Ulrich Lenk

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Ulrich Lenk (born December 26, 1966 in Dresden ; † July 16, 2015 in Chemnitz ) was a German actor .

Life

Ulrich Lenk received his acting training from 1989 to 1993 at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rostock . He had festival and guest engagements at the Festival Frankfurt am Main (2002), at the Theater am Neumarkt Zurich (2002), at the Deutsches Theater Göttingen (season 2002/2003), at the Theater Neuss (season 2005/2006), at the Theater Altenburg- Gera (season 2008/2009), at the Neuen Schauspiel Erfurt (summer theater 2010; as Baptista Minola in The Taming of the Shrew ), at the St. Pauli Theater in Hamburg (2011; as Motschach in the musical Anatevka ), at the Grand Theater Luxembourg (2012; also in Anatevka ) and at the Städtische Bühnen Münster (2012).

He has appeared several times at the Bad Hersfeld Festival (2002, 2005 and most recently in 2008 as host in Minna von Barnhelm ) at the Castle Festival Bad Vilbel (2007; as Craig in Ladies' Night by Anthony McCarten and as mayor and captain Anton Antonovich Skwosnik-Dmuchanowskij in Der Revisor ) and at the Ruhr Festival Recklinghausen (2011).

In the 2012/2013 season he had a guest engagement at the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater Görlitz-Zittau . There he embodied the opera star Tito Merelli in the tabloid comedy Otello mustn't burst by Ken Ludwig . In 2013 he played the chief engineer Bancroft in an open-air production of Winnetou I at the Zittau summer theater on the Jonsdorf forest stage .

Ulrich Lenk has been a permanent member of the ensemble at the Schauspielhaus Chemnitz since the 2013/2014 season . Together with the new drama director Carsten Knödler , with whom Lenk had already worked in Görlitz, he was engaged at the Chemnitz Theater. Here he appeared as Judge Brack in Hedda Gabler (2013/2014 season), as Polonius in Hamlet (2014) and, in the 2014/2015 season, as Chief Bromden in Eine flew über das Kuckucksnest , as journalist Hovstad in Ein Volksfeind , as Martin Heidegger in the German premiere of the chamber play Hannah's Demon by Antoine Rault , as Archbishop and Beaudricourt in Jeanne or Die Lerche and as Sir Winston Churchill in The King's Speech . His last role at the Chemnitz Theater was his father in the world premiere of the play Vom Ende der Kindheit .

Lenk also occasionally took on singing roles in opera and music theater productions, including at the Neuköllner Oper in Berlin (2008/2009 season in Piraten ; director: Andreas Gergen ) and at the Berlin Opera Festival. He realized his own directorial work at the Stadttheater Bremerhaven and Theater Halberstadt . In 2001 he was visiting professor at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig .

Lenk has also worked as an actor and speaker for film, television and radio productions. Mostly he played smaller roles here in television films and series. However, the focus of his artistic activity was always his theater roles. In the ZDF television series Not Without My Lawyer (2003), he had a recurring series role. In the movie Tears of Kali , in which he played the role of Haym, Lenk had one of the leading roles; the film was awarded the “Silver Meliés” at the 2004 Cinénygma film festival in Luxembourg.

Ulrich Lenk died on July 16, 2015 at the age of 48 in Chemnitz.

Theater (selection)

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ulrich Lenk obituary notice in the Nordsee-Zeitung from July 18, 2015
  2. ↑ William Shakespeare - "The Taming of the Shrew" ; Summer theater in the Erfurt barefoot ruins. Occupation. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  3. ↑ Anatevka. Years come, years go ; Criticism and cast. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  4. ↑ Ladies Night cast. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  5. ↑ how a bull becomes an ox . Performance review. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  6. ↑ a b theater world in a comedy in: GerHart ; Theater newspaper for Görlitz, Zittau and the surrounding area. September / October 2012 edition. Accessed July 19, 2015.
  7. ↑ Feuerwasser, Feuerrösser and exploding Donnerbalken Performance review in: Sächsische Zeitung , July 8, 2013, accessed on July 19, 2015.
  8. ↑ a b c Obituary - Theater mourns a character actor . In: Freie Presse , July 18, 2015, accessed on July 19, 2015.
  9. ↑ Actor Ulrich Lenk has died . In: Freie Presse , July 17, 2015, accessed on July 19, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Lenk, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden , German Democratic Republic
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 2015
Place of death Chemnitz , Saxony , Germany