Thomas Franke (graphic designer)
Thomas Franke (born May 15, 1954 in Koethen ) is a German graphic artist and actor .
Life
Shortly after taking up a degree in physics, Franke moved to the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art in 1975 to study painting and graphic techniques. From 1980 he studied performing arts at the Ernst-Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts and GITIS, the Russian Academy for Theater Arts .
Thomas Franke has lived and worked in Bonn since 1984.
Career
As a graphic artist
Between 1979 and 1983 Franke designed titles for the Fantastic Library of Suhrkamp Verlag with book title vignettes. For this work he was awarded the Kurd-Laßwitz Prize for fantastic graphics in 1981 and 1982 . For the design of the book "Der Zeiter" by Wolfgang Jeschke , which was published by Shayol-Verlag in Berlin, he received the award again in 2006. A fourth time he was awarded the prize for the cover design of the 29th edition of the magazine Exodus im Awarded in 2013.
Since the end of 2015 Franke has been designing the thirty-volume science fiction work edition by the writer Herbert W. Franke on behalf of the p.machinery publishing house .
As an actor
After brief engagements at the Münchner Kammerspiele and the Theater Bonn , Franke has been working as a freelance actor since 1995.
The production “Störwerk - Monologue for a Shakespeare King with a Side Effect” was invited to the New York International Fringe Festival in 2000 . Franke was the first German actor to receive the "Fringe Overall Award for the Best Male Performance" for portraying the penniless actor.
In addition to his stage roles, he has appeared in numerous film and television productions, speaks for various radio stations in Germany in radio plays and features and reads audio books for his own audio-piece publisher Ululation-Records.
The production "The Model"
In the mid-1990s, Thomas Franke achieved national media fame with the monologue “Das Modell” for only one viewer at a time. The play based on HP Lovecraft's story " Pickman's Model " has been performed more than 800 times since 1995 in Cologne, Bonn and many other cities in Germany. In 2001 “The Model” was filmed for the Franco-German cultural broadcaster arte with Thomas Franke.
Filmography
- 2000: The Little Monk (episode role)
- 2001: the model
- 2002: The Guard (episode role)
- 2003: Alles Atze (episode role)
- 2004: Out of this world (episode role)
- 2005: Die Anrheiner (episode role)
- 2005: Pastewka (episode role)
- 2018: Sankt Maik (episode role)
Radio plays
Speaker:
- 1998: Wolfram Wessels : Of voice actors, sound players and radio pioneers. The beginnings of the radio play in Germany in six chapters - Director: Wolfram Wessels ( Feature - Deutschlandradio )
- 1999: Jochen Schimmang : The Voices of Nienbeck (Brüning) - Director: Anita Ferraris ( original radio play - WDR )
- 2003: Kinky Friedman : Just a Small Suitcase (Cooperman) - Director: Thomas Leutzbach (WDR)
- 2005: Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt : On-site appointment 1945: The child of Noah (priest / voice 1) - Director: Norbert Schaeffer (WDR)
Theater works (selection)
- 1995–1996: Lulu ( Theater Bonn )
- 1995–2017: The model
- 2001: Pension Schöller ( Ettlingen Castle Festival )
- 2002: The Piggy Bank (Ettlingen Castle Festival)
- 2008: Dance of Death ( Euro Theater Central Bonn )
- 2009–2011: Quartet (Euro Theater Central Bonn)
- 2014–2016: The lesson (Euro Theater Central Bonn)
- 2016–2017: Iphigenie (German-Greek theater)
Web links
- Thomas Franke in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Thomas Franke in the catalog of the German National Library
- Graphics by Thomas Franke on flickr
Individual evidence
- ↑ KLP 2013 Best Graphic Laudation. Retrieved July 3, 2019 .
- ^ AndroSF - the SF work edition Herbert W. Franke | p.machinery -. Retrieved July 3, 2019 .
- ↑ 2000 New York International Fringe Festival. Retrieved July 3, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Franke, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German graphic artist and actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koethen |