Simon Werdelis

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Simon Werdelis (* 1990 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ) is a German actor .

Life

Simon Werdelis completed his acting training at the Mozarteum in Salzburg from 2010 to 2014 . During his studies he played a. a. at the Landestheater Salzburg , at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg (2012, with the Körber Studio “Junge Regie”) and at the Theater im KunstQuartier in Salzburg (2013). In 2012 he appeared on stage at the Salzburg State Theater as Freder in Ferdinand Bruckner's drama Illness of Youth . In 2013, at the Theatertreffen German-speaking drama students in Berlin, he and his class received the ensemble award as well as the student award for the production of A Sport (director: Tina Lanik ) in the KunstQuartier Salzburg.

From the beginning of the 2013/14 season he was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Residenztheater in Munich . There he played in productions by Martin Kušej , Dimiter Gotscheff , Michael Thalheimer , David Bösch , Marius von Mayenburg and Anne Lenk, among others . In 2014 he made a guest appearance with the ensemble of the Munich Residenztheater with the piece Zement by Heiner Müller at the Berlin Theatertreffen . In the 2015/16 season he performed there, u. a. together with Bijan Zamani and İsmail Deniz , in Nuran David Calis ' Werfel production The Forty Days of Musa Dagh .

At the beginning of the 2017/18 season, Werdelis switched to the Staatsschauspiel Dresden as a permanent member of the ensemble . He worked there with the directors Mina Salehpour and Ulrich Rasche . He made his debut in September 2017 with the solo evening Nationalstrasse (based on the novel by Jaroslav Rudiš ). In the new production of Federico García Lorca's play Yerma , directed by Andreas Kriegenburg , he embodied the husband Juan.

In the 2018/19 season he played Helena , who was cast as a " tranny " male in Friederike Heller's production of the Shakespeare comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream , which gave Helena's hopeless love for Demetrius "a homoerotic twist" through Werdelis' portrayal. In Michael Talke's new staging of the play Death of a Salesman (premiere: March 2019), Werdelis embodied Biff Loman, who was designed as a “sensitive eccentric”, the “more stubborn but also more fragile” of the two Loman sons. In the 2019/20 season Werdelis “shone” in the role of the “idealistic” student Trofimov, who is dominated by the pursuit of “truth and the highest happiness” and who believes in progress, in Andreas Kriegenburg's production of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard .

In addition to his work at the theater, Simon Werdelis regularly participates in film and television productions and has played under the direction of Dominik Graf , Matti Geschonnek , Matthias Schweighöfer and Heinrich Breloer , among others .

From January to March 2017, Werdelis starred alongside Floriane Daniel , Ole Doll and Wendy Güntensperger in the ARD pre-evening series WaPo Bodensee . He played Pirmin Spitznagel, a water policeman on Lake Constance . He also took on this role in the second season, which was filmed in the summer of 2017, and in the third season, which aired in March / April 2018 and from February 2019 on Das Erste .

He also had episode roles in the ZDF series Die Chefin (2017, as dealer Sven Kuhn) and SOKO Munich (2017, as punk Alex Unger, where he was the suspected sub-tenant of the murder victim). In the ZDF television film Brandnächte (first broadcast: November 2017) he played " Bufdi " Rudi, who looks after the father of an alleged murderer ( Nikolaus Paryla ). In July 2018, Werdelis starred in the television series In allerfreund - The young doctors in a leading role in the episode; he played an old buddy of the series main character Dr. Elias Bähr ( Stefan Ruppe ).

Werdelis lives in Dresden .

Theater (selection)

Residenztheater Munich

State Theater Dresden

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Simon Werdelis ; Profile and vita at Schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved January 23, 2017.
  2. ^ A b Neustadt: Actor Simon Werdelis on Tuesday in ARD- "WaPo Bodensee" . In: Die Rheinpfalz of January 16, 2017. Retrieved January 23, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Simon Werdelis ( Memento from January 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). Vita and profile. Official website of the Mozarteum Salzburg . Retrieved January 23, 2017.
  4. ↑ The 51st Theatertreffen opened on Friday with cement by Heiner Müller in a production by Dimiter Gotscheff. . Performance review. Nachtgedanken.de. Retrieved January 23, 2017
  5. ↑ NURAN DAVID CALIS 'PRODUCTION - IN THE TRADITION OF FRANZ WERFEL: Premiere review: “The forty days of Musa Dagh” . In: Münchner Merkur from May 14, 2016. Retrieved January 23, 2017
  6. ↑ The national hero from the street . Performance review. Retrieved January 28, 2018
  7. ↑ Staatsschauspiel Dresden NATIONALSTRASSE . Performance excerpt. Retrieved January 28, 2018
  8. ^ "Yerma" at the Dresden State Theater: Caught in the role model . Performance review. In: Freie Presse of April 30, 2018. Accessed July 15, 2018.
  9. ↑ Lustful confusions . Performance review at Nachtkritik.de . Retrieved March 24, 2020.
  10. ↑ "Every stallion gets his mare, all the best" . Performance review. In: Freie Presse, November 25, 2018. Accessed March 24, 2020.
  11. ↑ The end of a life lie . Performance review. In: Sächsische Zeitung of March 24, 2019. Retrieved on March 24, 2020.
  12. ^ Premiere "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller at the Schauspielhaus . Performance review. Retrieved March 24, 2020.
  13. ↑ Farewell in white . Performance review at Nachtkritik.de . Retrieved March 24, 2020.
  14. ↑ Andreas Kriegenburg staged Chekhov's “The Cherry Orchard” at the Dresden State Theater . Performance review. Retrieved March 24, 2020.
  15. ↑ Simon Werdelis as Pirmin Spitznagel . Roller profile. Retrieved January 23, 2017
  16. ↑ The second season of the crime series WaPo Bodensee is filmed in Konstanz . In: Südkurier, July 27, 2017. Retrieved September 24, 2017.
  17. ↑ Old wounds . Plot, cast and picture gallery on Das Erste . Retrieved July 15, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Werdelis, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt an der Weinstrasse