Nico Venjacob

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Nico Venjacob (born August 16, 1983 in Rheda-Wiedenbrück ) is a German-Italian stage and film actor .

Life

Nico Venjacob was born as the son of an Italian mother and a German father as the first of two sons in Rheda-Wiedenbrück in East Westphalia . He spent his early childhood alternately in his German hometown and with his Italian grandmother in Apulia , southern Italy . After starting school, Venjacob grew up in Rheda-Wiedenbrück, where he lived until he was 20. He speaks both German and Italian fluently.

During this time he was involved in various areas of the township. He was a long-time volunteer for the city's youth culture ring, worked as a freelance journalist for the regional daily newspaper and was a member of the theater group “Theater, Theater” at the local adult education center .

After the experience he gained there and the main role of Don Juan in Max Frisch's Don Juan or the love of geometry in the upper level literature course, he decided in 2005 to do a four-year training at a Cologne drama school , which he successfully completed as an actor in 2009 .

Nico Venjacob has lived in his adopted city of Cologne since 2005.

job

After graduating in 2009 and doing various smaller theater projects, Venjacob's career began in 2010 with his first TV engagement for a small role in an episode of the television series Die Anrheiner .

In 2011 he took to the stage when he received the confirmation for the role of Enzo Danesi in Stefan Vögels Achtung Deutsch! which was performed in the Theater an der Kö under the direction of Jochen Busse and has since been performed with great success at several boulevard theaters across Germany. In 2014, the production received the Monica Bleibtreu Prize in the category Best Comedy in Private Theaters . There he plays one of six main roles, an Italian who quickly gets on emotional tours.

During this time Venjacob also played in other tabloids, including a. at the side of Markus Majowski in Curth Flatow's comedy The Man Who Does n't Dare in the Cologne Theater am Dom , directed by Jürgen Wölffer, the son of the registrar who wants to marry against his father's will.

Nico Venjacob had his first major leading role in front of the camera in 2013, apart from a few short films , in the tragic comedy Almost Negative , in which he played the eccentric medical student Niels. Although it is a low budget production , the film received some attention, especially at international festivals.

In 2014, Venjacob took on the role of medical student Ulf for several episodes in the 7th season of the television series Pastewka .

reception

For his performance in the comedy Achtung Deutsch! The Offenbach-Post praised him in the Frankfurter Theater Die Komödie with the words: “Out of the consistently first-class young ensemble, Nico Venjacob with his godfather number and Matthias Kofler as a work-shy Viennese stand out.” The Frankfurter Rundschau praises him for his “remarkably good rehearsed dumb facial expression ”in the comedy The Conceited Doctor in the same theater. The RheinMainTaunus online magazine says: “Nico Venjacob, however, plays the apparently dumb son, who is actually quite clever, amusingly good. His changing facial expression from stupid to witty is amazing. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Newspaper article from the daily newspaper "Die Glocke" . Friday Packet for November 29, 2012
  2. ↑ Nico Venjacob on Imdb.com. Retrieved February 22, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Homepage of the youth culture association Rheda-Wiedenbrück. Retrieved February 22, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b c Nico Venjacob in the film database Imdb.com. Retrieved February 22, 2016 .
  5. ^ Press comments on the play "Attention German!" By the Cologne theater scene. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 22, 2016 ; accessed on February 21, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theaterszene-koeln.de
  6. ^ Archive of the Monica Bleibtreu Prize Winners of the Privattheatertage 2014. Retrieved on February 20, 2016 .
  7. ^ "Attention German" premiered in the Contra-Kreis-Theater General-Anzeiger
  8. ↑ marriage? The man in the Theater am Dom dares Koeln.de
  9. ↑ The man who doesn't dare ( memento of the original from February 22, 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. theaterszene-koeln.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theaterszene-koeln.de
  10. ↑ “Die Komödie” plays a play on the subject of integration with relish with clichés Offenbach-Post , September 15, 2015, accessed February 22, 2016
  11. ↑ Christoph Schröder: This is how the mix-up takes its course: "The imagined doctor" in the Frankfurt comedy Frankfurter Rundschau December 18, 2015, accessed February 22, 2016
  12. ↑ Karl-Heinz Stier: Dismissed as cured. In: rmt-magazin.de. Retrieved February 22, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Venjacob, Nico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Italian stage and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheda-Wiedenbrück