Norbert Ghafouri

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Norbert Ghafouri (* 1963 in Kamen , Westphalia , according to other sources Dortmund ) is a German actor , director and acting teacher.

Life

Ghafouri first began studying biology and chemistry , but from 1987 to 1991 he trained as an actor at the Berlin University of the Arts, today Berlin University of the Arts . His first engagement as a theater actor was at the Freie Volksbühne Berlin (1990–1991). There he made his debut alongside Alexander Held as a scheming accomplice Fiscur in the play Liliom by Ferenc Molnár . Further theater engagements followed Ghafouri at the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern (festival engagement 1991–1993), at the Salzburg Festival (1993/1994), at the Stadttheater Würzburg (festival engagement 1993–1995), at the Ekhof-Theater in Gotha (1997), at the Düsseldorfer Kammerspiele (1997) ) and at the Stuttgart State Theater (1998–2001).

As a theater actor, Ghafouri interpreted a broad repertoire , which included pieces by William Shakespeare and Molière , the German authors of the Classical and Romantic periods , the theater of the turn of the century , but also pieces of the modern and contemporary theater ( Heinar Kipphardt , Botho Strauss ). His stage roles include: Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet , Melchior Gabor in Spring Awakening , Leonardo in the Summer Resort Trilogy by Carlo Goldoni , Prince of Guastalla in Emilia Galotti , Jupiter in Amphitryon by Moliere and Major Arnold in The Furtwängler Case by Ronald Harwood .

In 1993/1994 he took part in the Salzburg Festival as a Roman citizen in Coriolan . At the Staatstheater Stuttgart he played title roles in various plays for several seasons, most recently that of Don Juan in George Bernard Shaw's philosophical dialogue Don Juan in Hell .

Since the late 1980s, Ghafouri has also worked regularly for film and television . Ghafouri took on several continuous and recurring series roles. In 1992 he was seen in the ZDF series Siebenbirken . This was followed by continuous series roles as the lawyer Stüter in the cult series Edel & Starck , as senior medical officer Dr. Rieckhoff in Die Rettungsflieger and as presiding judge in the crime series In the Name of the Law . In 2008, he also played a presiding judge in the series The Lawyers . He was several times in the ARD series Veterinarian Dr. To see Mertens in the role of the owner of a design studio who is interested in the artistic work of the veterinarian's mother.

Ghafouri also played a number of main episode roles, including in Kurklinik Rosenau , In allerfreund , Notruf Hafenkante , SOKO Leipzig , Fabrixx and Unser Charly .

Ghafouri was also active as a theater director ( class enemy of Nigel Williams , Die Räuber , Die Presidentinnen by Werner Schwab including world premieres of The Feet in Fire by Marie Luise Kaschnitz or Aus der Fremde by Ernst Jandl ) and film director. Since the mid-1990s he has also been working intensively as an acting teacher and acting coach. In 1995 he founded in Berlin with the Coaching Company Berlin , the first training center for trained actors in Germany. In 2005, the Berlin Film Acting School opened , which, in addition to classical theater training, also focuses on training to become film actors. Ghafouri is the head of both teaching institutes.

Ghafouri lives in Berlin.

Filmography (selection)

theatre

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Norbert Ghafouri, actor (41) Events and Trends
  2. ↑ Norbert Ghafouri  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Vita agency Seven@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.norbertghafouri.de  
  3. ↑ Coriolan  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Archive Salzburg Festival@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.salzburgerfestspiele.at  
  4. ↑ Veterinarian Dr. Mertens  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. BR online@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.br-online.de  
  5. ^ Norbert Ghafouri Filmschauspielschule Berlin
  6. ^ Basic training ( memento from November 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Coaching Company Berlin
personal data
SURNAME Ghafouri, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director and acting teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Kamen , Westphalia , according to other sources, Dortmund