Thomas Schendel

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Thomas Schendel (* 1956 in Düsseldorf ) is a German actor , director , author and voice actor .

Life

Schendel received his acting training at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna and studied singing at the Vienna University of Music. His first engagements took him to the German Theater in Göttingen in 1980 and to the Wuppertaler Bühnen in 1982 before he moved to the Bremen Theater .

From 1983 to 1986 he was a member of the ensemble at the Schauspielhaus Bochum under the direction of Claus Peymann . From 1987 to 1993 he was a member of the ensemble of the Schillertheater Berlin . After that he was a guest at the Theater des Westens in Berlin for two years . In 1993/94 he appeared again at the Salzburg Festival after almost two decades . At the Schauspielhaus Cologne he stood since 1994 on the stage, before 1996 for four years at the Schauspielhaus Dusseldorf left. From 2001 to 2004 Thomas Schendel was a guest at the Berliner Ensemble . From 2003 to 2005 he was a guest at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna . In 2008 he played Alceste in Molières Der misanthrope at the Komödie am Kurfürstendamm Berlin. In 2006 and 2013 he played as a guest at the Renaissance Theater Berlin , where he will also be seen in an English comedy in 2017.

Thomas Schendel has also been working as a director since 2001. He directs at German theaters and regularly at the Schlosspark Theater in Berlin.

In 2015 and 2016 he directed the Störtebeker Festival on Rügen.

Thomas Schendel is known to the TV audience from the ARD series Tatort (role: Kriminalrat Heide) alongside Günter Lamprecht . He had a continuous series role since 2008 in Die Stein (ARD).

In 2013 the film DEAD by Sven Halfar, in which Schendel played a leading role, was invited to the Berlinale and ran there in competition.

As an author, he appears when writing musicals (eat or die) and fairy tales. He has as a speaker u. a. the audio books by Jim Knopf set to music by Michael Ende .

Director (selection)

  • 2001 - Ghosts, heaps of them ( Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf )
  • 2002 - human! ( Dresden State Theater )
  • 2005 - Marlene Moves (Actinghouse Productions Valletta / Malta)
  • 2006 - "Baby Talk", musical (Stadttheater Wien)
  • 2006 - The Bremen Town Musicians (Bad Hersfeld Festival)
  • 2007 - Marlene Moves ( City Theater Vienna )
  • 2008 - Minna von Barnhelm (Bad Hersfeld Festival)
  • 2009 - "Small Marital Crimes" (City Theater Vienna)
  • 2009 - "Cabaret of the Lost Souls", musical (Stadttheater Wien)
  • 2010 - "The Nervensäge", (City Theater Vienna)
  • 2011 - "Death and the Maiden", (City Theater Vienna)
  • 2012 - "I'm not Rappaport", (Schlosspark Theater Berlin)
  • 2013 - "Ladykillers", (Schlosspark Theater Berlin)
  • 2013 - "Sonny Boys", (Schlosspark Theater Berlin)
  • 2014 - "Mimi and Mozart", (Neues Theater Halle)
  • 2014 - "The King's Speech", (Schlosspark Theater Berlin)
  • 2014 - "Sale", (Landestheater Salzburg)
  • 2014 - "The Baron of Lies", (Schlosspark Theater Berlin)
  • 2014 - "The self-disclosure", (Schlosspark Theater Berlin)
  • 2014 - "Misery", (Schlosspark Theater Berlin)
  • 2015 - "The Barracuda's Smile", (Schlosspark Theater Berlin)
  • 2015 - "All the World Enemy", (Störtebeker Festival Rügen)
  • 2015 - "Amadeus", (Schlosspark Theater Berlin)
  • 2016 - "Before Sunset", (Schlosspark Theater Berlin)
  • 2016 - "To life and death", (Störtebeker Festival Rügen)
  • 2016 - "Simply Animal", (Schlosspark Theater Berlin)
  • 2017 - "Minna von Barnhelm", (Schlosspark Theater Berlin)
  • 2017 - "Mosca and Volpone", (Schlosspark Theater Berlin)

Filmography

Radio plays

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Schendel, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, writer and director
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf