Orhan Mustak

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Orhan Müstak (* 1984 in Cizre ) is a German actor of Kurdish origin.

Career

Müstak originally grew up in the village of Cinibir ( Yeşilyurt in Turkish ) in the southeast Turkish province of Şırnak . In 1995 he came to Germany with his family as an asylum seeker ; After staying in various asylum shelters, the family finally settled in Berne near Oldenburg . The visit of a theater teacher to the secondary school , which Müstak attended at the time, brought him into contact with acting for the first time. After graduating from secondary school in Berne, Müstak obtained the secondary school certificate in Lemwerder and, in 2004, the technical college entrance qualification in Delmenhorst and Oldenburg. During the last years of his school days he gained acting experience in youth theater groups in Lemwerder (Splash) and Oldenburg (role swap and youth club of the Kulturetage). He also received a small speaking role in the Christmas production The Jungle Book at the Oldenburg State Theater .

After graduating from school, Müstak first studied computer science from 2005 to 2006 at what was then the Ostfriesland University of Applied Sciences and from 2006 to 2007 industrial engineering at the Oldenburg University of Applied Sciences . At the same time he applied to drama schools; After a total of eight rejections, he was accepted to study acting at the Rostock University of Music and Drama in 2007 , which he completed in 2011 with the diploma examination. After completing his studies, he was a guest actor at the Dortmund Theater from January to June 2011 in the lead role in the play Heimat unter Erde . From 2011 to 2013 he was a member of the ensemble of the Freiburg Theater , where he played the title roles in Michael Kohlhaas after Kleist and in The Sorrows of Young Werther after Goethe . He became known to a wider audience from 2013 through the television series Danni Lowinski , where he played the role of Hurricane Topal , a Kurdish locksmith with a petty criminal background, in the fourth and fifth seasons .

Filmography

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Kathrin Kramer: Expelled from the village of childhood. Badische Zeitung , May 16, 2012, accessed on April 12, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Barbara Wenke: About the Begu stage on television. Weser-Kurier, January 28, 2013, accessed on April 12, 2013 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Onno Kutscher: Young actor back in his home country. NWZ Online, March 19, 2011, accessed April 12, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Mustak, Orhan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor of Kurdish origin
DATE OF BIRTH 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Cizre , Turkey