Rufus Beck
Rufus Beck (born July 23, 1957 in Heidelberg ) is a German actor as well as audio book and voice actor . Among other things, he is popular as a reader of the Harry Potter and Burg-Schreckenstein books. He became known in 1994 in the role as "Waltraud" in the film The Moving Man .
Life
Beck is the only child of an entrepreneurial couple, since his parents were often abroad, he lived in the boarding school of the Odenwald School. After graduating from high school in 1976 and the subsequent community service , Beck studied Islamic studies , ethnology and philosophy at the University of Heidelberg , but dropped out again. From 1976 he was seen as a musician and acting trainee on the municipal stages of Heidelberg . The following year he was a guest at the Saarland State Theater , followed by engagements at the Landestheater Tübingen , the Schauspiel Frankfurt, the Schauspiel Köln , the Bavarian State Theater , the Münchner Kammerspiele and the Berliner Ensemble . He later made guest appearances at the Berlin Renaissance Theater (2006), the old Schauspielhaus Stuttgart (2010) and the Hamburger Kammerspiele (2014).
In 1989 Beck was voted “Young Actor of the Year” by Theater heute magazine . Also in 1989 he received the sponsorship award for young actors from the Association of Friends of the Bavarian State Theater.
In 1990, he was with the robbers of Friedrich Schiller on tour in the Soviet Union and has appeared in Moscow , Irkutsk and Alma-Ata . In 1991 he was on a South America tour with Miss Sara Sampson from GE Lessing . In 1994 he toured Germany with Tabaluga and Peter Maffay .
Beck celebrated his film breakthrough in Sönke Wortmann's The Moving Man in 1994 and was awarded the Bambi for his role as “Waltraut” . In 1999 he was nominated for the German Film Prize for Jimmy the Kid . He has appeared in more than 70 television and 14 cinema productions (as of 2018) in front of the camera. In the children's film Die Wilden Kerle (2003) he took on the role of "Trainer Willi". He played this role again in Die wilden Kerle - The legend lives! (2016).
Rufus Beck is the interpreter and producer of more than 200 audio books, including the Harry Potter novels. He gives each of the many characters their own voice and uses different dialects and accents . His audio books have received numerous audio book awards.
In the festival seasons 2006 and 2007 Beck played Mephisto in Goethe's Faust at the Bad Hersfeld Festival . Under artistic director and director Dieter Wedel , he played Joseph Süß Oppenheimer in Jehoschua Sobol's The Story of Joseph Süß Oppenheimer, known as Jud Süß, at the Nibelungen Festival Worms 2011 .
In 2004 he staged the dance spectacle for the world tour of Night of the Sultans - Pandoras Legend in Istanbul . In 2003, 2012 and 2016 he was the director, author and leading actor of the magician and the beetle in the musical Tabaluga .
Rufus Beck wrote several theater adaptations for his own shows. In 2006 he published the anthology Stories for Us Children . In 2007 his non-fiction book Children love fairy tales and discover values was published .
With his son Jonathan Beck he appeared in the film Die Wilden Kerle and went on a theater tour with him with the play Zorn in 2014/15 . Jonathan Beck also played in his father's Tabaluga productions in 2012 and 2016 as 0815 and was also his assistant director. Since 2018 he has played in the television series Deutsch-Les-Landes .
His daughters Sarah Beck and Natalie Spinell also work as actors. Rufus Beck lives in Munich.
Trivia
Rufus Beck made a reading tour through Germany together with Harry Potter author Joanne K. Rowling , which, depending on the source, is dated to 1999 or 2001. That she named the fictional character Rufus Scrimgeour after him, as is sometimes rumored, is incorrect: “ Rufus is the Latin word for red-haired. It was the nickname of the English King Wilhelm II , who had a reputation as a great warrior, but a ruthless and unpopular ruler. "
Awards
- 1989: Sponsorship award for young actors from the "Association of Friends of the Bavarian State Theater"
- 1989/90: "Young Actor of the Year" by the theater magazine Theater heute
- 1994: Bambi for the movie The Moving Man
- 2006: Great Hersfeld Prize - for the role of Mephisto in Faust 1 in the production by Torsten Fischer
- Hörkules - 2000 for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- Children and youth audiobook from HR 2 - 2000
- Acoustics 2004
- Hörkulino - 2008 for Harry Potter Volume 6
- a gold record
- six platinum records
Works
Audio books
- Happy Birthday, Turk! by Jakob Arjouni
- George's Secret Key to the Universe by Stephen Hawking
- Drachenglut by Jonathan Stroud
- Valley - Valley of the Guardians by Jonathan Stroud
- Harry Potter by Joanne K. Rowling (all volumes)
- A series of unfortunate events by Lemony Snicket from Volume 4
- Greenpeace adventure - all chapters free as MP3 or podcast
- Moby Dick from Herman Melville (spokesman for the main character Ismael)
- City stories by Armistead Maupin
- God's Work and the Devil's Contribution by John Irving
- Widow for one year of John Irving
- John Irving's Hotel New Hampshire
- Garp and How He Saw the World by John Irving
- Kafka on the beach by Haruki Murakami
- Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer (volumes 1–8)
- Schreckenstein Castle by Oliver Hassencamp (selected stories)
- Little Nicholas by Rene Goscinny
- Momo by Michael Ende , Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89813-771-3 . (Reading, 5 CDs, 377 min.)
- The Mars Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
- The Seagull Jonathan by Richard Bach
- Until I find you by John Irving
- Around the world in 80 days by Jules Verne
- Journey around the moon by Jules Verne
- From the earth to the moon by Jules Verne
- The Hunt for the Meteor by Jules Verne
- Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
- The Nome Trilogy by Terry Pratchett
- All scythe ! by Terry Pratchett
- Pig gallop by Terry Pratchett
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
- The middle of the world by Andreas Steinhöfel
- The polar express from Ellen Weiss
- When father's beard was still red von Wolfdietrich Schnurre
- Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Meg Finn and the list of four wishes from Eoin Colfer
- The world is round by Gertrude Stein
- Homework from Jakob Arjouni
- A man, a murder by Jakob Arjouni (2006)
- The wild football guys from Joachim Masannek
- His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman ( Vols . 1-3)
- Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
- Harun and the Sea of Tales by Salman Rushdie - spokesman for the protagonist Harun
- Superhero by Anthony McCarten
- The neverending story . From Michael Ende. The Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89813-717-1 . (Reading, 9 CDs, 657 min.)
- The Secret of the Wandering Castle by Eva Ibbotson (April 2007)
- Darkside by Tom Becker (2008)
- The satan archaeological lie, holy wish punch . By Michael Ende, Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89813-771-3 . (Reading, 4 CDs, 316 min.)
- Derrick - New Cases by Herbert Reinecker (2006)
- The Countess of Parma by Sándor Márai (2005)
- Stories for us children by Rufus Beck (2006)
- Lark Light by Philip Reeve (2009)
- Wayne and the night of the real cowboys by Hilke Rosenboom (2008, Der Audio Verlag )
- The Return of the Dreaming Dolphin (2010)
- Listening to India by Peter Pannke (2009), non-fiction audio book series Listening to Countries - Discovering Cultures
- The eternal gardener by John le Carré
- Inga Linström: Princess of the Heart (2010)
- Hollow Heads by Terry Pratchett (2011)
- Sams in Danger Paul Maar (2012)
- Ulysses. Der Hörverlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86717-846-4 (total running time approx. 1,290 minutes).
- Urmel rushes through the time of Max Kruse (2013)
- His Dark Materials : Across the Wild River by Philip Pullman , Silberfisch, ISBN 978-3867423823 (2017)
- The big Luther audio bible 2017: The Psalms ISBN 978-3-438-02229-5
- Quidditch through the Ages by JK Rowling , the audio publisher , ISBN 978-3-8445-3211-1 (2018)
- Land of Stories - The search for the magic of dreams by Chris Colfer. Argon Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-8398-4192-1 (awarded the hr2 - audio book best list )
- Land of Stories - The Return of the Sorceress by Chris Colfer, Argon Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-8398-4203-4
- The Bible - Old and New Testament , Luther Translation 2017 with Apocrypha (2019)
- His Dark Materials 4: To the Other End of the World by Philip Pullman , Silberfisch, ISBN 978-3867423830 (2020)
Radio plays
- 1991: The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien : Spokesman for Peregrin Tuk
- 1993: Merlin or the desert land of Tankred Dorst : Spokesman for Sir Mordred - Director: Walter Adler - MDR
Movies and television
- Peter Strohm - Lady Sacrifice (1989) (TV)
-
Derrick (TV):
- Death at the Edge of the Forest (1990)
- Dangerous Road Through the Night (1991)
- Little Sharks (1992)
-
Crime scene (TV):
- False Love (1992)
- Murder in the Academy (1994)
- Inflagranti (1997)
- Burns (1998)
- Berlin White (1998)
- Alibi for Amelie (2002)
- Fatkiller (2007)
- Alarm on Ward 2 (1993) (TV)
- The Old One - Charity (1993) (TV)
- Mr. Bluesman (1993)
- The Moving Man (1994)
- Flood (1994)
- Natale con papà (1994) (TV)
- Tabaluga (1994), TV series
- Deadly Business Trip (1994) (TV)
- The Man Who Was Afraid of Women (1995)
- The Trap (1995) (TV)
- Secret Witnesses (1995) (TV)
- Inside Amber (1995) (TV)
- Incest: A Case for Sina Teufel (1995) (TV)
- The Lebach Case (1996) (TV)
- A Fatal Offense (1996) (TV)
- An Impossible Wedding (1996) (TV)
- Peanuts (1996)
- Who's Afraid of Santa Claus? (1996)
- Benny Alone Against All (1997) (TV)
- The Red Washer (1997)
- Friedrich and the Enchanted Burglar (1997)
- Singles (1997) television series
- SOKO 5113 (one episode each 1997 and 2014)
- The Streets of Berlin - Bloody Booty (1998) (TV)
- The King : Dr. med. Murder (1998) (TV)
- HeliCops - Mission over Berlin - Free Friday (1998) (TV)
- Liebling Kreuzberg - Fantasies (1998) (TV)
- Lonny the Newcomer (1998) (TV)
- Temporarily deceased (1998) (TV)
- Jimmy the Kid (1998)
- Delta Team - Secret Order! - The Job Man (1999) (TV)
- Dear Bad Santa (1999) (TV)
- Café Perjury - Circus (2000) (TV)
- The Last Witness - The Last Picture (2000) (TV)
- The Price of Beauty (2000) (TV)
- Women Lie Better (2000) (TV)
- Kiss Me Frog (2000) (TV)
- Bad Bank (2000)
- Brasileiro (2001)
- Emil and the Detectives (2001)
- Gangster (2002)
-
Inspector role
- Top or Flop (2002) (TV)
- Sex Ads (2002) (TV)
- State Secret (2002) (TV)
- Heart in Need (2004) (TV)
- Death of a Model (2004) (TV)
- The Wild Things (2003)
- Something Will Happen (2003)
- hamlet X (2003)
- Germanikus (2004)
- Edel & Starck (The Last Judgment - Part 2, 2005)
- The Robber Hotzenplotz (2006)
- The visible and the invisible (2007)
- Drug Fiction (2008) (short film)
- Click into the Heart (2009)
- Your commission, Father Castell - The Priestess (2010) (TV)
- Die Sterntaler (2011) (TV)
- 2012: Munich 7 (TV series, episode Simply not easy )
- The Secret of Villa Sabrini (2012) (TV)
- The Fat Man : Too Many Cooks (2012) (TV)
- Emergency call Hafenkante - Wutbürger (2012)
- Soko Munich "THE PROJECT" (2013)
- Blossom Dreams (2014) (TV)
- Inga Lindström - Love Your Neighbor (2015) (TV)
- The Dream Ship - Cook Islands (2016) (TV)
- The wild guys - the legend lives on! (2016)
- Rosamunde Pilcher - Desperate Nanny Wanted (2018)
- German-Les-Landes (2018) (TV)
- The Undertaker - The Last Unicorn (2019)
synchronization
- The big crawl : Hopper
- Shrek - The daredevil hero : Lord Farquard
- Cats & Dogs - Like cats and dogs : Mr. Tinkles
- The Wonder of Loch Ness : Druid Oki
- The second wonder of Loch Ness: Druid Oki
- Bibi Blocksberg (film) : Maribor cat
- Bibi Blocksberg and the secret of the blue owls : Cat Maribor
- Guardian of the Desert : Narrator & Kolo
- Jasper and the lemonade conspiracy: Kakapo
- Sapphire blue : Xemerius
- Emerald green: Xemerius
- Klaus : Klaus
Musicals
- Tabaluga and Lilli (Live Tour 1994): The Magician
- Tabaluga and the luck given away (Live-Tour 2003): Director & The Magician
- Tabaluga and the Signs of the Times (Live Tour 2012): Director & The Magician
- Tabaluga - Long live friendship (Live Tour 2016): Director, The Magician and the Lucky Beetle
theatre
- 1983: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : Emilia Galotti (Marinelli) - Director: Brigitte Soubeyran ( Landestheater Tübingen )
- 1984: Anton Chekhov : Die Möwe (Kostja) - director: Brigitte Soubeyran (Landestheater Tübingen)
- 2014: Zorn (Patrick) ( Hamburger Kammerspiele )
- 2015: Volksfeind (Theater Tour Kempf)
- 2018: Welcome to the Hartmanns ( Comedy on Kurfürstendamm in the Schiller Theater Berlin )
Web links
- Works by and about Rufus Beck in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage
- Agency profile at Above The Line agency , accessed on August 14, 2020
- Rufus Beck in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Rufus Beck in the German dubbing file
- In an interview with Jörg Steinleitner , HÖRkulino 2005
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with Rufus Beck, in: Stern No. 10, March 2, 2017, p. 125.
- ↑ »I don't want to be reduced to my voice« . Zeit Campus, June 20, 2018.
- ↑ a b Rufus Beck: From "Harry Potter" to "Pilgrim" . Swiss Radio and Television (SRF), March 15, 2014.
- ↑ a b "The voice is like a camera" . Giessener Allgemeine, January 20, 2017.
- ↑ Rufus Scrimegour . Entry on Harry Potter Wiki (English). Retrieved April 26, 2018.
- ↑ Gold / platinum database of the Federal Association of the Music Industry, accessed March 8, 2019
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Beck, Rufus |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater and film actor as well as audio book and voice actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 23, 1957 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Heidelberg |