Raiko Küster

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Raiko Küster (* 1973 in Stralsund ) is a German actor .

Life

Küster grew up in his native town Stralsund. He already practiced acting during his school days, but initially only as a hobby . In 1996 he was accepted at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin . After nine months he broke off his training because he did not feel that he was artistically mature enough for the acting profession. In the following years he worked in an advertising agency , worked at H&M and in film and briefly studied communication sciences . After 1.5 years, Küster returned to drama school, which he graduated from in 2000. During his studies he was already engaged at the Senftenberg Theater and the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin . In 2000 he was engaged with play contracts at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden and the Theater am Neumarkt in Zurich . From 2000 to 2005, under the management of Klaus Pierwoss , was a permanent member of the ensemble at Theater Bremen .

His stage roles in Bremen included: Count von Kent in King Lear (Director: Karin Henkel ), Merkl Franz in Kasimir and Karoline (Director: Andrej Woron ), Laertes in Hamlet (Director: Andreas von Studnitz ), Templar in Nathan the Wise (Director: Thomas Bischoff ), Mercutio in Romeo und Julia (Director: Aureliusz Smigiel ), Bruno Mechelke in Die Ratten (Director: Nicolai Sykosch ) and Biff in Death of a Salesman (Director: Nicolai Sykosch).

He was then a permanent member of the ensemble at the Schauspiel Essen from 2005 to 2010 under the management of Anselm Weber . In Essen he played a. a. Dr. Thomas Stockmann / Badearzt in Ein Volksfeind (Director: Thomas Ladwig ), Valère in Tartuffe (Director: Rafael Sanchez ), Antonio in Was ihr wollt (Director: David Bösch ), Andres in Woyzeck (Director: David Bösch), King Gunther in Die Nibelungen (Director: Anselm Weber), Jago in Othello (Director: Anselm Weber) and Spiegelberg in Die Räuber (Director: Anette Pullen ).

In 2008/2009 he was a guest at the Renaissance Theater in Berlin in the production of Shakespeare in Trouble by Hille Darjes and Chris Alexander.

Küster has been a permanent member of the ensemble at the Schauspielhaus Bochum since the 2010/2011 season . There he stepped u. a. as caretaker Quaquaro in Die Ratten (director: David Bösch), as actor / bodyguard / bowl / fish / pastor in Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui (director: Ulrich Greb ), as Filch in Die Dreigroschenoper (director: Christoph Frick ), Johannes Pinneberg in Little Man - What Now? , Hermann in Die Räuber (Director: Jan Klata ), as Gott in Draußen vor der Tür (Director: David Bösch), as Hermann Braun in a stage version of Die Ehe der Maria Braun (Director: Jan Neumann ), as Florindo in Der Diener two gentlemen (director: David Bösch), as Jeannot in Hase, Hase by Coline Serreau (director: Barbara Hauck ), as Franz Flaut / James in A Midsummer Night's Dream (director: Christina Paulhofer ) and as Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing (director : Olaf Kröck ).

Küster also took on a few, mostly smaller, film and television roles. In April 2015 he was seen in the ZDF crime series Heldt . He subsequently played sniper the criminal Frank Kucharski.

Küster also works as a speaker for radio plays and audio books . He took u. a. the youth book The Black Brothers in a radio play version. He also spoke Niccolo in a radio play version of the fantasy trilogy Das Wolkenvolk by Kai Meyer .

Küster lives in Essen with his wife and two children .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Raiko Küster Profile and Vita at Schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved April 15, 2015
  2. ^ Raiko Küster agency profile at the Windhuis agency in Cologne. Retrieved April 15, 2015
  3. ↑ a b c d e Actor portrait: Raiko Küster has found his self . Portrait in: Ruhrnachrichten from November 25, 2011. Retrieved April 15, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Sexton, Raiko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Stralsund