Stephan Benson
Stephan Benson (* 1964 in Essen ) is a German actor , playwright , synchronous , radio plays and audio book speaker.
Life
Stephan Benson is the son of the mechanical engineer Johannes Benson and the actress and outpatient speech therapist Erika Benson. Growing up in Coesfeld in the Münsterland, he made his first artistic experiences at the open-air theater there , an amateur theater, before leaving his hometown in 1983 to be trained as an actor at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts . In 1986, Benson made his debut at the Ulm Theater and has since played at important stages such as the Nationaltheater Mannheim , the Schauspiel Frankfurt, the Staatstheater Stuttgart , the Schauspielhaus Zürich and the Hamburg Thalia Theater . He has been working as a freelancer since the mid-1990s and can often be seen on stages in Hamburg such as the Hamburger Kammerspiele , the Altona Theater , the Ernst Deutsch Theater and the St. Pauli Theater . Occasionally, Benson also makes guest appearances at the Berlin Theater am Kurfürstendamm, where he last appeared in 2013 alongside Judy Winter in Fred Breinersdorfer's and Katja Röder's homage to Hildegard Knef Hilde - The Devil and the Diva as Mephisto.
Stephan Benson also works extensively in front of the camera. In addition to guest roles in numerous television films and series such as Notruf Hafenkante , Die Rosenheim-Cops , Großstadtrevier or Der Alte , he took on continuous roles in the series Delta Team - Secret Order! as well as Jenny & Co. and played in various Tatort episodes.
Benson is also a busy voice actor. Well-known colleagues to whom he lent his voice have so far been Daniel Craig in Sylvia , David Morrissey in Sense and Sensuality and The Hollow Crown , Kenneth Branagh in Shackleton or, repeatedly, the Danish actor Ulrich Thomsen .
In addition to his involvement in radio play productions by various German broadcasters and commercial radio plays, Benson is also involved in a large number of audio book productions. These include Massum Faryars Buskaschi or My Mother's Carpet , Marconipark by Åke Edwardson , The Corleones by Edward Falco or The Well-intentioned by Jonathan Littell .
Stephan Benson is also active as an author. From him several arrangements of famous German fairy tales he wrote for the open-air stage Coesfeld originate, radio plays based on texts by Herman Melville and Erich Maria Remarque or jukebox musicals Beatles for Sale and Falling in Love , 2012, or 2015 at the Theater Kanton Zurich their First performed. Also in 2015, Mozart's opera Der Schauspieldirektor , for which Stephan Benson wrote the new text, premiered as a co-production by the Zurich Opera House and the Theater Kanton Zurich . In autumn 2017 Abendwind (after Offenbach / Nestroy with a new libretto by Stephan Benson) - again a co-production of the Zurich Opera House and the Canton of Zurich Theater - will have its premiere.
Stephan Benson lives in Hamburg.
Filmography (selection)
- 1998: The campus
- 1999–2001: Delta Team - Secret Order!
- 2000: In the crosshairs - Until death do you part
- 2000: Tatort - Bienzle and the double game
- 2000: Adelheid and her murderers - flower magic
- 2001: family and other fortunes
- 2001: SOKO Munich - A murderous case
- 2001: Jenny & Co.
- 2001: Tatort - You have no chance
- 2002: The Clever - Pure World
- 2002: Help, I'm a boy
- 2002: Double effort - fear of death
- 2003: The Investigator - City, Country, Murder
- 2003: I bake a man
- 2004: Alarm for Cobra 11 - The Autobahn Police - The death list
- 2004: Double effort - the truth dies last
- 2004: Tatort - Lost Daughters
- 2004: Coast Guard - shipwreck
- 2005: K3 - Kripo Hamburg - fever
- 2005: The fat man - believe me
- 2005: Letter from a stranger
- 2005: The life of the philosophers
- 2005: metropolitan area - cold days
- 2006: Balko - A man sees red
- 2008: The old man - right in the heart
- 2008: You always love each other twice
- 2009: Tatort - The Ghost
- 2009: A love in Venice
- 2009: Krimi.de - Finder's reward
- 2010: The Rosenheim cops - who disturbs, dies
- 2010: The old man - dark figure
- 2010: Coast Guard - A fateful offer
- 2010: Emergency call harbor edge - maps don't lie
- 2010: SOKO Stuttgart - The prototype
- 2011: a breath of fresh air
- 2011: The Duo - Deadly Proximity
- 2011: Großstadtrevier - class reunion
- 2012: Stubbe - Case by case - That night
- 2013: The country doctor - taken out of the game
- 2015: Heldt - snipers
- 2015: The Rosenheim Cops - The False Kaiser
- 2015: Bella Block: The most beautiful night of your life
- 2016: The peppercorns - Little Red Riding Hood
- 2016: Murder Commission Istanbul - Sleeping Dogs
- 2018: Inga Lindström - The other daughter
- 2019: SOKO Stuttgart - sleep laboratory
- 2019: Murders in the North - Wrong Dose
Radio plays
- 1985: ETA Hoffmanns Goldener Topf - author and director: Heinz von Cramer
- 1986: Early practice ... - Author: Thomas Andresen - Director: Werner Klein
- 1989: How Hans got off the carriage - author: Petrina Stein - director: Sigurd König
- 1990: Frieder's Odyssey - author: Ralf Kröner - director: Hans-Peter Bögel
- 1991: I want to go away - Author: Johannes Bobrowski - Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell
- 1998: Anne Sexton - "I am like a living stone ..." - Author Anne Sexton - Director: Wolfgang Stockmann
- 2005: Die Liebenden - Author: Gerhard Henschel - Director: Wolfgang Stockmann
- 2007: The Sorcerer's Apprentice - Author: Frank-Lorenz Engel - Director: Rainer Gussek
- 2007: A dog for life - author: Laura S. Matthews - director: Hans Helge Ott
Synchronous rollers (selection)
Movies
- 2003: Ulrich Thomsen as Christoffer in Das Erbe
- 2007: Andy Lau as Zhao Erhu in The Warlords
- 2008: David Morrissey as Colonel Brandon in Sense and Sensuality
- 2009: John Burke as DA Farinio in Bloody Serial Killer
- 2014: John Boylan as Mr. Johnson in Before You Say 'I Do'
- 2015: Nick Chinlund as Sheriff Jasper Calloway in Close Range
Series
- 2000–2008: John Ventimiglia as Artie Bucco in The Sopranos
- 2009–2012: Alex Jennings as Commander Anderson in Whitechapel
- 2009–2016: Jens Hultén as Seth Rydell in GSI - Special Unit Gothenburg
- 2012: Vincent Regan as 909 in The Prisoner
- 2014: Elias Koteas as James Skinner in The Killing
- 2014: Billy Bob Thornton as Lorne Malvo in Fargo
- since 2014: Thibault de Montalembert as Olivier Pujol in The Tunnel - Murder knows no borders
Off-Speaker (selection)
- 2010–2014: Lawmen on Patrol - Wild California
- since 2017: 112: fire brigade in action
- 2018: Re: England's squirrel dispute - Are the grays ousting the reds?
Web links
- Stephan Benson in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Stephan Benson in the catalog of the German National Library
- Stephan Benson directories of radio plays at hoerspielland.de
- Stephan Benson website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stadtmarketing presents Tucholsky-Abend im Park, website of the city of Coesfeld from August 31, 2010 ( Memento of the original from February 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 13, 2016.
- ↑ Coesfeld means childhood. In: SL Streiflichter of July 23, 2014, accessed on February 13, 2016.
- ↑ Brief portrait on the website of the Körber Foundation ( Memento of the original from February 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 13, 2016
- ↑ a b Stephan Benson's website , accessed February 13, 2016.
- ^ Website of the Canton of Zurich Theater , accessed on February 13, 2016.
- ↑ Stephan Benson at schauspielervideos.de, accessed on February 13, 2016.
- ↑ Home. In: www.stephanbenson.org. Retrieved January 18, 2017 .
- ↑ Home. In: www.stephanbenson.org. Retrieved January 18, 2017 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Benson, Stephan |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor, author, dubbing, radio play and audio book speaker |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1964 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | eat |