Sylvester Groth

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Sylvester Groth at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2009

Sylvester Groth (born March 31, 1958 in Jerichow ) is a German actor who also works as a speaker for audio books and voice actor .

Life

Groth studied acting and singing at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin . This was followed by engagements in eastern German cities such as Schwerin, Dresden and Berlin, where he was a guest actor at the Deutsches Theater and from 1986 to 1989 at the Schaubühne . Further stations after the fall of the Berlin Wall were the Residenztheater , the Münchner Kammerspiele , the Berliner Ensemble , the Vienna Burgtheater and the Salzburg Festival .

In addition to an extensive theater career, he also played in numerous television and cinema films. He had his breakthrough as an actor in Frank Beyer's DEFA strip The Residence from 1982/83, the film adaptation of a novel by Hermann Kant , in which he played the leading role and for which he received the Young Actor Award in 1984 at the 3rd GDR National Feature Film Festival. In the 1984 film Der Schimmelreiter based on Theodor Storm , he played one more time in a title role. 1984/85 Groth worked in the Federal Republic, Johannes Schaaf's Momo by Michael Ende he played the Agent BLW / 553 X . In 1992 he played the role of Otto in the war drama Stalingrad and in 2006 in the role of Joseph Goebbels in Dani Levy's Mein Führer .

In 2007 Groth shot the feature film Whiskey with Vodka with Andreas Dresen and the film adaptation of Heinz Strunk's cult novel Meat is My Vegetables with Christian Görlitz . In 2008 Groth took part in the movie Hilde , who brings Hildegard Knef's life to the screen and played the theater director Boleslaw Barlog here . Since September 2008 he has been working with Robert Stadlober and Maja Schöne Zarte Parasiten , a feature film production by Christian Becker and Oliver Schwabe . In 2009, Sylvester Groth appeared again as Goebbels in the Quentin Tarantino film Inglourious Basterds . In 2010 he played a teacher at the German school in Aleppo in the documentary Aghet - Ein Genölkermord .

In January 2013, the Filmmuseum Potsdam honored the actor with a retrospective . In the retrospective paired with panel discussions, numerous films in which Groth played were shown, including a. Frank Beyer's film Staying with Groth in 1983 with his first feature film role made his breakthrough in the Babelsberg film studios . Groth himself was present on January 26, 2013 for an audience discussion.

In the ARD television series Polizeiruf 110, Groth investigated Jochen Drexler together with Claudia Michelsen in Magdeburg as chief detective . They succeeded Jaecki Schwarz and Wolfgang Winkler . The first broadcast of the first case, entitled The Prodigal Son, was on October 13, 2013. In June 2015, the MDR announced that Groth was leaving the Magdeburg police call after five films for personal reasons. On December 1, 2017, the DEFA Foundation honored him for his outstanding achievements in German film.

Filmography (selection)

theatre

Radio plays and audio books (selection)

Awards and honors

Web links

Commons : Sylvester Groth  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Filmmuseum Potsdam: Exhibitions: Sylvester Groth retrospective ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , www.filmmuseum-potsdam.de, accessed on January 8, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.filmmuseum-potsdam.de
  2. ^ PNN: Sylvester Groth in the Filmmuseum , www.pnn.de, Potsdamer Latest News from January 26, 2013, p. 27, accessed on January 8, 2014
  3. ^ Sylvester Groth and Claudia Michelsen new "Polizeiruf" investigators welt.de, accessed on January 29, 2013
  4. ^ ARD crime thriller from Magdeburg: Sylvester Groth gets out of the "police call". Spiegel.de from June 29, 2015, accessed on June 29, 2015
  5. ↑ Émile Zola: radio play Nana by Émile Zola - WDR 3 radio play - broadcasts - program - WDR 3 - radio - WDR. March 3, 2016, accessed October 4, 2016 .
  6. ↑ ARD audio game database. In: hoerspiele.dra.de. Retrieved August 19, 2016 .
  7. ^ Author detail. December 12, 2016, accessed September 17, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Books detail. December 12, 2016, accessed September 17, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Walter Adler: radio drama BROTHERS by Hilary Mantel . July 17, 2018 ( wdr.de [accessed September 17, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Groth, New Years Eve
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Groth, New Years Eve
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Jerichow , GDR