Stephan Benson

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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)

Radio plays

Synchronous rollers (selection)

Movies

Series

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.coesfeld.de
  2. ↑ Coesfeld means childhood. In: SL Streiflichter of July 23, 2014, accessed on February 13, 2016.
  3. ↑ 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 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.koerber-stiftung.de
  4. ↑ a b Stephan Benson's website , accessed February 13, 2016.
  5. ^ Website of the Canton of Zurich Theater , accessed on February 13, 2016.
  6. ↑ Stephan Benson at schauspielervideos.de, accessed on February 13, 2016.
  7. ↑ Home. In: www.stephanbenson.org. Retrieved January 18, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Home. In: www.stephanbenson.org. Retrieved January 18, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Benson, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, author, dubbing, radio play and audio book speaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH eat