Uwe Dag Berlin

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Uwe Dag Berlin

Uwe Dag Berlin (* 1958 in Gardelegen ) is a German actor and director .

Life

He owes his middle name “Dag” to his mother's love for Trygve Emanuel Gulbranssen's novel The Legacy of Björndal .

In addition to his theater work, Uwe Dag Berlin is also known from cinema and television appearances. In the early 1980s, Berlin founded the “Berlin Bohème Theater” (BBT) together with Leander Haußmann . Similar to minstrels , they roamed parts of the GDR and played in public places. In 1982 Uwe Dag Berlin began studying acting at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts , which he completed in 1986. This was followed by engagements as an actor, director and director at the Schauspielhaus Gera, at the Mecklenburg State Theater Parchim , and at the Kammerspiele Magdeburg. After guest roles in productions by Friedo Solter , Katja Paryla and Frank Castorf , Uwe Dag Berlin became a permanent member of the ensemble at the Deutsches Theater Berlin in 1990 . He worked there as an actor for five years before an engagement as a director and actor at the Schauspielhaus Bochum brought him. On stage, he played roles in Amadeus ( Salieri ), Clavigo (Carlos), Othello (Othello), Danton's Death (St. Just), Looking Back in Anger (Jimmy) and others. He was nominated as a young German actor for Othello. From 2010, Uwe Dag Berlin played in Castorf's production The Soldiers in the Berliner Volksbühne on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. He also appeared in Haußmann's Rosmersholm production at the Volksbühne Berlin .

Berlin's directorial debut at the theater was in 1989 Cape of Unrest by Alfred Matusche at the Mecklenburg State Theater Parchim. In addition to Dimiter Gotscheff and Jürgen Kruse , Uwe Dag Berlin was engaged as a director at the Schauspielhaus Bochum from 1995 to 2000 while he was Haußmann's artistic director . There he co-directed with Leander Haußmann the world premiere of Germania III by Heiner Müller , Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Measure for Measure and Brecht's The Threepenny Opera . On his own he staged a. a. in Bochum Sarah Kanes Zerbombt , the impressive German premiere of Der Vater von Jehoschua Sobol , parricide by Arnolt Bronnen and Goethe's Stella . From winter 2014, his production Der neue Menoza by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz was shown in the Volksbühne on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. The production was created in collaboration with the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art. Since then he has staged more than 40 productions, for example in Aachen, Chemnitz, Kassel, Lübeck, Halle (Saale). Among others, pieces by Ravenhill, Goldoni , Hauptmann , Miller , Schnitzler , Hasenclever, William Shakespeare, Spycher, Cooney, Büchner, Goethe, Wisnewsky, Sobol and the musical Pinkelstadt and played as a guest at the Berliner Ensemble and the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin. From 2006 to 2009 Uwe Dag Berlin was acting director of the "Theater & Philharmonie Thuringia" ( stages of the city of Gera , Landestheater Altenburg ). There he staged, among other things, Dangerous Liaisons , The Sorrows of Young Werther , Schiller's The Robbers , Shakespeare's Macbeth , The White Rose in the Altenburg District Office and Shakespeare's Richard III. Uwe Dag Berlin staged in 2013, the actor, director and artistic director Matthias Brenner in a solo Erwin summer in The Drinker by Hans Fallada . In the summer of 2016, Uwe Dag Berlin, as director, in collaboration with the dramaturge Claudia Steinseifer and seven actors who fled from Iraq , Syria , Yemen and Afghanistan, staged the production of Ich-Refugling at the Kiel Theater. The traveling theater project was funded by the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry for Justice, Culture and Europe. In November 2016, the I-Refugee Ensemble was invited by the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of the Interior to make a creative contribution to the 2016 refugee conference in Lübeck. The team developed a six-room theater on the topic of perspectives especially for the conference. Uwe Dag Berlin could be seen as an actor in Haussmann's 'Robber' production at the Berliner Ensemble. In the role of Lucas Cranach he played in the world premiere of Luther by Dieter Wedel at the Bad Hersfeld Festival in the summer of 2017 . In summer 2018 Uwe Dag Berlin returned to the Bad Hersfeld Festival as Burbage in the German stage premiere of "Shakespeare in Love". He has also been playing in Leander Haußmann's Stasitheater at the Berliner Volksbühne since December 2018 .

Uwe Dag Berlin made his debut as a film actor in 1987 in the role of Alexander Sulkowski in the popular GDR television series Sachsens Glanz und Prussens Gloria . Numerous other feature films followed. In Sonnenallee (1999), Herr Lehmann (2003), NVA (2005), Why Men Don't Listen and Women Park Badly (2007) and Hotel Lux (2011), he worked with director Leander Haußmann. Under the direction of Sven Regener and Leander Haußmann, Uwe Dag Berlin played the leading role as shark hunter Snake Müller alongside Henry Hübchen and Michael Gwisdek in the movie Hai-Alarm am Müggelsee . Roles in the movie King Ping , the successful Festival Film goals dances or the excellent television series Time of Heroes followed in 2013. In the Hollywood film version of John le Carré thriller A Most Wanted Man (2014), directed by Anton Corbijn he has a small appearance alongside Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robin Wright .

Uwe Dag Berlin lives as a freelance director, actor and author on the North Sea coast. He is married to the dramaturge Claudia Steinseifer. He is visiting professor at the Berlin Academy of Dramatic Arts Ernst Busch and the Babelsberg Film University . Uwe Dag Berlin is a member of the German Hebbel Society .

Filmography (selection)

theatre

Radio plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ DLZ, Britta Hamann, Portrait Uwe Dag Berlin, Boyens Verlag, February 4, 2013, Heide SH
  2. ↑ Leander Haußmann, Buh, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Berlin 2013
  3. ↑ Leander Haußmann, Buh, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Berlin 2013
  4. ↑ Schauspielhaus Bochum, 1995-2000, Makossa Druck & Medien GmbH, Gelsenkirchen 2000, ISBN 3-926337-05-2
  5. ^ Sonja Wenzel, Friesenanzeiger , Portrait Uwe Dag Berlin, March 2013 edition, MSM Verlag GmbH, Husum

Category: film director

personal data
SURNAME Berlin, Uwe Dag
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berlin, Uwe-Dag
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Guards