Thomas Wodianka

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Thomas Wodianka (* 1974 in Schrobenhausen ) is a German actor .

Life

Wodianka first began studying medicine , which he broke off. He was artistically active as a street artist , where he made his first experiences in improvisation and performance . From 1996 to 2000 he studied acting at the University of Music and Theater in Hamburg .

In 2000 he became a permanent member of the ensemble at the Schauspielhaus Zürich , where he remained in the ensemble until 2004. There he made his debut in the 2000/01 season under the direction of Falk Richter as Viktor in the play Polaroids by Mark Ravenhill . He had other roles there in Thomas Hürlimann's drama Synchron (director: Christoph Marthaler ), as Theseus in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (2000) and in Die Orestie von Aischylos (both directed by Stefan Pucher ).

Between 2001 and 2003 he also appeared in several dance pieces by Meg Stuart at the Schauspielhaus Zürich and at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris . He has been working as a freelance actor since 2004. In 2005 he played in the dance piece Bare Back Lying by Simone Aughterlony ( Theaterhaus Gessnerallee in Zurich and Rotterdamse Schouwburg).

Since 2004 he has made several guest appearances at the Schaubühne Berlin . There he played Medvedenko in The Seagull by Anton Chekhov (directed by Falk Richter, 2004), the male roles in The Dog, the Night and the Knife by Marius von Mayenburg (directed by Benedict Andrews , 2008) and in a stage adaptation of the recordings from the Kellerloch by Fjodor Dostojewskij in a version by Egill Heiðar Anton Pálsson and Friederike Heller (director: Egill Heiðar Anton Pálsson, 2010).

Directed by Christoph Marthaler , Wodianka played the roles Man on the Ladder / Joachim, the daredevil lifesaver / An invalid / Animal coordinator / A second bobby in Faith, Love, Hope at the Volksbühne Berlin in 2012 ; with this production he also made a guest appearance at the Wiener Festwochen in June 2012 . In 2013 Wodianka appeared again at the Wiener Festwochen, this time in the theater project Last Days - An Eve by Christoph Marthaler.

Wodianka has been a permanent member of the ensemble at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin since the 2013/14 season . In the 2013/14 season he appeared in the world premiere of Small Town Boy by Falk Richter in January 2014 , a theater project about gender roles , homosexuality and homophobia . He has played at the Maxim Gorki Theater so far a. a. Pawel Fjodorowitsch Protasow in Children of the Sun by Maxim Gorki (2013/14 season; director: Nurkan Erpulat ) and Papa Kemp in Be nice to Mr. Sloane by Joe Orton (2014/15 season, director: Nurkan Erpulat). In the current season 2014/15 he also appeared as Jan Beck in Erotic Crisis (director: Yael Ronen ) and as Badjin in cement by Heiner Müller . In 2015, he was a guest at the Salzburg Festival in the two roles of Antipholus of Syracuse and Ephesus in Shakespeare's early work Comedy of Errors . In 2016 he took over the Iago in Othello at the Maxim Gorki Theater .

Since the late 1990s, Wodianka has also taken on a number of film and television roles. However, the focus of his work as an actor is still the theater. 2001 Wodianka made his cinema debut in the feature film Stiller Sturm (Director: Tomasz Thomson ). He embodied the married young man Alexander, who embarks on a nightly flirt, but returns to his wife at dawn. Wodianka also starred in the movies Snowman's Land (2010; directed by Tomasz Thomson) and Lollipop Monster (2011; directed by Ziska Riemann ).

Wodianka also had episode roles a. a. in the series Einsatz Hamburg Süd (1998; as Kalli, member of a clique of young people who perform paramilitary terrain games), Großstadtrevier (2000), Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei (2011) and Der Alte (2012).

In February 2015 he was seen in the ZDF crime series Schuld nach Ferdinand von Schirach in the episode The Other . He played the call boy Jerome. In the crime scene: Faithful Roy , the third case of the investigative duo Lessing and Dorn , he was seen in April 2016 as a steel worker and gravedigger Karsten "Flamingo" Schmöller. He played the ex-fiancé of the main female character Siegrid Weischlitz ( Fritzi Haberlandt ). In February 2017 he was seen in the ZDF series SOKO Cologne in a leading role in the episode; he played Andy Henke, the suspect owner of a food truck .

Wodianka lives in Berlin .

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Eva Behrendt: Many faces, but no fake. The actor, dancer and performer Thomas Wodianka has made it to the top at the Gorki Theater Berlin. In: Theater heute , No. 2, February 2015, pages 32–37.
  • Arrived in the first row . Interview with Thomas Wodianka. In: Donaukurier from November 13, 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Thomas Wodianka Profile and Vita at Schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved February 23, 2015
  2. ↑ Thomas Wodianka ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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 State Opera Berlin . Retrieved February 23, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.staatsoper-berlin.de
  3. ^ "Polaroids" performance: The Suffering of Losers . Performance review in: Der Spiegel, December 12, 2000. Accessed February 23, 2015
  4. ↑ Faith, love, hope. Volksbühne Berlin , archived from the original on February 23, 2015 ; accessed on February 23, 2015 . Reviews // Faith Love Hope with Bettina Stucky & Thomas Wodianka ( Memento from February 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Reviews. Official website of the artist agency Schlag. Retrieved February 23, 2015
  5. ↑ In the Tollhaus der Toleranz Performance review in: Der Tagesspiegel of January 13, 2014. Accessed on February 23, 2015
  6. ↑ Can he do that? . Performance review in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 25, 2016. Accessed February 14, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Wodianka, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Schrobenhausen