Philipp von Schulthess

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Philipp von Schulthess (born March 23, 1973 in Zurich ) is a German-Swiss actor and entrepreneur .

Life

Von Schulthess is the son of Konstanze von Schulthess , the youngest daughter of Nina Schenk Countess von Stauffenberg and Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg . He worked as an investment banker for several years before deciding to train as an actor. “I come from a family that is too conservative to accept such a career choice”.

After training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art , he first appeared in several theater productions. He was best known for his participation in the film Operation Walküre - The Stauffenberg Assassination , in which the story of his grandfather is told. It was also his cinema debut.

Von Schulthess has been married since 2010. He lives in Herrliberg and works as an entrepreneur.

Roles (selection)

theatre

During his training in London, von Schulthess performed as Oedipus and MacBeth, among others . After graduating in 2005, he played at the MacOwan Theater in London and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe . For the first time on a German-speaking stage, he appeared alongside Maria Becker in the Bernhard Theater in Zurich in August Strindberg's drama “Der Vater”.

watch TV

On television, von Schulthess was previously seen in an episode of the Swiss television series Day and Night and once in the German crime series Ein Fall für Zwei.

Operation Valkyrie

His involvement in the filming of the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 generated a lot of media coverage. As one of the grandsons of Count von Stauffenberg, his participation in the film was controversial in the family as well as in the press and public. Among other things, his uncle Berthold, Stauffenberg's eldest son, had expressed himself very critical of the film in the early planning phase, because he feared a "Hollywood-like" portrayal, especially because of the cast of the main role with Tom Cruise .

It was sometimes claimed that von Schulthess only got the role of Fabian von Schlabrendorff , Henning von Tresckow's adjutant , in order to give the film a kind of “general absolution” through the participation of a von Stauffenberg's relative. Von Schulthess admitted that he initially had concerns about this. During the shooting, however, von Schulthess said that due to the professionalism with which Cruise went to the film, any criticism of his person and the film was unjustified.

The media presence of the film even before the cinema release on January 22, 2009, the participation of the Stauffenberg grandson was beneficial in any case: In this context, von Schulthess was a sought-after interview partner in television and the press. Among other things, he was a guest of Beckmann and gave interviews in the Welt am Sonntag , the Stuttgarter Nachrichten and the Berliner Zeitung .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://de.rodovid.org/wk/Person:750848 rodovid.org
  2. ↑ a b c "It was like a pact with the devil" - Interview with Philipp von Schulthess in the Schwäbische Zeitung on January 21, 2009
  3. ↑ Living history , Stimme.de, January 5, 2010
  4. ↑ Walking the fine line between antiquity and trash , November 19, 2011
  5. ↑ Role overview
  6. ↑ Interview with von Schulthess in Vanity Fair ( Memento from October 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ Daserste.de ( Memento from April 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Tom Cruise and the Stauffenberg grandson , Interview Welt am Sonntag
  9. ↑ Interview in the Stuttgarter Nachrichten (reprint for a fee in Leipziger Volkszeitung)
  10. ^ "Grandfather's picture" In: Berliner Zeitung of August 8, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Schulthess, Philipp von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich