Steffen Wilhelm

Steffen Wilhelm 2008

Steffen Wilhelm (born August 8, 1981 in Erfurt ) is a German actor and director .

Life

He grew up in Erfurt and attended the Evangelisches Ratsgymnasium there . From 2001 he received training as an actor and director in the Schotte youth theater in Erfurt. Since the same year he has been playing as a DJ specializing in the disco era (1978–1982). Together with Paul Schröder he founded the duo Paul and Willi (originally "Suþcultura") in 1997 , with which they won the Swiss Comedy Award and the Cabinet Prize in the Comedy category in 2005 and the BalconyTV Music Video Award in 2009. In 2013 he finished his social pedagogy studies.

In 2010 he founded the improvisational theater group Improsant with Andreas Schulze, Angelique Kranholdt and Alexandra Stein .

Directorial work (selection)

• 2006: Piqué Dame by Alexander Pushkin (co-director with CW Olafson ) in the Schotte Theater
• 2009: The Naked Wahnsinn by Michael Frayn (co-director with CW Olafson) in the Schotte Theater
• 2012: An der Arche at eight by Ulrich Hub (co-director with Uta Wanitschke ) in the Schotte Theater
• 2012: No corpse without Lily by Jack Popplewell in the Theater im Palais
• 2013: Wanted - your inner western by CW Olafson, Sarah Bickrodt u. a. in the Schotte theater
• 2013: Love Jogging by Derek Benfield in the Theater im Palais
• 2014: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Theater by Steffen Wilhelm and Ensemble in the Theater Die Schotte

Roles (selection)

• 2006: Franz von Moor in The Robbers ; Director: Karl-Heinz Krause in the Schotte Theater
• 2008: Peer Gynt in Peer Gynt ; Direction: Matthias Thieme , Uta Wanitschke in the Schotte Theater
• 2009: Gratiano in The Merchant of Venice ; Director: CW Olafson at Neues Schauspiel Erfurt
• 2009: Lloyd in Der Nackte Wahnsinn by Michael Frayn (co-director with CW Olafson) at Theater Schotte
• 2012: Octave in The Pranks of Scapin ; Director: Olaf Schulze at Extempore

Web links

• Official website of Paul and Willi