Tristan Seith

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Tristan Seith (2017)

Tristan Seith (born December 3, 1979 in Koblenz ) is a German theater and film actor .

life and work

Since then, he made his debut in 2002 at the Kulturfabrik (Koblenz) in the role of Woyzeck in Georg Büchner 's play of the same name .

Two years later, Seith was admitted to drama studies at the Bavarian Theater Academy August Everding . Franz Xaver Kroetz brought him to the Bavarian State Theater during his training . Work at the Metropol Theater in Munich and at the Dresden State Theater followed. Since then has been a scholarship holder of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation .

After graduating, he began his engagement at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg . Here he was seen in 2008 in Dorfpunks after Rocko Schamoni , in a production by and with Studio Braun . Further work, for example with Sebastian Nübling , Roger Vontobel , Karin Henkel , Volker Lösch and Markus Heinzelmann followed. Under Lösch he plays in the production Marat, what has become of our revolution? which after the premiere caused a theater scandal in Hamburg, because at the end of the play a list of Hamburg millionaires with their addresses and assets is read out by a choir of 30 unemployed and Seith.

Tristan Seith left the Schauspielhaus in 2013 and has since devoted himself to working in front of the camera. Die Zeit wrote about this: “This man went to the theater to free himself from the constraints of his heavy body, instead the theater paid him back for having a heavy body. He wanted to go on stage to transform; instead, he was the victim of what his directors would probably call “cast of the cast according to type”. Tonight he's taking revenge on them, and it's a great moment. "

He stood in front of the camera for Margarethe von Trotta , Lars Becker , Lennart Ruff , Uli Edel , Tomasz Emil Rudzik , Stephan Wagner , Hans-Christoph Blumenberg and Yasemin Şamdereli , among others .

In the series Im Knast , which was broadcast in two seasons by ZDFneo in 2015 and 2017 , Seith had a leading role throughout. In the 2019 film adaptation of Robin Alexander's book Die Grittenen , he plays Peter Altmaier .

Tristan Seith lives with his wife, the filmmaker Nesrin Şamdereli , in Berlin.

Filmography

Working at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg (selection)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Tristan Seith  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ^ Peter Kümmel: Theater revolution: overthrow on trial . Die Zeit 45/2008, October 30, 2008, accessed on February 20, 2017.
  2. ^ Peter Kümmel: Hamburger Schauspielhaus: Festival of the spirits . The time 18/2013, April 25, 2013, accessed on February 20, 2017.
  3. Uwe Mantel: ZDFneo: The prison sitcom celebrates its start in May . DWDL.de , April 7, 2015, accessed on February 20, 2017.
  4. Thomas Lückerath: ZDFneo continues “Im Knast” and “Blockbustaz” . DWDL.de , July 12, 2016, accessed on February 20, 2017.
  5. Robin Alexander's "The Driven" comes first as a film. Retrieved July 10, 2019 .