Maximilian Dirr

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Maximilian Dirr, 2019

Maximilian Dirr (* 1983 in Landshut ) is a German actor who works in Italy and Germany.

Life

Education and theater

Maximilian Dirr grew up in Germany and Italy. From 2004 to 2007 he studied English and Spanish at the University of La Sapienza (University of Rome I) in Rome . Dirr completed his acting studies from 2007 to 2010 at the State Academy of Dramatic Art "Teatro Stabile di Genova" in Genoa , where he obtained his acting diploma.

He then took up his first permanent engagement at the Teatro Stabile di Genova, where he had already performed during his studies. He played there in Italian a. a. the prince of Urbino in Heil und Unheil einerName (2009; ital .: Fortuna e sfortuna del nome ) by Calderón , the military doctor Tschebutykin in Three Sisters (2010), Rebus in The Tears of the Widow by George Chapman (2010; ital .: Le lagrime delle vedova ), Alexander in Le Diable en partage by Fabrice Melquiot (2010; his official stage debut after completing his training) and Pomarici in Tonight is played impromptu by Luigi Pirandello (2010/11 season; Italian: Questa sera si recita a soggetto ). In 2014 he appeared at the Teatro della Tosse in Genoa in the theater project Trenofermo a Katzelmacher (based on motifs from the Fassbinder film Katzelmacher by Dario Aita and Elena Gigliotti) in the lead role as Katzelmacher . In April 2014 he performed this production at the Teatro Astra in Venice .

Movie

Dirr has also worked for cinema and television since 2008. He made his cinema debut, directed by Giorgio Diritti , with a small role as an SS soldier in the Italian film The Man Who Will Come (2008) about the SS massacre in Marzabotto, northern Italy . Several Italian cinema and television productions followed; he also worked in several short films .

In the Italian television series Un passo dal cielo (2012) he had an episode role as free climbing athlete Mattia Werner at the side of Terence Hill . In 2013 he worked in Ridley Scott's television film The Vatican, which was shot in Rome . In the Italian film The Best Offer , he played a supporting role under the direction of Giuseppe Tornatore as assistant to the art collector and auction house owner Virgil Oldman ( Geoffrey Rush ). In 2013 he played a Sephardim in the short film Sonderkommando by Nicola Ragone, which received the Nastro d'Argento as best short film in 2015 . In 2014 he had a supporting role in the Italian multi-part television series Francesco , directed by Liliana Cavani . In 2015 Dirr played leading and supporting roles in several Italian television series. He also shot the SS-GB series for the BBC in 2015 .

In 2017, Maximilian Dirr appeared in German cinemas in the comedy Maria Mafiosi directed by Jule Ronstedt and in the war drama Sobibor by Konstantin Khabenskiy, based on real events, about an uprising in the extermination camp of the same name in 1943. In Mario Martone's film drama Capri-Revolution , which had its world premiere in the competition of the 75th Venice International Film Festival in summer 2018 , Dirr was part of the main cast in the role of Hermann; He played a fictional character based on the psychoanalyst Otto Gross and the painter Hermann Nitsch .

watch TV

In addition to his involvement in international productions, Dirr also repeatedly took on roles in German-language TV productions. In the television film Zappelphilipp (2012) was seen in a supporting role; he played Wolfram Wiedemann, the new partner of a mother whose child suffers from attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder ( ADHD ). In February 2016 Dirr played a leading role in the ZDF crime series Kommissarin Lucas ; he played the "deluded" Father Anton who suffered from delusional attacks. In the 5th season of the ZDF television series Lena Lorenz (2019), Dirr, alongside Ulrike Kriener and Anne Schäfer , took on a leading role as project manager of a company that manufactures biogas plants. In the 10th film of the ZDF crime series Die Toten vom Bodensee with the title Curse from the Deep (first broadcast: January 2020) Dirr played the pastor Hermann Schwab, whom the investigators questioned about the “ Bregenz Pestpfennig” and the plague in Vorarlberg .

He also had several episode roles in German TV and crime series, e.g. B. The Public Prosecutor (January 2013), Last Trace Berlin (February 2014), Guilt according to Ferdinand von Schirach (February 2015) and SOKO Munich (October 2016). In November 2016 he was in the series In allerfreund - The young doctors in a leading role as a bank employee Konrad Peters, who is suddenly no longer afraid after an operation.

Private

Dirr speaks German, Italian and English fluently. He lives in Berlin .

Filmography (selection)

Theater (selection)

  • 2009: Calderón : Fortuna e Sfortuna del nome (Teatro Stabile di Genova); Director: Annalaura Messeri
  • 2010: George Chapman : Le Lagrime della vedova (Teatro Stabile di Genova); Director: Annalaura Messeri
  • 2010: Luca De Bei: Cellule (Teatro Stabile di Genova); Director: Dario Aita
  • 2010: Anton Chekhov : Tre Sorelle (Teatro Stabile di Genova); Directed by Massimo Mesciulam
  • 2010: Fabrice Melquiot : Le diable en partage (Teatro Stabile di Genova); Director: Filippo Dini
  • 2010–2011: Luigi Pirandello : Questa sera si recita a soggetto (Teatro Stabile di Genova / Compagnia Gank); Director: Alberto Giusta
  • 2011: Harold Pinter : La collezione (Teatro Stabile di Genova); Director: Carlo Sciaccaluga
  • 2014: Rainer Werner Fassbinder : Trenofermo a Katzelmacher (Teatro della Tosse / Genova); Director: Dario Aita

Web links

Commons : Maximilian Dirr  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Maximilian Dirr profile and vita at Schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved February 20, 2016
  2. ↑ a b Maximilian Dirr profile on E-TALENTA. Retrieved February 20, 2016
  3. ↑ Fortuna e sfortuna del nome ... performance review . cinemaeteatro on June 18, 2009. Accessed February 20, 2016
  4. ↑ Trenofermo a Katzelmacher (trailer / excerpts). Retrieved February 20, 2016
  5. ↑ TRENO FERMO A - KATZELMACHER - ideazione Dario Aita, Elena Gigliotti performance review . Sipario.it of April 10, 2014. Accessed February 20, 2016.
  6. ↑ A “Sonderkommando” by Nicola Ragone il Nastro d'Argento come miglior corto ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2016 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. Il Quotidiano del Sud of April 14, 2015. Accessed February 20, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ilquotidianodellabasilicata.it
  7. ↑ Biennale Cinema 2018 | Capri Revolution . In: La Biennale di Venezia . July 16, 2018 ( labiennale.org [accessed November 2, 2018]).
  8. ↑ Berlin actor: From deep Wedding to the Lido in Venice . In: BZ of September 5, 2018. Accessed November 2, 2018.
  9. ^ "Commissioner Lucas - Way of the Cross" series . TV review at tittelbach.tv . Retrieved September 15, 2019.
  10. ↑ Lena Lorenz: Child there, job gone . Plot and cast. Official website of the ZDF . Retrieved September 9, 2019.
  11. ↑ Generation change . Plot and cast. Official website Das Erste . Retrieved September 15, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Dirr, Maximilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Landshut