Louis Hofmann

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Louis Hofmann (2017)

Louis Hofmann (born June 3, 1997 in Bensberg , Bergisch Gladbach ) is a German actor .

Life

Hofmann grew up in Cologne and gained his first experience in front of the camera from 2006 to 2008 during the service time of the WDR . There he tested as "Ausflieger" in the transmission section family leisure activities.

In 2009 he worked in the series Danni Lowinski with. In 2010 he played the main child role of Edgar Selge's son in The Lost Father and Heino Ferch in Tod in Istanbul . After roles in Wilsberg and Alarm for Cobra 11 , he played the title role in Tom Sawyer in 2011 , for which he was awarded the New Faces Award special prize in 2012. Together with Leon Seidel , who played the role of Huck Finn, he was involved in the soundtrack of the film as the singer of the song Going Barefoot . The shooting of the sequel The Adventures of Huck Finn in the summer of 2011 was the third collaboration for Louis Hofmann with the director Hermine Huntgeburth . At the same time, he was cast as the nephew of Ulf, played by Benno Fürmann , for Vanessa Jopp's tragic comedy The almost perfect man . In the television series Kommissar Stolberg he played the main role in the episode The Prodigal Son in 2012 .

In 2014 Hofmann took on the role of Werner Krollmann in the film Das Zeugenhaus, based on the book of the same name by Christiane Kohl . In 2015 Hofmann played the leading role in Freistatt , the rebellious Wolfgang, who is deported to a welfare home. For his portrayal he received the Bavarian Film Prize in the category of best young actor and the young talent award of the German Actor Award . Louis Hofmann gained his first international experience while filming the Danish-German coproduction Unter dem Sand - The Promise of Freedom by director Martin Zandvliet, which was also released in 2015 . For this role, too, he won several film awards. In the novel adaptation of Andreas Steinhöfel's bestseller Die Mitte der Welt from 2016, he took on the leading role Phil .

Hofmann played the role of young Jonas Kahnwald in the Netflix series Dark .

Hofmann moved to the High School of Berlin , where he worked in a shared apartment in center lives.

Filmography

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Awards

  • 2012: New Faces Award special prize for Tom Sawyer
  • 2014: Bavarian Film Award in the category Best Young Actor for his role in the film Freistatt
  • 2015: Nomination for the Max Ophüls Prize as the best young actor in Freistatt
  • 2015: Awarded the “Clion” as best actor at the Festival International du Film historique de Waterloo for Freistatt
  • 2015: Best Actor Award at Tokyo International Film Festival for his role in Under the Sand
  • 2016: Bodil (Danish Critics' Award) as best supporting actor in Unter dem Sand
  • 2016: Nomination for the "Robert" (Danish film award) for best supporting actor in Unter dem Sand
  • 2016: Best Actor Award at the Beijing International Film Festival for his role in Under the Sand
  • 2016: German Actor Award in the Young Talent Award category for Freistatt
  • 2016: German Film Prize Special Prize “Jaeger-LeCoultre Homage to German Film” for outstanding performance by German actors in an international film in Unter dem Sand
  • 2017: Askania Award in the Shooting Star category
  • 2018: Golden Camera (Young Talent Award)
  • 2018: Jupiter in the category Best German TV Actor for Dark

Web links

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b Katja Belousova: “Dark” -Star Louis Hofmann: “My roles always have something sensitive. Like myself ” . In: THE WORLD . November 30, 2017 ( welt.de [accessed November 30, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Thomas Rogers: With 'Dark,' a German Netflix Series, Streaming Crosses a New Border. In: The New York Times. November 23, 2017, accessed December 21, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Louis Hofmann is Berlinale Shooting Star ( Memento from March 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: Die Zeit, February 12, 2017.
  4. ↑ Andreas Kurtz: Louis Hofmann: "I didn't care where I live, the main thing was in Berlin" In: Berliner Zeitung, April 11, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Jaeger-LeCoultre Homage to the German Film" Special Prize ( Memento from September 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), press release on deutscher-filmpreis.de from May 17, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Hofmann, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Bensberg , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany