Peter Kurth (actor)

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Peter Kurth (2018)

Peter Kurth (* 4. April 1957 in Güstrow , district of Schwerin , DDR ) is a German actor and radio play - speakers . Special He became famous in German-speaking countries as an actor the thriller - set the scene .

Life

Peter Kurth grew up in Goldberg near Güstrow. After graduating from high school and serving in the army, he graduated from the Rostock drama school . Kurth received his first engagement at the Theater for Young Audiences in Magdeburg (1981–1984). From 1984 to 1988 he played at the Theater der Altmark in Stendal, at the Städtisches Theater Karl-Marx-Stadt / Chemnitz from 1988 to 1997 and then until 2000 at the Schauspielhaus Leipzig . From 2000 to 2006 Peter Kurth was in the ensemble of the Thalia Theater Hamburg and switched to the Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin for the 2006/2007 season . He followed its director Armin Petras in 2013 to the ensemble of the Schauspiel Stuttgart . In November 2004 Kurth was awarded the Rita Tanck Glaser Acting Prize of the Hamburg Cultural Foundation , and in 2014 he was named Actor of the Year by the theater magazine Theater heute .

Peter Kurth (right) with Edin Hasanović and Thomas Stuber on the set of the film Herbert

In addition to his work at the theater, Peter Kurth regularly plays in German film and television productions, for example in the movies Good Bye, Lenin! (2003), Hallesche Kometen (2006), A Friend of Me (2006) or The Small and the Bad (2015). From 2011 to 2015 he could be seen in the Frankfurt Tatort team Steier and Mey as commissioner Erik Seidel. In 2014 Peter Kurth took on a leading role in a movie for the first time: In Die Kleinen und die Böse he embodies the asocial, brutal, but at the same time comical and in the end even in a certain way sympathetic prison brother Hotte. He also had a supporting role in the series Friesland , in which he played a suspect in a wheelchair. For his title role in Thomas Stuber's feature film Herbert (2015) as a former boxer who fell ill with ALS , he was awarded the German Film Prize 2016 as best actor. As an actor he worked in the series Babylon Berlin , which received the Grimme Prize in the fiction category in 2018 , along with other awards .

Filmography

Radio plays (selection)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Peter Kurth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elmar Krekeler: Peter Kurth: The great little people actor in “In den Gänge” - This is our man at the end of capitalism. In: welt.de. May 23, 2018, accessed April 3, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Stuttgart Theater: Peter Kurth
  3. ↑ The highlights of the year: Subtle differences. In: kultiversum. Retrieved August 29, 2014 .
  4. ^ German Film Award 2016: And Lola went to ... In: Focus Online. Retrieved May 28, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Kurth, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 4th 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Guestrow