Ulrich Matthes

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Ulrich Matthes (born May 9, 1959 in West Berlin ) is a German actor , dubbing , radio play and audio book speaker .

Life

Ulrich Matthes, born in 1959 as the second son of Tagesspiegel journalists Günter Matthes and Else Matthes in Berlin-Wilmersdorf , survived a serious accident his mother suffered as an unborn child. He played in major TV roles as a child between the ages of ten and 13 and dubbed them from 1970 (including Jason in The Waltons and Charlie Brown in some episodes). During the puberty years, the desire to become a teacher arose, so after graduating from high school, Ulrich Matthes studied German and English at the Free University of Berlin for five semesters at the Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster . Encouraged by an encounter with Martin Held , Ulrich Matthes broke off his studies and took acting lessons with Else Bongers , who u. a. Hildegard Knef and Götz discovered George .

From the 1980s he worked at the United Theaters in Krefeld / Mönchengladbach , at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus , at the Münchner Staatsschauspiel , at the Münchner Kammerspiele , later in Berlin at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz and at the Deutsches Theater and in Vienna at the Burgtheater . His two-hour Kleist evening , which he worked on with Hermann Beil , is legendary .

A wider audience was Matthes known in his role as Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels in the feature film The Fall of Oliver Hirschbiegel from the year 2004 with Bruno Ganz .

Ulrich Matthes since 2004/05 ensemble member at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin ( Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , Minna von Barnhelm , The Misanthrope ) . He had previously directed Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening in the Kammerspiele of the German Theater. He turned down a role offer from Hollywood for a film under Peter Weir with Tom Hanks , in order to play in Arthur Schnitzler's drama Der einsame Weg with Nina Hoss under the director Christian Petzold at the Deutsches Theater Berlin .

On February 10, 2019, Matthes was elected as the new president and successor to Iris Berben by the general assembly of the German Film Academy .

Matthes lives in Berlin-Charlottenburg.

Memberships

Filmography

theatre

Speaker activity

synchronization

For a long time, Matthes was the German standard voice of Kenneth Branagh (including in Henry V. , Hamlet , Much Ado About Nothing and Othello ). He also dubbed Malcolm McDowell (The Conductor's Secret) , Charlie Sheen ( Platoon , Made of Steel ) , Ralph Fiennes ( Quiz Show ) and Sean Penn ( Carlito's Way ) .

Radio plays (selection)

Audio books

Matthes has acted as a speaker in numerous radio plays and audio books, for example Das Kalkwerk by Thomas Bernhard (2001, directed by Ulrich Gerhardt ), Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (2003), Haruki Murakami's Mister Aufziehvogel and Daniel Kehlmann's novels Die Vermessung der Welt und Ruhm . In 2008 he spoke The Castle and The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka , The Women by TC Boyle (2009, directed by Ralf Ebel ) and several novels by Albert Camus . In 2003 he received the German Audiobook Prize for his reading of Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin .

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Ulrich Matthes  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Matthes: I was saved before I was born. At: Focus Online , August 20, 2014
  2. ↑ Tobias Becker: Der Fremdgeher , In: Kulturspiegel , March 2009, p. 19
  3. ↑ Film Academy elects Presidium and Executive Board , German Film Academy from February 11, 2019, accessed February 12, 2019
  4. ↑ Ulrich Matthes. In: deutsche-filmakademie.de. German Film Academy , accessed March 8, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Since 2012 director of the AdK performing arts section
  6. ↑ Board of Directors & Board of Trustees. Academy for the Spoken Word, accessed March 2, 2018 .
  7. ^ The fourth power - theme evening journalistic responsibility. The first, accessed December 1, 2016 .
  8. ^ Ulrich Matthes in: Kulturamt Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf
personal data
SURNAME Matthes, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin