Nikolaus Benda

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Nikolaus Benda (born June 1, 1978 in Hamburg ) is a German actor and radio play speaker .

Life

Nikolaus Benda is the son of an actor couple and grew up in Frankfurt am Main. As a teenager he took on his first roles in radio play productions for the Hessischer Rundfunk . Benda received his acting training from 1998 to 2002 at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich . Between 2002 and 2007 he had piece contracts at the Oberhausen Theater and the Schauspielhaus Wien , but mostly he gave guest appearances at Munich theaters, namely the Kammerspiele , the Residenztheater , the Schauburg and the Metropoltheater . In 2007, Benda began his first permanent engagement at the Theater St. Gallen , moved to the Theater am Neumarkt in Zurich in 2010 and has been with the Cologne Theater ensemble since the 2013/14 season .

Well-known roles of Bendas were Karl Moor in The Robbers by Friedrich Schiller , the Templar in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Nathan the Wise , Eisenring in Biedermann and the arsonists of Max Frisch and Christian in Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, along with many others . He also played title roles in Parzival by Tankred Dorst , in Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Heinrich von Kleist's drama Prinz Friedrich von Homburg .

Nikolaus Benda has also been a very busy film and television actor since the mid-1990s. He made his comrade debut in an episode of the crime series SK Babies , since then he has appeared as guest in many other series, such as Inspector Rex , In the Name of the Law , In All Friendship , SOKO Cologne or Der Alte . In 2007 Benda starred in the award-winning television film For the Unknown Dog by the twin brothers Benjamin and Dominik Reding , Lars Kraume cast him in his 2015 feature film Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer .

Nikolaus Benda lives in Cologne and, in addition to his work at the theater and in front of the camera, continues to work as a radio play speaker.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography on the website of the St. Gallen Theater ( memento of the original from December 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 6, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theatersg.ch
  2. ↑ Short biography on the website of the Schauspiel Köln , accessed on December 6, 2016
  3. ↑ Agency profile , accessed on December 6, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Benda, Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg