Klaus Nierhoff

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Klaus Nierhoff at the award ceremony of the German Academy for Television 2017

Klaus Nierhoff (born December 5, 1958 in Werl ) is a German actor .

Life

Klaus Nierhoff began his career at the stages of the city of Cologne and at the Theater Bonn and played at the State Theater Braunschweig , at the Hamburg Ernst-Deutsch-Theater , at the Bad Hersfeld Festival , at the municipal theaters in Osnabrück, Hildesheim and Ingolstadt, at the Grenzlandtheater Aachen , at the Comedy Frankfurt , at the Theater an der Kö and at the Comedy Düsseldorf and at the Theater der Stadt Luxemburg.

Important roles were Schüler / Lynkeus in Goethe's Faust , Demetrius in Midsummer Night's Dream , Bruno in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Katzelmacher , Eilif in Brecht's mother Courage and her children , Leonce in Büchner's Leonce and Lena , Ferdinand in Schiller's Cabal and Love , Jupiter in Kleist's Amphitryon , Amphitryon in Peter Hack's Amphitryon and Theseus / Oberon in Shakespeare's Midsummer Night 's Dream .

Klaus Nierhoff played in films such as Comedian Harmonists , Football is our life , God is dead , The Poet, Above - Below , The Last Flight , Under the Open Sky , Herbstflattern or Offside Trap - The Film.

He had his first appearance on television in 1987 ( duet in Bonn ). This was followed by numerous roles in series such as SOKO 5113 , In allerfreund , Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei , Die Sitte , SOKO Cologne , Der Alte , Ein Fall für Zwei and Coast Guard and in television films such as How do you spell love? , My wicked girlfriend or Krupp - a German family . He had continuous series roles as Stefan Heller in Unter Uns , Hannes Port in Marienhof , Leif Rasmussen in Hotel 13 and as Christian Brenner in Lindenstrasse . From episode 847 (broadcast date February 24, 2002) to 1240 (September 6, 2009) Klaus Nierhoff was seen as Christian Brenner in “Lindenstrasse”.

In addition, he repeatedly plays theater in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg, z. For example, in the Konzertdirektion Landgraf -Produktionen, Der Parasit by Friedrich Schiller , and The Grönholm Method by Jordi Galceran, which were awarded the INTHEGA Prize for Theater Guest Performances . In Michael Bogdanov's production of the old English heroic saga Beowulf , Klaus Nierhoff appeared on stage as the narrator and in 2011/12 as the narrator on the European tour of Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show in the BB promotion production of the same name.

Klaus Nierhoff can be heard as a speaker in numerous WDR radio plays and features. He is also involved in audio book productions, e.g. B. as Jonathan Peak in Frank Schätzing's The Swarm , Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth and in many John Sinclair audiobooks. In 2014 he was the face for the Amazon service audible .

Bettina Böttinger and Klaus Nierhoff are ambassadors of the Arcus Foundation and godparents of the Cologne youth center anyway . As such, Nierhoff has also taken on prominent voluntary roles in anyway film projects, such as Julian - young love differently or two faces .

Today Nierhoff lives in Cologne and Berlin.

Filmography

theatre

Radio plays

Video games

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Audible spot 1 with Klaus Nierhoff & Audible spot 2 with Klaus Nierhoff YouTube, accessed on May 14, 2015
  2. ↑ Promibotschafter des anyway ( Memento from April 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), anyway-koeln.de, accessed on April 17, 2016.
  3. ↑ Klaus Nierhoff - Biography lindenstrasse.de, accessed on June 25, 2017
  4. ^ Klaus Nierhoff, actor, speaker, Cologne. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Nierhoff, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH 5th December 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Werl