Robert Besta

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Robert Besta (born July 18, 1978 in Świętochłowice , Upper Silesia , Poland ) is a German actor and director.

Life

Family and education

Robert Besta was born in Schwientochlowitz near Kattowitz in Upper Silesia. He grew up with Polish as his mother tongue. He still speaks the language fluently today. In 1986 he came to Germany with his family; the family moved to Constance . He played the violin in the school orchestra and appeared as an actor in the youth club of the Stadttheater Konstanz . After graduating from high school in 1999, he completed his community service in geriatric care .

From 2001 to 2005 he completed his acting studies at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin , which he graduated in 2005 with a diploma. During his student days he already played theater in Berlin. He appeared at the Deutsches Theater Berlin in Death of a Salesman (choir; director: Dimiter Gotscheff ) and in the roles of The Peacock / Mike, the Epigone in The Birds (director: Christian Weise ). He also had engagements at the Maxim Gorki Theater , Hebbel am Ufer and in 2003 at the BAT studio theater of the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts. There he played Agamemnon in the Orestie (director: Agnes Hansch ).

Engagements at the theater

From the 2005/06 season until 2014 he was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe . Besta headed the youth theater club of the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe from 2005 to 2013.

Stage roles at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe were initially a. a. Aumerle in Richard II. (2005; directed by Thomas Schulte-Michels ), Graf von Stein in Das Käthchen von Heilbronn (2005; directed by Crescentia Dünßer ), Orest in Elektra von Sophokles (2006; directed by Peter Wittenberg ), Wang in Der Gute Mensch von Sezuan (2006; directed by Esther Hattenbach ), Edmund Tyrone in one long day's journey into the night (2007; directed by Donald Berkenhoff ), Mortimer in Maria Stuart (directed by Boris von Poser ), choir leader in The Birds (2007 ; Director: Thomas Schulte-Michels), Duke Orsino in Was ihr wollt (2007; Director: Peter Wittenberg), the title role in Der Revisor (2008; Director: Thomas Schulte-Michels), Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (2008; Director: Alexander Charim ).

This was followed by Doctor in Woyzeck (2008), Archangel Michael in Der Brandner Kaspar und das Ewig 'Leben (2009), Trofimov in Der Kirschgarten (2010; director: Johannes Lepper ), Sylvain in the comedy Das Pigschwein by Eugène Labiche (2010; director : Thomas Schulte-Michels), Aristan in Die Hermannsschlacht (2011; director: Simon Solberg ), Verrina in The Conspiracy of Fiesco in Genoa (2011), Meyer in a stage version of the novel Jakob the Liar (2012; director: Martin Nimz ) and Zettel / Pyramus in A Midsummer Night's Dream (2014; Director: Daniel Pfluger ).

In 2007 he received the Karlsruhe theater prize “Golden Fan” from the Karlsruhe art and theater community, which is awarded annually to an actor engaged at the Karlsruhe State Theater in the category “Best Young Actor”. Besta has been working as a freelance actor since 2014. However, he continues to appear as a guest at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe.

Since the 2015/16 season he has been a permanent member of the ensemble at the Pforzheim Theater . So far he has played there a. a. Lieutenant Cabinet in West Side Story (2015), theater director Dowasz in To Be or Not to Be (2015), Mackie Messer in Brecht / Weill's Die Dreigroschenoper (2015), Jerry / Daphne in the musical Sugar - Some Like It Hot by Jule Styne (2016) , Hamlet in the comedy Rosenkrantz and Güldenstern are dead by Tom Stoppard (2016) and the title role in Shakespeare's Hamlet (2016).

In the 2018/19 season Besta worked at the Alten Schauspielhaus in Stuttgart. He made his debut there as Robert Dudley in Maria Stuart (2018; director: Martin Schulze), and played the role of Alain Reille in Der Gott des Gemetzels (2019; director: Folke Braband ). In the same house he appeared as Konrad Baumgarten in Schiller's Wilhelm Tell (2019; director: Klaus Hemmerle ) in the 2019/20 season .

Movie and TV

Robert Besta can be seen in various film and television roles since 2003. Often he was committed to the role of the villain. At the beginning of his film career, Besta took part in university films at the HFF Potsdam and in short films .

In 2006 he played a supporting role as Lulu's mute suitor, Mr. Hunidei, in the television film Lulu with Jessica Schwarz in the title role. In the ARD television series Heiter bis tödlich: Fuchs und Gans (2012) he had an episode role as the Polish craftsman Lukasz Kwieczin. In the fairy tale film The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs (2013) he was the cunning, rebellious count in the scene in the forest. In the German-Austrian television film Die Holzbaronin (2013) he played the Russian forced laborer Pawel, who brutally raped Hetty Seitz ( Catherine Flemming ) and was shot after the incident was reported. In the television film Divine Sparks (2014), a moral drama by Maria von Heland , he played the supporting role of Habertheuer, a former classmate of the male protagonist Matthias Fabian ( Devid Striesow ), with whom the latter fights after Habertheuer made suggestive remarks in a drunk state Fabian's childhood sweetheart Lily Kempen ( Jeanette Hain ) makes. In 2014 he starred in the short film After the Truth , in which he was the main actor. He was Joseph, one of the two brothers; his partner as Raimund was Marlon Kittel .

Besta also had a supporting role in the crime scene crime thriller The Sun Dies Like an Animal , which was first broadcast in January 2015. He played the drug dealer and petty criminal Hendrix. In April 2015 he was seen on ZDF in the television film Dresdner Demonen from the television series The Wallensteins . He played the Czech drug dealer Grigar. In December 2015 he was seen in a leading role in the ZDF crime series SOKO Wismar ; he played the Catholic Father Markus Zöllner. He also had the title role of teacher Michael Platonov in the television film of the same name (2015), a contemporary remake of the play by Anton Chekhov . In May 2016 he was in the television series In allerfreund - The young doctors in a leading role in the episode as Carsten Siemers, a patient suffering from diabetes .

Besta has appeared in a series role in the SWR series Die Fallers since February 2017 ; he plays the businessman Constantin Klumpp, who is returning to his home village in the Black Forest after many years . In October 2017, he also took on a supporting role in the first " Black Forest crime scene ". In the 17th season of the ZDF series SOKO Cologne (2018), Besta played one of the episode roles, a suspected wholesaler of tattoo materials. In the 11th season of the ZDF series SOKO Stuttgart (2019), Besta took on one of the leading roles in the episode as suspect drinks driver and small dealer Chris Angerer.

Speaker, director, musician

Besta is also speaker at numerous radio plays and radio - features of the SWR and Germany Kultur operates. He staged plays ( Baal , Saved by Edward Bond ) and works as a film director. He is co-founder of the band "TERRA BAG"; he is active in the band as a singer, violinist and keyboard player. He is a father of two and has residences in Berlin and Karlsruhe .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Robert Besta . Profile and vita at Schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved April 24, 2015
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Robert Besta . Profile. realplay.ch. Retrieved April 24, 2015
  3. ↑ a b c d "Constantin is great fun" . In: Badische Latest News from February 18, 2017. Retrieved February 19, 2017.
  4. ↑ Robert Besta . Vita. Official website of Theater Pforzheim . Retrieved January 19, 2017.
  5. ^ Robert Besta In: Schauspielbühnen in Stuttgart; accessed on April 13, 2019.
  6. ↑ Dorothee Schöpfer: Room battle with tulips In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten , January 27, 2019. Accessed on April 13, 2019.
  7. ↑ Dieter Schnabel: mannered, modernist and gendered. In: Mannheimer Morgen , October 24, 2019.
  8. ↑ "Film off. Camera is running ”in Oberried . In: Badische Zeitung of July 4, 2014. Retrieved on April 24, 2015
  9. ↑ PLATONOV . Plot and cast on 3sat . Retrieved August 21, 2016
  10. ↑ NEWS IN THE SWR SERIES: Robert Besta mixes up “The Fallers” . In: Badische Latest News from February 19, 2017. Retrieved June 29, 2018.
  11. ^ Premiere for Black Forest «Tatort» with actors from Pforzheim in the first . In: Pforzheimer Zeitung from October 1, 2017. Accessed June 29, 2018.
  12. ^ SOKO Stuttgart: The unlucky fellow . Plot and cast. Official website of the ZDF. Retrieved December 20, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Besta, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Świętochłowice , Upper Silesia , Poland