Rahul Chakraborty

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Rahul Chakraborty (* 1983 in Berlin ) is a German actor .

Life

origin

Chakraborty, born in the west of Berlin, is of German- Indian descent; his father is Indian; his maternal grandparents come from Swabia .

Education and theater

Chakraborty completed his acting training at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna from September 2003 to June 2007 . During his time at the Max Reinhardt Seminar, he also began his first theater work. In 2003 he played the puck on the Altaussee summer stage in Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream in a production by Klaus Maria Brandauer . He had other theater engagements during his training at the Studio Vienna and at the Schlosstheater Vienna. He played there in 2005 and 2006 in the productions Bambi country of Elfriede Jelinek , the walls and Galgenlieder , together with seminar colleagues like Maximilian Laprell , Moritz Four Boom , Emily Cox and Benjamin Strecker . In 2007 he played the servant Balthasar in Romeo and Juliet at the Schwäbisch Hall Freilichtspiele . In 2007 he performed at the Schauspielhaus Wien in König Ubu . Between 2008 and 2015 he took on the role of the worker in Uncle Wanja in a production by Jürgen Gosch at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin , where he embodied a representative of the “dull country folk”.

In 2009 he was seen at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin as Andres in Woyzeck in a production by Tilman Köhler . From 2010 to 2012 he was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Schauspielhaus Graz . There he played u. a. Laertes in Hamlet , Ephraim in Judith and Tiger Brown in Brecht / Weill's Die Dreigroschenoper .

In the 2012/13 season he appeared as part of a free theater production at the State Theater in Nuremberg in the production Besser Wissen . In 2013 he was awarded the ensemble prize of the Bavarian Theater Days for his role in which he played a member of a school gang . In 2014/2015 he appeared in a production of the Thalia Theater in Hamburg in the classroom play "Spiel Zigeunistan" in various Hamburg schools and in the Thalia in Gaußstrasse (garage). Chakraborty played in a double role the truant Wolkly, a Sinti , and his older uncle Letscho, a boxing trainer.

In 2015 he took on the role of narrator in the children's theater production Conference of the Animals at the Hamburger Lichthof Theater .

Movie and TV

Chakraborty has also been working regularly for film and television since 2004. Due to the casting of types, which is often found in the acting industry, he sometimes used the pseudonym Max Fröhlich for applications until the beginning of 2010 in order to increase his chances of being cast. However, since 2010 he has only used his real name; His application to the Schauspielhaus Graz was also successful with his real name.

In 2005/2006 he was seen in a recurring supporting role in the Sonnenfeld family television series ; he played Timo, the friend of the Sonnenfeld daughter Sarah ( Sarah Körtge ). In the movie Hangtime - No Easy Game (2008) he had one of the leading roles; he played the young Ali who tries his hand at rapper .

He had a continuous series role in the Sat.1 television series Der Cop und der Snob (2012). He played the police investigator Lumme Singh, an Indian-born, self-confident man who grew up in Germany and who provides information and technical support for the police.

He also had episode roles in the television series Coast Guard (2011; as lifeguard Sascha Advani), Inspector Stolberg (2012; as a Turkish youth Bülent Öktem), Cheerful to fatal: Murden im Norden (2014; as asylum seeker Walad Ansary threatened with deportation) and SOKO Cologne (2014; as a Turk and ex-prisoner Aykut Demir).

Chakraborty played a leading role in the ZDF television film Frau Roggenschaubs Reise (first broadcast: December 2015). He played, alongside Hannelore Hoger in the title role, the young gardener and Sinti Sasha Mandel. In the ARD television film Kommissarin Louise Bonì - Hunters in the Night (first broadcast: February 2016) he had a supporting role; he played the taxi driver Anatol, the young lover of Commissioner Louise Bonì. In February / March 2016, Chakraborty was seen in several episodes in the ZDF series SOKO Munich in a recurring supporting role as Yasin, a refugee from Syria . In the ZDF television series Lena Lorenz , he played the radio host Gregor Hausmann, the friend of a blind, heavily pregnant young woman in the film Against All Doubt (first broadcast: March 2017). In the 11th season of the Austrian crime series SOKO Donau (2019), Chakraborty took on one of the episode roles as the suspected chief programmer of a technology company. In the 14th season of the ZDF series Notruf Hafenkante (2020), Chakraborty played one of the main roles in the episode as suspect ethnologist and doctoral student Juan Martinez.

Chakraborty lived in Hamburg from 2013 to 2016. He has been living in Berlin again since 2016.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Rahul Chakraborty ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Profile and vita at Schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved December 17, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schauspielervideos.de
  2. ↑ a b c Rahul Chakraborty Vita; Thalia Theater website . Retrieved December 17, 2015
  3. ↑ a b c d e Nomen est omen: Mr. Schwachmeier from Herford in: Tagesspiegel from November 8, 2010. Retrieved on December 17, 2015
  4. ↑ a b c Rahul Chakraborty in an interview with Sat1 website from October 22, 2012. Accessed on December 17, 2015
  5. ↑ a b c d Rahul Chakraborty Vita; Internet presence of the Deutsches Theater (Berlin) . Retrieved December 17, 2015
  6. ↑ As sad as "Uncle Vanya" can only be in DIE WELT on January 14, 2008. Accessed on December 17, 2015
  7. ↑ Uncle Wanja - Jürgen Gosch shows Chekhov as head and prison theater: A game is a game is not a game Nachtkritik.de from January 12, 2008. Accessed December 17, 2015
  8. ↑ Knowing better - The Knowledge - Germany premiere of a London success in Nuremberg: Hurray, the school is screaming! Nachtkritik.de, December 15, 2012. Accessed December 17, 2015
  9. ^ Play Zigeunistan in: Godot. The Hamburg theater magazine from February 1, 2014. Accessed December 17, 2015
  10. ↑ Theater: “Who are we that we should tell that of all people?” In: Hinz & Kunzt, March 28, 2014. Accessed December 17, 2015
  11. ↑ Conference of the Animals Internet presence Lichthof Theater . Retrieved December 17, 2015
  12. ↑ "Ms. Roggenschaub's journey" You could also run amok TV review in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of December 14, 2015. Accessed on December 17, 2015
  13. ^ SOKO Danube: Thin Air . Plot and cast. Official website of the ZDF. Retrieved October 31, 2019.
  14. ↑ Emergency call on the edge of the harbor: Head hunt in Hamburg . Plot and cast. Official website of the ZDF. Retrieved January 18, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Chakraborty, Rahul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Merry, Max (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin