Ulrich Brandhoff

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Ulrich Brandhoff , also Ulrich Friedrich Brandhoff , (* 1985 in Bad Frankenhausen ) is a German actor .

Life

Origin and theater

Ulrich Brandhoff comes from Thuringia . He has two older brothers. Brandhoff's family fled the GDR in 1989, shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall ; he was one of the refugees at the Prague embassy .

His first theater experience was the children's play Pinocchio , which made him want to be an actor. He had his first stage appearances in the theater association in Remscheid . From 2007 to 2011 he studied performing arts at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna . During his training he played at the Burgtheater Vienna in 2010 . In 2010, while at drama school, Brandhoff received the 1st ensemble prize at the 22nd national competition for German-speaking drama schools in Leipzig . In 2011 he was awarded the prize for “Best Actor in a leading role” at the International Drama School Meeting in Warsaw .

After studying acting, he was engaged directly at the Berliner Ensemble (BE) in his first theater engagement . There he was a permanent member of the ensemble from 2011 to 2013. His stage roles at the BE included u. a. the painter Eduard Schwarz in Robert Wilson's Lulu production (2011), weeping willow willow in Brecht / Weill's Die Dreigroschenoper (2011; directed by Robert Wilson), Count Paris in Romeo and Juliet (2012; directed by Mona Kraushaar ), the title role in Danton's death (2012; director: Claus Peymann ), Erich in Horváth's Tales from the Vienna Woods (2012; director: Enrico Lübbe ) and Slightly in the musical Peter Pan (2013; director: Robert Wilson, with music by Cocorosie ). At the BE he also worked with the director Manfred Karge . In 2013 he appeared in the Horváth production at the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen .

Ulrich Brandhoff was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Schauspiel Leipzig from 2013 to 2016 . He has continued to be a guest there since the 2016/17 season. At the Leipzig Theater he played the Prince of Guastalla in Emilia Galotti (2013; director: Enrico Lübbe), son Jan in Das Misunderstanding (2013; director: Leo Skrever ), Laertes in Hamlet (2014; director: Thomas Dannemann ), Johannes in Baal (2014; director: Nuran David Calis ) and Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream (2015; director: Philipp Preuss ).

Movie and TV

In addition to stage work, which is the main focus of Brandhoff's work as an actor, he has also repeatedly appeared in front of the camera for cinema and television.

In the cinema he was seen in various supporting roles, including a. directed by Brigitte Maria Mayer in the crowdfunding project Jesus Cries (2015; as Petrus, next to his BE colleague Sabin Tambrea as Jesus Christ in the lead role), in the comedy Ente Gut! (2015; as a policeman), in the biography Django (2017; as a National Socialist Hammerstein) and in the historical film Der Junge Karl Marx (2017; as a fraternity member, journalist and revolutionary Hermann Kriege ).

Brandhoff had a major supporting role in Fatih Akin's thriller Out of nowhere , which premiered on May 26, 2017 at the Cannes International Film Festival ; he played André Möller, the male part of a young neo-Nazi couple with international connections who carried out a bomb attack on a Turkish shop.

Brandhoff has also been working increasingly for television since 2014. He also initially had smaller episode roles a. a. in the television series Last Trace Berlin (2014), Notruf Hafenkante (2016), Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei (2016), SOKO Köln (2016;) and Family Dr. Kleist (2016).

In the television film Nackt unter Wölfen (2015) he played the camp electrician Heinrich Schüpp, who uses hidden allusions to convey the latest information about the approach of the 3rd US Army to the Buchenwald concentration camp .

In the Dresden Tatort: ​​Level X (first broadcast: June 2017) he played the emergency doctor Dr. Frantzen, who is suspected of being involved in the illicit drug trade. In the TV movie Kilimanjaro - Travel to life (Air Date: November 2017) he played the long-standing Kilimanjaro - mountain guide Simon Eggert.

In November 2017 he was seen in the 5th season of the ZDF series Heldt in an episode role as the "right hand man" of an unscrupulous, wealthy company renovator. In the TV series SOKO Potsdam , which was first broadcast on ZDF in September / October 2018 , Brandhoff took on one of the main roles in the episode, Alexander Wille, who had a criminal record for a robbery and who killed his former accomplice in the dispute over the booty. In the intergenerational television comedy Finally Lake Garda! (First broadcast: October 2018) he played the charming wine merchant and patient Tobias Pauli, the secret crush of the young main character Eva ( Julia Nachtmann ) , based on the type of the “cliché gigolo” . Brandhoff played a supporting role as transvestite Dolores from the street prostitute in the “ZDF Saturday crime” Herr und Frau Bulle: Tod im Kiez (first broadcast: November 2018) . In the 5th film of the ZDF television series Marie catches fire (first broadcast: November 2018), Brandhoff played one of the main roles, the social worker Domi, who looks after young offenders on the farm he inherited from his grandmother. In the television film Lotte am Bauhaus (2019) he embodied the historical figure of the painter and Bauhaus teacher Josef Albers . In the 16th season of the ZDF series SOKO Wismar (2019), Brandhoff took on one of the main episode roles as the suspect, famous organist Hendrik Pielham. In Commissioner Lucas - Polly (April 2019), the 28th case of the ZDF crime series, Brandhoff was the caretaker Hannes Lenz, who wants to help the girls of the Aschenbachhof, a home for girls who are difficult to educate. In Dortmund's Tatort: ​​Inferno (first broadcast: April 2019), Brandhoff had one of the supporting roles as internist Dr. Lars Klinger, who failed in his application to head the emergency room. In the eighth film of the ARD television series practice with sea view (2020) Brandhoff took a episode roles as a young neurologist Dr. Finkenlade suspected of being involved in a fraud involving expensive drugs.

Private

Brandhoff is in a relationship with the French actress Morgane Ferru . He lives in Berlin .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Ulrich Brandhoff at schauspielervideos.de
  2. ↑ a b c Ulrich Friedrich Brandhoff . Profile at CASTFORWARD. Retrieved June 12, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f curious questions to… ulrich brandhoff . Interview with U.Brandhoff on reihesiebenmitte.de from November 26, 2013. Accessed June 12, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h Ulrich Brandhoff in Cannes: What are all the folding ladders supposed to be? . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of May 29, 2017. Accessed June 12, 2017.
  5. ↑ Sachsen- "Tatort": Always trouble with the Internet  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Photo gallery. In: DER SPIEGEL . Retrieved June 12, 2017.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.spiegel.de  
  6. ↑ Finally Lake Garda! . TV review. In: Die Rheinpfalz of October 12, 2018. Retrieved October 15, 2018.
  7. ↑ “FINALLY LAKE GARDA!” IN THE FIRST: Bumblebees in the stomach . TV review. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of October 13, 2018. Retrieved October 15, 2018.
  8. ↑ Series "Mr. and Mrs. Bulle - Death in the Kiez" . TV review at tittelbach.tv . Retrieved October 31, 2018.
  9. ↑ Marie catches fire - second chance . Story and photo with Ulrich Friedrich Brandhoff. Retrieved November 11, 2018.
  10. ↑ SOKO Wismar | Murder on grades . Plot and cast. Official website of the ZDF . Retrieved March 21, 2019.
  11. ↑ TV TIP: Commissioner Lucas: Polly . In: Hamburger Abendblatt, April 6, 2019. Retrieved April 6, 2019.
  12. ↑ TATORT: INFERNO . TV review at Filmstarts.de. Retrieved April 15, 2019.
  13. ↑ What was the crime scene like? . Criticism. Retrieved April 15, 2019.
  14. ↑ Practice with a view of the sea - longing . Plot, cast and picture gallery. Official website Das Erste . Retrieved March 10, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Brandhoff, Ulrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brandhoff, Ulrich Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Frankenhausen , German Democratic Republic