Michael Jussen

Michael Jussen (born 1965 ) is a German actor and cabaret artist .

life and work

After training as a television technician and briefly studying Latin and theology , Jussen attended drama school in Berlin. His first engagements took him to the Anhaltische Theater Dessau , the Stadttheater Bremerhaven and the Grenzlandtheater Aachen , the Lutherstadt Theater Wittenberg and the Theaterlabor Berlin . He played the title roles in Marlowe's The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus and Osborne's Martin Luther , as well as the worker Jimmy Porter in Osborne's Looking Back in Anger . As Luther, he also appeared at the theater festival in Palermo. In 2005, on the occasion of the 1,200th anniversary of the city of Magdeburg , he was seen as a heroic actor in the theater spectacle Otto and other greats , in 2006 he played Inspector Ledoux in the Phantom of the Opera . Since 2010 he has been represented every year at the Jedermann Festival in the Berlin Cathedral , directed by Brigitte Grothum , first as a debt servant, then as bailiff.

In the 1990s, Jussen set a number of audio books to music, including Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther , Büchner's Lenz , Storm's Der Schimmelreiter and Kafka's The Metamorphosis . Since 2004 Jussen has been working on regular solo and cabaret programs with which he performs all over the country. There is close cooperation with the Brettl-Keller in Lutherstadt Wittenberg and with the Kiebitzensteiners in Halle (Saale) .

Jussen also works as an acting lecturer for voice and acting in Berlin and Wittenberg.

2004 Reineke Fuchs or how to become Federal Chancellor with texts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2008 I pinch with red-hot pliers , a Heinrich Heine program
2008 Stupidity does not protect against wealth (with Anne-Kathrin Vorwerk) - Die Kiebitzsteiner, Halle
2013 I need a woman
2013 La deutsche Vita (with Stephanie Hottinger)

personal data
SURNAME	Jussen, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German actor and cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH	1965