Sebastian Christoph Jacob

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Sebastian Christoph Jacob (born June 27, 1968 in Würzburg ) is a German theater actor , television actor and film actor as well as voice actor , dialogue book author , dialogue director and classical guitarist .

education

Sebastian Christoph Jacob first attended the Waldorf School in Würzburg and from the fourth grade the Rudolf Steiner School in Berlin. He began his artistic career in 1985 with an internship at the Komödie am Kurfürstendamm in Berlin. Then he took acting and speaking lessons from Maria Körber and Joachim Kerzel . He then studied at the Zurich Acting Academy ( Zurich University of the Arts ) under the direction of Felix Rellstab . He received his vocal training from Jonathan Kinsler and the Swiss opera tenor and vocal teacher Paul Späni . He studied guitar with Klaus-Michael Krause ( University of the Arts ), Laurie Randolph (UdK), Gerald List, the Kazakh-German concert guitarist Vitaly Shal, as well as further with Tzvetan Stoyanov (UdK).

guitarist

As an interpreter of works from the Renaissance, Baroque and Romantic periods, Sebastian Christoph Jacob has made a name for himself above all with his concert program Barock in D with works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Silvius Leopold Weiss . In addition to his solo repertoire, he performs in the chamber music field with works by Alessandro Marcello (Concerto for Oboe and Basso Continuo) and Alfonso Ferrabosco the Younger . He also gave a concert in the Prater of the Volksbühne Berlin on Rosa-Luxemburg Platz together with the actress and singer Naomi Krauss with a Yiddish recital, for which he provided the guitarist arrangement. Church concerts led him a. a. to Spain, where he appeared regularly as a solo artist in the sacred music series Musica Sacra and in the concert series Barroco Alemán en Jardines Españoles. He gave a concert at the Casa Museo de los Tiros for the exhibition Musas de Pluma leve by photographer Maria Ángeles Jiménez Pino. He gave other evenings as a soloist in the Capilla de Santa Catalina ( Granada ), at the Ansbach Theater (Kultur am Schloss), in the Casa Museo Manuel de Falla (Fundación Manuel de Falla, Granada) and in the monastery church of the Benedictine Abbey of Maria Frieden in the Archdiocese of Bamberg .

theatre

As a theater actor, Sebastian Christoph Jacob initially had engagements at the Hansa Theater Berlin and the Berliner Kammerspiele, where he a. a. Peter Munk in The Cold Heart , Melchior Gabor in Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind and Christoph von Bleichenwang in Was Ihr wollt by William Shakespeare . Hans Neuenfels engaged him for the Midsummer Night's Dream at the Staatliche Schauspielbühnen Berlin , where he a. a. together with Bernhard Minetti , Ulrich Noethen and Elisabeth Trissenaar as Flaut-Thisbe on stage. After the ensemble was dissolved through the closure of the Schillertheater (Berlin) , work followed on the Hamburger Komödie and the Berlin theaters Komödie und Theater am Kurfürstendamm and the Staatsschauspiel Dresden . His roles included other classic characters such as Filipetto in Herr im Haus directed by Jérôme Savary and in Horst Bonnet's production of Das Glas Wasser by Arthur Masham, and later, again at the Kammerspiele , Mephistopheles in the Urfaust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . His stage partners continued to include Michael Degen , Chariklia Baxevanos , Franziska Troegner , Johanna von Koczian , Wolfgang Spier , Ursela Monn , Peter Fitz , Susanna Simon and Sophie Rois .

Theater roles

Speaker activity

Sebastian Christoph Jacob has dubbed actors in numerous international films of various genres, including Jeremy Sisto as Julius Caesar in the film of the same name, Gael García Bernal in Babel , Haaz Sleiman as Jesus Christ in the three-part Bible adaptation Killing Jesus , Marco Leonardi in From Dusk Till Dawn 3 - The Hangman's Daughter as well as in Texas Rangers, Mark Dacascos in The Nomad, Édgar Ramírez in 8 perspectives and in the historical epic Libertador as Simón Bolívar , Laz Alonso in Jarhead - Welcome to the dirt , Andrew Howard in The Lion in Winter - Fight for the King's Crown as Richard the Lionheart , Sergio Peris-Mencheta in Love Ranch and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo in the American western epic The Magnificent Seven . His singing voice is also used in German dubbing, e.g. B. he also took over the vocal parts for the actor Nikitin Dheer in the Bollywood production Chennai Express . He also lent his voice to actors in well-known foreign television series broadcast in Germany. So he is z. B. the standard voice of Gonzalo Menendez et al. a. in CSI: Miami , CSI: New York , E-Ring , Threshold, The District , Elementary , Burn Notice , Rizzoli & Isles , Perception , Dr. House and in the science fiction thriller Spectral as Capitan Marco Cabrera. He also lent his voice to the actor David Sutcliffe in the role of Christopher Hayden ( Gilmore Girls ), Mark Consuelos in Missing, Nicolas Lea in Men in Trees and in Burn Notice or Kurt Caceres in Threat Matrix. Likewise, Sebastian Christoph Jacob dubbed various crime and drama series Steven Michael Quezada and others repeatedly in German versions . a. in Breaking Bad and the horror film 3 From Hell , as well as David Zayas z. B. in Dexter , Chicago PD , Person of Interest , CSI: Miami, The Blacklist and others. a. He interpreted other leading roles as a dubbing actor a. a. in the television series Mozart in the Jungle ( Gael Garcia Bernal ), Red Oaks ( Ennis Esmer ), Private Eyes (Ennis Esmer), as well as the Spanish film and theater actor Asier Etxeandia in the comedies Galerias Velvet , Velvet Collection and Velvet Movie (as Raúl de la Riva) as well as in the psychological action war film The Silent War. Other continuous series characters to whom he lent his voice were Horatio Carillo in Narcos ( Maurice Compte ) and Dr. Farid Shokrani in Here and Now ( Peter Macdissi ). Other film actors, in whose German dubbed versions the voice of Sebastian Christoph can often be heard, in addition to the US actors Andrew Bowen, Anthony Azizi and Carlos Leal, also actors from Latin America such as Yul Vazquez, Zak Santiago, Jose Pablo Cantillo , Raymond Cruz , Laz Alonso or Rodrigo Santoro . Sebastian Christoph Jacob can also be heard regularly as a commentary. So z. B. on ZDF (e.g. Planet E) and on N24 or as an original speaker in documentaries for ZDF, Arte , ARD and N24. He also appeared in staged readings at the Dresden State Theater, the Long Night of the Museums and in the chamber music hall of the Berlin Philharmonic . He worked with the Unter den Linden chamber orchestra and the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Under the musical direction of Herrmann Bäumer, he spoke all roles from the story of the soldier by Igor Stravinsky . Jacob could be heard as an advertising spokesman for Aktion Mensch . In 2018, after the death of Thomas Petruo , he took over the role of Sheldon Plankton in SpongeBob SquarePants .

Movies

Series

Dialogue book / dubbing direction

Sebastian Christoph Jacob directed the dialogue for the Spanish feature film Rojo Sangre, the Mexican crime comedy Matando Cabos , the Norwegian psychological thriller Andreaskorset - The Crossing, the US TV show series Criss Angel Mindfreak , the US TV series Life of Ryan and the Heidi Klum casting show Project Runway . He also took over the German dubbing direction for the television series Stuck in the Middle (USA).

Movie and TV

On television he appeared in the productions Ein Mord für Quandt , Rosa Roth , Wolffs Revier , In the Name of the Law , Coast Guard , Praxis Bülowbogen , In allerfreund and Section 40 in which he a. a. next to Hannelore Elsner , Iris Berben , Carmen-Maja Antoni , Jürgen Heinrich , Rüdiger Joswig and Ursula Karusseit . In 2011 he played the title role of Simon Petrus in the short film Alone Petrus by Dietrich Toellner . International film appearances followed in the German-Luxembourgish feature film Pipermint - Das Leben Possible (with Meret Becker and Sami Frey ), US-American-British drama Conspiracy - The Wannsee Conference (2001) (with Kenneth Branagh , Stanley Tucci and Colin Firth ) and the US -american science fiction thriller Equilibrium (2002) where he stood in front of the camera alongside Christian Bale and Taye Diggs .

Filmography

Audio books

Awards

  • The Feuerzangenbowle: Performance of the Year (Theatergemeinde Berlin)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Foyer concerts: Dillon. Retrieved December 10, 2019 . , Website of the Volksbühne Berlin
personal data
SURNAME Jacob, Sebastian Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater, television and film actor as well as voice actor, dialogue author, dialogue director and guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg