Roland Koch (actor)

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Roland Koch (2015)

Roland Koch (born May 29, 1959 in Uezwil ) is a Swiss actor , director and member of the ensemble at the Vienna Burgtheater .

Life

Roland Koch grew up in Muri in Aargau . From 1979 to 1982 he studied psychology and ethnology at the University of Zurich . From 1980 to 1984 he attended the drama school in Zurich; The “École internationale de théâtre Jacques Lecoq ” in Paris was another station of his training.

After engagements at the theaters in Celle , Konstanz , Hanover , the Berliner Volksbühne and the Munich Residenztheater , he has been a member of the Vienna Burgtheater since 1999, where he has also been the ensemble speaker since the 2007/2008 season.

Koch has a long working relationship with director Andreas Kriegenburg . From the mid-1990s to 2001, alongside Natali Seelig , Doreen Nixdorf , Judith Hofmann, Alexander Simon or Markwart Müller-Elmau and others, he was one of the regular actors that Kriegenburg liked to cast in his productions. Especially at the Staatstheater Hannover under the direction of Ulrich Khuon there were productions that helped the house to gain national reputation. This happened, for example, through the invitation to the Berlin Theatertreffen in 1998 with Ibsen's Ein Volksfeind . Roland Koch played Doctor Thomas Stockmann here. This performance earned him a nomination for “Best Actor” by Theater heute magazine .

In 1999, chef Andreas Kriegenburg followed at the Burgtheater Vienna . He stayed there after Kriegenburg's departure (to the Thalia Theater ) and is still part of the ensemble today. The Viennese theater audience reacted rather scared at the beginning to the productions by Kriegenburg, and so Roland Koch had to allude to the reputation of being a "Kriegenburg actor". By working with various directors in a wide range of very different roles, Roland Koch is now one of the most versatile and renowned actors in the Burgtheater's large ensemble. With his varied game from detailed character studies to sometimes quite provocative solo interludes, he is one of the crowd's favorites there.

When the director Andrea Breth fell ill in May 2003 and was unable to continue work on Shakespeare's Was You Want or Twelfth Night , the ensemble suggested Roland Koch, who himself was to play Malvolio in this production, as a substitute. In view of the short preparation time up to the premiere at the beginning of September 2003, this proved considerable staging skills. He showed a modern, cheeky version of the piece with music as an essential stylistic element, which for the most part received the criticism benevolently.

Roland Koch recently celebrated great successes at the Burgtheater. B. as part of the ensemble in Andrea Breth's highly acclaimed incidents , where he can show the range of his skills in a series of bizarre roles from the bad wolf to the Swiss civil servant who refuses to work, or in Dieter Giesing's production of Professor Bernhardi . The performance of Ebenwald brought Roland Koch a Nestroy nomination for Best Actor in 2011.

Roland Koch only opened up to work for film and television relatively late in his career, when he was already an established actor in the theater. Since 2000 he has worked in a number of television films and series, but theater work is still mostly in the foreground. He became known to a larger television audience through the role of Doctor Gesswein in the television series Der Fürst und das Mädchen at Maximilian Schell's side and through the Mona Seiler thrillers with Mariele Millowitsch . From 2008 to 2009 Roland Koch played the male lead for the ARD / ORF series Geld.Macht.Liebe in front of the camera. He portrayed Count Metternich in the production Geliebter Johann Geliebte Anna , which was honored as best TV film at the 2010 Romy Awards. Since the end of 2011 he has been part of the investigative team at Tatort Konstanz in the role of Matteo Lüthi.

For several years Koch has been giving regular guest lectures at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in the field of stage and film design. He also teaches acting at the Vienna Conservatory and the subject of role design at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna.

Roland Koch is the father of four daughters, including Anna Drexler , who is also an actress.

In 2015 he was awarded the Nestroy in the category Best Supporting Role for his portrayal of Wilhelm Foldal in John Gabriel Borkman at the Akademietheater Vienna . excellent.

theatre

Burgtheater Vienna

Bavarian State Opera

Schauspielhaus Frankfurt

Schauspielhaus Zurich

  • 2001: Tati's world. A project by Andreas Kriegenburg - A firefighter. Director: Andreas Kriegenburg

Vienna State Opera

Residenztheater Munich

  • 1999: Penthesilea by Heinrich von Kleist - Achill. Director: Andreas Kriegenburg

Volksbühne Berlin

  • 1996: cement by Heiner Müller - Gleb Tschumalow. Director: Andreas Kriegenburg

Schauspielhaus Hannover

  • 1993: The Käthchen von Heilbronn by Heinrich von Kleist - Gottschalk / Gottfried Friedeborn. Director: Hartmut Wickert
  • 1993: Sturmpatrull by Arnolt Bronnen - lecht. Director: Hartmut Wickert
  • 1993: Angels in America by Tony Kushner - Louis Ironson. Director: Karin Beier
  • 1994: The hour when we didn't know about each other by Peter Handke - one of "a dozen actors and lovers". Director: Hartmut Wickert
  • 1994: One for All by Alan Ayckbourn - Crispin Usher. Director: Hartmut Wickert
  • 1994: Kasimir and Karoline von Ödön von Horváth - Kasimir. Director: Andreas Kriegenburg
  • 1995: Salamander by Wolf Christian Schröder - Wega. Director: Mark Zurmühle
  • 1995: Ivanov by Anton Chekhov - Ivanov. Director: Hartmut Wickert
  • 1995: strange house by Dea Loher - Jane Sokolov. Director: Andreas Kriegenburg
  • 1995: OPERATION EPSILON or how the Germans still invented their atomic bomb by Alfred Nordmann, Hartmut Wickert - Weizsäcker. Director: Hartmut Wickert
  • 1996: What you want from William Shakespeare - Orsino. Director: Mark Zurmühle
  • 1996: Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller - Wilhelm Tell. Director: Andreas Kriegenburg
  • 1996: Love for Love by William Congreve - Scandal. Director: Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger
  • 1997: Jesabel's Revenge by Harald Kuhlmann - Count Königsmarck - Director: Reinhard Göber
  • 1997: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare - Capulet / Brother Lorenzo. Director: Mark Zurmühle
  • 1997: An enemy of the people by Henrik Ibsen - Dr. Thomas Stockmann - Director: Andreas Kriegenburg
  • 1997: Tartuffe by Molière - Tartuffe. Director: Mark Zurmühle
  • 1998: Olga's room by Dea Loher - Filinto Müller. Director: Andreas Kriegenburg
  • 1998: Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Sultan Saladin. Director: Mark Zurmühle
  • 1998: Professor Unrat von Zadek / Greiffenhagen based on the novel by Heinrich Mann - artist Kiepert / wine merchant Lorenzen. Director: Mark Zurmühle
  • 1998: The Storm by William Shakespeare - Trinculo / Captain. Director: Andreas Kriegenburg
  • 1999: The End of the Beginning by Sean O'Casey - Bobby Derrill. Director: Andreas Kriegenburg

State Theater Tübingen

Others

Directorial work

Filmography

Cinema and TV films (selection)

TV series (selection)

Radio works (radio plays)

  • 2003: Four Days in the Life of Dessie Banks by Enda Walsh - Deckie. Director: Harald Krewer. SR / ORF
  • 2005: Ada's legacy from Wilhelm Hengstler . Director: Harald Krewer. ORF / WDR
  • 2008: In the train of time by Jürg Amann . Director: Götz Fritsch . ORF
  • 2010: Stella and the cook. By Patricia Brooks . Director: Eva Garthe. ORF

Discography (audio books)

  • 2001: stop breathing, please! - Beijing Skyfalls by Kai Strittmatter . Director: Bettina Hering. Picus, Vienna.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nestroys: Wuttke and Orth are "best actors" . Article dated November 2, 2015, accessed November 2, 2015.
  2. ↑ Radio play of the year 2003. Description and audio sample ( memento of the original from February 25, 2010 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. at Austrian Broadcasting. Retrieved January 16, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / oe1.orf.at
  3. ↑ Description and audio sample from the producer. Retrieved January 16, 2011.
  4. ↑ Description and audio sample from Austrian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved January 16, 2011.
  5. ↑ Description and audio sample from Austrian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved January 16, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Koch, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Uezwil