Leander Haußmann
Leander Haussmann ( born June 26, 1959 in Quedlinburg ) is a German film and theater director and actor.
Life and work
The son of actor Ezard Haussmann and the costume designer Doris Haussmann made first a printing apprenticeship. In 1980 he did his military service with the NVA. From 1982, he attended drama school Ernst Busch in Berlin, and practiced his profession at several theaters in the GDR. In 1987 he portrayed in Countess Cosel, a part of the trilogy of Saxony and Prussia's Glory shine, the pages Brühl, a role that was embodied in the previous parts, but that play time thereafter, by his father. 1990-1995 he was a director at the German National Theatre.
Haussmann was from 1995 to 2000 director of the Schauspielhaus Bochum. During this time he also starred in Detlev Buck's film board with men. His breakthrough as a director succeeded with the film Sun Alley ( 2000). The film adaptation of the novel by Sven Regener Herr Lehmann (2003), his second feature film. In 2005 he published the film NVA, were incorporated in the Haussmann's own experiences as a soldier. Again and again he also appears as an actor in movies, such as in Solo album or egg thieves.
His production of Die Fledermaus at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich was as much a scandal as his prevented Peter Pan production at the Vienna Festival. For years, however, successfully his production of Romeo and Juliet ran ( with Ralf Dittrich in addition invented, officers throughout the play role of Naso Ovid ), at the Residenz Theater Munich.
Together with Boris Naujoks he turned in 2005 for ZDF television adaptation of Kabale und Liebe by Friedrich Schiller, among other things, with Paula Kalenberg, August Diehl, Götz George, Katja Flint, Katharina Thalbach and Detlev Buck.
Haussmann's Sun Alley successor with the title NVA had 2005 theatrical release in Germany. The shooting of this took place between July to September 2004 in the Saxon Bad Duben.
2007 came the film Why Men Do not Listen and Women Can not Read, which is based on the book of the Australian writer pair Allan and Barbara Pease, in theaters.
In 2009 he turned inspired by Bernhard Sinkel Lina Braake pensioners comedy dinosaur - Against us you will see from old! with Ezard Haussmann, Eva -Maria Hagen, Ingrid van Bergen, Ralf Wolter, Walter Giller and Nadja Tiller.
2011 appeared Haussmann Film Hotel Lux in which, among other things, Michael Herbig, Jürgen Vogel, Sebastian Blomberg and Thekla Reuten are seen. The film, which is based on a draft of the script by Uwe Timm, was partly filmed in the vacant " Cumberland House" on Berlin's Kurfürstendamm.
Theater productions (selection)
Filmography
Direction
Actor
Awards
Publication
- Buh. My path to wealth, beauty and happiness ( autobiographical novel ), Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, Cologne, 2013, ISBN 978-3-462-30696-5