Peter Mario Gray

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Peter Mario Grau (born September 17, 1955 in Altenburg ) is a German actor .

Life

Peter Mario Grau studied from 1975 to 1979 at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin . During his studies he already appeared in productions by the director Horst Schönemann at the Deutsches Theater Berlin .

His first permanent engagement was at the Dresden State Theater from 1979 to 1983 . Directors such as Horst Schönemann, Wolfgang Engel , Klaus Dieter Kirst and Hannes Fischer produced with him during this time. It was here that Peter Mario Grau began to work as an acting lecturer with students from the “Hans Otto” Leipzig Theater School .

From 1984 he worked as a freelance actor in Berlin in the fields of theater, film, television, radio drama and as an acting lecturer at the Babelsberg University of Film and Television and the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin.

In 1985 he was seen in the DEFA feature film Half the Life of Herrmann Zschoche . He shot other cinema and television productions with the directors Roland Gräf , Horst Seemann , Günter Stahnke , Michael Knof , Wolf-Dieter Panse and Klaus Gendries . Guest performances at the Deutsches Theater Berlin, the Volksbühne Berlin and the Theater im Palast followed. He then accepted offers from young progressive theater directors at the provincial theaters of the GDR.

Grau was active in the subversive art scene in the later phase of the GDR. Between 1983 and 1989 he produced and directed eight unlicensed films in Super 8 film format , which were shown at illegal festivals, in churches and in private homes. He worked with the poet Uwe Hübner, with Volker Mehner and Gino Hahnemann .

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Peter Mario Grau moved to Esslingen am Neckar in 1991 and played for two years at the Stuttgart children's and youth theater “Theater im Zentrum” under the direction of Manfred Raymund Richter.

In 1992 he got a teaching position in drama at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts . In 1993 he staged "Extremities" by William Mastrosimone with graduating students at the Wilhelma Theater . Jörg Hartmann played the main male role .

In 1994 he took up an engagement at the Mecklenburg State Theater in Schwerin . Here he worked with the directors Michael Jurgons and Peter Dehler .

In 1995 he moved to Schauspiel Leipzig under the direction of Wolfgang Engel. Here he played under the directors Lutz Graf , Pierre Walter Politz, Armin Petras , Konstanze Lauterbach and Wolfgang Engel. He also got a teaching position for acting at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig .

In 1997 Grau moved back to Berlin and has been working as a freelancer ever since.

For several years he played at the Zygmunt Wolski Theater in the ACUD art project and worked for two years at the Hackeschen Hoftheater Berlin under Burkhart Seidemann. In 2000, Peter Mario Grau and Gino Hahnemann showed films, poetry and projections in a retrospective at the ACUD Kunstverein Berlin under the title “CHOR DIEU”. He worked in various cultural projects in Berlin, e.g. B. at the KreuzHain theater, in the shake! Circus tent at the Ostbahnhof and in the theater of small form (puppet stage) as an artistic employee.

In recent years, Grau has mainly appeared in poetry projects he initiated, mostly in collaboration with musicians.

His oldest daughter Klara Manzel is also an actress.

Poetry projects (selection)

  • 1981 " Tadeusz Różewicz - 7 poems" with Holger Bey (git) in the Kulturpalast (Dresden)
  • 2000 “CHOR DIEU” films, poetry and projections with Gino Hahnemann at the ACUD Kunstverein Berlin
  • 2011 “The Prophet” by Khalil Gibran in the cultural center at Rudolfplatz Berlin
  • 2012 “Hölderlin Project” 6 poems by Friedrich Hölderlin with Arne Fröiland (dr, git) at the ACUD Kunstverein Berlin
  • 2013 “A large country road is our earth” 13 poems by Heinrich Heine with Holger Bey (git) in the Berlin authoring school
  • 2014 "about: \\ Liebe" based on Khalil Gibran with Sibille Roth and Grit Lindau, director: Felix Goldmann at the ACUD Theater Berlin
  • 2015 "I called the devil and he came ..." 14 poems by Heinrich Heine with Holger Bey (git & sound) in the Bettina von Arnim Library in Berlin
  • 2016 “Hunters Hunted - 5 Poems by Uwe Hübner” with Jonas Neumann (video, slide & sound) in the ACUD Theater Berlin

Filmography (selection)

  • 1978 Clavigo (studio recording)
  • 1981 Emilia Galotti (TV Movie)
  • 1982 Jutta or Damutz's children (TV Movie)
  • 1983 The Bastard (TV Movie)
  • 1985 My dear Uncle Hans (TV Movie)
  • 1985 Half of Life (DEFA feature film)
  • 1985 Foreign Springs (HFF Babelsberg)
  • 1986 Around the Clock (TV Series)
  • 1987 Love Elsewhere (TV Movie)
  • 1987 March Days in Berlin (TV Movie)
  • 1988: Fallada - Final Chapter
  • 1988 The Mother Hen (TV Movie)
  • 1989 Vera - The Difficult Path of Knowledge (TV Movie)

theatre

Radio plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 100 years of drama school by Gerhard Ebert 10.3 Retrieved on June 17, 2015
  2. ↑ 100 years of drama school by Gerhard Ebert 10.6 Retrieved on June 17, 2015
  3. ^ Critique in the ND of December 7, 1984. Accessed June 17, 2015
  4. ↑ The author Uwe Hübner Retrieved on June 19, 2015
  5. ↑ Zygmunt Wolski Theater.Retrieved June 18, 2015
  6. ↑ Foerderband.org archive Retrieved on August 3, 2015
  7. ↑ ACUDtheater.Retrieved June 18, 2015
  8. ^ Office for Further Education and Culture Berlin. Accessed on November 23, 2015
  9. ↑ berlin-buehnen.de Retrieved on September 12, 2016
  10. ↑ fernsehenderddr.de Retrieved June 26, 2015
  11. ↑ fernsehenderddr.de Retrieved on July 11, 2015
  12. ↑ Two-part film by GDR television. Accessed June 23, 2015
  13. ↑ Three-part film by GDR television. Accessed on September 3, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Gray, Peter Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenburg