Oliver Stokowski

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Oliver Stokowski at the 2014 Grimme Prize

Oliver Stokowski (born August 8, 1962 in Kassel ) is a German actor .

Education and theater

After graduating from high school in 1981, Stokowski initially studied music from 1982 to 1985. In 1989 he completed an acting course at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz with a Magister of Arts degree .

He began his stage career in 1989 at the State Theater in Hanover in plays such as Uncle Wanja and Die Dreigroschenoper . From 1993 he showed his versatile talent in productions and performances at the Residenztheater / Bavarian State Theater . a. by Leander Haußmann and Hans Neuenfels . In 1996 she performed at the Burgtheater in Vienna and at the Salzburg Festival . From 1998 Oliver Stokowski played at the Residenztheater in Munich a. a. the role of Hamlet in the production by Matthias Hartmann . He then moved to the Schauspielhaus Bochum , where he a. a. played the title role in Peer Gynt , directed by Jürgen Gosch .

In the 2005/06 season Stokowski became a member of the Zurich Schauspielhaus ensemble . There he played u. a. again directed by Jürgen Gosch , this time the Lopachin in Der Kirschgarten and in 2007 worked for the first time with the Latvian director Alvis Hermanis for the experimental play Fathers , which has since been shown countless times across Europe at international festivals. He later moved back to the Burgtheater in Vienna , where he played Morris in the world premiere of John Cassavetes ' last play Begin the Beguine in 2014 under the direction of Jan Lauwers ( Needcompany ) . a. worked with the directors David Bösch and Roland Schimmelpfennig . Since 2015 he has been a guest in various plays on the stage of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin.

He has been married to actress Lilian Naumann (* 1981) since 2014 .

The English conductor Leopold Stokowski was his great-grandfather.

Movie and TV

Oliver Stokowski and Julia Jäger at the 2014 Grimme Prize

From 2001 to 2005 the crime series Der Ermittler ran , in which Stokowski played the leading role of Hamburg's chief inspector Paul Zorn . He had already played in television crime novels: as Commissioner Robert Grosche in some episodes of Polizeiruf 110 (1998/2002, with Chantal de Freitas ) as well as in Tatort (2000) and the crime series Faust (1995).

Dominik Graf cast him in his relationship comedy Tiger, Lion, Panther as early as 1988, followed a year later by a small supporting role as a dealer in the crime film Shadowboxer . In the relationship comedy Echte Kerle (1996), Stokowski was again the investigator on the side of Christoph M. Ohrt . Landgang für Ringo (1996) with Benno Fürmann was a seafaring drama that is well worth seeing. In Der Skorpion (1996), Stokowski played again under the direction of Dominik Graf at the side of Heiner Lauterbach and Marek Harloff .

In Sönke Wortmann's episode film St. Pauli Nacht he was the shy guy from the country (1999) who fell in love with Valerie Niehaus . Stokowski then played for the first time in a major Hollywood production, the submarine film U-571 (2000) and in Oliver Hirschbiegel's award-winning psychological thriller Das Experiment (2001) . Since then, she has appeared in numerous television films and in cinema productions, among other things. In 2012 he played Kurt in an episode of the American-international series Crossing Lines , in 2014 he starred alongside Geoffrey Rush in the movie The Book Thief (film) by Brian Percival .

In 2016 and 2017 he can be seen in the cinema in the black comedy Sex & Crime by Paul Florian Müller and in the drama Short Term Memory Loss by Andreas Arnstedt , which premieres at the Zurich Film Festival and the Hof International Film Festival .

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Oliver Stokowski  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ dradio.de v. March 23, 2007
  2. ↑ a b Prize Winners - Friends of the Residenztheater ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 21, 2014
  3. ↑ Nestroy 2013: Reasons for the nomination , accessed on April 8, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Stokowski, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel