Nikolaus Frei

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Nikolaus Frei (born March 15, 1974 in Munich ) is a German actor, director and theater director.

In 1999 Frei received a Master of Arts degree after studying English and Historical Studies at Oxford Brookes University . In the same year he became the spokesperson for five audio books for the Karl May publishing house. He soon distinguished himself through numerous activities in theater and film, such as 2000 to 2002 in the theater production and television recording (SFB) of "Sonny Boys" at the Münchner Kammerspiele (director: Jörg Hube, with Dieter Hildebrandt and Werner Schneyder).

Since 2006 Frei has been the director and director of the Max-Rill-Theater in Reichersbeuern, where he stages plays with young actors, for example “Merlin and the Round Table”, “Merlin II - The Grail” and “Merlin III - The Downfall” Trilogy by Tankred Dorst, “Dark Play” by Carlos Murillo, “The Twelve Jurors” by Reginald Rose, “Peter Pan” based on James Matthew Barrie, “Dr. Strange ”after Stanley Kubrick,“ Frau Müller has to go ”by Lutz Hübner and“ The Three Musketeers ”by Alexander Dumas. For some of these productions he was nominated for the Tassilo Prize of the Süddeutsche Zeitung in 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014 .

In 2008 Frei acted as author, director and actor in the short film "Ad Infinitum" (director: Klaus Neumann), with a TV recording by BR , and in 2012 as an actor in "Arkadien" by Tom Stoppard (director: Michael Sperber) in the U34 theater ( followed by a tour of Germany).

In 2013 he worked in the role of therapist Dr. Free in the movie “About a Girl” (Director: Mark Monheim, Production: Imbissfilm, with Heike Makatsch and Jasna Fritzi Bauer) with and in 2015 in the movie “The Passion of Marie Curie” (Director: Marie Noelle, Production: P'Artisan Movie).

In 2017 Frei took on a smaller role in This stupid heart (Director: Marc Rothemund, Production: Martin Moszkowicz with Elyas M'Barek).

In 2018 he was seen as the eccentric doll restorer Justus Fröhlich in the episode "Puppenmord" of the ARD series Hubert and Staller .

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SURNAME Free, Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich