Michael Kessler

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Michael Kessler with the German Television Award 2018
Michael Kessler (2011)
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Michael Kessler (born June 24, 1967 in Wiesbaden ) is a German actor , comedian , theater director , author and presenter . He became known with the movie Manta, Manta (1991) and the comedy series Switch . In 2008 he was awarded the German Comedy Prize in the “Best Actor” category.

Act

theatre

Michael Kessler passed his Abitur in 1986 at the high school at Mosbacher Berg in Wiesbaden. Already during his school days he worked in the theater group and appeared as part of the school theater days at the Hessian State Theater in Wiesbaden . From 1988 to 1992 he completed an apprenticeship at the Westphalian Drama School in Bochum . During his studies he appeared in the role of Georg Zierschnitz in Frank Wedekind's youth drama Spring Awakening at the Schauspielhaus Bochum (1990) and in the role of the Lorraine knight Raoul in Schiller's Die Jungfrau von Orléans at the Schauspiel Frankfurt (1991).

After receiving his diploma, Kessler was engaged at the Nationaltheater Mannheim from 1992 to 1995 . There he played, among others, Dr. Leopold Neumeister in the comedy Der Raub der Sabinerinnen by Franz and Paul von Schönthan , Dauphin in St. Johanna by George Bernard Shaw and Osvald Alving in Henrik Ibsen's family drama Ghosts . In 1996 he was hired for the production of poker at the Schauspielhaus Zurich . Together with Christoph Maria Herbst , Bastian Pastewka and Jürgen Tonkel , he performed the comedy Männerhort on the stage of the Theater am Kurfürstendamm in Berlin from 2005 to 2009 . The success of the piece took the ensemble across the whole of Germany from January to February 2008. During their season they appeared in a total of 166 sold-out performances in front of around 120,000 spectators.

In 2010, Kessler's own live program, The Little Hits of the Big Stars, premiered, in which he presented the artistic mistakes of prominent colleagues. In 2011 he first worked as a director and staged the stage work The 39 stages , adapted by Patrick Barlow, based on the detective novel by John Buchan and the thriller of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock at the Deutsches Theater Göttingen . In the following season 2012/2013 he staged the comedy Der nackte Wahnsinn , written by Michael Frayn , at the DT Göttingen . In the 2013/2014 season he is staging the world premiere of Oliver Bukowski's play I shredded Bryan Adams .

Movie and TV

1990s

Michael Kessler with Martina Hill (2009)

In Bernd Eichinger's action comedy Manta, Manta , Kessler made his debut in 1991 as "Klausi" in his first film role. There were other engagements as a supporting actor in the German Film Prize winning comedy Schtonk! (1992) and Kleine Haie (1992), in the soccer film Nordkurve (1993) and in the three-part television series Hotel Mama (1995–1999).

2000s

Kessler became known to a broad television audience in 1999 as a member of the television parody Switch , in which he parodied prominent people such as journalist Peter Kloeppel or television presenter Andreas Türck from the third to the fourth and final season in 2000 . From 2001 to 2002 he was part of the weekly show team . Here he imitated the talk show host Alfred Biolek and Günther Jauch as well as the former Green politician Joschka Fischer . With the start of the program Schillerstraße , which was focused on improvisation and was awarded the German Television Prize, followed a multi-year commitment for Kessler from 2004, who appeared in 41 episodes as a friend of Cordula Stratmann and ended his participation in 2007. Between 2007 and 2012 he was seen again in the six seasons of the media satire Switch reloaded , including as folk music entertainer Florian Silbereisen and TV chef Horst Lichter .

In addition to numerous appearances in individual episodes of various comedy productions, Michael Kessler took on the role of Mr. Marsch in Axel! wants to know a permanent supporting role (2005–2006). As a friend and colleague of the main actor Bastian Pastewka, he has also appeared as a guest on all seasons of the eponymous sitcom Pastewka since 2005 . From 2006 to 2008 he took part in 25 episodes of the advice show Genial besides , and he is also a guest again in the new edition of the show, which began in 2017.

Kessler has also appeared as a guest actor in crime series such as Tatort (2003), Ein Fall für Zwei (2003), Großstadtrevier (2003), SOKO Cologne (2005, 2009), Lutter (2009) and SOKO 5113 (2011). In the short film Two Weeks Argentina , first broadcast in 2003 , he played a father threatened with unemployment who committed fraud for fear of losing his custody.

In 2006, Kessler's first own program, Berliner Nacht-Taxe , started in rbb . He summarized his nocturnal encounters as a taxi driver in the book of the same name on the series, which was published in April 2008 by Berlin Verlag . Based on the British sitcom How Not to Live Your Life , Kessler's first own comedy show Kesslers Knigge was created in 2008 , which was broadcast on Sat.1 from June to August 2009 , but was not continued after the pilot season.

2010s

After four years, the rbb stopped the production of Berliner Nacht-Taxe , but continued its collaboration with the actor with the follow-up project, Kessler's Expedition . In October 2012 Michael Kessler was a parodist for Günther Jauch in the first Wetten, dass ..? Broadcast under Markus Lanz as an outside reporter. On the occasion of the RTL donation marathon in November 2012, he also parodied Jauch in the 25th edition of Wer wird Millionär? - Celebrity specials and won 500,000 euros for the RTL Foundation - We Help Children e. V. In 2014, the six-part personality documentary Kessler ist ... was created for ZDFneo , in which Kessler asked six celebrities and their immediate surroundings in order to visually transform themselves into the celebrities themselves at the end of the program. At the end of 2018, Kessler realized his idea for a serious talk show with children, Kessler's Smalltalk, with the RBB . Kessler is married and has two children.

Activity as an author

Kessler has been writing for television, film and stage since 1999. In 2002 his musical Fürchtenich, designed for children and adults, was premiered at the State Theater in Mainz . As an author, he was and is involved in all seasons of Switch Reloaded , his own comedy series Kesslers Knigge and the radio comedy Kesslers Shooting Stars , which is broadcast on 1 Live . For Thomas Sessler Verlag in Vienna , he edited the 1960s tabloid comedy Boeing-Boeing by the French writer Marc Camoletti and the film comedy Testosteron (2007) by the Polish director Andrzej Saramonowicz. Boeing-Boeing celebrated its successful premiere in June 2008 at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm in Berlin.

In 2010 he wrote the German version of Paul Dewandre's Mars and Venus for Theater Mogul and directed the comedy comedy under the title Mars and Venus - Crash Course Love . For the RBB, Kessler created the mockumentary Meine heile Welt in 2016 . He wrote the script for the pilot episode Kampf um Thandrien and in 2017 other scripts for the first season of Meine heile Welt in which he also plays the leading role and acts as creative producer. From 2011 to 2016 he wrote Kessler's column for TV Digital .

Activity as a speaker

At the end of the 2000s, Kessler expanded his field of activity to include the interpretation of audio books . He read the humorous productions Hell, all inclusive (2009) by Mark Werner , Stadt der Losierer (2011) by Daniel Depp and Excuse me, are you the sausage? (2010) with Annette Frier and Nee, we only have free-range eggs (2011) with Martina Hill from the series Germany in the original sound . Together with cabaret artist Dieter Hildebrandt , he set to music in Loch in Erde, Bronze rin parodies of poems by Friedrich Schiller , the original of which had previously been performed by Dieter Mann .

In addition, Kessler first appeared as a voice actor in 2011 , lending his voice to the Texas rattlesnake Jake in Rango . In 2013 Kessler speaks the lout "Hauie" in The Smurfs 2 . In 2016 he spoke to Richter Hackpranke in Angry Birds - The Film and Franz von Hahn in Mullewapp - A beautiful mess .

Filmography

movie theater

watch TV

Former

Ongoing

Radio plays

Awards

Michael Kessler with the Switch Reloaded team (2009)
  • 2005
  • 2007
    • German Comedy Award as a member of the Switch Reloaded ensemble in the "Best Sketch Show" category
  • 2008
    • German Comedy Award as "Best Actor in a Comedy Series"
    • German Comedy Award as a member of the Switch Reloaded ensemble in the "Best Sketch Show" category
    • German television award as a member of the Switch Reloaded ensemble in the "Best Comedy Series" category
  • 2009
    • Romy as a member of the Switch Reloaded ensemble in the "Special Jury Prize" category
  • 2012
    • Jupiter Film Award as an ensemble member of men tick, women differently in the category "Best TV Film"
  • 2013
    • Donkey order of the city of Wesel
    • Adolf Grimme Prize for Switch Reloaded - Wetten, dass ...? - Special in the "Entertainment" category
  • 2018

Web links

Commons : Michael Kessler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Almost everything on television is fake - Interview with Michael Kessler Spiegel Online from March 24, 2009
  2. ↑ Interview with Kessler about his roles as a journalist and media criticism ( memento of the original from March 22, 2010 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.medien-monitor.com
  3. ↑ prosieben.de , October 8, 2012, accessed on November 26, 2012
  4. ↑ Jauch wins half a million at Jauch bz-berlin.de, November 23, 2012, accessed on November 24, 2012
  5. ↑ News.de editors: Michael Kessler private: He's really "ruthless" when it comes to his parodies . In: News.de . ( news.de [accessed on May 4, 2018]).
  6. ↑ The Smurfs 2 in the German synchronous file
  7. ↑ Michael Kessler receives the Donkey Order 2013 from the city of Wesel Website of the rbb , accessed on February 15, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Kessler, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German comedian and actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden