed July 30, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Caspar Schwietering: 4-Block-Star Kida Ramadan: Tony Hamady goes under the barbers. In: Tagesspiegel Online , March 24, 2018, accessed April 26, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Ramadan, Kida Khodr
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ramadan, Kida
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Beirut , Lebanon