Sylvester Groth
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)
- 1983: The stay
- 1984: The Schimmelreiter
- 1985: Young people in the city
- 1986: The house on the river
- 1986: Momo
- 1990: Rote Erde II (four-part TV series)
- 1993: Stalingrad
- 1993: The last submarine
- 1996: Brother Donkey (TV series, 3 episodes)
- 1997: Sperling - Sperling and the Fallen Angel (TV series)
- 1998: Schimanski - Mother's Day (TV series)
- 1999: Requiem for a Romantic Woman
- 1999: The volcano
- 2000: The letter bomber
- 2001: Romeo
- 2001: The publisher
- 2002: Kolle - A life for love and sex
- 2003: The Secret Inquisition
- 2003: Tatort: Silent Death (TV series)
- 2003: The miracle of Lengede
- 2003: The Third Wave - The Conspiracy (Den tredje vågen)
- 2004–2009: Mein Leben & Ich (TV series, 4 episodes)
- 2005: Mätressen - The secret power of women (three-part TV series, episode Die Geliebte des König )
- 2005: Crime scene: Vengeance Angel
- 2005: Police Call 110 - Return to Death (TV series)
- 2006: Bella Block: Murder Under the Cross (TV series)
- 2007: Rosa Roth - The day will come (TV series)
- 2007: Mein Fuehrer - The really truest truth about Adolf Hitler
- 2007, 2013: The Criminalist (TV series, various roles, 2 episodes)
- 2007: Contergan
- 2007: The key witness
- 2008: The Reader (The Reader)
- 2008: The wisdom of the clouds
- 2008: Buddenbrooks
- 2009: Hilde
- 2009: My life - Marcel Reich-Ranicki
- 2009: whiskey with vodka
- 2009: Inglourious Basterds
- 2009: delicate parasites
- 2010: Aghet - A Genocide (Documentary)
- 2010: Nobody is lost
- 2010: KDD - Criminal Continuous Service (TV series, episode surprises )
- 2010: Inspector Barbarotti: Man without a dog
- 2011: Beate Uhse - The right to love
- 2011: crime scene: the village
- 2012: Freshly pressed
- 2012: the weekend
- 2012, 2014: The Old One (TV series, various roles, 2 episodes)
- 2012: crime scene: beautiful Mona is dead
- 2012: We wanted to go to the sea
- 2013: Our mothers, our fathers (three-part TV series, 2 episodes)
- 2013: Crime scene: Black Afghan hound
- 2013: Tatort: Who breaks the silence
- 2013: For my birthday
- 2013–2015: Police call 110 Team Magdeburg
- 2013: The Prodigal Son
- 2014: down
- 2014: A murderous idea
- 2015: turning maneuvers (parts 1 and 2)
- 2015: Naked among wolves
- 2015: Sense8 (TV series, 4 episodes)
- 2015: Germany 83 (TV series, 8 episodes)
- 2015: Codenamed UNCLE (The Man from UNCLE)
- 2015: The murderer's mother
- 2016: The Investigators - For official use only
- 2016: a commissioner returns
- 2017: Crime scene: Wacht am Rhein
- 2017: Fargo (TV series, episode The Principle of Free Spaces )
- 2017: Zorn - Kalter Rauch (TV series)
- 2017: In times of waning light
- 2018: Imperial fall
- 2018: Germany 86 (web series, 10 episodes)
- 2019: Dark (TV series, 6 episodes)
- 2019: The three !!!
- 2019: Criminal: Germany (TV series, 3 episodes)
- 2019: The club of singing butchers
theatre
- 1980: Anton Chekhov : Die Möwe (Trepljow) - Director: Wolfgang Heinz ( Deutsches Theater Berlin )
Radio plays and audio books (selection)
- 1990: Paul Hengge : A Mandatory Mandate - Director: Robert Matejka (radio play - RIAS Berlin)
- 1993: Tankred Dorst : Merlin or the desert land (Sir Lancelot) - Director: Walter Adler (radio play - MDR )
- 1994: Christian Hussel : The Mill on the Sea Floor - Director: Rainer Clute (Children's radio play - DLR Berlin)
- 2002: Emile Zola : Nana - Director: Peter Rothin (radio play - WDR )
- 2002: Dana Ranga : The Eye of Supernova - Director: Angeli Backhausen (Science-Fiction Radio Play - WDR)
- 2003: Pablo de Santis : The translation . ISBN 978-3-89813-237-4
- 2004–2005: Otherland (radio play)
- 2005: Carlos Ruiz Zafón : The Shadow of the Wind, radio play - Director: Martin Zylka (WDR).
- 2006: Karl May : The Orient Cycle , radio play, 2009 as an audio book from Der Hörverlag , Munich, ISBN 978-3-86717-445-9 .
- 2007: Fyodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski : Crime and Punishment . (unabridged reading) Hörkultur, Dänikon, ISBN 978-3-905808-09-4 .
- 2010: Stieg Larsson : The Millennium Trilogy (WDR).
- 2010: Fabrizio Gatti : Bilal. As an illegal on the way to Europe (WDR).
- 2010: Uwe Tellkamp : The tower . The Hörverlag, Munich, ISBN 978-3-86717-551-7 .
- 2012: James Joyce : Dubliner . The Hörverlag, Munich.
- 2013: Keigo Higashina : Suspicious Beloved - adaptation and direction: Steffen Moratz (radio play - WDR)
- 2013: Lothar Trolle : Judith - Director: Walter Adler (radio play - DLF / HR )
- 2014: Tom Peuckert : Oil - Director: Leonhard Koppelmann (radio play - WDR)
- 2015: Wolfgang Zander : Rare Erden - Director: Nikolai von Koslowski ( Radio-Tatort - RBB )
- 2015: Walter Niklaus : Deadly Safe - Director: Walter Niklaus ( Detective radio play - MDR)
- 2018: Hilary Mantel: Brothers - Director: Walter Adler WDR speaks the revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat
- 2020: Kamel Daoud : The Meursault Case - A reply - Director: Ulrich Lampen (radio play - HR)
Awards and honors
- 1984: Heinrich Greif Prize in the collective for the stay
- For his role as Stasiagent in Romeo he was awarded a special actor prize at the television film prize of the German Academy of Performing Arts in 2001 and the Adolf Grimme Prize in 2002.
- German Critics' Prize 2007 for the portrayal of Joseph Goebbels in Mein Führer .
- 2017: Prize of the DEFA Foundation for outstanding achievements in German film
Web links
- Sylvester Groth in the German dubbing file
- Sylvester Groth in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sylvester Groth at filmportal.de (with photo gallery)
- Literature by and about Sylvester Groth in the catalog of the German National Library
- Agency profile at the Players agency , accessed on August 20, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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
- ^ PNN: Sylvester Groth in the Filmmuseum , www.pnn.de, Potsdamer Latest News from January 26, 2013, p. 27, accessed on January 8, 2014
- ^ Sylvester Groth and Claudia Michelsen new "Polizeiruf" investigators welt.de, accessed on January 29, 2013
- ^ ARD crime thriller from Magdeburg: Sylvester Groth gets out of the "police call". Spiegel.de from June 29, 2015, accessed on June 29, 2015
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ ARD audio game database. In: hoerspiele.dra.de. Retrieved August 19, 2016 .
- ^ Author detail. December 12, 2016, accessed September 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Books detail. December 12, 2016, accessed September 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Walter Adler: radio drama BROTHERS by Hilary Mantel . July 17, 2018 ( wdr.de [accessed September 17, 2018]).
personal data | |
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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 |