Alexander Geringas
Alexander Gerin gas ( born March 2, 1971 in Moscow ) is a German music producer, songwriter and actor.
Life and work
Alexander Geringas grew up the son of the cellist David Geringas and the pianist Tanja treasure in Hamburg and studied acting at the Otto Falkenberg School of Munich and at the University of Music and Theatre in Hamburg. This was followed by estate contracts as an actor among others at the theaters Lübeck, Rostock and the National Theatre since 1996 regularly at the Hamburg Chamber matches, where he among other things on the side of Ulrich Tukur, Gerd Wameling and Peter Fitz played. There also Geringas ' children's theater pieces The Crimson Pirate (1996 ), The Mystery of the Red Hand (1998), The Red King Game (2000) and The Red Thread (2002) were first performed, which he wrote with Marc Letzig.
In 2005 he again played at the Hamburg Chamber of games. This time in the Aki Kaurismäki adaptation The Man Without a Past, directed by Gil Mehmert. Add to Franz Wittenbrink - recitals Les Adieux ( 2003 included opening 13 Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen) and mothers (2004) played and sang Geringas at St. Pauli Theater. In 2007 he played at the Ernst- German Theatre in Stephan Benson Seascape with songs men, masts and sailors.
Alexander Geringas played in the movie The Substitute by Constantine Costa -Gavras (2002), in several television films (eg Napoleon Fritz, director: Thorsten Näter, the end of a passion, directed by Niki Stein and many more) and tv shows ( Sesame Street, the main role, from 1995 - 2000). 2005 The investigator; Director: Peter Fratzscher and Two Fronts; Director: Peter Patzak and last (2007) in the comedy wenches.
Since 1993, Alexander Geringas developed with his colleague Peter Jordan theater evenings with music. This collaboration has emerged so far
- The comedy revue Peter and Alexander show, which ran from 1996-2000 on a regular basis at the Schauspielhaus Bochum and 2001/ 02 at the Thalia Theater ( Hamburg),
- 2001 Country Evening Ricky California & the Rodeo Heroes, also at the Thalia Theatre, and * 2003, the Too - Late - Night Show Little Trip to Heaven at the St. Pauli Theater.
- The recital Grandiose losers. The violent acclaimed premiere on 26 November 2005 in Hamburg Chamber games ( among others with Stephan Benson and Marion Martienzen ) was simultaneously Geringas ' directorial debut.
- Gerin gas ' and Jordan's last production Grandiose Christmas was first performed on November 19, 2006 in Hamburg Chamber games with great success.
2006 Geringas began his work with the writer, director and composer Erik Gedeon. It created the songs for Gedeon's piece Hartz 4 - The Musical at the Dresden State Theatre. In Gedeon 's My Ball Evening at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg Gerin gas was from 2006-2008 on the stage.
Alex Geringas established itself as a producer, composer and lyricist of several Top Ten hits including 8 times the number one (including Leb ' of the 3rd generation, Never Enough Christina Stürmer and Something About Us No Angels ). He composed songs and wrote lyrics for and with Limahl, Emilia, No Angels, Joana Zimmer, Christina Stürmer, The 3rd generation, Howard Carpendale, Vicky Leandros, Alexander Klaws, Bro'Sis, Maya Saban uva In addition to various gold and platinum awards won The 3rd generation with his songs 1999 Echo for the best newcomer band, and in 2003 were awarded the Echo for the best music video for the No Angels Gerin Gas / Brötzmann / Petruo song. In total there were about 60 singles and albums in the German, Austrian and Swiss charts represent where he has worked and sold to date, over 7 million times.
In addition, he wrote several songs and scores for television series such as, inter alia, Two Fronts (RTL), Wild Boys (PRO 7), Adelheid and her killer (ARD), nonsense comedy club X - Mas Show ( PRO 7 ), the Big Brother theme song Leb ' (RTL II) and the KIKA theme song Believe and the score for the American short Leaf Chief in which he participated to you by AFI director Josef Lieck also as an actor. Gerin gas produced and wrote the lyrics for the German versions of several theme songs for children's cartoon series with his wife Catherine Mitter Meier ( uva the Disney TV movie Nine dogs save Christmas, Bob the Builder, Postman Pat, Thomas and Friends )
2008 Gerin gas produced in cooperation with Melloton (Jan -Philipp Kelber and Joachim Schlüter ), the new Alexander Klaws album, develops and produces its own artists, among others the Italo - pop duo Destivo ( Vittorio Magro, Ex - Banaroo and Claudia Cacciato, in cooperation with Thorsten Brötzmann, Release: September 2008 Koch / Universal ), the Hamburg exceptional singer Marion Martienzen and has first publications in the USA ( MTV Cribs ) GB ( Maria Confait ), South Africa (Shine 4 ) Belgium ( Simon Sinnaeve, idol winner ) and Sweden ( Sibel, Idol winner ). The new single from Giovanni ( ex- Bro'Sis ) "Wonderful " Alex Gerin gas produced, released on October 11, 2008 Star Watch / Warner Music.
In addition, Gerin gas was in 2008 as Music Director of the seventh season of the reality TV format Popstars - Just for Girls PRO 7 with looking for four new exceptional talent.
In 2012, he composed the song Quietly with the singer Ornella de Santis second place in the final of the talent show Unser Star für Baku occupied.
Radio plays (selection)
- Frank Göhre: Dirty Laundry. Director: Norbert Schaeffer. Radio - scene, NDR 2008.
- Elisabeth Herrmann: silt. Director: Sven Stricker. Radio - scene, NDR 2010.