Matthias Bundschuh

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Matthias Bundschuh (* 1966 in Gütersloh ) is a German actor , screenwriter and playwright .

Life

education

Bundschuh spent his school days in Bonn . In 1987/1988 he studied acting and theater studies at the Royal Holloway College of the University of London on a scholarship . This was followed by acting training at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna (1988/1989) and, from 1990 to 1994, studying acting at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin . He passed his diploma as a stage actor with distinction.

Theater works

Bundschuh had several permanent theater engagements, initially from 1994 to 1996 at the Cottbus State Theater . This was followed by an engagement at the Hebbel Theater in Berlin, where he worked in Robert Wilson's production of Dr. Faustus lights the lights appeared. At the Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz he played in the play The Hour, As We Didn't Know About Each Other, by Peter Handke (director: Luc Bondy ). From 1998 to 2000 he was engaged at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg . There he appeared as Sir Galahed in Merlin by Tankred Dorst , directed by Jossi Wieler . He also played Raimond, one of Jeanne d'Arc's suitors , in Schiller's tragedy The Maiden of Orleans , directed by Matthias Hartmann .

In 2000 he had engagements at the Bad Hersfeld Festival (Mortimer in Maria Stuart ) and at the Bremen Theater (Kaiser and Euphorion in Faust II ). In 2000/2001 he played the monologue in the Sophiensaele in Berlin. Ippolit has postponed his death until the day after tomorrow in order to meet you based on motifs by Dostoyevsky , which he had written together with the director Boris von Poser . He also made guest appearances at the Schauspielhaus Zürich , the Schauspiel Hannover and the Münchner Kammerspiele (2001).

From 2001 to 2006 he was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Münchner Kammerspiele . He appeared there as composer Zamrjaki in The Marquis of Keith by Frank Wedekind (director: Peter Kastenmüller , 2001/02 season), as Malcolm in Macbeth (director: Calixto Bieito , 2001/02 season), as Legendre in Dantons Tod ( Director: Lars-Ole Walburg , 2001-2003), as Princess von Eboli [sic!] In Don Karlos (Director: Sebastian Nübling , 2003/04 season) and as Pyotr Sergejewitsch Trofimow in Der Kirschgarten (Director: Lars-Ole Walburg, 2005/06 season). With the production of Macbeth , Bundschuh also made a guest appearance at the Salzburg Festival in 2001 .

From 2006 to 2009 Bundschuh belonged to the ensemble of the Deutsches Theater Berlin , where he appeared in A Midsummer Night's Dream (as Peter Squenz and as Elfe, 2007), in Was ihr wollt (as chambermaid Maria [sic!], Directed by Michael Thalheimer , 2006) ), in Ein Traumspiel (2008) and in 2008 in the play Big and Small by Botho Strauss . In February 2009 he took on the speaking role of steward in the opera Ariadne auf Naxos at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in a production by Robert Carsen . In September / October 2009 he played the title role of Iwan Alexandrowitsch Chlestakow in the comedy Der Revisor by Nikolai Gogol at the Schauspielhaus Zürich ; in the 2010/11 season he took over the Antonio in Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing . He also wrote and played the theater monologue Jakob von Gunten (premiered in 2006) based on the novel by Robert Walser for the Deutsches Theater Berlin .

In the 2011/12 season he was a guest at the Schauspielhaus Zürich as butcher Oskar in Tales from the Vienna Woods (director: Karin Henkel ); Oronte in Der Menschenfeind (directed by Barbara Frey ) followed in the 2012/13 season . 2013–2015 he appeared again at the Hamburger Schauspielhaus , a. a. as assistant scribe Wilhelm Foldal in the Ibsen play John Gabriel Borkman (2015, director: Karin Henkel).

In 2016 he was a guest at the Salzburg Festival as Trinculo in Shakespeare's late work Der Sturm (director: Deborah Warner ).

Movie and TV

Bundschuh worked in well over 50 film and television productions. Bundschuh made his debut as a film actor in 1992 in the television film Lenz , where he played the role of Maximilian Klinger under the direction of Egon Günther . In the movie Shoppen (2006) he played the career-oriented controller Ralf, who tries to find a partner during speed dating .

He played a small role in the multi-part Die Affäre Semmeling (2000) by Dieter Wedel . He also had the role of a BND official in the television film Mogadishu (2007) directed by Roland Suso Richter . He had a “remarkable appearance” in 2007 at the side of Hannelore Hoger in the Bella Block episode Journey to China , in which he played the bizarre ex-husband of a murdered woman. In the Tatort episode Salzleiche , with Maria Furtwängler as Commissioner Charlotte Lindholm, Bundschuh played the village police officer Jakob Halder, whom he created as a “friendly but opaque” character. From 2007 to 2010 Bundschuh also had a continuous role in the ZDF television series Our Farm in Ireland . He played the shy, quirky Patrick Sinclair, the owner of a tea shop.

In Margarethe von Trotta's biographical feature film Hannah Arendt (2012) he made a brief appearance as the conservative New York intellectual Norman Podhoretz. In the Heinrich George biography George (2013), Bundschuh embodied the writer and resistance fighter Günther Weisenborn . In the literary adaptation Nackt unter Wölfen (2015) he portrayed SS-Hauptscharführer Gotthold Zweiling. In the Berlin Tatort: ​​Ätzend (first broadcast: November 2015), the second case of the Rubin and Karow investigative team , he was the lawyer Lothar Thielgen.

In the 72nd episode of the ZDF crime series Ein stark Team ( Waspennest , first broadcast in October 2017), he played the neighbor Stefan Wernicke, who equips a residential estate with surveillance cameras. In Münster's crime scene: God is only human (first broadcast: November 2017), he played the hotel porter and artist Robert Wenger, who in the end turns out to be a serial killer. In 2018 he had a leading role as conductor Elias Berg in the documentary film Leningrad Symphony, A City Fights for Its Lives by Carsten Gutschmidt and Christian Frey (director). In the ZDF crime series Das Quartett: The Long Shadow of Death (2019), Bundschuh played the lawyer for suspect Rolf Torberg ( Robert Gallinowski ).

He also had episode roles in various television series (including Alpha Team - Die Lebensretter im OP , SOKO Cologne , Um Himmels Willen , Die Bergretter and In allerfreund - Die Junge Ärzte ).

Others

In addition to his work as an actor, Bundschuh is artistically active in various functions in the field of puppetry and marionette play . He was a founding member of the "Michaelis Puppet Theater" in Cottbus . There he designed sets and costumes, drew templates for puppet heads and was responsible for direction and lighting. In 2010 he made the puppet short film Wohin ist, who I was and am based on a story by Franz Werfel , for which, in addition to directing, he was also responsible for the script and film design.

Bundschuh lives in Berlin.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matthias Bundschuh: "I suspect that some will find themselves in the film." . Interview with Matthias Bundschuh at cineman.de.
  2. ↑ Bella Block: Journey to China . www.kino.de
  3. ↑ "The private and the political are close together" . Interview with Matthias Bundschuh at tatort-fundus.de.
  4. ^ Leningrad Symphony . Plot, cast and production details. Retrieved October 19, 2019.
  5. ^ "The Quartet": New ZDF Saturday crime thriller with Anja Kling . Golden camera. Retrieved October 19, 2019.
  6. ↑ “The Quartet” solves the first case - the start is not very inspiring . TV review. In: Berliner Morgenpost of October 12, 2019. Retrieved October 19, 2019.
  7. ^ Mathias Bundschuh . Brief portrait of Michaeli's puppet theater
  8. ^ Biography of Matthias Bundschuh ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Ginger Foot Films @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gingerfoot.de
personal data
SURNAME Bundschuh, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, screenwriter and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Gutersloh