Markus Subramaniam

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Markus Subramaniam (* 1986 in Dachau ) is a German actor and musician .

Life

Beginnings and training

Markus Subramaniam, whose father comes from Sri Lanka , grew up near Stuttgart in Rudersberg-Steinenberg , where he spent his kindergarten and elementary school days. Later he moved to the Tegernsee in Bavaria to do his Abitur there.

Markus Subramaniam was early active in the artistic field. He started playing the piano when he was about ten years old . He came to the theater through school performances, where he took part in theatrical performances at grammar school from the sixth grade, first in sketch evenings, then in full-length performances in upper school . In the final year of school he took private acting lessons in Munich to prepare for auditions at drama schools. After graduating from high school, he completed his acting studies at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna from 2006 , which he completed in summer 2010. During his studies he played the first role Robin in Sarah Kane's play Cleansed , then the "serious" and "multi-layered" John in Lantana by Andrew Bovell and at the end of September 2009 as part of the Reinhardt Seminar Festival "Zorn!" young Gio in the Austrian premiere of the play Georgia by Nino Harativili ; in it he embodied the brother of a young Georgian who moved to Germany to escape the family, social and political situation in her home country. In June 2009 Subramaniam made guest appearances at drama school festivals in Warsaw , Amsterdam and Zurich .

theatre

At the beginning of the 2010/11 season, Subramaniam was engaged as a permanent member of the ensemble at the Landestheater Linz from September 2010 until the end of the 2014/15 season .

His stage roles there included u. a. the socialist bricklayer foreman Paul John in Die Ratten (premiere: May 2011), the successful lawyer and son Bernard in Death of a Salesman (premiere: March 2011), Karl Moor in Schiller's early work The Robbers (premiere: January 2011), Sergeant Brophy in Arsen and lace cap (premiere: January 2013), King Alfonso in Die Jüdin von Toledo (premiere: September 2012), the businessman Abdulin in Der Revisor (premiere: May 2013), the Shakespearian Othello (premiere: January 2014) and the Moroccan one Foreign worker Ali in the Fassbinder stage version Fear Eats Soul (Premiere: May 2014).

Subramaniam has been working as a freelance actor since 2014. In the seasons 2014/15 and 2015/16 he was engaged as a guest at the Vorarlberger Landestheater . There he met again as John in Lantana on, as well as King Diomedes in Kleist -Stück Penthesilea and as Tayo in the world premiere of the play Medusa's raft of Petra Maria Kraxner . In the 2017/18 season he was engaged as a guest at the Staatstheater Kassel .

Movie and TV

Since 2008 Subramaniam has also been in front of the camera for film and television. Through a casting, he received a role in Dariusz Kowalski's art film Interrogation Room , which was shown at the Kunsthaus Graz . The short version of the film was then shown in the cinemas as a diagonal trailer.

In the Austrian coming-of-age film Chucks (2015) by Sabine Hiebler and Gerhard Ertl , he played one of the main roles, for which he lost more than ten kilos, the gentle, humorous and "wise" infected with HIV and hepatitis C 21 year old Paul. Directed by Brigitte Maria Mayer, he worked as a disciple of Johannes in the crowdfunding project Jesus Cries (2015; alongside Sabin Tambrea as Jesus Christ in the lead role).

In November 2016 Subramaniam was seen in an episode role in the Austrian crime series SOKO Donau ; He played the lawyer Joseph Muntari, a former volunteer in a refugee home in Vienna who is suspected of being an ex-boyfriend of the murder victim.

Music and private matters

Subramaniam is also active as a musician and songwriter. Since December 2014 he has been part of the electronic duo "Butter" together with Tomá Ivanov. His music is based on electropop , but also includes popular and classical music in his compositions. In mid-2016 the duo released their debut album entitled Eckstein .

Subramaniam lives in Linz, Vienna and Munich .

Filmography (selection)

  • 2008: Interrogation Room (short film)
  • 2015: Chucks (feature film)
  • 2015: Jesus Cries (movie)
  • 2016: SOKO Danube : The Lost Children (TV series, an episode)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Markus Subramaniam at schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved February 18, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Markus Subramaniam, actor . Vita. Website orf.at . Retrieved February 18, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Markus Subramaniam . Vita. Official website of the Landestheater Linz . Retrieved February 18, 2018.
  4. ↑ A mirror of society? . In: Progress . Magazine of the Austrian Students' Union from August 4, 2014. Accessed on February 18, 2018.
  5. ↑ a b c Markus Subramaniam ( Memento of the original from February 18, 2018 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. . Vita. Official website of the Staatstheater Kassel . Retrieved February 18, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.staatstheater-kassel.de
  6. ↑ Who is afraid of the black man? . Performance review. In: DER STANDARD of January 27, 2014. Accessed on February 18, 2018.
  7. ↑ "It breaks me, nobody looks you in the face" . Performance review. In: Courier of May 25, 2014. Retrieved February 18, 2018.
  8. ↑ FEAR EAT SOUL . Trailer (Landestheater Linz). Retrieved February 18, 2018.
  9. ↑ Markus Subramaniam ( Memento of the original from February 18, 2018 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. . Official website of the Vorarlberger Landestheater . Retrieved February 18, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / landestheater.org
  10. ↑ Dariusz Kowalski. Interrogation Room . Official website of the Kunsthaus Graz. Retrieved February 18, 2018.
  11. ↑ Chucks . Plot, photos of the scene and reviews. Official website of DOR FILM. Retrieved February 18, 2018.
  12. ↑ CHUCKS - conversation with Markus Subramaniam . Retrieved February 18, 2018.
  13. ↑ JESUS ​​CRIES in the Glückauf film studio: What if the Savior lived today? . Lokalkompass.de from April 23, 2017. Retrieved February 18, 2018.
  14. ↑ The “Soko Danube” in search of the “lost children” . Plot, cast and picture gallery. Retrieved February 18, 2018.
  15. ↑ a b BUTTER: “Of course you make yourself vulnerable” . Interview from June 2016. Retrieved on February 18, 2018.
  16. ↑ BUTTER - "ECKSTEIN" . Portrait of the duo. Retrieved February 18, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Subramaniam, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Dachau