René Zimmermann

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René Zimmermann, 2014
René Zimmermann, 2013

René Zimmermann (born March 2, 1979 in Dortmund ) is a German theater and film actor .

Life

Zimmermann's parents are the third generation to run a butcher's shop on Borsigplatz in Dortmund. After graduating from high school, he first trained as a butcher in the family business. Parallel to his apprenticeship, he began as an extra and amateur actor at the Dortmund Theater and at the TIP Theater (Theater im Pott) in Oberhausen . There he gained his first experience as an actor.

He then worked as a mail carrier, butcher, kitchen helper and football youth coach. At this time he was already taking private acting and singing lessons and learned a.o. a. under the actor Martin Horn or singers like Thomas de Vries and Charles Kim. Through his work as an extra he got his first guest contracts at the Theater Dortmund. In the opera Der Rosenkavalier , directed by Beverly Blankenship in the 2003/04 season, he took on the silent, but dramaturgically important role of the brazen servant Leopold. In the 2004/05 season he appeared at the Dortmund Theater as Officer Krupke in the musical West Side Story , where he worked under the director and choreographer Marvin A. Smith. In 2007 René Zimmermann took on the role of the robber captain Borka in the play Ronja the robber's daughter at the Dortmund Theater .

He completed his acting training at the Academy for Performing Arts (AdK) in Ulm . During his training, he played several leading roles at the Akademietheater Ulm: Karl Moor in The Robbers (2008), Brick in The Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2009) and Father in A Dream Game (2009). However, he broke off his training after just over a year because he received a contract at the Wiesbaden State Theater . There he also played the robber captain Borka in the Christmas production Ronja Robber's Daughter in the 2009/10 season . He laid out his role as an “honorable, forgiving father”.

He got his first television role as an emergency doctor in the Frankfurt crime scene crime thriller Der Tote im Nachtzug (2011). This was followed by roles in commercials , including for Apple . In the movie Freiland by Moritz Laube (2012), he played a role alongside the actor Stephan Grossmann (Salami Aleikum, Munich 72). Freiland was nominated in the "Best Feature Film" category at the 2013 Max Ophüls Festival . In 2012 he starred in the US production Adrenalzone , directed by Damian Chapa . In 2014 he was seen as a naturopath Lars in the ZDF crime series SOKO Cologne and in the role of Jürgen Bukowski in Unter uns . In December 2017 Zimmermann was seen in an episode role in the 5th season of the ZDF series Heldt ; he played the suspect, fraudulent and convicted meat supplier Harald "Hacki" Lüschen.

René Zimmermann has been working on the implementation of his first own film project, Rebels of Steel, since 2015 .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Rene Zimmermann Sedcard at schauspielervideos.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e René Zimmermann likes to be the anti-hero. Portrait in: Ruhr-Nachrichten on May 4, 2012
  3. ↑ a b c René Zimmermann ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), Vita on the website of the Wiesbaden State Theater
  4. ^ Revolution of the Feminine Criticism and Cast List Online Musik Magazin ; 2003
  5. ↑ West Side Story: To be in America review and cast list at Musicalzentrale.de , 2004
  6. ^ René Zimmermann list of roles
  7. ↑ Ronja the robber's daughter ( memento from September 14, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), review and cast list; Staatstheater Wiesbaden , season 2009/2010
  8. ↑ To the thunderous drama! Performance review in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from November 17, 2009
  9. ↑ SOKO Cologne. Look into the night . Plot, cast and broadcast information. Retrieved July 4, 2019
  10. ↑ Heldt - Döner with a bite ( Memento from December 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). Plot and cast.
  11. ^ Rebels of Steel. Retrieved March 17, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Episode 1621: Lucky? . WDR.de. Retrieved March 17, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Carpenter, René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 2nd 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund