Biography
Acting career from 1985 at the Thalia Theater Hamburg. Collaboration with Jürgen Flimm, Katharina Thalbach, Robert Wilson, George Tabori and Jürgen Gosch. 1991/92 international tour with the world premiere of »The Black Rider« by Robert Wilson and Tom Waits. 2001 »PoeTry« by Robert Wilson and Lou Reed in New York.
1993 to 1996 at Staatstheater Stuttgart. Roles include Hermann in »Die Hermannsschlacht«, Mackie Messer in »The Threepenny Opera« and Alfred in »Die Fledermaus«. From 1997 member of the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus. Roles include Piquillo in »La Périchole«, Gessler in »Wilhelm Tell«, Consul Bernick in »Pillars of Society«, Leicester in »Mary Stuart«, Dymschitz in »Marija« and Leopold in »Im weißen Rössl«.
2010 to 2020 Henry Higgins in »My Fair Lady« at Staatstheater Hannover, from 2012 also at Oper Köln. 2014 Samiel in »Der Freischütz« at Nationaltheater Mannheim. 2015 Stefan Koltay in Paul Abraham’s »Victoria und ihr Husar« at Landestheater Linz.
2011 to 2019 appearances at Staatsoper Berlin in Jürgen Flimm’s production of Erik Satie’s »Wissen Sie, wie man Töne reinigt?«. 2019 Paul Abraham’s »Dschainah« at Komische Oper Berlin. From 2016 numerous productions at Renaissance Theater Berlin, including »Die Hose«, »Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?« and Kurt Weill’s »Happy End«. Since 2024 Louis XVI in Peter Jordan’s »Marie-Antoinette« at Komödie Berlin.
Directorial debut in 2012 with John Cage’s »Lectures About Nothing« at Staatsoper Berlin. Since 2013 director and acting coach at Daniel Barenboim’s Opera Studio. 2019 productions of Franz Lehár’s »Die lustige Witwe« and Giuseppe Verdi’s »Nabucco« at Staatstheater Braunschweig. 2020 Paul Lincke’s »Frau Luna« at Staatstheater Darmstadt and Stephen Sondheim’s »A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum« at Theater Bielefeld. 2023 Michael Frayn’s »Noises Off« at Theater Bielefeld.
Numerous film and television appearances including »Tatort«, »SOKO Leipzig«, »Die Schatzinsel« and »Deutschland 83«. »Monsignor Renard« for the BBC. Cinema appearances include Reinhard Hauff’s »Stammheim«, Sönke Wortmann’s »The Miracle of Bern« and Antoine Raimbault’s »Une affaire de principe«. Lars Vonderwerth in »Alphateam« and Dirk Drechsler in »Rote Rosen«.
2026 production of »Im weißen Rössl« at the Musikalische Komödie.