Ulrich Matthes
Ulrich Matthes ( born May 9, 1959 in Berlin ) is a German actor and voice actor.
Theater
Ulrich Matthes received his acting training in the early 1980s with Else Bongers in Berlin, who trained under other Hildegard Knef, Günter Lamprecht, Anita Kupsch, Gaby Dohm and Götz George.
At the theater he worked since the 1980s in the United Stages Krefeld / Mönchengladbach, at the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus, the Munich State Theatre, at the Munich Chamber matches, and later in Berlin at the Schaubühne place and at the Deutsches Theater and Vienna at the Burgtheater. Legendary is his two-hour Kleist evening, he worked with Hermann Beil.
Ulrich Matthes is since the 2004/ 05 season ensemble member at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin (Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Minna von Barn-helm ). Director he led before in Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening in the intimate theater of the Deutsches Theater. A role offer from Hollywood for a movie with Tom Hanks, he refused to play under the director Christian Petzold at the Deutsches Theater Berlin in Arthur Schnitzler's drama " The Lonely Way " with Nina Hoss. His father was the journalist ( columnist of the Berlin Tagesspiegel ) Günter Matthes.
Film
Ulrich Matthes appeared in numerous films. In 1995 he played in St. Nicholas Church, directed by Frank Beyer on the side by Ulrich Tukur. He also worked with the 267th Derrick sequence A little red number and in the TV production Dead Pool (1996 ) by Heinrich Breloer.
In the movies he starred in Winter Sleepers (1997 ) Runaways (1998) and Aimee and Jaguar (1999). In 2004, he played in two big movies that dealt with the Third Reich: In the Academy Award-nominated Downfall he played Joseph Goebbels alongside Corinna Harfouch as his wife. Also in 2004, he succeeded in the film The Ninth Day, directed by Volker Schlöndorff one of his most mature performance: Matthes played a Luxembourg priest in Dachau concentration camp, which is tried by the Nazis in the form of August Diehl, to take on the role of Judas. In 2008, he starred with Anna Maria Mühe in the German movie Novemberkind in the role of author Robert of mills.
Filmography
Synchronization
His distinctive voice lent Matthes also many foreign colleagues. He was for a long time the German standard voice of Kenneth Branagh (including in Henry V, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello ). In addition, he also synchronized Malcolm McDowell ( The secret of the conductor ), Charlie Sheen ( Platoon ), Ralph Fiennes ( Quiz Show) and Richard Thomas ( Im Westen nichts Neues ).
Radioplay
Among the numerous radio plays and audio books, in which Ulrich Matthes has participated as a speaker, The Lime Works by Thomas Bernhard, directed by Ulrich Gerhardt (2001) and Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov are emphasized. For his reading of Pnin Ulrich Matthes received the German Audio Book Prize 2003. He also read the novel Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides in August 2003, issued on eight CDs. In addition, Matthes Murakami novel Mister Wind-Up Bird read a total of 24 CDs with a duration of 28 hours. He gave it both the optimistic laconic attitude of the hero Toru Okada as well as the somewhat cheeky spreader chart pubertal May Kashahara vocal life. Also read Ulrich Matthes Measuring the World by Daniel Quinn. Appeared in 2008 The Castle by Franz Kafka read by Ulrich Matthes as an audio book. In the radio drama adaptations of Stieg Larsson's best-selling novels blindness and damnation ( published in November 2010), he heard as a narrator. In addition, he led, together with colleagues Hans Peter Hall wax, Sophie Rois and Nina Hoss the handset as a narrator to Orlando Gardiner and Sam Fredericks by Tad Williams' masterpiece " Otherland ".
Audiobooks (selection)
- 2006: hunger strike. by Colum McCann. Mare Publishing, ISBN 978-3-936384-65-9.
- 2007: Snow Falling on Cedars. by David Guterson. Random House Audio, ISBN 978-3-86604-754-9.
- 2009: The Spider's Web by Joseph Roth. Diogenes, ISBN 978-3-257-80257-3
- 2010 A duel. Little Roman. by Anton Chekhov. Diogenes, ISBN 978-3-257-80270-2