Philipp Lux
Philipp Lux (* 1973 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German actor.
Career
Philipp Lux played from 1986 to 1995 at the Kleiner Theater Bargteheide under Kirsten Martinen Children's Theater. After graduating from high school, he studied theater and literature as well as art history at the University of Leipzig.
From 1995 to 1999 he studied acting at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Theater in Leipzig.
Since October 1998 he has been a permanent member of the Dresden State Theater . Here he worked with the directors Volker Lösch , Wolfgang Engel , Tilmann Köhler , Susanne Lietzow , Andreas Kriegenburg , Stefan Bachmann and Jan Gehler .
In 2003 he received the Erich Ponto Prize for outstanding artistic achievements .
Philipp Lux has been a lecturer for drama at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig since 2005 and has been head of the drama studio at the Dresden State Theater since 2016.
His first directorial work, Michael Kohlhaas , won four prizes at the 2016 Istropolitana Festival in Bratislava, including the main prize of the festival.
In 2018 Philipp Lux worked for the Bürgerbühne of the Staatsschauspiel Dresden. His second directorial work, The Metamorphosis - a development tragedy based on Franz Kafka , he staged with twelve young people. The premiere took place on December 8, 2018 and received a consistently positive response.
Theater roles (selection)
- Hans Castorp in " The Magic Mountain " (Thomas Mann)
- Helmer in " Nora or A Doll's House " (Henrik Ibsen)
- Creon in " Antigone " (Sophocles)
- Iago in " Othello " (William Shakespeare)
- Nerissa in " The Merchant of Venice " (William Shakespeare)
- Korowjew in " The Master and Margarita " (Michail Bulgakow)
- Jakob Fabian in " Fabian. The Story of a Moralist " (Erich Kästner)
- Narbonne, Minister in " The Parasite or The Art of Making Happiness " (Friedrich Schiller)
- Malvolio in " What You Want " (William Shakespeare)
- Nathan in " Nathan the Wise " (Gotthold Ephraim Lessing)
- Sosias in " Amphitryon " (Heinrich von Kleist)
Management of theater clubs
Since 2010, Philipp Lux has been working on regular projects with young people at the Bürgerbühne of the Dresden State Theater.
- Club of Dramatic Citizens for Kleist's "Käthchen von Heilbronn", season 2010/11
- Club of Dramatic Citizens for Büchner's "Woyzeck", 2011/12 season
- Club of the New Old Masters, coproduction with the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister Dresden, season 2012/13
- Club of Dramatic Citizens for Kästner's "Fabian", 2013/14 season
- Club of the Strolling Citizens, coproduction with the New Annenfriedhof Dresden, season 2014/15
- Dramatic Citizens Club for Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet", 2016/17 season
Movies
- 2004 short film "Pleite", director: Gerald Backhaus
- 2014 feature film “Krähenzeit”, director: Wolfgang H. Scholz
Web links
- Amateur theater (PDF file; 2.72 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cornelia Büddig: talent Small Theater . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , November 28, 2003. Online
- ↑ People & contacts at the university, accessed on November 6, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lux, Philipp |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |