Rainer Jordan

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Rainer Jordan (* 1943 ; † April 10, 2019 in Altenholz , Schleswig-Holstein ) was a German theater actor .

Life

Rainer Jordan grew up near Bremen . During his school days he was a member of an amateur play group in Bremen , but at the request of his parents, he first learned a "proper job" and became a typesetter . In addition, he took private acting lessons, having previously taken the acting aptitude test at the Paritätische Stage Commission in Hamburg . He worked as a proofreader for a daily newspaper and finally passed the final exam as an external person before the Joint Stage Commission.

Jordan's artistic career began at the Stadttheater Cuxhaven . After his military service, there followed theater stints in Schleswig and Flensburg at what was then Nordmark-Landestheater , where he worked as a stage manager in addition to his acting work for an additional fee , and from the mid-1970s at the Stadttheater Würzburg , where he stayed for five years. His Würzburg stage roles included a. a. Junker Bleichenwang in What you want , Biff Loman in Death of a Salesman and Goldie in Heaven and Earth by Gerlind Reinshagen . In Würzburg, Jordan also played frequently in children's and youth theater and appeared in several musical revues. The then artistic director in Hanover, Alexander May , who had seen him in a revue at the Stadttheater Würzburg, then engaged Jordan at the Hanover Theater .

Rainer Jordan was permanently engaged at the Hanover Theater from the 1979/80 season to the 1988/89 season. His first role in Hanover was a "takeover", committee member Thomas A. Morgan in Heinar Kipphardt's play In the J. Robert Oppenheimer case . He played at the Hanover theater a. a. The doctor in large and small by Botho Strauss (season 1979/80, premiere: April 1980, director: Herbert Kreppel ), Schnock in the Shakespeare comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream (season 1985/86, premiere: June 1986) and Sultan Saladin in Nathan der Weise (1986/87 season, premiere: May 1987). In 1984 he made a guest appearance with the ensemble of the Hanover Theater with the play Ritt auf die Wartburg by Friederike Roth at the Mülheimer Theatertage .

At the beginning of the 1989/90 season, Jordan moved to Theater Kiel , where he was initially engaged as a permanent member of the ensemble at the Schauspiel Kiel until 2006. He played there u. a. the Tartuffe , Max Frisch's title character Biedermann , the art lover Serge in Yasmina Reza's play Art and Count of Lerma in Don Carlos . His repertoire in Kiel ranged from Commedia dell'Arte to Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot .

After the death of his wife, whom he met and married during his time at the Nordmark-Landestheater, he returned from the 2008/09 season ("re-entry" as Sigbert von Mohrungen in Des Teufels General , premiere: October 2008) until 2015 returned to the Kiel Theater as a permanent member of the ensemble, where he was cast in numerous senior roles by drama director and general director Daniel Karasek , such as village judge Adam in Der zerbrochne Krug (2010), as King Lear (2011) and most recently as Captain von Köpenick (2015). In 2012 he was appointed chamber actor by the Kiel Theater .

He also worked as a reciter . In the short film Der Fisch (Austria / Denmark 1999), which was shown at the Nordic Film Days in Lübeck in 1999 , Jordan made a rare, brief appearance in front of the film camera.

Rainer Jordan died in April 2019 at the age of 75.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Ruth Bender: Rainer Jordan died. Actor of the soft tones . Obituary. In: Kieler Nachrichten of April 16, 2019. Retrieved June 22, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b NEW at the State Theater: Rainer Jordan . Portrait of Rainer Jordan. In: Theater newspaper March / April 1980. Ed .: Staatstheater Hannover .
  3. ↑ Most of the biographical and artistic information comes from the article in the March / April 1980 edition of the Hanover State Theater. This article and other biographical information were kindly made available to me by the Hanover Theater Museum for the publication of this article .
  4. ↑ Riding to the Wartburg . Cast and production details. Official website of the Mülheim Theater Days . Retrieved June 22, 2019.
  5. ↑ Don Carlos rushes through Schiller's verses in the plywood palace in Kiel . Performance review. In: WELT of September 26, 2005. Retrieved June 22, 2019.
  6. ↑ The devil's general . Theater directory at the Schauspielhaus Kiel. Premieres. Retrieved June 22, 2019.
  7. ^ Matthias Weigel: King Lear - Daniel Karasek stages Shakespeare in Kiel. You killed me! . Performance review by Nachtkritik.de from October 1, 2011. Accessed June 22, 2019.
  8. ↑ The fish . Production details, biographies and program. Retrieved June 22, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Jordan, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 2019
Place of death Altenholz , Schleswig-Holstein