Stefan Kügel

Stefan Kügel (born December 13, 1962 in Burgebrach ) is a German actor , puppeteer , musician, playwright and visual artist.

Life

Kügel studied sports and art as a teacher and completed a carpenter's training before he devoted himself full-time to acting and especially puppet theater . He studied this a. a. with Hartmut Lorenz, Ulrike Mierau and Karl Ludwig Otto at the Berlin School of Puppetry. With his wife Maria Seeberger (* 1964) he renovated an old farm in the Franconian town of Heppstädt near Erlangen and converted the barn into a theater, which opened in 1990 as the Kuckucksheim Theater . The couple lives there with their six children, five sons and one daughter, who were born between 1985 and 2002. The theater's program mainly consists of in-house productions in the areas of drama, puppet theater, and children's and youth theater. Internationally known artists such as Oleg Popov and Pippo Pollina were also guests there.

Since 2000 Kügel has also been working regularly with the Franconian author Helmut Haberkamm . Together with the Erlangen actor Winni Wittkopp , Kügel played in the plays Spatzfritz (2000), in Der fränkische Jedermoo by Fitzgerald Kusz and in the Haberkamm works Die Schuddgogerer and No Woman, No Cry - Ka Weiber, ka G'schrei (premiere 2001, with Stefan Nast-Kolb ). Stefan Kügel has also worked regularly with the musician and director Dietmar Staskowiak since 1994.

Since 2011, Kügel has also increasingly been active as a cinema and television actor. With the German feature film Dreiviertelmond he first had a box office success alongside Elmar Wepper and since February 2013 he has played the leading role of "Norbert Speckner" in the sitcom Die Speckners , which is broadcast on Bavarian television . In addition to acting, he is also active as a singer in many theater plays.

Stefan Kügel is the younger brother of the film and television actor Thomas Kügel . He has six siblings in total.

Works

theatre

• 1990: The sun and the turning point
• 1991: Murad remains my friend
• 1992: Pepi had a pig
• 1993: moon things
• 1994: Nobody and someone
• 1994: Rumpelstielzchen
• 1995: The terrifying adventures of Giuseppe Orsini
• 1996: Hans in luck
• 1997: The apple man
• 1999: Goethe's Faust
• 2000: Sparrow Fritz
• 2000: The Adventures of Strong Vanya
• 2001: The Franconian Everyman
• 2001: No Woman, No Cry - Ka Weiber, ka G'schrei
• 2001: The wolf and the seven little goats
• 2002: The Beggar Opera
• 2002: the snowman
• 2003: The hour given
• 2004: Ronja the robber's daughter
• 2004: Hobb weidä
• 2005: the last train
• 2005: Schuddgogerer
• 2006: Willy, the wild bull
• 2006: Woyzeck - The Fall of Franz and Marie
• 2007: Olle's trip to King Winter
• 2008: The Ficht'n im Weier or the Vier Temperamente in full swing
• 2008: Successful love effort
• 2009: Jim Button and Lukas the Engine Driver
• 2010: a touch of spring
• 2011: The Franconian Everyman
• 2012: Pettson and Findus
• 2013: The robber in the syringe house

Filmography

• 2006–2011: Kanal Fatal
• 2011: three quarters of the moon
• 2013: The Speckners (TV series)
• 2015: Sedwitz (TV series)

Discography

• 2003 Barfissi on the Herdplattn (with Winni Wittkopp )
• 2010 A touch of spring

Prizes and awards

• 1994: Evening newspaper star of the year for Rumpelstiltskin
• 1996: Citizen Award of the SPD Erlangen-Höchstadt
• 1998: Festival Prize Podium Freie Szene Erlangen
• 2000: 1st prize children's theater of the Bavarian Theater Days for Spatz Fritz
• 2001: Evening newspaper star of the year for No Woman, No Cry - Ka Weiber, ka G'schrei
• 2002: Promotion Prize of the Bavarian Theater Days , Erlangen for No Woman, No Cry - Ka Weiber, ka G'schrei
• 2002: First prize for children's theater, Panoptikum Festival, Augsburg
• 2004: Wolfram-von-Eschenbach cultural promotion award of the district of Middle Franconia
• 2012: Silver bar of honor from the district of Erlangen - Höchstadt
• 2013: Artist of the Month for July

Web links

• Official homepage of Stefan Kügel and the Kuckucksheim Theater