Pascal Houdus

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Pascal Houdus (* 1986 ) is a German - French actor .

Life

Houdus was born the son of a French interpreter and a Dutch-German teacher from Westphalia near Bielefeld . He grew up in Gütersloh , where he attended the municipal high school. He completed his school career with a high school diploma . He did his community service in Berlin; he worked there in the children's shop in Berlin-Schöneberg . He also attended an acting course at the VHS . In 2008, before his acting training, he worked in Stephen Daldry's literary film adaptation of The Reader , where he can be seen briefly as a paralegal at Ralph Fiennes' side .

He auditioned at various drama schools in Leipzig , Munich , Rostock and Berlin , where, with the exception of Munich, he was accepted immediately. Houdus decided on Berlin, where he completed his acting studies from 2009 to 2013 at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts . During his studies he took part in various study productions at the BAT studio theater . He also appeared in the 2011/12 season as a guest at the Deutsches Theater in the play Das Ding by Philipp Löhle (director: Daniela Löffner ) in the roles of Beat / Wang.

In September 2012 Pascal Houdus made his debut while still studying in the main role (as Maik) in the play Tschick (director: Christopher Rüping ) at the Thalia Theater . In the 2012/13 season he appeared at the Volkstheater in Munich in Calderon's verse drama Das Leben ein Traum .

He has been a permanent member of the Thalia Theater ensemble since the 2013/14 season. In the play Revolvertraum (premiere: 2013, based on Lola Arias ) he portrayed a young man in a relationship crisis. In the 2013/14 season he was also part of the premiere cast of Bye Bye Hamburg , a literary search for traces of emigrants . In the 2013/14 season he also took on the role of Max in Christina Rast's world premiere of the theater adaptation Bei den Wilden Kerlen by Dave Eggers , based on Maurice Sendak's picture book Where the wild guys live .

In the following years he played at the Thalia Theater a. a. Benvolio in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (2014–2017, directed by Jette Steckel ), Atréju in The Neverending Story (2015–2017, directed by Rüdiger Pape ), in Grieux in The Player (2016–2017, based on motifs by Dostoyevsky , Director: Jan Bosse ), Mr. K. in Das Schloss (2016-2017, based on motifs by Franz Kafka , director: Antú Romero Nunes ) and as Kadett Lignière in Cyrano de Bergerac (2017, director: Leander Haußmann ).

He also worked between 2015 and 2017, u. a. alongside Gabriela Maria Schmeide , Rafael Stachowiak and Stephan Bissmeier , in several roles in Luk Perceval's Zola trilogy, a text version for thirteen actors (with texts from the volumes Der Totschläger and Doktor Pascal from Zola's novel cycle Die Rougon-Macquart ). In the 2018/19 season he played Zeus, the father of the gods, at the Thalia Theater in a production of Orpheus and Eurydice by Antú Romero Nunes, the monster in the world premiere of Frankenstein / Homo Deus (directed by Jan Bosse ) and in John von Düffel 's Shakespeare adaptation Rome (Director: Stefan Bachmann ). In the 2019/20 season he will be on stage in Thalia Gauß in the role of the German biogeneticist Eitan Zimmermann, who falls in love with the American Arab studies student Wahida, in Wajdi Mouawad's new play Vögel .

In 2014 he was a guest at the Schauspiel Stuttgart in the play Das Fest based on the film of the same name by Thomas Vinterberg . As part of the “Thalia Cultural Landscapes” series of events, he gave a reading in May 2015 at the Hitzacker Archaeological Center with Joseph Conrad's story Herz der Finsternis .

Houdus also worked occasionally for film and television. He initially had episode roles in the ZDF television series SOKO Leipzig (2014), where he portrayed the medical student Fabian Weller, a section assistant to the series supporting character Prof. Rossi ( Anna Stieblich ), who tries to hide a murder , and Notruf Hafenkante (2015); there he was the convicted and suspect moving assistant Freddy Rösner. In February 2017, he played a supporting role in the ARD pre-evening series Morden im Norden as the young entrepreneur Nico Hartmann, the suspect friend of a young woman, from whom parts of the extorted ransom were found. In September 2017 he was seen in the ARD television series In allerfreund - The young doctors in a leading role in the episode; He played the emergency patient Lukas Rauber, who presented himself as an ex-boyfriend of the main character Dr. Vivienne Kling ( Jane Chirwa ) highlights. In January 2018, Houdus was also seen in a leading role in the ZDF crime series SOKO Cologne ; he played the young Nikolas Becker, the flatmate of the victim, who tries to protect his brother, who has committed a rape , from the police .

Houdus, who also has French nationality, lives in Hamburg .

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

  • 2018: Sabine Stein: Sumatra - Director: Roman Neumann ( NDR )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Pascal Houdus at schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b c d Pascal Houdus . Vita and role directory at CAST FORWARD. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Annette Stiekele: "AT THE WILD GUYS": Mark the wild Max in the Thalia Theater . In: Hamburger Abendblatt of November 9, 2013. Accessed January 9, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b c d e Pascal Houdus . Vita. Official website of Thalia Theater . Retrieved January 9, 2018.
  5. ↑ a b c d e Houdus ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2018 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. . Vita. Official website of Schauspiel Stuttgart . Retrieved January 9, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schauspiel-stuttgart.de
  6. ↑ a b c d e f Pascal Houdus starts at the Thalia Theater . In: The bell of August 11, 2012. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
  7. ↑ That thing . Production details. Official website of the Deutsches Theater . Retrieved January 9, 2018.
  8. ↑ Orpheus at the Thalia Theater . Performance review. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
  9. ↑ Man, monster, machine . Performance review. In: WELT of November 20, 2018. Accessed December 10, 2019.
  10. ^ Premiere “Rome” in Hamburg: A game about the ridiculousness of male power . Performance review. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur, March 23, 2019. Accessed December 10, 2019.
  11. ^ Thalia Theater Hamburg: "Birds" by Wajdi Mouawad . Production details. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
  12. ↑ From the Bronze Age to the "Heart of Darkness" . Retrieved January 9, 2018.
  13. ↑ Pure greed for money . Plot and cast. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  14. ↑ Law and Love . Plot and cast. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
  15. ↑ Death in the Milky Way ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2018 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. . Plot and cast. Retrieved January 9, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zdf.de
personal data
SURNAME Houdus, Pascal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-French actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1986