Martin Neuhaus

Martin Neuhaus at the Max Ophüls Prize 2016 film festival

Martin Neuhaus (born April 21, 1975 in Berlin-Pankow ) is a German actor , singer and director .

Life

Martin Neuhaus grew up in the East Berlin districts of Oberschöneweide and Friedrichshagen and initially studied singing at the “Hanns Eisler” University of Music in Berlin before moving to Feldberg in Mecklenburg . There he worked as a ferryman and innkeeper, initiated the Carwitz Summer Concerts and founded the Hotel Haus Seenland .

After formative visits to the theater, he began studying acting at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig , which he completed with a diploma. In the 2003/2004 season he worked at the German National Theater Weimar before he went to the Mecklenburg State Theater in Schwerin for four seasons . He worked with theater directors Katja Paryla , Hartmut Wickert , Friedo Solter , Thomas Thieme , Alexander Lang , Matthias Brenner , Claudia Bauer , Peter Dehler , Patrick Wengenroth , Alice Buddeberg and Martin Nimz , among others .

Martin Neuhaus was a co-founder of the Schwerin theater show Spätschicht and the Werk3 theater that emerged from it . Since the summer of 2008, after work on even staged monologue rum and vodka by Conor McPherson , Martin Neuhaus worked as a freelancer mainly for film and television. His production Summer in Hell at the Landestheater Marburg was invited to the Hessian Theater Days 2009.

He played the innkeeper Adam in the ARD series Dating Daisy , which started in 2014 .

He was also in the music video Partypiepel of Kai Lüftner to see.

The medium-length film Route B96, in which he took part as an actor, received the audience award of the Film Festival Max Ophüls Preis and the Studio Hamburg Young Talent Award in 2016 . The medium-length film Gabi, in which he was seen in a leading role, opened the Perspective German Cinema section at the 2017 Berlinale and won the German Short Film Award 2017. Neuhaus lives in Schwerin and Feldberg.

He can also be seen again at the Mecklenburg State Theater. For example, he played the village judge Adam in The Broken Jug . He was also seen in Schwerin in the play version of the novel From now on is calm by Marion Brasch . For the critics of Deutschlandradio Kultur, the production was one of the ten most outstanding productions of the 2016 theater year.

Since 2019 Neuhaus has had a seat in the Schwerin city council for the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party .

Filmography (selection)

2009: Hunger Winter - Survival after the War (TV docudrama; Director: Gordian Maugg )
2011: The Counterrevolution (TV documentary play; Director: Bernd Fischerauer )
2011: The Teacher (TV film; Director: Tim Trageser )
2012: The seizure of power (TV documentary; director: Bernd Fischerauer)
2012: Fibrillation - Die Klinik am See (TV series)
2012: Because I'm more beautiful (Director: Frieder Schlaich )
2013: Hubert and Staller (TV series; episode Die Venus von Ambach )
2013: Russia - my fate (TV docudrama; director: Nina Koshofer)
2013: Three in one bed (TV film; Director: Wilhelm Engelhardt )
2013: End-maker (Director: Matthias Schweighöfer )
2013: Death on the Baltic Sea (TV movie; Director: Martin Enlen )
2013: Ex files (TV series; Follow Treu bis ins Grab ; Direction: Wilhelm Engelhardt)
2014: SOKO Leipzig (TV series; episode Crashed ; director: Buddy Giovinazzo )
2014: Neufeld, come with us! (TV film; Director: Tim Trageser)
2014: Dating Daisy (TV series)
2014: Between the Times (TV film; Director: Hansjörg Thurn )
2014: SOKO Wismar (TV series; Follow Through ; Director: Oliver Dommenget )
2014: To life! (Director: Uwe Janson )
2015: The Tuesday Women - Between Cabbage and Turnips (TV film; Director: Franziska Meyer Price )
2015: SOKO Cologne (TV series; episode Der Kölschbaron ; director: Ulrike Hamacher)
2015: 600 HP for two (TV film; Director: Sophie Allet-Coche )
2015: The Confession (Director: Bernd Michael Lade )
2015: Willa (short film; director: Helena Hufnagel )
2016: Route B96 (Director: Simon Ostermann)
2016: Voicemail (Director: Erec Brehmer)
2016: Fucking Berlin (Director: Florian Gottschick )
2017: Gabi (Director: Michael Fetter Nathansky)
2018: 303 (Director: Hans Weingartner)
2018: Chewing gum bubble (short film; director: Anja Gurres)
2019: The three of the garbage disposal - Baby on board (TV movie; Director: Bettina Schoeller-Bouju )

Awards

2004: Promotion award for drama students from the Federal Minister for Education and Research , first ensemble award to students at the University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig, Studio Weimar (Christian Apel, Puja Behboud, Lea Draeger , Gina Henkel , Martin Klemm, David Kramer , Martin Neuhaus, Petra Schmidt-Schaller ; staging: Olaf Hilliger) for time to love time to die by Fritz Kater at the Theatertreffen in Hanover of the permanent drama training conference