Sebastian Urbanski

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Sebastian Urbanski (* 1978 in Berlin ) is a German actor and voice actor .

Life

Urbanski was born in Berlin and has Down syndrome . He grew up in East Berlin and, according to his own statement, attended a “normal kindergarten” as the “first child to be integrated”, where he felt comfortable. His father made a puppet theater for him, his parents played him stories with hand puppets and he himself practiced small pieces with the children of the neighborhood. When his mother, the journalist Bettina Urbanski , heard about an integrative theater group, he got involved in acting. After graduating from school, he worked in a workshop for people with disabilities, and in 2007 he became an actor.

Urbanski is successful as a stage actor, so in 2010 as Hermes in Peace by Aristophanes in the Berlin theater RambaZamba the cultural workshop sundial. He also played in the play A little serenity on overcast days , a Struwwelpeter - adaptation with. Urbanski is in the movie Me too - who wants to be normal? the German dubbing voice of Pablo Pineda . In The Way You Are by Wolfgang Murnberger , he plays with Juliana Götze . In 2015, together with his mother and a ghostwriter, he wrote his autobiography, I Love Hamlet .

On the day of commemoration of the victims of National Socialism , on January 27, 2017, Sebastian Urbanski spoke in front of the German Bundestag and read Ernst Putzki's “ Victim Letter” , written in September 1943 to his mother from the Weilmünster death institution in Hesse . Putzki was murdered in January 1945 in the Nazi killing center Hadamar .

At the beginning of 2019, Sebastian Urbanski was appointed to the board of the Bundesvereinigung Lebenshilfe . He is the first member with Down syndrome to join this 15-person body.

Works

  • I prefer to be Hamlet. With Down syndrome in the middle of life. With Marion Appelt and Bettina Urbanski. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-596-03165-8 ( limited preview in Google book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: ZDF nachtstudio from November 10, 2010 )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.zdf.de
  2. ↑ Birgit Wilke: Celebrity with Down syndrome . In: Paulinus, weekly newspaper in the Diocese of Trier, No. 11, March 17, 2019, p. 11.
  3. ↑ Stefan Otto: The chatter of the gods . In: Neues Deutschland , September 1, 2010
  4. ↑ Theater Ramba Zamba ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2014 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theater-rambazamba.org
  5. ↑ Ina Pachmann: The special voice . In: Berliner Zeitung , August 14, 2010
  6. ↑ "I'm completely normal" with Down syndrome on stage . stern.de, April 22, 2015, accessed on November 29, 2017
  7. ↑ Bundestag commemorates the victims of National Socialism on January 27th
  8. ↑ "I feel completely normal" . deutschlandfunkkultur.de, October 19, 2017, accessed on November 29, 2017
  9. ↑ «We did not fit into the scheme» Unserkirche.de, January 26, 2017, accessed on November 29, 2017
  10. ↑ morgenpost.de . Retrieved March 14, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Urbanski, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin