Sebastian Koch

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Sebastian Koch

Sebastian Koch (born May 31, 1962 in Karlsruhe ) is a German actor .

Childhood and youth

Koch spent his childhood and youth in Stuttgart with his single mother. He "grew up very Protestant, Methodist," he said in an interview. Originally he wanted to be a musician, but the productions of the Stuttgart drama director Claus Peymann led him to change his career aspirations in the late 1970s and embark on an acting career.

Career

theatre

Koch completed his training from 1982 to 1985 at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich. In addition to his cinematic work, he has shown his variety of roles on the theater stage. At the Darmstadt theater he played a. a. Peer Gynt and Leonce in Leonce and Lena . At the Schillertheater Berlin a. a. the scooter in The Robbers and Orestes in Iphigenia on Tauris . A few years later, Lord Goring at the Bochum theater in An ideal husband , directed by Armin Holz .

Movie and TV

Sebastian Koch filming with Birgit Minichmayr in Vienna 2014

In 1980, Koch had his first television appearance in episode 77 of the Derrick series (A candle to the murderer), followed by a Tatort episode ( Die Macht des Schicksals ) in 1986, in which he played alongside Inspector Helmut Fischer . Numerous crime novels and thrillers such as The Man with the Mask and The Burning Snail followed until he played Andreas Baader in Heinrich Breloer's two-part Death Play in 1997 .

In 2002 Sebastian Koch won the Adolf Grimme Prize for the title role in Der Tanz mit dem Teufel - Die Entführung des Richard Oetker and for his acting performance as Klaus Mann in the family story Die Manns . The three-part series was also named "TV Event of the Year" with the German Television Prize in 2002 . In addition, Koch received the Bavarian TV Prize for it .

His first international productions such as the historical drama Napoléon , in which Koch played alongside Gérard Depardieu , John Malkovich and Isabella Rossellini , attracted more attention. In Marie and Freud he was Rodolphe Löwenstein, the adolescent lover of Catherine Deneuve .

In his films, Sebastian Koch often plays historically significant personalities in his roles, including Rudolf Höss in Constantin Costa-Gavra's Hochhuth adaptation Amen (The Deputy) . In the 2-part event Der Tunnel ( Roland Suso Richter ) about the construction of an escape tunnel under the Berlin Wall shortly after it was built in 1961 and in the historical drama about the uprising of June 17, 1953 Two days of hope by Peter Keglevic . Sebastian Koch was Stauffenberg ( staged by Jo Baier in 2004 and awarded the German Television Prize), in Heinrich Breloer's 3-part Speer and Er - after Todesspiel and Die Manns, the third collaboration with the director - he received for his portrayal as Albert Speer the German Television award.

In 2006 Sebastian Koch took part in Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's Stasi drama The Lives of Others . In it he played the playwright Georg Dreyman, who leads a life as a dissident with his partner in the GDR and is monitored and spied on in the process. This film won an Oscar in 2007 and has also won the BAFTA , César , German and European film awards. Sebastian Koch has received numerous nominations for his performance in The Lives of Others and is the winner of the Globo d'oro for "Best European Actor", the Quadriga and the Bambi .

Also in 2006, Paul Verhoeven's Black Book (Zwartboek) was made into a film. Koch plays a Nazi officer in occupied Holland who falls in love with a Jewish resistance fighter ( Carice van Houten ). Black Book premiered at the Venice International Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival .

After the production of In Every Second (2007/2008), Sebastian Koch played the title role in the international Tele München coproduction of Jack London's classic adventure The Sea Wolf from May to July 2008 . In it, Sebastian Koch embodies the lonely despot Wolf Larsen at sea between brutal harshness and longing romance. This English-language two-part TV series based on the script by Nigel Williams and directed by British Mike Barker was shot in Halifax, Canada. The two-parter won the Directors Guild of Canada award, and in 2010 Sebastian Koch was nominated for an International Emmy Award for his role .

Also in 2008, the movie Manipulation was shot in Switzerland (based on the novel The Interrogation of Harry Wind by Walter Matthias Diggelmann ) with Sebastian Koch and Klaus Maria Brandauer in the leading roles.

In 2010, Koch played the main male role in the English independent tragic comedy Albatross , directed by Niall MacCormick. He was also seen as Prof. Bressler in the film Unknown Identity (with Liam Neeson and Diane Kruger ), directed by Jaume Collet-Serra . In the summer of 2010, he took on the guest role of King Uther (alongside Eva Green and Joseph Fiennes ) in the English-language TV series Camelot of the Irish RT Film Productions . The UFA production Bella Block - Stich ins Herz followed in autumn 2010, directed by Stephan Wagner in the role of Max Klöckner.

As a presenter and speaker, Sebastian Koch also presented the Cologne Cathedral, Neuschwanstein Castle and the Frauenkirche in Dresden in three episodes in the ZDF documentary series Terra X in three episodes entitled Superbauten .

In 2011, Koch played the lead role of investigator Zenk in the Czech production In the Shadow of the Horse (Ve Stínu), who had to assert himself against a personal rival and the regime in communist Prague in the 1950s. In the German film production The weekend , one of Bernhard Schlink- - novelization he portrayed 2012, after twenty years of imprisonment pardoned RAF terrorists (Jens Kessler) and his encounter with the old fellow. In the same year, filming of God Loves Caviar began - a Greek-Russian historical film adaptation in which Koch plays the Greek national hero Ioannis Varvakis, who rose from a former pirate to an internationally highly regarded caviar millionaire and philanthropist. As Varvaki's opponent, Catherine Deneuve act as Katharina II of Russia and John Cleese as officer McCormick. This was followed by work on the psychological thriller Suspension of Disbelief , which Mike Figgis directed with Koch in the lead role. He then took over the antagonist in the 5th part of the action classic Die Hard (appeared as Die Hard - A Good Day to Die ) with Bruce Willis .

With Ridley Scott (director and producer) 2013 began work on The Vatican , the pilot for a proposed Showtime series in which it comes to intrigue around the Pope, mysteries and secrets in the Catholic Church. Koch embodies the Vatican secretary Cardinal Marco Malerba, who is one of the true rulers in the heart of the Vatican.

In A Love for Peace - Bertha von Suttner and Alfred Nobel , an Austrian production for German and Austrian television, Sebastian Koch played Alfred Nobel in 2014 .

In the French cinema production based on a true story, Au nom de ma fille , Koch plays the German doctor Dieter Krombach, who is accused by a French ( Daniel Auteuil ) of murdering his daughter. The film is set in the 1980s and the case continues to make waves in the international press to this day.

In the same year Sebastian Koch shot the film Bridge of Spies with Steven Spielberg . The story is about the mediation of the first exchange of agents between East and West during the Cold War by the insurance attorney Donovan (played by Tom Hanks ). The East Berlin lawyer Vogel (Sebastian Koch) is an essential designer of this project. Bridge of Spies premiered at the New York Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture. The Danish Girl received another Academy Award nomination for Best Picture from Academy Award winner Tom Hooper ( The King's Speech ) for the first ever sex reassignment surgery . Alongside Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander, Koch embodies the doctor Dr. Warnekros, who was one of the first to perform this operation.

Koch then shot Nebel im August for German cinema (director: Kai Wessel ). It's about euthanasia during the Nazi era and the supposedly scientific way a doctor deals with it.

In 2015, filming began on the fifth season of the Showtime series Homeland about the bi-polar agent Carrie Mathison ( Claire Danes ). After leaving the CIA, Carrie now works as security for the German entrepreneur and benefactor Otto Düring, played by Sebastian Koch.

He won the Bambi 2018 in the category “Best Actor National”.

Koch is a member of the German and the European Film Academy . In 2019 he received an invitation to membership in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , which awards the Oscar .

Audio books

Koch works as a narrator of many literary and musical-literary audio books and corresponding live performances (for example, he is currently reading the correspondence between Clara and Robert Schumann in Schumann - Scenes of a Marriage together with Martina Gedeck ). Accompanied by the Argentine bandoneon virtuoso Roberto Russo, Sebastian Koch reads excerpts from The Player after Fyodor M. Dostoevsky . At the Literature and Poetry Festival 2011 in Bad Homburg the premiere of the reading Dream Novelle by Arthur Schnitzler took place - musically accompanied by jazz interludes specially composed for the reading by the jazz trio Hubert Nuss and Uli Beckerhoff . A reading series developed from this, which is taken up again and again. In 2012, together with Cherbuliez Productions, he produced the audio book Cook Reads Heuss with speeches and letters by Theodor Heuss . For the second time, Sebastian Koch lent his voice to the famous audio book Edition Brigitte - Strong Voices . After he interpreted the novel A Perfect Friend ( Martin Suter ) in 2007 , the Stuttgart crime thriller Am twelfth day ( Wolfgang Schorlau ) followed. The edition was published in October 2014.

Personal

Sebastian Koch lives in Berlin-Charlottenburg and has a daughter (* 1996) with the journalist Birgit Keller. He was in a relationship with actress Anna Schudt between 2001 and 2005 and with actress Carice van Houten from 2005 to 2009 . He has a total of two children, a daughter and a son.

Filmography (selection)

Theater (excerpts)

Discography / audio books

Video games

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Interview with Dirk von Nayhauß, in: Chrismon 10/2018, p. 34.
  2. In the Shadow
  3. Sebastian Koch. German Film Academy , accessed on July 3, 2019 .
  4. Members. The European Film Academy, accessed July 3, 2019 .
  5. ^ Matt Donnelly, Marc Malkin: Academy Reaches Gender Parity in 2019 New Member Invitations. In: Variety . July 1, 2019, accessed on July 3, 2019 .
  6. http://www.zeit.de/2003/30/Traum_2fKoch_30 .
  7. Separation from actress: Sebastian Koch is solo again. In: Spiegel Online . August 17, 2009. Retrieved June 9, 2018 .
  8. Interview with Dirk von Nayhauß, in: Chrismon 10/2018, p. 34.
  9. 11-11: Memories Retold - All information, release, PC system requirements - GameStar. Retrieved April 5, 2019 .