Norman Coester

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Norman Cöster (born July 11, 1975 in Kassel ) is a German screenwriter , actor and director .

After graduating from high school, Cöster studied acting at the Zerboni Drama School in Munich , but broke off the training prematurely after two years and began to work in 1999 in bumm film , the production company of Tommy Krappweis . He is still active there as a screenwriter, director and actor and belongs to the creative core of the company alongside Krappweis and David Gromer . Together with Krappweis, he invented the television character Bernd das Brot for KiKA , and he is regarded as his living role model. In addition to great things (2000–2002) he developed other formats with Bernd and his friends Chili das Schaf und Briegel der Busch, u. a. Chili TV (2001–2005), Bravo Bernd (2003–2010) and Berndivent (2006), Bernd & Friends (2009–2010) and most recently in 2015 Bernd Channel . He was involved in all series as the main author, director and as an actor in various supporting roles. So you see him z. B. in Bernd das Brot repeatedly in the role of the policeman Budimtschitsch or as Prince Fröhlich. His other work as a screenwriter includes Join the Club for Suntv (2000-2001), the ProSieben fairy tale hour , in which he also directed and starred in several episodes, the talk format Sauhund (2013) for BR television , the Gaming magazine GameCraft (2014, DMAX ) and Real Now ?! , a children's knowledge show produced for Boomerang . In the film adaptation of Tommy Krappweis' fantasy novel Mara und der Feuerbringer , he took over, alongside David Gromer, the second unit direction and also played a supporting role. He had other roles in the ProSieben Funny Movie play me the song and you are dead , in the crime parody CIS - Chaoten im Specialinsatz and in an episode of the television series Hubert and Staller . Cöster could be heard as a speaker in the Japanese competition show Ninja Warrior (2009), in which he commented on the event together with Gromer.

In collaboration with Erik Haffner and Tommy Krappweis, Cöster wrote three Bernd-das-Brot books for KiKA:

  • 2004: Bernd das Brot (KI.KA book)
  • 2004: Bernd das Brot - My life is hell (vgs Egmont)
  • 2005: Bernd's book of wondrous excuses (vgs Egmont)

He is the chief author of the computer game Bernd das Bread and the Impossible, developed by bumm game and Chimera Entertainment , and has also taken on a number of speaking roles in the game. The point-and-click adventure was published in 2014 and was nominated for the German Computer Game Award, among other things. Since 2017 he has also worked as a director and author of the radio play productions of bumm film. He is one of the speakers in seasons 1 and 2 of the Ghostsitter series by Tommy Krappweis and in the two-part radio play Die Zwerge , a version of the first volume of the same name in the fantasy series by Markus Heitz , which he also directed.

Web links

Commons : Norman Cöster  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Norman Cöster: Vita ( Memento from January 3, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ bumm film GmbH. Retrieved September 27, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Interview: Bread is funny. A conversation with Tommy Krappweis. In: International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television (Hrsg.): TelevIZIon . Creativity. No. 27/2014/1 . Self-published, Munich 2014, p. 26–27 ( br-online.de [PDF; accessed September 27, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Press release: Bernd das Brot for the first time as a PC game . Ed .: remote control productions. Munich September 12, 2014 ( r-control.de [PDF; 606 kB ; accessed on October 1, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Press release: German Computer Game Award 2015: These games have been nominated. In: German Computer Game Award. March 16, 2015, accessed October 1, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Silvia Jonas: Die Zwerge: Radio play by Markus Heitz (Audible Originals). audible magazine, January 31, 2018, accessed September 27, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Coester, Norman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German screenwriter, actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel