Rafael Stachowiak

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Rafael Stachowiak (* 1981 in Sosnowiec , Upper Silesia , VR Poland ) is a German actor .

Life

Origin and education

Rafael Stachowiak was born in Sosnowitz near Katowice in Upper Silesia. Art and theater had no place in the “family far from theater”. His father was a draftsman and politically active; he had to leave Poland for political reasons. Stachowiak's father initially went to Germany alone; his family followed later. Rafael Stachowiak initially lived in a reception center for repatriates and refugees in Bochum . He also completed his school days in Bochum, where he attended the theater group at school. He gained further stage experience in the youth theater of the Bochumer Schauspielhaus . After graduating from school and doing community service , Stachowiak auditioned at numerous drama schools, but was turned down several times.

From September 2002 to December 2005 he completed his acting studies at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art in Berlin , which he graduated in 2005 with a diploma. During his student days he already played theater in Berlin. In 2006 he appeared at the Deutsches Theater Berlin in Thomas Dannemann's production of the play Faith, Love and Hope in the role of taxidermist. He also took part in Death of a Salesman in 2006 (choir; director: Dimiter Gotscheff ). In 2006 he also had an engagement at the bat studio theater at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts. There he played King Etzel in Kriemhild's Revenge by Friedrich Hebbel (director: Alexander Charim ).

Theaters in Berlin and Hamburg

In 2006, while still in his third year of study, he was engaged at the Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz in Berlin. Stage roles at the Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz were a.o. a. Orin / Christoph in Trauer muss Elektra (2006; director: Thomas Ostermeier ), Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream (2006; director / choreography: Thomas Ostermeier, Constanza Macras ), Soljonyj in Drei Schwestern (2006; director: Falk Richter ), Karlmann in The Ugly by Marius von Mayenburg (2007; directed by Benedict Andrews ) and Achilles in Penthesilea (2008; directed by Luk Perceval ).

In 2007 he played the role of the student François in the theater project "Liebe68" by Alexander Charim at the bat studio theater. In the summer of 2007 he was a guest at the Salzburg Festival in Falk Richter's production of the opera Der Freischütz . In the type based on Pete Doherty , he played one of the two "alert, omnipresent" assistants of Samiel ( Ignaz Kirchner ); his character had been written into his new version of Carl Maria von Weber's opera by Richter .

Since the 2009/10 season he has been a permanent member of the ensemble at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg . Here he was involved in numerous theater productions, including numerous modern plays. He played u. a. directed by Antú Romero Nunes , Luk Perceval and Stefan Pucher . Stage roles at the Thalia Theater were a.o. a. Frank Rice in The Entertainer by John Osborne (2010; Direction: Christiane Pohle ), Heinz in Der Gestiefelte Kater (2010; Direction: Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger ), Mordred in Merlin or Das wüsten Land by Tankred Dorst (2011; Direction: Antú Romero Nunes), the doctor Dr. Leopold Neumeister in Der Raub der Sabinerinnen (2011; director: Herbert Fritsch ), the Polish illegal worker Jepichodow in Der Kirschgarten (2012; director: Luk Perceval), Ossip in Platonov (2012; director: Jan Bosse ), Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream (2012 ; Director: Stefan Pucher), Smierdjakow in a stage version of the novel The Brothers Karamazov (2013; Director: Luk Perceval) and Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (2014; Director: Jette Steckel ).

In 2014 he received the Rolf Mares Prize together with the ensemble (Julian Greis, Mirco Kreibich , Daniel Lommatzsch , Thomas Niehaus , Jörg Pohl, André Szymanski and Sebastian Zimmler) for the performance of Moby Dick at the Hamburg Thalia Theater .

Movie and TV

Since 2007 Stachowiak has also taken on a number of film roles. The focus of his artistic work, however, is clearly on his theater work.

In 2011 he was seen in a supporting role in the movie Lollipop Monster . He played Karakal, a youngster with make-up on his face and black painted fingernails, who had his first sex games with a girl in the car.

In the movie Tabu - Es ist die Seele ein Fremdes auf Erden (2011), a biopic about the life of the poet Georg Trakl with Lars Eidinger in the leading role, Stachowiak played Trakl's classmate and friend Ludwig Schubeck, who tried to put a stop to Trakl's self-destructive excesses territories.

In the Kiel crime scene crime thriller Borowski and the sky over Kiel , which was first broadcast in January 2015, Stachowiak had a memorable supporting role without dialogue. He played the drug dealer Roland, the henchman of a drug lord, who, while sitting in the car with his boss ( Matthias Weidenhöfer ), fiddles with a frightened young blonde girl and is told by his boss to howl like a wolf. In the television film Nackt unter Wölfen he plays Marian Kropinski, a Polish prison functionary in Buchenwald concentration camp who wants to save a small child. In April 2015 he was seen in the television film Tierische Profite from the Donna Leon crime series. He played Sergente Pucetti, Commissario Brunetti's new police colleague . In the crime scene - whoever harvests wind, sows storm! (First broadcast: June 2015) he played the hedge fund manager Milan Berger. In March 2016, Stachowiak was seen in the ZDF series Notruf Hafenkante in a supporting role. In the television film The Last Journey (first broadcast: October 2017), a film about self-determined dying in old age, with Christiane Hörbiger in the lead role, he had a supporting role as carer Mischa.

Private

Stachowiak grew up with Polish as a mother tongue. He still speaks the language fluently today. He lives with his wife and children in Hamburg-Ottensen .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rafael Stachowiak Profile and Vita at Schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved April 24, 2015
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Rafael Stachowiak: A face that you won't forget in: Hamburger Abendblatt from April 1, 2015. Retrieved on April 24, 2015
  3. ^ French student riot in the BAT studio in: Berliner Morgenpost of February 26, 2007. Retrieved on April 24, 2015
  4. ↑ Cool "Freischütz" with Mister Wolfe performance review in: DIE WELT from August 6, 2007
  5. ↑ The silence after the test shot, performance review in: Der Tagesspiegel from August 5, 2007
  6. ↑ Hamburg Rolf Mares Prize 2014 awarded to the list of winners. Nachtkritik.de, October 28, 2014. Accessed April 24, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Stachowiak, Rafael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Sosnowiec , Upper Silesia , VR Poland