Jan Fedder
January Fedder ( born January 14, 1955 in Hamburg ) is a German actor and voice actor. He is best known for representing North German characters, often in the Low German language.
Life
Fedder grew up as the son of a pub owner and a dancer in Hamburg- St. Pauli. His parents joined the pub regularly by 18 clock, so that the sons Jan and Oliver came together as little as possible with drunken sailors and prostitutes. He trained as a shipping clerk, never practiced this profession but from.
At seven, he sang as a boy soprano in the choir of St. Michael's Church. Prior to his training as an actor, which he began at age ten, he took ballet lessons for several years, but switched to acting later. At age 13, he first stood on the stage and in front of the camera ( for the film travel service swallow). For 19 years he was in the children 's and youth theater blob on the stage and looked at the Ernst- German theater in plays by Shakespeare and Goethe.
Since 2007, Fedder hired as a so-called boat steward for the German Society for Sea Rescue.
In his spare time Fedder lives on a farm in Ecklak in the Steinburg district, which he has restored since 1997. Fedder is, according to self-reported data since the age of five vegetarian.
January Fedder is married to wife Marion since 2000. In the fall of 2012 was the precursor of oral cancer diagnosed at him, as a result, he finished the cigarette consumption, was being treated and had to take a year off professionally.
Career
After minor television appearances in 1979 and 1980 his first major role was that of the Pilgrim in the movie Das Boot. In the following years he played with many mainly north German television productions until 1990 when finally Großstadtrevier took over the role of the police officer Dirk Matthies. He also plays one of the two lead roles, that of Kurt Brakelmann in the northern German Series News from Büttenwarder alongside his fellow actor Peter Heinrich Brix as Arthur Tönnsen. Fedder played for the ARD also in adaptations for substances of Siegfried Lenz. In the movies he starred in Fatih Akin's comedy Soul Kitchen 2009.
Alongside Fedder is since the 1970s now and then also worked as a voice actor, so among other things, in a beef and when Herbert Werner in the movies.
As compensation for his work as an actor Jan Fedder operated as the lead singer of the band Big Balls with which he 1998, the CD from Bock and 2004, the CD Fedder It does not get published.
Filmography
Movies
Series
- Since 1991: Großstadtrevier (Dirk Matthies, from episode 37)
- 1995-1999: home stories (various roles)
- 1995-1996: Leeward Islands
- Since 1997: News from Büttenwarder ( Kurt Brakelmann )
Discography
At Werner Full Rooäää! and is Beinhart later he gave the rocker Herbert his voice. In the movie Werner - Beinhart! he has several figures lent his voice. He is also involved in radio plays.