David Bennent

Renames David ( born September 9, 1966 in Lausanne ) is a Swiss actor. Renames worked with the most important theater directors at major European stages.

Journey

David Bennents is after his sister Anne Renames the second child of actor Heinz Renames and the dancer Paulette Renou ( artist name Diane Mansart ), which was engaged at the Paris Opera. He spent his early years with his parents and his sister on the island of Mykonos in Greece. His mother taught him much of his schooling. The first few days of school and were traumatic for him because he had been bullied by the students because of its small body size. Many medical treatments of childhood were only slightly promote his physical growth. First Bennents Jockey wanted to be, but "something" got it "dragged to the theater, I 'm not aware gone. " The decision was made when he visited his sister Anne in Paris, which took lessons just in director Patrice Chereau, and it Chereau asked if he would not play. Although Bennents participated in any regular drama school, but taught himself self-taught the techniques of the play at. Only after he expanded his acting jointly with his father and sister.

Renames starred in numerous plays and films for cinema and television. He became known primarily in the role of Oskar Matzerath in Volker Schlöndorff's film adaptation of the novel The Tin Drum (1979 ) by Gunter Grass. Although he owed this role easier entering the profession, but for this he had been all his life set to this film by the public. Therefore, he also rejects a sequel to the film The Tin Drum on the last third of the novel.

In 1984 he had his first theater engagement at the Comédie Française in Paris. In Germany, he first appeared in 1985 at the Berlin stage. The renowned director Peter Brook took him in 1990 in his orchestra from Paris, where he worked until 1997. In 1999, he had with his sister Anne made ​​an appearance in the premiere of George Tabori's " Purgatory " at the Vienna Academy theater. Later he was engaged four years firmly at the Berliner Ensemble. Since 2005 Bennents plays in many pieces with the Berlin Renaissance Theatre. He lives in his spare time mainly on Mykonos. Renames fluent in German, French and English, and some modern Greek.

With his father he performed, among others, in Samuel Beckett's Endgame and was thus seen since 1995 on tour throughout Europe. This performance was hailed by critics as a " great moment of theater ." The Zurich World Week described it as "warm, mysterious and poetic " and for the Süddeutsche Zeitung was she of " strange joyful brightness ". From 1997 to 2010 she joined them on another tour in the Bennents texts of Heiner Müller's image description recited, and the father his favorite poet Hölderlin was reciting from the epistolary novel Hyperion.

Important theater works

  • Les Screens - Directed by: Patrice Chéreau
  • King Lear by William Shakespeare (fool ) - Director: Klaus Michael Gruber
  • Bantam - Director: Klaus Michael Gruber
  • Alcestis - Director: Robert Wilson
  • Macbeth ( Porter and Hecate ) - Director: Arie Zinger
  • My Herbert - Director: Hans Peter Cloos
  • Urgoetz (Georg ) - Director: Einar Schleef
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream ( opera as Puck ) by Benjamin Britten - Director: Thomas Langhoff
  • Involvement with Peter Brook, Paris (7 years) - productions in French and English. Toured North and South America, Africa, Asia and Europe.
  • Endgame by Samuel Beckett ( Clov ) Director: Joël Jouanneau ( European tour in German and French)
  • Amphitryon by Heinrich von Kleist (Mercury) - Director: Hans Neuenfels
  • Purgatory ( Marcel Proust ) - Director: George Tabori
  • A Heiner Müller / Friedrich Hölderlin evening with Father Heinz Bennents
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare ( List ) - directed by Leander Haussmann
  • Earthquake Concerto - Director: George Tabori
  • Michael Kramer of Gerhart Hauptmann - Director: Thomas Langhoff
  • Minna von Barn-helm ( Lessing, as Riccaut de la Marlinière ). Performances in Recklinghausen, Ludwigshafen, Germany and Luxembourg (2005/ 06)
  • The Tie Club ( Fabrice Roger- Lacan ), performances Renaissance Theater, Berlin 2005/2006
  • Mozart and Constanze ( Hamburg Chamber Games ) 2006
  • Merry festivals of Alan Ayckbourn, 2008

Filmography (selection)

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