Ralf Novak

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Ralf Novak (born September 12, 1952 in Dresden ) is a German actor .

Training and initial engagements

Ralf Novak studied from 1973 to 1977 at the “Hans Otto” theater school in Leipzig and from 1975 to 1977 was a member of the drama studio at the Dresden State Theater . After completing his training, Novak was permanently engaged at the Meininger Theater and the Thalia Theater in Halle for the next few years before he switched to the political cabaret Die Kiebitzensteiner in Halle an der Saale from 1981 to 1987 .

Career up to 2000

In August 1987 Ralf Novak moved from the GDR to Budapest / Hungary. In March 1988 he left for the Federal Republic of Germany. He came to Karlsruhe via the reception camps in Gießen and Rastatt. Just two months later, in May 1988, he signed his first guest contract at the Ettlingen Castle Festival under the direction of Kurt Müller-Graf (premiere: May 1988 of the musical My Fair Lady , director: Benno Hoffmann). In the same year, in August 1988, he switched to his first permanent engagement at the Stadttheater Heilbronn under the management of Klaus Wagner (premiere: October 1988 of the Kastner play , director: Ilan Ronen). This was followed by other permanent engagements at various German stages without interruption. From 1990 to 1992 at the Stadttheater Ingolstadt under the management of Ernst Seiltgen, from 1993 to 1997 at the Pfalztheater in Kaiserslautern under the management of Pavel Fieber, in summer 1995 and 1996 at the Bad Hersfeld Festival under the management of Volker Lechtenbrink and from 1997 to 2000 again to director Pavel Fieber, this time to the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe.

Career since 2000

Ralf Novak has been working as a freelance actor since 2000. a. on the Munich tour of Margit Bönisch , the comedy in the Bayerischer Hof in Munich, the a.gon theater production Munich, the comedy and the Fritz Rémond Theater in Frankfurt, the Ernst Deutsch Theater in Hamburg, the Theater im Hafen Hamburg, the Operettenhaus in Hamburg and the theater on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin.

Ralf Novak played on stage in over one hundred productions in the fields of drama and music theater. Novak became known through various productions: When Dr. Kastner in the German-language premiere of Dr. Kastner , directed by the Israeli director Ilan Ronen, at the Stadttheater in Heilbronn, premiere on October 2, 1988; as Peter Stuyvesand in Kurt Weill's Knickerbocker Holiday , directed by Kay Metzger , at the Stadttheater Ingolstadt, premiere in December 1990; as King Marchan in the German-language premiere of Victor / Victoria under the direction of Pavel Fieber at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, premiere in January 2000; as Scar in the Hamburg Stage Entertainment production of The Lion King, directed by Julie Taymor , premiered in February 2005 at the Theater im Hafen in Hamburg; as Stasi Krause in the world premiere of the Udo Lindenberg musical Hinterm Horizont by Stage Entertainment in the Theater am Potsdamer Platz , directed by Ulrich Waller , premiered in January 2011 in the Theater am Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. After two tours through Germany, Austria and Switzerland as Monsieur Claude in the successful French comedy Monsieur Claude and his daughters in 2018, he took on the same role in 2019 in the comedy in the Bayerischer Hof in Munich.

Theater roles (selection)

  • 2019: Monsieur Claude and his daughters : "Monsieur Claude", director: Stefan Zimmermann , comedy in the Bayerischer Hof Munich
  • 2018: Monsieur Claude and his daughters : "Monsieur Claude", director: Stefan Zimmermann, a.gon theater production Munich
  • 2016–17: Behind the Horizon : “Stasi Krause” (First Cast), director: Ulrich Waller, Operettenhaus Hamburg
  • 2010–16: Behind the Horizon : “Stasi Krause” (First Cast), director: Ulrich Waller, Theater am Potsdamer Platz (world premiere), Stage Entertainment
  • 2009: Mandela : "Willem de Klerk", director: Stefan Zimmermann, a.gon theater production Munich (world premiere)
  • 2008: Michael Kramer : “Master Builder Ziehn”, director: Wolf Dietrich Sprenger, Ernst Deutsch Theater Hamburg
  • 2008: The Threepenny Opera : “Peachum”, director: Olaf Strieb, Gandersheim Cathedral Festival
  • 2008: Everyone : "God the Lord", director: Johannes Klaus, Gandersheim Cathedral Festival
  • 2007-08: My Fair Lady : "Alfred P. Doolittle", director: Claus Helmer , Die Komödie Frankfurt
  • 2007: Chess : "Alexander Molokov", director: Udo Schürmer, Ettlingen Castle Festival
  • 2006: Comedy In the Dark : "Colonel Melkett", director: Foker Bohnet, Fritz Rémond Theater Frankfurt
  • 2005–06: The Lion King : “Scar” (First Cast), director: Julie Taymor, Theater im Hafen Hamburg, Stage Entertainment

Filmography (selection)

Radio play and voice actor

  • since 2008: Dubbing studio Studio Hamburg
  • 2014: Susanne Amatosero : ABCDE and I - Director: Susanne Amatosero (radio play - NDR )

Web links

literature

  • Heiner Paris: In the open air - world theater for everyone: 50 years of Bad Hersfeld Festival . Ott-Verlag, Bad Hersfeld 2000, ISBN 3-9806842-1-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Profile on filmmakers.de .
  2. ↑ Interview with musical actor Ralf Novak Musical World
  3. ^ Theaterverein Heilbronn (ed.): 23 years - the theater makers 1980–2003 . Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2003, ISBN 3-8313-1155-2 .
  4. ↑ 22 years of theater for Ingolstadt: Intendanz Ernst Seiltgen 1973–1995 . Verlag Donau-Courier, Ingolstadt 1995, ISBN 3-920253-26-4 .
  5. ↑ From Goethe's Faust to Disney's The Lion King: Ralf Novak celebrates stage anniversary Website of the musical Disney's The Lion King .
  6. ↑ Ralf Novak makes his debut in "The Lion King" ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Music market, February 24, 2005. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musikmarkt.de
  7. ↑ Speed ​​questions to: Ralf Novak website Udo Lindenberg, September 20, 2011.
  8. ↑ Brief portrait ( Memento of the original from August 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website musical behind the horizon . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stage-entertainment.de
  9. ↑ East-West History: "Behind the Horizon" in Berlin ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. thatsMusical.de, January 21, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thatsmusical.de
  10. ^ Musical "Mandela" impressed musically and through its actors RuhrNachrichten.de, April 30, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Novak, Ralf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden