Simon Kirsch

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Simon Kirsch (* 1985 in Munich , according to another source in Starnberg ) is a German actor .

Life

Simon Kirsch grew up in Munich. He completed his acting studies from 2006 to 2009/10 at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich. During his training he made guest appearances at the Münchner Kammerspiele , where he appeared in productions by Claudia Bauer and Stephan Kimmig . For the final piece Richard III. he received the O. E. Hasse Prize in 2008 and the Solo Prize in 2009 at the Theatertreffen German-speaking drama schools .

From the 2009/10 season until 2013 he was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Vienna Burgtheater . There he worked with directors such as Matthias Hartmann , Stefan Pucher , Michael Höppner and Stefan Bachmann . His Wiener starring the young firebrand among Philotas in the same one-act play by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , Sebastian in Shakespeare -Stück Twelfth Night and the title role in Shakespeare's late work Pericles . In the 2011/12 season he was part of the ensemble of the Austrian premiere of Elfriede Jelinek's play Winterreise at the Vienna Akademietheater .

Since the 2013/14 season he has been a permanent member of the ensemble at the Schauspiel Köln . He played there u. a. Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice (2014–2015, Director: Stefan Bachmann), Erich in Tales from the Vienna Woods (2015–2017, Director: Stefan Bachmann), Laertes in Hamlet (2016–2018, Director: Stefan Bachmann), Ulrich von Rudenz in Wilhelm Tell (2017-2019, director: Stefan Bachmann), Amir in Geächtet (2017-2019, director: Stefan Bachmann) and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet (2017-2019, director: Pinar Karabulut ). In the 2017/18 season he was the drum major in Therese Willstedt's Woyzeck production at the Cologne Theater . He also appeared in a stage version of the novel Hool by Philipp Winkler in the 2017/18 season . In 2018/19 he played the title role of Karl in an adaptation of Alfred Döblin's big city novel Pardon is not given (director: Rafael Sanchez ), as well as in the world premiere of Elfriede Jelinek's Schnee Weiß , which in the critics' survey of the magazine Theater Heute zum Stück des Year 2019 was chosen.

Kirsch has also made guest appearances at the Schauspielhaus Zurich , the Theater Basel , the Staatsschauspiel Dresden and the Thalia Theater in Hamburg .

Kirsch also stood in front of the camera for several film and television productions. In the TV literary film adaptation , Woyzeck , a modern version of the Büchner drama by director Nuran David Calis , which premiered at the Max Ophüls Preis film festival in Saarbrücken in January 2013 and was nominated for the Grimme Prize , Kirsch embodied the Berlin neighborhood - Large-scale drum major. In the 5th season of the ZDF series Bettys Diagnose (2019), Kirsch, alongside Tatja Seibt , had one of the leading roles in the episode. In 2019 he also shot the ARD crime series Die Füchsin alongside Lina Wendel and Karim Chérif .

Kirsch lives in Cologne and Munich.

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Simon Kirsch at schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved February 17, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b Simon Kirsch . Profile and vita at CASTFORWARD. Retrieved February 17, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b c d e O.E. Hasse Prize 2008 is awarded to Simon Kirsch . Press release of the Akademie der Künste from February 26, 2009. Retrieved on February 17, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b c d e Simon Kirsch . Vita. Schauspiel Köln website . Retrieved February 17, 2019.
  5. ↑ "Philotas": Prussian-Greek Kamikaze . Performance review. In: Die Presse of April 2, 2010. Accessed February 17, 2019.
  6. ↑ Philotas in the vestibule: It doesn't take much to create a successful evening at the theater . Performance review, January 10, 2011. Accessed February 17, 2019.
  7. ↑ "What you want": Great circus with Shakespeare's fools . Performance review. In: Die Presse of December 23, 2010. Retrieved February 17, 2019.
  8. ^ Burgtheater in the casino: Ancient Telenovela . Performance review. In: Die Presse of September 18, 2011. Accessed February 17, 2019.
  9. ↑ Always bad luck with eros . Performance review. In: Wiener Zeitung of September 19, 2011. Retrieved on February 17, 2019.
  10. ↑ Jelinek's "Winterreise": Ghost train ride to this world . Performance review. In: Wiener Zeitung of April 6, 2012. Retrieved on February 17, 2019.
  11. ↑ Theater premiere in Cologne - Ayad Akhtar's brilliant drama “Outlawed”. May 27, 2017. Retrieved March 25, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Woyzeck - Therese Willstedt shows Georg Büchner's social drama at the Cologne Theater with a dissecting deep view . Performance review. On: Nachtkritik.de of March 22, 2018. Retrieved on February 17, 2019.
  13. ↑ Bloody adrenaline. Premiere: "Hool" in the Cologne theater . Performance review. In: General-Anzeiger of December 18, 2017. Retrieved on February 17, 2019.
  14. ↑ GA BONN: “Pardon is not given” celebrates its premiere in Cologne. Retrieved September 22, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Sven Westernström: Mülheim Theater Days: Elfriede Jelinek's “Snow White”. May 19, 2019, accessed on September 22, 2019 (German).
  16. ↑ WOYZECK . Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize . Retrieved February 17, 2019.
  17. ↑ Betty's diagnosis | A question of love . Plot and cast. Official website of the ZDF . Retrieved February 17, 2019.
  18. ↑ The Vixen - Beautiful and Dead, TV Movie (Series), 2019 | Crew United. Retrieved March 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kirsch, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich or Starnberg