Lusako Karonga

Lusako Karonga (* 1963 ) is a German actor .

Life

Lusako Karonga was born in 1963 as the son of a German journalist and an African scientist and politician in exile and grew up in Berlin . He studied from 1985 to 1989 at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin , where he obtained his degree as an actor.

At the Wiener Festwochen and in the production of Julius Caesar by Peter Stein at the Salzburg Festival , Lusako Karonga appeared on stage with actors such as Gerd Voss, Heinz Benrad, Rosel Zech, Hans Rehberg and Walter Schmidinger . He was a member of the Berliner Ensemble , where he a. a. participated in the productions of Thomas Heise. He has worked at the Hebbel-Theater Berlin, the Tribüne Berlin, the Nationaltheater Weimar and the Theater am Kurfürstendamm .

Guest performances have taken Lusako Karonga to the Taganka Theater in Moscow , the Edinburgh Theater Festival and the Theater Days in Lyon . He played a leading role in Ephraim Kishon's last production at the Berlin theater “Tribüne”. With this piece, The Fatherhood Process of Joseph Zimmermann , he was on tour in Germany, Switzerland and Austria .

In the play The Martin Luther King Story he played the role of Malcolm X at the Kempf Tournee Theater alongside Ron Williams and Felicia Weathers . On tour and at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm Berlin, Lusako Karonga was seen in the play Von Mäusen und Menschen , here with Hannes Jänicke.

In addition to the theater, Lusako Karonga can be seen with leading episode roles on TV, such as For example, in Der Alte with Rolf Schimpf and Pierre Sanoussi Bliss, in Die Straßen von Berlin , Gnadenlos II , Wolffs Revier , Die Wache or Spentenfieber .

For example with the Autorentheater Berlin, which is dedicated to the presentation of young authors, in the abok-Theater, which is devoted to African drama, or in literary programs on Goethe , Friedrich Schiller , Theodor Fontane , Heinrich Heine , Oscar Wilde , Wilhelm Busch , Clemens Brentano or Joachim Ringelnatz takes Karonga to author readings.

Web links

• Lusako Karonga Homepage
• Lusako Karonga in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Lusako Karonga on Filmmakers.de
• Lusako Karonga at Crew United
• Lusako Karonga at schauspielervideos.de
• Link to readings by the Kalliope team