Samuel Weiss (actor)

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Samuel Weiss as a nominated actor at the award ceremony of the Nestroy Theater Prize 2008 at the Ronacher establishment in Vienna, 2008

Samuel Weiss (born February 7, 1967 in Männedorf near Zurich ) is a Swiss actor and theater director who mainly works in the theater, but has also worked in some television and cinema films. In addition, he worked as a radio play speaker and radio presenter. In 2006 he received the Rolf Mares Prize for his portrayal of King Richard III. in The Coronation of Richard III. by Hans Henny Jahnn at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg and the German Record Critics' Prize4th quarter 2006 for Jorinde and Joringel , by the Brothers Grimm .

Life

Samuel Weiss grew up as the eldest child with eleven to twelve half-siblings in a " 68-year-old Swiss household". His grandfather was the Swiss graphic artist, set designer and children's book author Hans Fischer , who was well known in the 1950s . The Waldorf student Samuel Weiss completed his acting training from 1986 to 1990 at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna , but without a degree, as he himself emphasizes, because he had no idea for a written term paper. During his training he already made guest appearances at the Burgtheater in Vienna and at the Schauspiel Frankfurt .

Subsequently, he was an apprentice at the Vienna Burgtheater and was engaged by various theaters, such as the Landestheater Tübingen (1990/91), where he was dismissed for allegedly lack of motivation, or the Staatsschauspiel Stuttgart (1993 to 2001). He was brought there by his mentor , Friedrich Schirmer , at the Staatsschauspiel he played the title role in Albert Camus Caligula and Leonce in Georg Büchner's Leonce and Lena and in Henry Purcell's King Arthur and the medical doctor Tinker in Sarah Kane's Cleaned. In Stuttgart he staged David Harrower's Messer in Hennen and the world premiere of Roland Schimmelpfennig's Die Arabische Nacht for the first time.

At the Salzburg Festival in summer 2000 he played the title role in William Shakespeare's eponymous drama Hamlet , directed by Martin Kušej , the first Hamlet production at the Festival since 1970.

Since the 2001 season he has been a member of the ensemble at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg , where Tom Stromberg brought him. There he played in The Coronation of Richard III. by Hans Henny Jahnn the title role. In March 2010 he tried his hand at directing a production by Bertolt Brechts Baal in Hamburg for the first time . In 2012 he was seen in the title role The Great Gatsby . In addition, his production of A Midsummer Night's Dream premiered in March 2012 . “As a member of the Schauspielhaus ensemble, Samuel Weiss is one of the outstanding actors on Kirchenallee. Even in premieres, his performance (he plays in pornography , What you want, and next to Martina Gedeck in Harper Regan ) is usually explicitly excluded. " In September 2014, the premiere of his production of The Resistant Rise of Arturo Ui took place at the Schauspiel Frankfurt .

He also worked in several television and cinema films as well as various television series, such as Bella Block or The Albertis . He also worked as a speaker and for moderation at Süddeutscher Rundfunk . As an audio book and radio play speaker, he filled a number of roles in productions for Audio Verlag , for example in Douglas Adams ' and Terry Jones ' spaceship Titanic or in Dick Francis ' Zügellos (radio play) based on his novel of the same name.

Weiss is the father of a daughter (* 1998) from a previous relationship and lives in Hamburg - Altona and temporarily in Stuttgart , where his daughter lives with her mother. He was or is with Katja Danowski since 2008 . Weiss speaks German , Swiss German , English and Swedish , plays acoustic guitar and saxophone .

Plays

actor

Director

Filmography

Discography

Awards and nominations

Radio plays

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ castforward.de ( Memento of the original from August 3, 2016 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. - Cache version. Retrieved April 24, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / samuel_weiss.castforward.de
  2. ↑ a b An actor draws against boredom. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . April 17, 2009. Retrieved April 23, 2012.
  3. ↑ Michael Dorner: "I am only real on stage". Everything is ready: the actor Samuel Weiss makes his debut at the Salzburg Festival with Hamlet. In: The world . July 18, 2000. Retrieved April 23, 2012.
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Höbel: In Dr. Tinker's kingdom of heaven. The Austrian Martin Kusej is the climber of the year among theater directors - now he is presenting Sarah Kane's monster play "Cleansed" in Stuttgart. In: Der Spiegel . July 19, 1999. Retrieved April 23, 2012.
  5. ↑ Ensemble overview of the Schauspiel Stuttgart ( memento of the original from August 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schauspiel-stuttgart.de
  6. ↑ schauspielhaus.de
  7. ↑ a b Anke Dürr: Fists in the pockets. In: Der Spiegel . July 17, 2000, accessed on April 23, 2012: “In fact, Weiss' Hamlet is not unlike the Roth characters: With his short-cropped hair and black everyday clothes, he lounges on stage - and immediately conveys: This Hamlet is from today. His gestures are economical and powerful, he relies on the intensity of his voice and his gaze. Even when he speaks of "to be or not to be", he has his fists in his trouser pockets and stands motionless. "
  8. ^ A b Paul Barz: Mainly the theater. Samuel Weiss is an actor through and through - regardless of whether under Tom Stromberg or Friedrich Schirmer. In: The world . December 25, 2012. Retrieved April 23, 2012.
  9. ↑ sprecherforscher.de
  10. ↑ www.benedikt-greiner.de
  11. ↑ Hans-Peter Kurr: Entertainment… .and no more! For the production of the "Great Gatsby" in the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg. In: The Foreign Press eV International Association of Journalists Hamburg. January 16, 2012. Retrieved April 23, 2012.
  12. ↑ a b The resilient rise of Arturo Ui. Bertolt Brecht. (No longer available online.) Schauspiel Frankfurt , archived from the original on September 24, 2014 ; Retrieved September 19, 2014 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / schauspielfrankfurt.de
  13. ↑ Tom Wyss: Samuel Weiss - The «Tatort» star and his ten siblings. In: blick.ch. February 25, 2013, accessed July 25, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Profile Samuel Weiss ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2016 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. On: castforward.de. Retrieved April 24, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / samuel_weiss.castforward.de
  15. ↑ www.presse-partner.de
  16. ↑ Michael Dorner: “I'm only really on stage.” Everything is ready: the actor Samuel Weiss makes his debut at the Salzburg Festival with Hamlet. In: The world . July 18, 2000. Retrieved April 23, 2012.
  17. ^ Daniela Barth: An enemy of the people - Jarg Pataki seeks and finds the Ikea grotesque at Ibsen. Strong man all alone in the buffet. In: nachtkritik.de. November 22, 2008. Retrieved April 23, 2012.
  18. ^ Review, see Wilhelm Trapp: Audiobooks. Fairy tales, epics and English meanness. Willful misunderstandings . Section under the magic blanket . In: The time . November 15, 2006. Retrieved April 23, 2012.
  19. ↑ Readings, audio books and radio plays with Samuel Weiss won the quarterly awards several times. Here, however, he has been recognized as the sole speaker. See www.hoerjuwel.de . Retrieved April 24, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Weiss, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss actor, director and speaker
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Männedorf near Zurich , Switzerland