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Toks Körner (* 1974 in East Berlin ) is a German actor , author and screenwriter .

Life

Toks Körner was born in Berlin-Lichtenberg as the son of an East Berlin woman and a Nigerian . His parents had met in Russia , where both studied medicine together . Körner was given the name Toks , an abbreviation of the African name Tokunboh (= "the child who was born in Europe"). He grew up in Berlin and Wuppertal , where his parents moved shortly before the collapse of the GDR . His father later returned to Nigeria, where he practiced as a doctor.

Toks Körner graduated from high school. Körner's decision to become an actor came relatively late. At the age of 24 he was on a theater stage for the first time. With a free theater group in Wuppertal he played in Ionescu's play The Bald Singer . He completed his acting training from 1998 to 2002 at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen and at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater in New York City . Körner then worked as a freelance actor in numerous theater productions at state and city theaters, including at Theater Bremen , in Cologne , Bonn , Osnabrück , and in the independent scene.

In autumn 2006 and autumn 2007 he played Romeo in a touring production of the Kempf theater guest performances with Stephanie Kellner as a partner. In the 2008/09 season he appeared as Shakespeare's Othello at the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam . He had other theater engagements a. a. at the Volksbühne Berlin (in the 2009/10 season as the "symbolic", silent mulatto Abad in Quai West by Bernard-Marie Koltès , director: Werner Schroeter , among others with Christoph Letkowski as a partner), at the Staatstheater Mainz (2010/11 season, in the German premiere of the play Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris ), at the Flinntheater (from 2011) and at the Ballhaus Naunynstraße (2015) in Berlin .

Toks Körner was then "one of the leading protagonists" at the Vorarlberger Landestheater Bregenz , where he was seen in several leading roles. In the season 2015/16 he joined, together with Markus Subramaniam , the Vorarlberg state theater Bregenz in the world premiere of the play Medusa's Raft of the Tyrolean playwright Petra Maria Kraxner on. He also played there in the 2015/16 season, alongside Felix von Bredow , the Rosenkrantz in Rosenkrantz and Güldenstern are dead by Tom Stoppard . In the 2016/17 season he appeared at the Vorarlberger Landestheater as Lionel in an open-air production of the Maid of Orleans . In the 2018/19 season he was a guest at Theater Regensburg as refugee Alpha in the world premiere of the play Who is Afraid of the White Man by Dominique Lorenz (director: Klaus Kusenberg ).

In addition to his theater work, Toks Körner has appeared in over 20 cinema and television productions in front of the camera. In the episode film Ten Minutes Older (2002), he starred alongside Bibiana Beglau under the direction of Volker Schlöndorff . For television he worked with directors Roland Suso Richter , Uwe Janson , Martin Weinhart , Michael Wenning and Helmut Förnbacher , among others .

In the Sat1 television series Klinik am Alex , he played a continuous series lead role from 2009 to 2012 as a Catholic assistant doctor from Benin. Solomon Mercier. He also had episode roles in the TV series Alarm for Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei , Lindenstrasse , Dr. Sommerfeld - News from Bülowbogen , A case for two (2004, as a suspect client François César), GSG 9 - Your commitment is your life (2008, as the African freedom fighter Ogda Diepreye at the side of Kirsten Block and Marc Ben Puch ) and Die Pfefferkörner (2013, as Dr. Nyaga). In the 2nd season of the ZDF series SOKO Potsdam (2019), he took on an episode role as Bruns' operations manager.

From 2011 to 2015 he completed a degree in scriptwriting at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin . Since then he has worked as a freelance writer, screenwriter, script consultant and dramaturge for film, television and theater in addition to his acting activities .

In 2017 he made his debut as a playwright with his play Walking Large , which premiered at Ballhaus Naunynstraße in Berlin and was nominated for the Monica Bleibtreu Prize 2018 at the Privattheatertage in Hamburg . In September 2019, his second play, Aesthetics of Color - Ein Kammerspiel , premiered at Ballhaus Naunynstraße . His first script for the feature film Borga was filmed in Ghana and Germany in the summer of 2018 . Since 2017 Toks Körner has also been working as a lecturer for acting and story development at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin.

Toks Körner is married, has two daughters and lives with his family in Berlin .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Toks grains at schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved November 25, 2019.
  2. ↑ Toks grains . Profile and vita at CASTFORWARD. Retrieved November 25, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i One of the darkest intrigues . In: Potsdamer Latest News from October 11, 2008. Retrieved November 25, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b c d e Toks grains . Vita. Flinntheater. Retrieved November 25, 2019.
  5. ^ Romeo and Juliet . Performance reviews from the official website of the theater guest performances Kempf. Retrieved November 25, 2019.
  6. ↑ Werner Schroeters "Quai West" at the Berliner Volksbühne . Performance review. In: WELT of March 16, 2010. Retrieved November 25, 2019.
  7. ↑ Vorarlberger Landestheater weakens with "Medusa's Raft" . Performance review. vol.at. dated January 16, 2016. Retrieved November 25, 2019.
  8. ^ "Medusa's raft": Caution, mosaic tiles! . Performance review. In: Der Standard from January 18, 2016. Retrieved November 25, 2019.
  9. ↑ “Rosenkranz and Güldenstern are dead” in Bregenz . Preliminary report. Retrieved November 25, 2019.
  10. ↑ THE VIRGIN OF ORLEANS from Friedrich Schiller - Vorarlberg state theater Bregenz . Production details. Retrieved November 25, 2019.
  11. ↑ The Ring Parabola as a Peasant Theater 2.0 . Performance review. In: Donaukurier from November 28, 2018. Retrieved November 25, 2019.
  12. ↑ CLINIC AT ALEX . Roll profiles. Official website of Sat1. Retrieved November 25, 2019.
  13. ↑ SOKO Potsdam: Lost Sons . Plot and cast. Official website of the ZDF . Retrieved November 25, 2019.
  14. ↑ The Little Banksy Moment . Performance review at Nachtkritik.de . Retrieved November 25, 2019.
  15. ↑ My Today: Toks Körner (35), actor . In. BZ of April 4, 2009. Retrieved November 25, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Grains, Toks
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, writer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH East Berlin , German Democratic Republic