Sebastian König (actor, 1981)

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Sebastian König (born March 15, 1981 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German actor .

Life

König attended grammar school in Frankfurt am Main, where he also graduated from high school . During his school years he spent a year at a high school in Toronto , Canada in 1997/1998 . He made his first acting experiences during his school days at a Frankfurt theater studio and later, during his civil service (2000/2001), at the Papageno Theater in Frankfurt am Main. There he made his stage debut in 2001 in the fairy tale play Der kleine Muck .

König then completed an acting training at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna from 2002 to 2005 , which he graduated with honors. His teachers there included Klaus Maria Brandauer and István Szabó . During his training in 2003 he played the role of the Social Revolutionary Kaljajew in Die Gerechten at the Vienna Palace Theater . There he was discovered by the director and artistic director Anselm Weber , who then engaged him in 2005 for the Essen theater.

He had festival and guest engagements at the Schauspiel Essen (2005–2008), at the Volksbühne Berlin (a permanent member of the ensemble there since 2008), at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater (2011) and at the Luisenburg Festival (2007). For his acting performance at the Luisenburg Festival, he received the young talent award of the city of Wunsiedel in 2007 from the jury of critics .

As a theater actor, König played a broad repertoire , which included roles in plays by William Shakespeare , but also in particular pieces from modern times and contemporary theater.

His stage roles included Kai Carlsen in a stage version of the novel Stier by Ralf Rothmann (Schauspiel Essen, 2005/2006), Dankwart in Die Nibelungen (Schauspiel Essen, 2005/2006)), Lysander in the comedy Ein Midsummer Night's Dream (Schauspiel Essen, 2005–2007), Karl Moor in Die Räuber (Schauspiel Essen, 2006/2007), Absyrtus in Das goldene Vlies (Schauspiel Essen (2007/2008), D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers (Luisenburg Festival 2007), Malcolm in Macbeth (Volksbühne Berlin, 2008/2009), Charles in Quai West by Bernard-Marie Koltès (Volksbühne Berlin, 2010/2011; director: Werner Schroeter , alongside Christoph Letkowski as Fak) and the teacher in Der Hofmeister (2011, production of Maxim- Gorki Theater with the Rütli campus ).

Since 2004, König has also occasionally taken on film roles, in short films and documentaries . However, König works almost exclusively as a stage actor . He had a leading role in the 2008 ZDF crime series SOKO Wismar (episode: The Locked Room , as Patrick).

König also works as a speaker for radio plays and audio books . Among other things, he worked on ORF in 2004 in a radio play version of the novel Holzfalls and in 2006 on Bayerischer Rundfunk in a thriller version of the novel The Man Without Qualities .

König lives in Berlin .

Filmography (selection)

  • 2004: Never Forget (short film)
  • 2008: SOKO Wismar (episode: The locked room )
  • 2009: World of Wonders (Kaspar Hauser)
  • 2010: One Day Rebels (short film)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Sebastian König ( Memento of the original from August 25, 2011 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. Laudation for the young critics award of the city of Wunsiedel (official website of the Luisenburg Festival ; last accessed on March 14, 2012) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.luisenburg-aktuell.de
  2. ↑ a b Sebastian König Sedcard at schauspielervideos.de
personal data
SURNAME King, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main