Torsten Sense

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Torsten Sense (born September 11, 1961 in Berlin ) is a German musician , composer , actor , dubbing and radio play speaker . In addition, he directs the dialogue . His voice is known to a wide audience primarily through the dubbing of the actor Val Kilmer in the 1980s and 1990s. Sense has been a freelance composer since 1982.

play

theatre

Torsten Sense grew up in Berlin and learned to play the piano when he was five years old . After his first engagements at the Theater des Westens , Sense acted under the direction of Samuel Beckett in the production Warten auf Godot at the Berlin Schillertheater (1975), which is considered one of the best. From the age of fourteen he received composition lessons and at the same time attended the humanistic Goethe-Gymnasium in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. After graduating from high school with a focus on ancient Greek and German, a two-year acting training at Marlise Ludwig's private school followed in 1980 . The male lead of Ottokar was followed in 1982 by an engagement in Heinrich von Kleist's drama “Family Schroffenstein” at the Berlin Tribune, directed by Rainer Behrend. In the comedy A Cage Full of Fools by Jean Poiret , Sense took on the role of son Laurent at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm in 1983 , and in 1984 the role of the long-lost Jan in Albert Camus ' Das Misunderstanding at the Junge Theater Berlin. In the same year, ZDF started broadcasting the television series Ravioli , in which Sense played the role of Max-Leo. In 1987 he was the protagonist in Peter Handke's spoken piece “Kaspar” and in Goethe's comedy Die Mitschuldigen in the role of Anselmus at the Vaganten Bühne Berlin. At the same venue in 1989, engagements followed in Bernard-Marie Koltès ' “In the loneliness of the cotton fields” and in a version of Brambilla based on ETA Hoffmann edited by Joachim Nottke . Directed by Katja Nottke .

synchronization

A wide audience is familiar with Sense's voice from German film dubbing . During the 1980s and 1990s, he was recurrently cast on Val Kilmer , including as Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone's The Doors (1992), Michael Mann's Thriller Heat (1995), Joel Schumacher's comic book adaptation Batman Forever (1995) and Phillip Noyce's The Saint - Der Man Without a Name (1997). Other prominent appearances include his German-language implementation of leading actor Kyle MacLachlan as Agent Dale Cooper in the series Twin Peaks (1991), by Kevin Bacon as Henri Young in Murder in the First (1996), by Billy Zane as Cal Hockley in Titanic (1997 ), Nicolas Cage as Seth in City of Angels (1998) and Heath Ledger as Patrick Verona in 10 Things I Hate About You (1999). In the cartoon The Last Unicorn (1982) he dubbed the character of the magician Schmendrick. He directed dialogue in inter alia Spiel auf Zeit (1998), High Fidelity (2000) and Control (2007).

Audio book and radio play

In addition to the synchronization, Torsten Sense makes his voice available to various audio productions. During his youth, he was cast in fixed roles in children's radio play series such as Burg Schreckenstein or guest roles in The Three Question Marks . In the Dreamland radio play series Tony Ballard , based on the series of novels of the same name , Sense has played the lead role of the private detective since 2007. In "The Call of the Demon: Forests of Darkness" by HP Lovecraft , Sense was used as narrator alongside Simon Jäger in 2006 . In 2009 he read “The Simulant”, “Lullaby” and “Flight 2039” by the American author Chuck Palahniuk for the Internet audio book portal Audible . He also contributed to the musical accompaniment in radio plays, including the "DODO" series by Ivar Leon Menger and Neil Gaiman's "Die Messerkönigin" produced by Lauscherlounge Records .

Music and composition

In parallel to his work as an actor, Torsten Sense continued his composition studies with Karl Heinz Wahren , Wilhelm Dieter Siebert and Gerald Humel . On the occasion of his musical theater piece "Anima", Sense was invited to France by the Franco-German Youth Office in 1985 to realize the production with artists from both nations. His collaboration with the Neue Musik Berlin group was followed by a series of performances of his chamber music . Against the background of his acting work at various Berlin theaters, he was also given an increasing number of commissions for incidental music .

In addition, Sense expanded his field of activity to include film music . Either alone or in collaboration with Michael Duwe and Ben Gash, he composed music for films such as Drei Chinesen mit dem Kontrabass (1999), documentaries such as the ZDF series Sphinx - Secrets of History , and TV series such as Polizeiruf 110 (Pech und Schwefel 2003, Die Maß ist voll 2004, Taubers Angst 2006) , children's programs like Siebenstein and Löwenzahn and television films like Hitchcock and Frau Wernicke from the crime series Tatort (2010).

On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death , Torsten Sense composed the piece “Requiem for Kurt” for three concert grand pianos and seven double basses in 2004, which was released a little later as a sound carrier by Edel Classics GmbH . An event initiated by Sense, in which Oliver Korittke also participated as speaker of a reading, was premiered in the same year in the Berlin Stilwerk .

Sense is the pianist in the heavy swing formation Don Bad'habong.

Concert pieces (chamber music and orchestral works)

  • 1985: Segment of an infinite metamorphosis , for church organ, world premiere in Würzburg Cathedral
  • 1985: Sextet , for flute, bassoon, percussion and string trio, Neue Gruppe Berlin, world premiere at the State Institute for Music Research
  • 1986: Rondo for string quartet, New Music Berlin, world premiere at the Academy of Arts
  • 1988: Piano quintet , for piano and string quartet, New Music Berlin, world premiere at Hamburger Bahnhof , Klangbrücken Festival
  • 1988: Tetraktys , for flute, violoncello and harpsichord, world premiere in the Nikolaikirche Berlin
  • 1990: Concerto for clarinet, violin, viola, violoncello and double bass, world premiere at the Akademie der Künste
  • 1992: Skala , for piano and double bass, world premiere at the Akademie der Künste
  • 1996: Cantus for Elias Alder , for orchestra, world premiere in Zurich
  • 1997: Let everything you have for baritone, oboe, harp and orchestra, world premiere in Zurich
  • 1999: Parlando Piano , for piano, first performance in the Schwartz'sche Villa Berlin
  • 2001: Zigzag , for alto flute and harp world premiere at Hotel Savoy Berlin
  • 2004: Requiem for Kurt , for three concert grand pianos and seven double basses, world premiere at the Stilwerk Berlin

Music theater (dance theater, chamber opera and incidental music)

  • 1983: Macht Spiele , rock revue with texts by Kleist, Camus, Goethe a. a., for seven actors and rock band at the Junge Theater Berlin
  • 1985: Anima , for a singer, a dancer, an actor, flute, clarinet, trumpet, trombone and tuba in Cap-d'Ail (France)
  • 1986: The golden pot by ETA Hoffmann , for five actors, violoncello, piano and double bass at the Vaganten stage in Berlin
  • 1986: Ballet rehearsal for a dancer and piano in the Latin Quarter in Berlin
  • 1986: Stazione Termini by Karl Valentin , incidental music for trumpet and double bass in SO36 , theater collective Gaukelstuhl
  • 1986: Baker, baker and baker's boy by Jean Anouilh , incidental music for violin, piano and synthesizer at the Berlin tribune
  • 1989: Berlin - your dancer is death , for one dancer, seven actors, saxophone, trombone, electric guitar and electric bass violon at the Berlin tribune
  • 1990: Neruda , staged reading for an actress and two musicians at the Vaganten Bühne Berlin
  • 1992: The Joy of Beautiful Pancakes , for three actors / musicians, one dancer, two tap dancers, one singer, electric bass violon, synthesizer, in the KAMA Theater Berlin
  • 1994: Musica visuale 5 , for one dancer, one voice, projections, electric bass violon, electronics, live sampling, Palmensaal in the Old Esplanade
  • 1995: What is Really Real? , for three actors / musicians, Vanganten stage Berlin / Gasteig Munich
  • 1996: Goethe! , Revue for three actors and three musicians at the Berlin tribune
  • 1997: Hiroshima Mon Amour , incidental music for string trio at the Vaganten stage Berlin
  • 2002: Erotic Fairytales , musical show by Michael Duwe, ballet music for orchestra, Brandenburger Theater
  • 2007: Akkermann, Death and Entropy , Kunsthaus Tacheles Berlin

Filmography (selection)

actor

Voice actor

Val Kilmer

Movies

Series

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ With him we were happy Time April 12, 2006
personal data
SURNAME Scythe, Torsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and musician
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin