Axel Ranisch (born 30 June 1983 in Berlin) is a German actor, film and television director and author.

Life

Ranisch lived in his childhood in Berlin- Lichtenberg. He studied until 2004 theatre pedagogy in Flecken Zechlin. From 2004 to 2011 Ranisch studied at

Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg The Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg (German: ''Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf'') is the oldest and largest film school in Germany. The university offers undergraduate, graduate, as well as post-graduate studies in all fields o ...

. Ranisch works as film and theatre director and as actor in different film, theatre and tv-productions in Germany. Ranisch shot the film ''Pink Children'' (2012) together with 4 German directors about their mentor Rosa von Praunheim. In 2018, he published as author the book ''Nackt über Berlin''. In 2016, he married his partner Paul in Berlin.

Filmography

Director

Short films

* 2004: Rhythmus im Kopf * 2005: Hollbüllhuus * 2008: Liebe Liebe… * 2010: Diego Alonso

Cinema & television

* 2008: Der will nur spielen! * 2008: Glioblastom * 2011: Dicke Mädchen * 2012: Pink Children * 2013: Ich fühl mich Disco * 2013: Reuber * 2015: Alki Alki * 2015: Löwenzahn * 2016: Familie Lotzmann auf den Barrikaden * 2016: Tatort: Babbeldasch ( Lena Odenthal- Tatort; SWR) * 2017: Tatort: Waldlust (Lena Odenthal Tatort; SWR) * 2018: Löwenzahn

Actor

Television

* 2007: Sechs tote Studenten (director: Rosa von Praunheim) * 2009: Résiste – Aufstand der Praktikanten (director:

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) * 2009: Meine Daten und ich (director: Philipp Eichholtz) * 2011: Papa Gold (auch Schnitt) (director: Tom Lass) * 2011: Wie man leben soll (director: David Schalko) * 2012: (director: Isabel Kleefeld) * 2013: Axel und Peter – Titten für Arsch (director: Rosa von Praunheim) * 2014: Zorn – Tod und Regen ( 1. Teil der Serie ''Zorn'', director: Mark Schlichter) * 2014: Liebe mich! (director: Philipp Eichholtz) * 2015: Zorn – Vom Lieben und Sterben (director: Mark Schlichter) * 2015: Zorn – Wo kein Licht (director

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) * 2016: Zorn – Wie sie töten (director: Jochen Alexander Freydank) * 2017: Zorn – Kalter Rauch (director:

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) * 2017: Blind & Hässlich (director: Tom Lass) * 2019: ''Familie Lotzmann auf den Barrikaden''

Theatre

* 2009: ''A Clockwork Orange'' by Anthony Burgess at Brandenburger Jugendtheater, Co-Regie, together with Christiane Ziehl * 2013: ''The Bear'' by William Walton & '' La voix humaine'' from

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at Bayerischen Staatsoper (Spielstätte: Kino Theatiner Film) * 2014: ''George'' (UA) Komische Oper in three acts, with a prolog and an epilog. music from

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, libretto from ''Axel Ranisch'', a production from Danya Segal and Theater für Niedersachsen in cooperation with Niedersächsische Musiktage and KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen * 2015: ''Pinocchio'' by Pierangelo Valtinoni at Bayerische Staatsoper ( Reithalle) * 2018: ''Konrad oder Das Kind aus der Konservenbüchse'' by

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* 2018: ''

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'' from Joseph Haydn at Bayerischen Staatsoper ( Prinzregententheater) * 2018: '' Die Liebe zu drei Orangen'' from Sergei Prokofjew at Staatsoper Stuttgart * 2019: '' Mavra'' from Igor Strawinsky & ''Jolanthe'' by Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski at Bayerische Staatsoper (Cuvilliés-Theater)

Writer

* ''Nackt über Berlin'', Ullstein fünf Verlag, Berlin 2018. 384 pagesDeutschlandfunk.de: Axel Ranisch gewinnt den Debütpreis der Lit.Cologne
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References

External links

Official website by Axel Ranisch

Mitteldeutsche Zeitung.de: Zwischen den „Zorn“-Drehs auf Geheim-Mission Hochzeit

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