Nicola Fritzen

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Nicola Fritzen (* 1978 in Berlin ) is a German actor .

Life

Education and theater

Fritzen grew up in Tenerife . He first took private acting lessons in Berlin from 1996-1998 with Elke Steinmetz from the HdK Berlin . From 1999 to 2003 he then completed his acting training at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich . During his training he was engaged at the Münchner Kammerspiele , where he began his acting career as a theater actor. In 2002 he played Sebastian in What you want at the Münchner Kammerspiele .

After completing his training, the first stage station followed was the Grenzlandtheater Aachen , where he appeared in 2003 as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet . Then he was a permanent member of the ensemble at Theater Ulm (from 2003 to 2006). His Ulm roles included Cléante in The Imaginary Sick , Clov in Endspiel , Ferdinand in Kabale und Liebe , Graf Wetter von Strahl in Das Käthchen von Heilbronn and Werther in a stage version of Goethe's Sturm und Drang novel The Sorrows of Young Werther .

From 2006 until the end of the 2009/10 season he was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Freiburg Theater . There he played u. a. Robespierre in Dantons Tod , Jérôme in Die Familie Schroffenstein , Kasimir in Kasimir and Karoline , Léon in Madame Bovary , Jason in Medea (in a version by Heiner Müller ), Herbert in Berlin Alexanderplatz and the title role in a stage version of Kleist's novella Michael Kohlhaas . In the 2009/10 season he appeared at the Freiburg Theater as Winston Smith in a stage version of Orwell's novel 1984 .

Since then, Fritzen has been working as a freelance actor. In 2011/12 he appeared at the Schauspielhaus Zürich as Eteocles in Oedipus und seine Kinder (directed by Sebastian Nübling , based on plays by Aeschylus , Sophocles and Euripides ) and as Parzival in Merlin or Das wüsten Land (directed by Christian Stückl ).

He had other theater engagements a. a. at the Münchner Kammerspiele (2011), at the Freiburg Theater (2012), at the Neumarkt Theater (2014; as Tom in Der große Gatsby , director: Peter Kastenmüller and as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth , director: Pedro Martins Beja ), at the Schauspiel Hannover ( from the season 2014/15 to 2019; among others as Franz Kemmerich in Im West Nothing New ), at the Theater Basel and at the Münchner Volkstheater , where he performed with great success as Felix Krull . Since 2011 he has played Felix Krull there in over 100 performances in a total of seven seasons.

In March 2016, Fritzen appeared in the play Naturzwei (director: Christoph Frick ) at the Basel theater “Klara” in the Basel barracks . In the 2016/17 season, in November 2016, Fritzen took part in the world premiere of Philippe Heule's play “Retten, what is to be saved” . In the 2017/18 season he appeared again at Theater Basel. At the Schauspiel Köln he appeared in the 2018/19 season as Soljony's lover in Pinar Karabulut's new production of the Chekhov drama Three Sisters .

Fritzen also worked with the directors Jessica Glause , Lars-Ole Walburg and Tom Kühnel .

Movie and TV

In addition to his theater work, Fritzen occasionally took on a few film and television roles. The theater has always been the focus of his artistic activity. He took on his first film roles shortly before completing his acting training.

In the ZDF crime series SOKO Cologne (2009) he played the friend of a murdered au pair who is suspected of kidnapping a child. In SWR - Tatort: ​​Rebecca (first broadcast: January 2016) he had a supporting role as Neumann's lawyer. In November 2016, Fritzen was seen in the ZDF crime series SOKO Munich in a leading role as suspected high school teacher Michael Kindelbacher. In the 9th season of the TV series Familie Dr. Kleist (2020), Fritzen, at the side of Esther Kuhn , took on one of the episode roles as the partner of a gynecology patient.

speaker

In addition to his stage work, Nicola Fritzen also worked as a narrator for audio books (In Cold Blood by Truman Capote ; About a Boy by Nick Hornby ) and as a voice actor , a. a. in Trade - Welcome to America by Marco Kreuzpaintner (2007), where he lent his voice to Jorge and in Chicago Justice , where he dubbed the character Benny Martinez.

Private

Fritzen lives in Freiburg im Breisgau and Munich . He does several sports, including a. Surfing , climbing , martial arts , parkour and rugby . In rugby he was German youth champion in 1994. He is committed to Attac Germany .

Filmography (selection)

  • 2003: Rum balls with dodgeball (short film)
  • 2005: Kant, Sophie and the categorical imperative (documentary, BR-alpha)
  • 2009: SOKO Cologne (TV series; episode: death of an au pair)
  • 2016: Tatort: ​​Rebecca (TV series)
  • 2016: SOKO Munich (TV series; episode: The Red Bank)
  • 2018: For Heaven's Sake (TV series, episode: Conflicts of conscience)
  • 2019: The Teacher (TV series; episode: Just speaking in plain language ...)
  • 2020: Family Dr. Kleist (TV series; episode: love game)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Nicola Fritzen ; Profile and vita at Schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Nicola Fritzen ; Profile and vita at CAsTFORWARD.de. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b c Nicola Fritzen ; Vita. Official website of Randomhouse . Retrieved November 22, 2016
  4. ^ Christian Gampert: Energetic masses . Performance review. Deutschlandradio Kultur from January 8, 2011. Accessed November 22, 2016
  5. ^ Barbara Villiger Heilig: "Macbeth" at the Neumarkt Theater: Sex, Blood and Video Images . Performance review. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from November 17, 2014. Accessed November 22, 2016
  6. ↑ Nicola Fritzen . Vita. Official website of the Staatstheater Hannover . Retrieved November 22, 2016
  7. ↑ Nicola Fritzen . Vita. Official website of Theater Basel . Retrieved November 22, 2016
  8. ↑ Nicola Fritzen . Vita. Official website of the Münchner Volkstheater . Retrieved November 22, 2016
  9. ↑ Felix Krull is in the seventh season . Retrieved November 22, 2016
  10. ↑ Felix Krull . Press kit. Retrieved November 22, 2016
  11. ↑ Frosty climate around the campfire . In: Badische Zeitung of March 14, 2016. Retrieved November 22, 2016
  12. ↑ Dominique Spirgi: Theater Basel: A turbulent drama of a terrible nice family . Performance review. In: TagesWoche from November 5, 2016. Retrieved November 22, 2016
  13. ↑ The theater makes "Three Sisters" bounce on the air mattress . Performance review. Retrieved January 19, 2020.
  14. ^ SOKO Munich: The red bank . Plot and cast. Official website of the ZDF . Retrieved January 19, 2020.
  15. ↑ lovemaking . Episode 127. Plot, cast and picture gallery. Official website Das Erste . Retrieved January 19, 2020.
  16. ^ Freiburg: Brilliant bank exchange party in Freiburg . Official website of Attac . Retrieved November 22, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Fritzen, Nicola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin