Volker Meyer-Dabisch

Volker Meyer-Dabisch (born June 29, 1962 in Kamen ) is a German actor and director.

life and career

After Meyer-Dabisch graduated from high school in Hamm in 1981 , he completed an acting training in Berlin between 1985 and 1988, which was followed by engagements in Zittau and Schwäbisch Hall . Meyer-Dabisch then worked at the Zerbbreche Fenster theater , where he staged the 2003 hip-hop piece "36 Street", the biography of a gang member of the 36 Juniors , Ayhan Sönmez, accompanied by beatboxer Bee Low and the Turkish rapper Fuat . In 2003 he also staged the beatbox musical "Coal Coal" with Oktay Özdemir , Hülya Duyar , Aykut Kayacık , Heinrich Rolfing and the beatboxers of the 4xsample crew, Mando, Chlorophil and Wetlipz, about a family who runs a coal shop in Kreuzberg .

With the beatboxing championship in 2007, the shooting of the documentary Love, Peace & Beatbox , which portrays the Berlin beatboxing scene , began. Love, Peace and Beatbox , premiered at the Berlinale 2008 , won the “Best Music Film” award at the Unerhört Festival in Hamburg and the audience award at the Lünen Film Festival .

The documentary “Der Adel vom Görli” followed in 2010 and “Open Souls” in 2011. In his film Der Adel vom Görli , Meyer-Dabisch portrays the former railway site Görlitzer Park , a local recreation area for residents and visitors. The film was shown in the Moviemento cinema in Berlin-Kreuzberg. In Open Souls , the director deals with so-called mixed race children.

In addition to his work as a film director, Volker Meyer-Dabisch has worked as an actor in cinema and television productions and as a caveman since 2003, and as a superdaddy since 2010.

Meyer-Dabisch has also been working as a radio host at multicult.fm since 2012 .

He lives in Berlin-Kreuzberg .

Filmography (selection)

as an actor

• 1998: Behind bars - The woman barn (TV series, 2 episodes)
• 1998: A Murder for Quandt (TV series)
• 1998: Downhill City
• 1999: Wolffs Revier
• 2000: Berlin Center Clinic
• 2000: At Your Own Risk (TV Series)
• 2001: Storm time
• 2003: woman drives, man sleeps
• 2004: The quiet girl
• 2004: days out of night
• 2009: The Anubis House
• 2009: SOKO Wismar (TV series; episode: A stab in the heart )
• 2012: The successor
• 2013: women's hearts
• 2014: In danger: a fateful moment
• 2015: In danger: a fateful moment
• 2016: Soko Wismar
• 2020: Crews & Gangs

as a director

• 2002: Kohleladen Özdemir (documentary film)
• 2008: Love, Peace & Beatbox (documentary)
• 2010: The nobility of Görli (documentary film)
• 2011: Open Souls (documentary)
• 2014: From Hohenschönhausen to Niederschöneweide (documentary film)
• 2016: Hercules (documentary)

Theater direction

• 2003: 36Street (biography of a youth from Kreuzberg)
• 2003: Coal Coal (documentary musical about a coal shop)
• 2003: Daydreamer (Spreebühne)

Theater roles

• 1994–1996: The robbers (open-air theater Schwäbisch Hall)
• 1999: Hamlet (open-air theater Schwäbisch Hall)
• 2000: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Schwäbisch Hall open-air theater)
• 2001: Salzwasser (Keller Theater Schwäbisch Hall)
• 2002: Kasimir and Karoline (open-air theater Schwäbisch Hall)
• since 2003: Caveman
• since 2009: Superdaddy

Web links

• Volker Meyer-Dabisch in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Interview with Volker Meyer-Dabisch about the cinema release: The nobility from Görli
• Interview Volker Meyer-Dabisch about Open Souls

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Vita Voker Meyer-Dabisch ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at karl-handke-filmproduktion.de. Retrieved May 24, 2013. 
2. ↑ Volker Meyer-Dabisch at www.agentur-heads.de. Retrieved August 11, 2019.
3. ↑ Volker Meyer-Dabisch, Spreebühne - coal coal at archiv.hebbel-am-ufer.de. Retrieved May 24, 2013.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Love, Peace & Beatbox ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Handke Filmproduktion. Retrieved May 24, 2013. 
5. ^ Caveman Volker-Meyer Dabisch at caveman.de. Retrieved May 24, 2013.
6. ^ Cabaret: Superdaddy with Volker Meyer-Dabisch . Retrieved May 24, 2013.
7. ↑ Volker Meyer-Dabisch at multicult.fm.  ( 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. . Retrieved May 24, 2013.  
8. ↑ Between canned beer and world revolution Maike Schultz. In: Berliner Zeitung of January 20, 2011. Retrieved on May 24, 2013.