Sönke Schnitzer

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Sönke Schnitzer (* 1984 in Göttingen ) is a German actor and theater director .

Life

Sönke Schnitzer comes from Northern Germany . His father and brother were successful basketball players in Göttingen . At the age of 17, Schnitzer decided to pursue a career in theater. After graduating from high school and a year as a volunteer at Schauspiel Frankfurt , where he took on several directing internships, Schnitzer applied to several drama schools. In the meantime he studied political science and American literature for two semesters at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Munich .

After receiving an acceptance from Graz , he studied acting from 2005 to 2009 at the University of Music and Performing Arts there . In 2008 he was a visiting student at the University of Music and Theater in Rostock . During his studies he performed a. a. at the Schauspielhaus Graz . In his last year of studies, he joined the independent theater scene in Vienna and worked in productions at Dschungel Wien , the Vienna Pocket Opera (2010; as Fallada / King's son in the children's opera Die Gänsemagd ) and at the Vienna classroom theater .

From the 2010/11 season until the end of the 2013/14 season, Schnitzer was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Landestheater Coburg . He started his engagement together with the new artistic director Bodo Busse , whom he had met in Vienna and who took him to Coburg with him. In Coburg he played a. a. Franz Mohr in Die Räuber (premiere: March 2014), Templar in Nathan the Wise (premiere: December 2012), Valerio in Leonce and Lena (premiere: October 2011), State Secretary Wilhelm Davison in Maria Stuart (premiere: December 2011), Nick in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Premiere: May 2012), Liam in Orphans by Dennis Kelly (Premiere: January 2013), Elwood in the musical Blues Brothers (2011/12 season) and the cowboy hero Will Kane in the rock western Tombstone - or Das Duell ( Premiere: October 2013).

Schnitzer also made guest appearances at the Gerhart Hauptmann Theater in Görlitz-Zittau and at the National Theater in Skopje. In the 2013/14 season he directed himself for the first time at the Landestheater Coburg. In January 2014, his staging of Basketball Diaries by the American author and punk musician Jim Carroll premiered in the Theater im Reithalle .

Occasionally Schnitzer also took on film roles. He played u. a. in short films with. In the 13th season of the ZDF series SOKO Wismar (2017) he was seen in an episode role as a forest worker and lumberjack Kai-Uwe Holzer. In the TV series SOKO Potsdam , which was first broadcast on ZDF in September / October 2018 and continued with a second season in autumn 2019 , Schnitzer plays one of the continuous series roles as the husband of Detective Superintendent Sophie Pohlmann ( Katrin Jaehne ). In the 9th season of the TV series Familie Dr. Kleist (2019) had a leading role in the episode as an almost unfaithful train conductor , whose fiancée suffers from massive circulatory problems after the birth of their daughter.

Schnitzer has been in a relationship with the actress Claudia Schmutzler , whom he met while filming the SOKO Wismar series , since 2016 , and lives in Berlin.

Filmography (selection)

  • 2006: The Schwejk Perspektiven (short film)
  • 2009: Bis ana want (Until someone cries) (short film)
  • 2017: SOKO Wismar (TV series; episode: Verblitzt)
  • 2018–2019: SOKO Potsdam (TV series; series role)
  • 2019: Family Dr. Kleist (TV series; episode: bitter luck)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sönke Schnitzer at schauspielervideos.de; accessed on February 15, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Before the premiere: Sönke Schnitzer stages "Basketball Diaries" at the Landestheater . Portrait and Vita. Internet presence InFranken.de from January 22, 2015. Accessed on February 15, 2017.
  3. ^ Rhythm-and-blues-musical Blues Brothers: Everybody needs somebody . Production details and cast at Musicalzentrale.de. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
  4. ↑ Schiller: The robbers; Coburg State Theater . Performance review. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
  5. ↑ Leonce and Lena . Cast and photo. Official website of the Landestheater Coburg . Retrieved February 15, 2017.
  6. ↑ Maria Stuart . Cast and photo. Official website of the Landestheater Coburg . Retrieved February 15, 2017.
  7. ↑ Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? . Cast and photo. Official website of the Landestheater Coburg . Retrieved February 15, 2017.
  8. ↑ Nathan the Wise . Cast and photo. Official website of the Landestheater Coburg . Retrieved February 15, 2017.
  9. ↑ orphans . Cast and photo. Official website of the Landestheater Coburg . Retrieved February 15, 2017.
  10. ↑ Before the premiere: Wüster Wilder Westen in Coburg . Internet presence InFranken.de from September 25, 2013. Accessed February 15, 2017.
  11. ↑ SOKO Wismar: Flashed . Plot and cast. Official website of the ZDF . Retrieved December 10, 2019.
  12. ^ A b "Sister Stefanie" Claudia Schmutzler Your new one is 17 years younger . In: BUNTE of October 2, 2017. Accessed December 10, 2019.
  13. ↑ Bitter luck . Plot, cast and picture gallery. Official website Das Erste . Retrieved December 10, 2019.
  14. ↑ Rote Rosen: Claudia Schmutzler about her husband: "It was love at first sight" . In: BUNTE from August 20, 2019. Retrieved on December 10, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Schnitzer, Sönke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen