Jens Harzer
Jens Harzer ( born March 14, 1972 in Wiesbaden ) is a German actor.
Life
Jens Harzer visited the Otto Falkenberg School in Munich. He was then taken over by Dieter Dorn, in his ensemble, he worked 16 years, first at the Munich Studio Theater and then moved to the Bavarian State Theatre in 1993. Under mandrel directorship he starred in Roberto Zucco by Koltès ( Director: Christian Stückl ), in Urfaust and Torquato Tasso by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, as well as in Amphitryon by Heinrich von Kleist, and in Martin Kusej staging the " Woyzeck ".
Another collaboration with Christian Stückl took him a year from 2001 to 2004 in Salzburg, where he " death " mimed at the local Festival in Everyman by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Through its additional role in Salzburg in 2004 in Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill wrote the Süddeutsche Zeitung, he possessed " ... James Dean qualities ... this feverish actor with the aura of a strange saint. Harzer .. watch is looking dangerous.
At the Berlinale 2006, he starred in two films: in Requiem by Hans-Christian Schmid and in the lead role of the film drama " The life insurance company " by Bülent Akinci. For the latter role, he was awarded at the International Film Festival Moscow of the Russian Film Critics ' Best Actor '.
In 2000 he was nominated as " Best Newcomer " for the Nestroy Theatre Prize. In 2003 he was awarded the Kurt Meisel Award. 2008 Harzer was chosen by the jury of the journal Theater heute together with Ulrich Matthes for " Actor of the Year ". In the same year he played in the stage version of Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky in the Salzburg production of Andrea Breth the lead role.
Since 2009, the Harz is a permanent member of the ensemble at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg. 2011 Harzer acclaim for his portrayal of the Marquis Posa in the Hamburg production of Don Carlos again as " Actor of the Year " award. Also in 2011 he played the role of Peter Handke in I Still storm, which was premiered at the Salzburg Festival.
In 2012, he spoke to Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses by James Joyce radio play, which with a maturity of more than 22 hours to go longest radio play of the SWR and one of the most elaborate productions of the ARD radio play.
Harzer was elected at the Spring Meeting of the Academy of Arts in Berlin on 25 May 2013 as the new member in the section Performing Arts.