René Geisler

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René Geisler (* 1976 in Leipzig ) is a German actor .

Life

Geisler grew up in Leipzig. From 1993 to 1996 he completed an apprenticeship at the Gutenberg School in the media / printing department. In 1998 he moved to Hamburg, where he began his acting studies. From September 1999 to August 2002 he studied acting at the Hamburg Drama Studio Frese. From 2000 to 2002 there was a collaboration with the Hamburg University of Music and Theater (HfMT Hamburg) for further training in directing under the direction of Niels-Peter Rudolph and Jorinde Dröse .

During his training he had roles at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg (2000; as a choreographer in Troerinnen ), at the Thalia Theater / Gaußstraße in Hamburg (2001; as Benedikt in Much Ado About Nothing ), in the comedy Winterhuder Fährhaus (2002; as Anwar in Das Narrenschiff by Nikolaj Koljada; Diploma production by the Hamburg Drama Studio Frese) and on Kampnagel .

He received his first permanent engagement in 2002 at the Mittelächsisches Theater Freiberg ; he stayed there until 2004. He played there u. a. the Rheingraf vom Stein in Das Käthchen von Heilbronn , Laertes in Hamlet and the nephew Mortimer Brewster in arsenic and lace . In 2004 he became a permanent member of the Landesbühnen Sachsen , where he remained in the ensemble until 2012 under the direction of Arne Retzlaff . At the state theaters of Saxony he played a. a .: Tom Wingfield in Die Glasmenagerie (2004), Ferdinand in Kabale und Liebe (2004–2006), Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream (2006–2008), the title role of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Amadeus (2007), Antonio in Der Sturm ( 2009), Hämon in Antigone (2009), Cléante in Der Geizige (2009), Jan in The fat years are over (2009–2010) and the title role in Faust I (2011–2012).

He has been a freelance actor since 2013. After his permanent engagement, he continued to appear as a guest at the Landesbühnen Sachsen, for example in the title role of Brechts Baal (2013) and also in the title role of Faust I (2013). In the 2013/14 season he took on the role of childhood friend Claude Gatignol in the comedy The First Name (authors: Matthieu Delaparte / Alexandre de la Patellerie). In the season 2014/15 he took over the role of Jack (Harry's best friend) in the comedy on the Boulevard Theater Dresden Harry and Sally by Nora Ephron . In the 2016/17 season he played Dr. Watson in the crime comedy Sherlock Holmes and the Slugs of Eastwick .

Geisler occasionally took on a few film roles during his theater career. However, the focus of his artistic activity was always his theater work. Since 2013, however, he has been increasing his activities for film and television.

In the television series Heiter bis födlich: Ex Akten , he had a supporting role in an episode in 2013; he played the owner of a loyalty testing agency. In the TV movie Jump into Life (2014) he had a supporting role as trainer Sammy at the side of Simone Thomalla and Lucas Reiber . In October 2015 he was seen in a leading role in the ZDF crime series SOKO Wismar . He played the photographer Peter Demel, who creates and sells child pornographic films as a part-time job.

In the 15th season of the ZDF crime series SOKO Leipzig , which was broadcast from October 2, 2015, he took on an episode role in the episode Der Skaterboy . In April 2017 he was seen in the ZDF television series Lena Lorenz in an episode role as alpine farmer and child father Theo Hugenbauer. René Geisler took on a continuous series role in the ZDFneo miniseries Lobbyist (first broadcast from November 2017); he played the civil engineer Gustav Hahn, the partner of the main character Eva Blumenthal ( Rosalie Thomass ). In the romantic TV comedy Bingo im Kopf (2019) he played the "banker brother who was annoyed by his own narrow-mindedness" of a former pop singer in the midlife crisis ( Pasquale Aleardi ).

In the 20th season of the ZDF series SOKO Leipzig (2019), Geisler took on a series role as the single-parent landscape architect Florian Rot, the father of a classmate of inspector Ina Zimmermann's son Paul, who immediately finds the inspector likable. In the ZDF television series Das Traumschiff , he played the “top-class art forger” Pit Manshold, who posed as an investment banker, in the “ Morocco ” episode, which will be broadcast on Easter 2020 .

Geisler lives in Leipzig.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b René Geisler profile and vita at Schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved October 7, 2015
  2. ↑ a b c d e René Geisler ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. Vita; Theater Meridian. Retrieved October 7, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / theatermeridian.de
  3. ↑ a b c d René Geisler ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2015 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. Vita; State theaters of Saxony . Retrieved October 7, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.landesbuehnen-sachsen.de
  4. ↑ a b c d René Geisler Vita; Boulevard Theater Dresden. Retrieved October 7, 2015
  5. ↑ “I just wanted to be funny!” - Premiere of the shrill French comedy “The First Name” at the Landesbühnen Sachsen performance review; in: Preview & Review . Retrieved October 7, 2015
  6. ↑ Harry and Sally . Plot, cast, press reviews, video. Internet presence of the Boulevard Theater Dresden. Retrieved October 7, 2015
  7. ↑ Four girls and a detective . Criticism. In: Dresdner Morgenpost from February 14, 2017. Accessed on May 13, 2017.
  8. ↑ SOKO Wismar: The little mermaid . Plot, cast and production details. Retrieved October 7, 2015
  9. ↑ Lobbyist • New ZDFneo series about power and politics . Plot, cast and biographies. In: Hörzu from November 15, 2017. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
  10. ↑ ARD-FILM “BINGO IN THE HEAD”: “We conjure up sun in the heart!” . TV review. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of October 25, 2019. Retrieved October 26, 2019.
  11. ↑ SOKO Leipzig: TO THe golden Jutta . Plot and cast. Official website of the ZDF. Retrieved November 30, 2019.
  12. ↑ The dream ship: Morocco . Plot and cast. Official website of the ZDF . Retrieved October 26, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Geisler, René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig