Oliver Rohrbeck

Oliver Rohrbeck ( born March 21, 1965 in Berlin ) is a German actor who is mainly active as a radio play, synchronous and audiobook speaker. In addition, he acts as a dialogue director and dialogue author. Rohrbeck was known primarily for his role as the first detective Justus Jonas in the appearing since 1979 Europe radio play series The Three Investigators. Since 1998 Rohrbeck is the solid German dubbing voice of American actor Ben Stiller. He is the founder and managing director of Berlin-based label radio play and live organizer Lauscherlounge.

Life

Oliver Rohrbeck, whose mother was the owner of a children's agency, grew up with his older sister Ute on in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg. Like his later three? Colleague Andreas Fröhlich he first attended the Forest School and following the Erich - Hoepner High School. Already at that time joined the two on friendly terms. In the 11th grade Oliver Rohrbeck left upper secondary school and moved to the private drama school by Erika Dannhoff. Already in his early youth he joined the ZDF series on Peter 's the Boss (1972 ) and Sesame Street (1973) and took over the further course numerous synchronous and radio drama roles. Together with other children speakers he was in the 1976 moderated by Frank Elstner rapid rate consignment The Pictionary guest. There he was up against a group of children of the NDR School Radio, which also includes his later three? Colleague Jens Wawrczeck belonged. 1976/77 was Oliver Rohrbeck national winner at the German reading competition. During his school years, he acted in the theater, including in addition to Bernhard Minetti and Curt Bois in the role of air spirit Ariel in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest at Berlin's Schiller Theater. After finishing her acting examination he was from 1984 to 1991 worked at the Berlin vagrants stage and the Berlin grandstand in several plays by writers such as Franz Xaver Kroetz, Athol Fugard and Jean Genet. He also took roles in television productions such as A Class of (1984) and Didi - in The Goodbye Girl ( 1985-1986).

Radio plays

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Oliver Rohrbeck worked from mid-1970s, initially in several radio plays the Swedish children's author Astrid Lindgren. In 1978, he dubbed Marcus Harris as Julian Kirrin in the Youth Adventure Series Five and was subsequently used for the same radio play version of Europe, to which is based, like the TV series on the novels by Enid Blyton. Through this collaboration, producer Heikedine Körting offered the then 13 -year-old starred in the detective series The Three Investigators, which became in the following decades the world's most successful radio play series. Since 1979 Rohrbeck is heard alongside Andreas Fröhlich as Bob Andrews and Jens Wawrczeck as Peter Shaw in all previously published sequences in the role of the first detective Justus Jonas. Under the program, a Master of Chess, he played with his colleagues in the years 2002 and 2003, a nationwide tour, during which the eponymous storyteller was staged live. In October 2004, joined the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the series with the first episode of The Super Parrot an appearance at the sold out Color Line Arena in Hamburg. A new stage version entitled The Curious Alarm Clock - Live and Ticking led the trio in the fall of 2009, thirty years after the publication of the debut episode, again at various venues in Germany with a total of more than 100 000 visitors. In August 2010, the ensemble surpassed in the Berlin forest stage with over 15 000 spectators his own world record as the biggest live radio play.

In addition to his starring roles Rohrbeck has been involved over the last decades in many other radio drama productions, including as a sailor Sinbad and Little Muck in the same radio play versions of Europe and solid supporting characters such as Sheriff Freddy in Bibi and Tina ( Kiddinx, since 1991) and coach Norbert in The Devil's Kickers (Europe, since 2005).

Synchronization

In addition to his radio play activity, Oliver Rohrbeck established in the profession of film dubbing also early as child's voice. At the age of seven years before he was able to read, he was inducted alongside Harald Juhnke and Georg Thomalla in the re-release of Disney's Pinocchio 1940 for the first time shown for the setting of the main character of the same name (1973). In the same year, the re-release of the animated feature film Bambi followed, in which he dubbed the young rabbit Thumper. Among his most famous operations during the 1970s also include starring roles such as Svante ' Smidge ' Svantesson in Karlsson on the Roof (1974 ), the little dragon Grisu in the eponymous animated series (1977 ), the Strauss Benny and the warthog Mixed Pickle in Kimba (1977 ), Karl ' crumbs ' Lion in The Brothers Lionheart (1977) and Julian Kirrin at Five (1978). In the literary adaptation The Crocodiles Oliver Rohrbeck replaced the voice of the child actress Birgit Komanns that embodied a need of the wheelchair boy in her role as Kurt Wolfermann.

After several theater roles such as Robert MacNaughton in ET - The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and C. Thomas Howell in The Outsiders (1983 ) earned him the occupation of Malcolm-Jamal Warner as Theo Huxtable in the 201 -part sitcom The Cosby Show (1987-1992) a multi-year commitment. With the successful lawyer series Ally McBeal (1998-2002), which was awarded, among others, with the German Prize for synchronous, Oliver Rohrbeck was able to score the German voice of narcissistic firm boss Richard Fish, who was portrayed in the original by Greg Germann. Since Something About Mary ( 1998) Rohrbeck is the German voice of the hard especially comedic embossed U.S. actor Ben Stiller. In addition, he is recurrently occupied on Michael Rapaport or Chris Rock. The nominees for the Golden Globe 3D Animation Comedy I - Despicable Me (2010) he was heard as the protagonist Gru in the German cinemas.

At the beginning of the 2000s shifted Rohrbeck its focus in the areas of dialogue book and Dubbing studio. He is responsible for such the German versions of the biopics Ray (2004) and Walk the Line (2005), the animated films Over the Hedge (2006) and Horton Hears a Who! ( 2008), and the Gilmore Girls ( 2000-2007) responsible. Dubbing studio he also conducted in movies like The Green Mile (1999), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ( 2005) and The Devil Wears Prada (2006).

In 2013 released animated film I - Despicable Me 2 spoke Rohrbeck again the role of Gru

Audiobooks and live readings

Since 2003, Oliver Rohrbeck runs his own label Lauscherlounge and since 2007 the Hörspielstudio Xberg based in Berlin. He organized nationwide staged readings and live radio plays to an audience. Together with Detlef Bierstedt he denies, among other things, the Prima Vista readings, in which the duo recites texts brought the audience improvising. Fixed venues include the Old Canteen of Berlin's cultural brewery, the Berlin club SO36 and the Cologne Gloria Theater.

As an audiobook spokesman Rohrbeck interpreted inter alia, the seven- novel series The Keys to the Kingdom by Garth Nix (2006-2010), A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (2007), Shutter Iceland by Dennis Lehane (2009), Theo Boone and the invisible witness by John Grisham (2010) and Papillon by Henri Charriere ( 2011). For his reading The Knife Queen of Neil Gaiman 2008 he was awarded the ear canoes.

Private life

Oliver Rohrbeck lives in Berlin. He is the father of two daughters. His daughter Leyla Rohrbeck is also active as a synchronous and radio speaker. His older sister is the former synchronous and radio spokesperson Ute Rohrbeck, who also participated Five friends in the role of Anne Kirrin in the youth series. Oliver Rohrbeck since 1977 Fan of the Berlin football club Hertha BSC.

Guest appearances

• In the published 1999 debut album Zeitgeist of the music project Schiller Rohrbeck is involved with two guest appearances in the songs of happiness and fulfillment and zeitgeist. On the album Everything in Black (2005) the band Montreal he said comments in the style of his master role Justus Jonas between the individual pieces. He also set to music a written specifically for this purpose text on the download single The year in which I slept ( 2009), the punk rock band Jupiter Jones.
• In the 2003's first episode of the comedy radio drama project The Holiday band, The Holiday band and the horrific holiday, Rohrbeck took in a guest role his image as a well-known voice of youth radio plays of the 1980s, even ironically 's grain.
• In May 2006, he completed a guest appearance as Marshall Justus Jonas in Episode 13 From the other side of the series Alli Mania game, set in the world of online role-playing game World of Warcraft. There he confronts the Alliance as Marshall Jonas before, in allusion to his famous radio play figure. Another allusion are the three question mark hovering above his head. Normally, only a single question mark over a non -player character appears, unless it can be stopped at this one task.
• In the three? - The Secret of Skeleton Island (2007), the first big screen adaptation of the three young detectives to see Oliver Rohrbeck in a cameo as hotel guests. For the German version, he wrote the book and dialogue led dialogue director.
• As of July 2006 synchronized Rohrbeck Justin Long as Macintosh computers in the German edition of "Get a Mac " ad campaign from Apple.

Filmography as an actor

Nominations

• 2012: The Hörkulino for Schafgäääng by Christine and Christopher Russell

Awards

For his work as a radio speaker, especially in connection with the Three Investigators, Rohrbeck has won numerous awards, including gold and platinum records for over 42 million records sold since 1979 as well as a Guinness certificate for the world record as the biggest live radio play. In addition, he received several awards radio play and the ear canoes 2008 in the category " best reading " (Adult) for The Knife Queen of Neil Gaiman.

Swell

• Thomas Groom: Stars and their German voices. Encyclopedia of voice actors. Stoke Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 3-89472-627- X.
• Jörn Radtke and Christian Boermann: The three? - 30 years of radio play cult. Falcon Media Verlag, Kiel 2009, ISBN 978-3981117189.