Oliver Rohrbeck

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Oliver Rohrbeck in November 2010

Oliver Rohrbeck (born March 21, 1965 in West Berlin ) is a German actor who works primarily as a radio play , dubbing and audio book speaker . In addition, he acts as a dialogue director and dialogue book author . Rohrbeck was best known for his role as the speaker of the first detective Justus Jonas in the European radio play series Die drei ???, first published in 1979. . Rohrbeck is the German dubbing voice of American actors Ben Stiller , Chris Rock , Michael Rapaport and Greg Germann . He is the founder and managing director of the Berlin-based audio game label and live organizer Lauscherlounge .

Life

Oliver Rohrbeck, whose mother was the owner of a children's agency, grew up with his older sister Ute in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg . Just like his later three ??? -Colleague Andreas Fröhlich first attended the Wald-Gymnasium and then the Erich-Hoepner-Oberschule . Already at this point in time, the two had a friendly relationship. In the 11th grade, Oliver Rohrbeck left upper school and switched to Erika Dannhoff's private drama school .

In his earliest youth he appeared in the ZDF series Peter ist der Boss (1972) and in Sesame Street (1973) and subsequently took on numerous dubbing and radio play roles. Together with other children's speakers, he was a guest in 1976 in the quick advice program, The Monday Painters , moderated by Frank Elstner . With the Dubbing Team - Karlsson vom Dach (among others with Dorette Hugo ) he competed against a children's group of the NDR school radio, to which his later three ??? -Colleague Jens Wawrczeck belonged. In 1976/1977 Oliver Rohrbeck was the national winner in the German reading competition . According to Bela B , Rohrbeck is said to have been active in the Berlin punk and squatter scene around 1979/1980 .

During his school days he played the role of the air spirit Ariel in William Shakespeare's drama The Tempest at the Berlin Schillertheater , alongside Bernhard Minetti and Curt Bois . After completing his acting examination, he could be seen from 1984 to 1991 at the Berlin Vaganten stage and the Berlin tribune in various plays by authors such as Franz Xaver Kroetz , Athol Fugard and Jean Genet . In addition, he took roles in television productions such as Eine Klasse für sich (1984) and Didi - Der Unterermieter (1985–1986).

Radio plays

Oliver Rohrbeck at the Burgkunstadt grammar school in May 2010

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From the mid-1970s Oliver Rohrbeck appeared in several radio plays by the Swedish children's book author Astrid Lindgren . In 1978 he dubbed Marcus Harris as Julian Kirrin in the youth adventure series Five Friends and was subsequently engaged for the radio play version of the same name by Europa , which, like the television series, is based on the novels by Enid Blyton .

As part of this collaboration, producer Heikedine Körting offered the then 13-year-old a leading role in the detective series Die drei ??? which became the world's most successful radio play series in the following decades. Since 1979 Rohrbeck can be heard alongside Andreas Fröhlich as Bob Andrews and Jens Wawrczeck as Peter Shaw in all episodes that have appeared so far in the role of the first detective Justus Jonas .

Under the program title Master of Chess , he and his colleagues did a nationwide tour in 2002 and 2003, during which the radio play series of the same name was staged live. In October 2004, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the series, the first episode The Super Parrot appeared in the sold out Color Line Arena in Hamburg. A new stage version entitled Der strange Wecker - Live and Ticking took the trio to various venues in Germany with a total of more than 100,000 visitors in autumn 2009, 30 years after the debut episode was released. In August 2010 the ensemble in the Berlin Waldbühne beat its own world record as the largest live radio play with over 15,000 spectators.

In addition to his star roles, Rohrbeck has been involved in many other radio play productions over the past decades, including as Seefahrer Sindbad and Der kleine Muck in the radio play versions of the same name from Europe and in permanent supporting characters such as Sheriff Freddy in Bibi and Tina ( Kiddinx , since 1991) and trainer Norbert in Die Teufelskicker (Europe, since 2005).

synchronization

Parallel to his radio play activity, Oliver Rohrbeck also established himself early in the field of film dubbing as a children's voice. At the age of seven, before he was able to read, he was used alongside Harald Juhnke and Georg Thomalla in the revival of the Disney production Pinocchio, first shown in 1940, to set the main character of the same name to music (1973). In the same year, the revival of the full-length cartoon Bambi followed, in which he dubbed the young rabbit knockers. His best-known appearances during the 1970s include leading roles such as Svante "Lillebror" Svantesson in Karlsson on the Roof (1974), the little dragon Grisu in the cartoon series of the same name (1977), Benny the ostrich and the warthog Mixed Pickle in Kimba (1977) , Karl "Krümel" Löwe in Die Brüder Löwenherz (1977), Patrick F. Patrick in Professor Mobilux (1987–1990), Spike in Die Dinos (1991–1994) and Julian Kirrin in Five Friends (1978) . In the literary adaptation Die Vorstadtkrokodile , Oliver Rohrbeck replaced the voice of the child actress Birgit Komanns, who played a wheelchair-dependent boy in her role as Kurt Wolfermann, and in Bas-Boris Bode he dubbed the main actor Mikael Martin .

In the award-winning four-part series Blut und Ehre, which was filmed in both German and English ('Blood and Honor'), he took over the dubbing from Jeffrey Frank, who played the role of the - older - Hartmut Keller.

After several cinema roles such as Robert MacNaughton in ET - The Extra Terrestrial (1982) and C. Thomas Howell in The Outsider (1983), the cast on Malcolm-Jamal Warner as Theo Huxtable in the 201-part sitcom The Bill Cosby Show (1987– 1992) a long-term commitment. With the successful lawyer series Ally McBeal (1998-2002), which was awarded the German Prize for Synchronization , among other things , Oliver Rohrbeck was able to score as the German voice of the self-loving head of the firm, Richard Fish, who was originally portrayed by Greg Germann . Since Crazy About Mary (1998), Rohrbeck has been the German voice of the American actor Ben Stiller, who is primarily a comedian . In addition, it is repeatedly cast on Michael Rapaport or Chris Rock . In the 3D animated comedy I - Despicable Me (2010), nominated for the Golden Globe , he could be heard in German cinemas as the protagonist Gru , as well as in Ich - Despicable Me 2 (2013). Rohrbeck can also be heard as Gru and his twin brother Dru in the sequel I - Despicable Me 3 .

At the beginning of the 2000s, Rohrbeck shifted his focus to the areas of dialogue writing and dubbing. For example, he draws for the German-language versions of the film biographies Ray (2004) and Walk the Line (2005), the animated films Ab durch die Hecke (2006) and Horton hears a who! (2008) and the series Gilmore Girls (2000–2007). He has also directed dubbing in movies such as The Green Mile (1999), Charlie und die Schokoladenfabrik (2005) and The Devil Wears Prada (2006). He also spoke the gnome Wilbur Wetterquarz in the point-and-click adventure The Book of Unwritten Tales (2009) and the successor The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 .

Audiobooks and live readings

Oliver Rohrbeck during an event in Cologne 2011

Oliver Rohrbeck has been running his own label Lauscherlounge since 2003 and the radio play studio Xberg , based in Berlin, since 2007 . He organizes nationally staged readings and live radio plays in front of an audience. Together with Detlef Bierstedt , he does the Prima Vista readings, in which the duo improvise texts that the audience has brought with them. Fixed venues are the Alte Kantine of the Berliner Kulturbrauerei , the Berlin Club SO36 and the Cologne Gloria Theater .

As an audio book speaker, Rohrbeck interpreted the seven-part series of novels, among other things

For his reading Die Messerkönigin by Neil Gaiman , he was awarded the Ohrkanus audio book and radio play award in 2008 .

Private life

Oliver Rohrbeck lives in Berlin. He is the father of two daughters. His daughter Leyla Rohrbeck also works as a dubbing and radio play speaker. His older sister is the former dubbing and radio play speaker Ute Rohrbeck , who also appeared in the role of Anne Kirrin in the youth series Five Friends . Oliver Rohrbeck is both a fan and season ticket holder of the Hamburg soccer club FC St. Pauli and the Berlin soccer club Hertha BSC . At the age of 37, Oliver Rohrbeck had to undergo heart surgery. He received an artificial heart valve.

Guest appearances

  • On the 1999 debut album Zeitgeist of the music project Schiller , Rohrbeck is involved with two guest appearances in the songs Glück undhaben and Zeitgeist . On the album Alles auf Schwarz (2005) by the band Montreal , he gave comments between the individual tracks in the style of his regular Justus Jonas. He also set to music a text specially written for this purpose on the download single The year in which I slept (2009) by the punk rock band Jupiter Jones .
  • In the opening episode of the comedy radio play project Die Ferienbande , Die Ferienbande and the appalling holidays , published in 2003 , Rohrbeck self-deprecatedly targeted his image as the well-known voice of youth radio plays of the 1980s in a guest role.
  • In May 2006 he made a guest appearance as Marshall Justus Jonas in episode 13 From the other bank of the series Allimania , which takes place in the world of the online role-playing game World of Warcraft . There he introduces himself to Allianz as Marshall Jonas, alluding to his well-known radio play character. Another allusion are the three question marks that hover over his head. Normally, only a single question mark appears over a non-player character , provided that a task can be completed with this character .
  • In The Three ??? - The Secret of the Ghost Island (2007), the first big screen adaptation by the three young detectives, Oliver Rohrbeck can be seen in a cameo as a hotel visitor. For the German-language version he wrote the dialogue book and directed the dialogue.
  • From July 2006, Rohrbeck synchronized Justin Long as a Macintosh computer in the German edition of Apple's “Get a Mac” advertising campaign .

Filmography

Tours

  • Germany: The three ??? - Master of Chess - Live & Unplugged (2002, 2003)
  • Germany: The three ??? - ... and the Super Parrot 2004 - Live (2004)
  • Germany: The three ??? - ... and the strange alarm clock - Live and Ticking (2009, 2010)
  • Germany: The three ??? - Phonophobia - Symphony of Fear (2014, 2015)
  • Germany / Switzerland: The three ??? - ... and the dark Taipan - Live (2019)

Radio plays (selection)

Nominations

  • 2012: Hörkulino for Die Schafgäääng by Christine and Christopher Russell

Awards

For his work as a radio play speaker, especially in connection with the Drei ??? , Rohrbeck has been awarded numerous prizes, including gold and platinum records for over 42 million records sold since 1979 and a Guinness certificate for the world record as the largest live radio play. In addition, he received several radio play awards and the Ohrkanus 2008 in the “Best Reading (Adult)” category for The Knife Queen by Neil Gaiman .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Overview of the Bundessieger 1969 to 1978 vorlesewettbewerb.de, accessed on March 12, 2012
  2. ↑ The three ??? Podcast - Interview with Bela B. In: YouTube. The three ???, December 11, 2019, accessed June 6, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Cult around the three question marks: Lauter Großer Kinder faz.net, October 30, 2009, accessed on January 31, 2013
  4. ↑ Stern.de: Three question marks Anniversary: ​​The largest children's room in the world, October 2004 ( Memento of the original from November 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stern.de
  5. ↑ Stores with three question marks welt.de, September 18, 2011, accessed on January 31, 2013
  6. ↑ Three question marks beat their own world record . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , August 22, 2010
  7. ↑ Interview from October 27, 2004 How do you actually become a radio play speaker, Oliver Rohrbeck?
  8. ^ German Prize for Dubbing: Prize Winners 2003 (PDF; 48 kB) accessed on January 31, 2013
  9. ↑ Ohrkanus ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ohrkanus.de
  10. ↑ Berliner Morgenpost: Like father, like daughter dated December 7, 2008, accessed on July 18, 2014
  11. ↑ Retro-TV Interview (from min. 4:40) Retro-TV episode 23, part 2, accessed on June 30, 2014
  12. ↑ The three question marks break all records welt.de, December 12, 2011, accessed on January 31, 2013

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SURNAME Rohrbeck, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, voice actor and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1965
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