Thomas Gimbel

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Thomas Gimbel (born February 12, 1966 in Mannheim ) is a German actor and theater director .

Life

Education and theater

Gimbel grew up in Viernheim , where he also passed his Abitur . In 1984 he and friends founded the cabaret Herzklopfen in Viernheim , where he was an author , director , singer and actor until 1988 . After graduating from high school, he first took up a degree in social pedagogy , which he broke off after a short time.

He then completed an acting training at the Westphalian Drama School . He already had his first theater engagements during his studies. He made his stage debut in 1990 at the Schauspielhaus Bochum . From 1991 to 1998 he was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Wuppertaler Bühnen under the management of Holk Freytag .

Since 1995 Gimbel has also worked as a theater director, first at the Schillertheater NRW, the short-lived fusion of the Wuppertal theaters and the music theater in the Gelsenkirchen district from 1996 to 2000. Gimbel played a wide repertoire on the theater stage, including both German-language stage classics and pieces by Modern and comedies included. Thomas Gimbel has been working as a freelance actor and director in the field of drama and opera since 1998 . His directorial work included, among others, Happy Times by Alan Ayckbourn (1998, Schillertheater NRW), Was ihr wollt (1998, Schillertheater NRW), Help, the people comes from Dario Fo (1998, Stadttheater Koblenz ) and the opera Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (2005, at the Nordhausen Theater ). He has also staged several times at the theater in Cronenberg in the Wuppertal district of Cronenberg , including the theater plays Kunst (2000) and Lügen haben habenjungätze by Ray Cooney (2003) and a stage version of the film Keinohrhasen (2010).

Gimbel continues to work as a stage actor. In 2004 he played alongside Gudrun Landgrebe in the Kleine Komödie am Max II in Munich as the Italian waiter and host in the comedy Happy Times ; Directed by Daniel Karasek .

Since 2008 he has made several guest appearances in the role of the perfidious industrial psychologist Richard Möhrle in the psycho comedy Die Grönholm-Methode by the Catalan author Jordi Galceran ; He played this role in Düsseldorf at the Theater an der Kö (2008) and in 2009 at the Contra-Kreis-Theater in Bonn . In early 2009, he played the role of President of the US Turkey Breeders Association in the hit comedy November by David Mamet ; He repeated this role in the 2011/2012 season at the Theater an der Kö . In 2010 he played this role at the Contra-Kreis-Theater in Bonn.

In the summer of 2011 he took over the courtier Cornelius in Hamlet and the cellar master and monk Remigius von Varagine in a stage version of the novel The Name of the Rose at the Bad Hersfeld Festival .

Movie and TV

Gimbel has also played numerous television and film roles since the late 1990s. He was often used as a high-profile supporting actor in comedic roles. He has had roles in various films , including in Der Krieger und die Kaiserin (2000, as Pfleger Markus), in Der Zimmerpringbrunnen (2001, as Müller-Burckhardt) and in Die Wilden Hühner und die Liebe (2006).

On television he was part of the regular cast of the comedy series Die Camper in the role of Horst "Hotte" Schlömann . He played alongside Anke Engelke in several seasons of the comedy series Ladykracher . He was on the main cast of the comedy series WunderBar . He also had episode roles in the television series Die Wache , Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei , Lasko - Die Faust Gottes , Rennschwein Rudi Rüssel and Großstadtrevier .

He also appeared in supporting roles in several television films, for example as a neighbor in the film Feine Freunde (2003) from the TV series Donna Leon or in the Tatort episode Angel of Death (2005). In 2010, he played the comic role of the servant Paul in the ARD fairy tale film The Emperor's New Clothes .

Thomas Gimbel is married and lives in Ratingen with his wife and children .

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Thomas Gimbel Vita (website of the comedy in the Bayerischer Hof)
  2. ↑ a b c d e Thomas Gimbel ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2011 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. Vita (Bad Hersfeld Festival) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bad-hersfelder-festspiele.de
  3. ↑ Thomas Gimbel  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Vita (website of the Contra-Kreis-Theater)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.contra-kreis-theater.de  
  4. ↑ Happy times - with the Landgrebe ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press reviews @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stephanhippe.de
  5. ↑ The Grönholm method  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press reviews@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.contra-kreis-theater.de  
  6. ↑ Morality in times of re-election, performance review in: Der Westen from January 6, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Gimbel, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim