Max Urlacher

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Max Urlacher (in the background) together with Franka Potente 2005

Max Urlacher (born September 4, 1971 ) is a German actor , author and documentary filmmaker .

Live and act

Max Urlacher, who grew up in West Berlin , completed a traineeship at Inforadio Berlin, then studied acting at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich and later received his Masters in Business Philosophy at City University London . He played at the theaters in Zurich, Bochum and Hamburg and appears regularly in film and television productions. He is a columnist for the Swiss magazine Annabelle and speaker of numerous radio plays and audio books. Together with Franka Potente he published the book Los Angeles - Berlin in September 2005 . A year. Together they shot the documentary 'Tokyo Tokyo', and Urlacher also took on the lead role in Potente's directorial debut Who Digs Up Deadly nightshade . In 2010 his novel Tailwind - a love story was published by Knaur Verlag Munich. The Putzi Diaries followed in 2011 , as did the two-part children's radio play Willy and the Meermädchen , WDR . Max Urlacher was awarded the German Children's Radio Play Prize 2013 for his radio play Märchentherapie ( WDR ) . In 2015 he played the main role of Hagen in the play Gemetzel by Albert Ostermaier, directed by Thomas Schadt , artistic director Nico Hofmann , at the Nibelungen Festival in Worms . In the summer of 2016 he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival as Sebastian in Deborah Warner's Sturm production. In 2018 his novel Die Königin von Lankwitz was published by Ullstein Verlag . In summer 2019, the theater adaptation of his debut novel Tailwind was premiered as part of the Nibelungen Festival in Worms with himself in the lead role.

Filmography (selection)

Theater (selection)

Max Urlacher as Hagen at the Nibelungen Festival in Worms 2015

Books

Radio plays as an author

  • 2011: Willy and the Meermgirl - Director: Angeli Backhausen ( WDR Lilipuz)
  • 2013: Fairy Tale Therapy - Director: Angeli Backhausen (Children's Radio Play - WDR) German Children's Radio Play Prize 2013
  • 2014: Message in a bottle from space - Director: Angeli Backhausen (WDR / Kiraka)
  • 2015: Audrey, the demented fairy - Director: Angeli Backhausen (WDR / Kiraka)
  • 2017: Eric, the killer squirrel - Director: Martin Zylka (WDR / Kiraka)
  • 2018: Full steam through the desert, the secret of the Baghdad Railway - Director: Claudia Johanna Leist (WDR / Kiraka)

Audiography (selection)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. The German Children's Radio Play Prize goes to "Die Märchentherapie" , on ard.de, accessed on July 3, 2018