Matthias Koeberlin

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Matthias Koeberlin at the German Television Prize 2012

Matthias Koeberlin (born March 28, 1974 in Mainz ) is a German actor and reciter . Koeberlin became known to a broader television audience through the action-packed leading role of archeology student Steffen Vogt in the TV sci-fi adventure film Das Jesus Video .

Life

Matthias Koeberlin spent his youth in Kriegsfeld (Palatinate). Before starting his acting training, he did community service . Koeberlin lives in Cologne, is married and has a son.

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Movie

Koeberlin completed his acting studies from 1994 at the University of Film and Television "Konrad Wolf" in Potsdam-Babelsberg . There he played at the Hans-Otto-Theater and later also at the Deutsches Theater Berlin (Baracke) and at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater .

He made his television debut in 1998 alongside Götz George and Suzanne von Borsody in the Schimanski episode Rattennest . The first leading role in a television film came with Ben and Maria - Love at Second Glance (2000), for which he was awarded the Günter Strack Television Prize. In the series In all friendship he was part of the team in the role of Sebastian Maier for 35 episodes from 1999 . After leaving the ARD medical series, he was seen in the TV crime series Polizeiruf 110 next to Peter Sattmann in the episode Mordfreunde as Robert Boldt and next to Edgar Selge , Dennenesch Zoudé and Gaby Dohm in the role of Bastian in Verzeih mir (2000) .

The director Constantin Costa-Gavras cast him in 2002 in the award-winning film The Deputy in the guest role of a young officer alongside Ulrich Tukur , Ulrich Mühe , Justus von Dohnányi and Sebastian Koch . To a wider television audience Matthias Koeberlin was the action-packed main role of archeology students Steffen Vogt in TV Sci-Fi - adventure film The Jesus Video after the best-selling novel by Andreas Eschbach .

In 2004 he was seen in the leading role of Alex alongside Natalia Wörner in the award-winning TV drama Experiment Bootcamp . In order to be free again as soon as possible and to protect his mother and his little sister Lena from their tyrannical father, Alex accepts an unusual offer: 120 days in the boot camp instead of four years in prison. Strict rules, humiliation and brutal physical drill make life in the camp hell.

Directed by Hartmut Schoen , Matthias Koeberlin embodied the co-leading role of the young but tough and career-oriented border officer Walter Rathke in 2005 in Der Grenzer und das Mädchen alongside Axel Prahl . The film received a 2006 nomination for the Adolf Grimme Prize .

In 2006, Matthias Koeberlin played in the TV action drama Tornado - The Wrath of Heaven, the odd-minded and courageous young meteorologist Jan Berger . Jan tries by all means to warn Berlin of an approaching tornado. When you finally believe him, it is already too late. The cinema magazine kino.de called his portrayal “as an action hero as sympathetic as it is convincing.” In 2007 Matthias Koeberlin received the German TV Prize for best German actor for this role .

Also in 2007 he was part of the international co-production Das Konklave in the role of Guliano della Rovere , directed by Christoph Schrewe .

In 2007 he received the German Comedy Prize for his portrayal of Robert Ziegler in the television series Kinder, Kinder .

The 2007 film The Mysterious Treasure of Troy revolved around an archaeological theme again . At the side of Heino Ferch and Mélanie Doutey , Matthias Koeberlin embodied the tunneling expert Lars Bernsson , who was smuggled into the archaeological excavation by the government as an informant and had to choose between loyalty to the excavation manager and government mandate .

In 2008 he played alongside Hans-Werner Meyer the main role of loyal friend Micha Schell in the two-part SAT.1 TV series Wir sind das Volk . Micha lost his brother Matthis while trying to escape at the wall. In 1989 he recorded the protest rallies in the GDR on video and smuggled the material into the West to the television reporter Andreas, who managed to escape. The video documentation of the protests in Leipzig can cost him freedom and life.

In Dani Levy's movie Life is Too Long 2010 he was seen in the role of a wet research dynamic RTL television series producer. In the German-British TV coproduction of the World War II drama about the torpedoing of the British Laconia by a German submarine in 2011, he played alongside Ken Duken , Thomas Kretschmann and Franka Potente, the board engineer Rostau, who had a lot of patents . In the TV film Die Schuld der Erben , a family drama about the decline of a Hamburg shipyard dynasty, Koeberlin plays the investigative journalist Bruno Fuhrmann alongside Otto Sander and Jürgen Prochnow . Fuhrmann suspects sabotage in connection with a tanker accident at the shipyard.

Audio books

Matthias Koeberlin regularly reads audio books, for example by Marc Levy : Children of Hope and Where Are You? and by Richard Montanari Lunatic , Mefisto and Crucifix or by Clive Barker Agony of Cities and The Books of Blood Part 1-3 .

2008 he played for the WDR in a twelve-part Karl May - radio play of Walter Adler alongside Sylvester Groth as Kara Ben Nemsi the part of the faithful Hajji Halef Omar . In the same year, alongside Volker Lechtenbrink and Udo Schenk , he spoke the role of Caedmon of Helmsby in the radio play Das neue Kingdom published by Hörverlag .

In the computer game Company of Heroes he lent his voice to the German pioneer unit .

In 2014 he read The Jesus Deal (Das Jesus Video 2) by Andreas Eschbach as an audio book.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays and audio books (excerpt)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Matthias Koeberlin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Picture gallery of photos of the film Das Jesus Video on cinema.de
  2. ^ Review of Tornado on kino.de
  3. The debt of the heirs. In: ZDF.de. Retrieved September 18, 2014 .
  4. Gold / platinum database of the Federal Music Industry Association , retrieved on August 25, 2017