Ronald Zehrfeld

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Ronald Zehrfeld at the 2018 Grimme Prize

Ronald Zehrfeld (born January 15, 1977 in East Berlin ) is a German actor .

life and work

Ronald Zehrfeld grew up in Berlin-Schöneweide . His father, an engineer, and his mother, a business economist, both worked for the state-owned GDR airline Interflug . At the age of five, Zehrfeld was discovered in kindergarten for a possible competitive athletic career in judo . He then attended the children's and youth sports school (KJS) in Hohenschönhausen and pursued competitive sports as a judoka up to the age of 14. Zehrfeld's greatest success was winning the GDR youth championship at the age of 11.

After the fall of the Wall and German reunification, Zehrfeld was considered too young at the age of twelve to be accepted into the West German judo squad. He gave up judo - "The pain that the Olympic dream had broken was too great," said Zehrfeld. In 1996 he graduated from high school, whereupon "wild years in Treptow" followed. Zehrfeld completed his community service , began studying German and politics at the Humboldt University in Berlin and traveled around the world. Participation in a theater workshop sparked his interest in acting. Then Zehrfeld began studying at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin .

Zehrfeld with Max von Pufendorf (front) during the shooting of Goldjunge (2005)

During his studies at Ernst Busch , Zehrfeld was discovered by Peter Zadek for the German Theater in Berlin (including Mutter Courage , 2003). After completing his studies, he followed the well-known director to the Berliner Ensemble ( Peer Gynt , 2004) and St. Pauli Theater in Hamburg ( Bitterer Honig , 2006). Zehrfeld initially turned down film and television offers before he made the acquaintance of Dominik Graf at a casting .

After Stephan Schiffers ' short film Goldjunge (2005), Graf cast him in his award-winning cinema production Der Rote Kakadu alongside Max Riemelt and Jessica Schwarz . For television, Zehrfeld stood at the side of Iris Berben for the ZDF production Der Russland Geliebte (2008) in another leading role in front of the camera. He was also in the two-part TV series Wir sind das Volk - Love knows no borders and in the cinema production In Every Second (both 2008) by Jan Fehse . In 2009 the main role of pirate Klaus Störtebeker followed in Sven Taddicken's adventure comedy 12 Meters Without a Head .

Zehrfeld was granted success with Dominik Graf's crime series In the face of crime (2010), in which he again acted alongside Max Riemelt. Both portrayed two Berlin police officers investigating in the environment of the Russian mafia. The part of Sven Lottner brought Zehrfeld together with the rest of the theater ensemble around Riemelt, Marie Bäumer , Mišel Matičević and Alina Levshin the German Television Prize and the Grimme Prize .

In 2011, Zehrfeld played a supporting role in Christian Schwochow's theater drama Die Invisbare . He embodied his first intellectual film character in Christian Petzold's drama Barbara at the side of Nina Hoss . The portrayal of a pediatrician who was transferred to the GDR province earned him his first nomination for the German Film Prize .

The film Between Worlds by Feo Aladag , in which Zehrfeld plays the leading role of a company commander of the German peacekeeping forces, Captain Jesper, was premiered at the 2014 Berlinale . Jesper is tasked with defending an Afghan fort against the Taliban, but is increasingly faced with a trade-off between his personal sense of justice and the unjust and humanly unacceptable conditions on the ground in a small fort in Afghanistan.

For his role as Fritz Bauer's closest collaborator in The State Against Fritz Bauer (2015), Zehrfeld was awarded the German Film Prize in the Best Supporting Actor category for the first time in 2016.

Zehrfeld is a member of the German Film Academy

Private

Ronald Zehrfeld lives in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg . He is the father of a daughter.

Filmography

Movie

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theatre

Zehrfeld with Florian Panzner at the Grimme Prize 2014

Awards

Web links

Commons : Ronald Zehrfeld  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Rodek, Hanns-Georg: Can this long hair lie? In: Welt Kompakt , March 7, 2012, No. 48 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
  2. ↑ a b c d Bartels, Gudrun: The high-performance player . In: Der Tagesspiegel , February 11, 2012, No. 21242, p. 21.
  3. ↑ a b Mühlberger, Sarah: Filled with life . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 6, 2010, No. 233, p. 30.
  4. ↑ Review and role of Zehrfeld from The Hollywood Reporter , accessed May 23, 2014.
  5. ↑ German Film Award 2016: “Fritz Bauer” is the big winner . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . May 27, 2016, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed May 28, 2016]).
  6. ↑ Ronald Zehrfeld. In: deutsche-filmakademie.de. German Film Academy , accessed December 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Zehrfeld, Ronald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH 15th January 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH East Berlin