Siegfried W. Kernen

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Siegfried Willy Karl Kernen (born June 6, 1940 in Bandelin ) is a German - Swiss actor .

Life

Siegfried Kernen grew up on Lake Zurich and began his acting career after having worked as a journalist and teacher for years.

In 1964 he started his first permanent engagement at the Landesbühne Lower Saxony North . As a result, he was seen for a long time at the Freie Volksbühne Berlin under the director Luc Bondy and at the Hamburg Thalia Theater during the artistic directorships of Peter Striebeck and Jürgen Flimm . Around the same time, he was also discovered for television. After Flimm left the Thalia Theater, Kernen worked as a freelance actor. a. in Berlin, Dresden, Hamburg and at the Worms Nibelung Festival (with Mario Adorf, among others ).

Outstanding theater roles included that of Theobald Maske in Carl Sternheim's Die Hose or that of Johann Sebastian Bach in Paul Barz's Possible Encounter . At the Ernst Deutsch Theater in Hamburg he took on the role of Mephisto in Goethe's Faust .

On television he was represented in almost all important crime series ( Der Alte , Derrick , Großstadtrevier , Die Männer vom K3 , Ein Fall für Zwei , Tatort , Polizeiruf 110 ) of the last decades. Particularly noteworthy, however, is his role as a customs investigator in the ARD crime series Schwarz-Rot-Gold . Kernen was also represented in many other popular series, for example in Engels & Consorten , Balko , Forsthaus Falkenau , Heimatgeschichten , Zwei Münchner in Hamburg , stories from life with Evelyn Hamann , Peter Strohm , Der Landarzt , Forstinspektor Buchholz , For all cases Stefanie and Adelheid and her murderers .

In the boarding school series Schloss Einstein , Kernen played briefly as a family judge. Furthermore, Kernen has appeared in numerous television films , such as Die Bombe (1988), Dieter Wedel's multi-part series Wilder Westen inclusive (1988), Der Leibwächter (1989; director: Adolf Winkelmann ), and Der Tod zu Basel (1990; director: Urs Odermatt) ), Lippel's Dream (1991), The Absurd Murder (1992), Silent Steps (1996), Torn Hearts (1996; Director: Urs Odermatt), David's Rache (1997), Napoleon Fritz (1997), The Christmas Murderer (1997), A father sees red (1997), anger in the stomach (1998) or a woman with a whistle (1998). He was also able to convince as Walter Türolf in Jud Suess - A Film as a Crime? or as a lawyer Böttner in the television film Im Schatten der Macht (2003), the Willy Brandt portrait by Oliver Storz. He was also involved in cinema productions, for example in the films Der Schnüffler (1983), Mann ohne Gedächtnis (1984; Director: Kurt Gloor ), Didi in full swing (1986), The Samurai's Summer (1986), Jacob Behind the Blue Door (1987) and Fifty Fifty (1988).

During the 1990s, Kernen was part of the team of actors on the RTL consumer show How please ?! , where he appeared alongside Geert Müller-Gerbes , April Hailer , Hans Werner Olm and Max Grießer and in which questionable practices by authorities and companies were satirically depicted. Kernen gives recitation evenings and produces radio plays and literature readings for radio (e.g. read aloud in the morning on NDR).

Siegfried W. Kernen has been a member of the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg since 2010 .

Filmography (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Artist biography S. Kernen ( Memento from January 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), www.musiktage-hitzacker.de (accessed November 28, 2010)
personal data
SURNAME Kernen, Siegfried W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kernen, Siegfried Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Bandelin