Simon hunter

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David Nathan (left) and Simon Jäger (right) after a reading (2009)

Simon Hunter (* 16th March 1972 in West Berlin ) is a German voice actor , radio speaker , dialogue director , dialogue author and reciter . He is best known as the German fixed voice of Josh Hartnett , Heath Ledger , Matt Damon and Jet Li and as an interpreter of audio books , which are mainly to be assigned to the genres of thriller and science fiction .

Live and act

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Simon Jäger was discovered during the ZDF Musikarena by the mother of the dubbing and radio play speaker Oliver Rohrbeck , who, as the owner of a Berlin children's agency, was looking for young students for film and television. From the age of seven, Jäger received his first engagements as a supporting actor in series such as Löwenzahn , Die Schwarzwaldklinik and Ein Heim für Tiere . In 1983 he moved to a Berlin secondary school, which he left with the secondary school certificate. He also learned to play drums in his early youth .

synchronization

In Once Upon a Time in America took hunters in 1984 his first synchronous role the following year he released Oliver Rohrbeck as Grisù in the eponymous animated series from. At the age of fourteen he dubbed Paul Stout as Philipp King in thirty episodes of the action television series Agentin mit Herz from 1986 . In the further course of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, Jäger took on leading and supporting roles on changing film actors, including River Phoenix in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) and Ich liebe dich zu Tode (1990), Mos Def in Ein Werk Gottes ( 2004) and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) and Terrence Dashon Howard in Hustle & Flow (2005), Get Rich or Die Tryin ' (2005) and Iron Man (2008).

Since Black Hawk Down (2001), Jäger has been the German voice of Josh Hartnett , since Chasing Amy (1997) of Jason Mewes . Apart from a few exceptions, he also dubbed Heath Ledger regularly and, since Romeo Must Die (2000), Jet Li . After Jäger had previously been cast sporadically on Matt Damon , including in Der Regenmacher (1997), The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) and The Bourne Conspiracy (2004), he took over the dubbing after the death of Damon's regular spokesman Matthias Hinze in 2007 of the American actor. Furthermore, Jäger is the German voice of Tim Speedle from CSI: Miami .

Jäger has starred in series for Corin Nemec as Parker Lewis in Parker Lewis - Der Coole von der Schule (1993), Greg Vaughan as Dan Gordon in Charmed (1999), Anthony Ruivivar as Carlos Nieto in Third Watch Limit (2003) and Leonardo in TMNT (2007) . From 2010 to 2015 he dubbed Eddie McClintock as Pete Lattimer in the mystery series Warehouse 13 , since 2010 Matthew Bomer as Henry Hamilton in In Time and since 2011 Neal Caffrey in the crime series White Collar .

In addition to his work as a voice actor, Jäger has also been working as a dialog book author since 1990, and in 2000 he took over directing for the first time. He has drawn for the German language versions of Collateral (2004), Kingdom of Heaven (2005), Nachts im Museum (2006), Pirates of the Caribbean - Fluch der Karibik 2 (2006) and Pirates of the Caribbean - At the end of the world (2007) responsible.

Radio plays

Under the direction of Heikedine Körting , Jäger took on first guest roles in children's and youth radio drama series from Europe in the early 1980s . Fixed leading and supporting roles in radio play productions of various genres followed, including Randy Randolph Ritter in Das Schloß-Trio (1988 to 1989), Philip Mannering in the second edition of the adventure series by Enid Blyton (1980s), Luther Niles in Gabriel Burns ( 2004 to 2005), Jonathan Harker in Dracula by Bram Stoker from the Titania series Gruselkabinett (2007) and Gilbert Blythe in Anne auf Green Gables based on the book of the same name by Lucy Maud Montgomery (since 2008). For his interpretation of the title character Jack Slaughter in the radio play series of the same name, Jäger was awarded the ear canal in 2008 in the category “Best Speaker in a Leading Role” and was nominated for the 2010 ear canus. Jäger took on another leading role in the radio play production Plan B by Ivar Leon Menger (2009).

Jäger is also involved in the German dubbing of computer games such as Kingdom Hearts , Kingdom Hearts II , Prince of Persia , Assassin's Creed II , Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and Far Cry 3 .

Audio books

Since the beginning of the 2000s, Jäger has been reading and editing audio books regularly in external as well as in his own recording studio 2freibeuter , especially thrillers by Sebastian Fitzek and John Katzenbach as well as science fiction novels by Richard Morgan and fantasy literature by Lara Adrian . A selection of other readings include The Rediscovery by Andreas Eschbach (2006), Dune - the first trilogy by Frank Herbert (2008), Limit by Mark T. Sullivan (2008), Blood Portals by Markus Heitz (2008), Barnaby Grimes: Der Fluch des Werwolfs by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell (2008), Der Bund der Wolfe by Nina Blazon (2009) and Die Werwolfe by Christoph Hardebusch (2010). For his interpretation of Fitzek's psycho thriller Der Augensammler , Jäger was nominated for the Hörkules 2011 and achieved second place. Abbey Road Murder Song by William Shaw (2013) with Simon Jäger as speaker received a grandiose from the magazine BÜCHER.

Great Vista readings

As part of staged readings and radio plays in front of an audience, Simon Jäger appears several times a year in Oliver Rohrbeck's listening lounge in the old canteen of the Kulturbrauerei in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg or at other venues in Germany. Together with David Nathan , he has been doing the Prima Vista readings since 2007, in which the duo improvise texts that the audience has brought with them. The range of text material from the past and present encompasses the most varied of genres and genres and ranges from stories and experiences you have written yourself to book excerpts with fictitious and non-fictional content to blooms of styles and curiosities from the Internet. Since 2012, the Berlin club SO36 and the Cologne Gloria Theater have been permanent venues for the readings .

Others

Jäger has been performing alongside Tanja Geke and other musicians with the band Tante Bob since 2009 , having previously been active as a singer and guitarist in several Berlin groups. He can also be heard as a guest artist on the album Paranoid Circus by the Gummersbach folk metal band Lyriel . There he speaks the introduction and, as an intermediate passage in the middle of the album, an excerpt from the short story The Wolf by Hermann Hesse .

Simon Jäger also speaks the main character Vaas in the third part of the first-person shooter series Far Cry , published in 2012, and that of the Prince in Prince of Persia , published in 2008 , and Leonardo DaVinci in Assassin's Creed II (2009).

Synchronous rollers (selection)

Heath Ledger

Jason Mewes

Jet Li

Josh Hartnett

Matt Damon

Mos Def

Terrence Howard

Simon Pegg

Movies

Series

Awards

  • 2005: Radio Play Award in the category “Critics' Prize: Best Supporting Role” for Luther Niles in Gabriel Burns
  • 2008: Ohrkanus in the category “Best Speaker in a Leading Role” for Jack Slaughter
  • 2008: Radio Play Award in the category "Competition Award: Best Speaker in a Leading Role" for Jack Slaughter
  • 2009: Synchron Audience Award “Die Silhouette” in the category “Best Dubbing Actor Film” for Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight
  • 2011: Hörkules - Silver for The Eye Collector by Sebastian Fitzek

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Award ceremony Ohrkanus 2008  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.dievonderheydts.de  
  2. ↑ Ohrkanus final nominations 2010  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. PDF file@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ohrkanus.de  
  3. ^ Prize winner Hörkules 2011 Börsenblatt , online edition, March 17, 2011, accessed on March 19, 2011
  4. ↑ The Bible according to Biff. Accessed November 19, 2018 (German).
  5. ↑ Striking voices RTL regional on February 23, 2011, accessed on March 12, 2011

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SURNAME Hunter, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German voice actor and audio book interpreter
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH West Berlin