Lucas Prisor (born 23 September 1983) is a German

actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...

Life and career

Prisor was born in

Hannover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German States of Germany, state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the List of cities in Germany by population, 13th-largest city in Germa ...

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. During his school career he spent one year in

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. After graduating he studied acting in

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...

, before moving to

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

to work at the

Berliner Ensemble The Berliner Ensemble () is a German theatre company established by actress Helene Weigel and her husband, playwright Bertolt Brecht, in January 1949 in East Berlin. In the time after Brecht's exile, the company first worked at Wolfgang Langhoff ...

and at the

Volksbühne The Volksbühne ("People's Theatre") is a theater in Berlin. Located in Berlin's city center Mitte on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (Rosa Luxemburg Square) in what was the GDR's capital. It has been called Berlin's most iconic theatre. About The Vol ...

. He also lived in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

where he started to work with French director

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, academy award winner

Volker Schlöndorff Volker Schlöndorff (; born 31 March 1939 Friday) is a German film director, screenwriter and producer who has worked in Germany, France and the United States. He was a prominent member of the New German Cinema of the late 1960s and early 1970s, ...

and

Paul Verhoeven Paul Verhoeven (; born 18 July 1938) is a Dutch director, producer and screenwriter, active in the Netherlands, France and the United States. His blending of graphic violence and sexual content with social satire is a trademark of both his dram ...

. He lives in Berlin and Paris.

Filmography

* 2013: ''

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'' by Jean-Marc Brondolo * 2013: '' Jeune et jolie'' by

* 2013: ' by * 2014: ''Un Tour de Cheville'' by Guillaume Levil * 2014: '' Diplomacy (film)'' by

* 2014: ''

Die Pilgerin ''Die Pilgerin'' (English - ''The Female Pilgrim'') is a two-part German television film directed by Philipp Kadelbach and produced by Benjamin Benedict. It premiered on 5 and 6 January 2014 on ZDF, Zweiten Deutschen Fernsehen. Plot As a merchant ...

'' by

Philipp Kadelbach Philipp Kadelbach (born 9 September 1974, Frankfurt am Main) is a German film and television director. In discussing Kadelbach, actor Jürgen Schornagel stated "He's in the top five of the 116 directors I've worked with. He helps young people and ...

* 2015: ''Die Himmelsleiter'' by Carlo Rola * 2015: ''

Tatort ''Tatort'' ("Crime scene") is a German language police procedural television series that has been running continuously since 1970 with some 30 feature-length episodes per year, which makes it the longest-running German TV drama. Developed by ...

'' - Wer Wind erntet, sät Sturm by Florian Baxmeyer * 2015: ''Lotte Jäger und das tote Mädchen'' by

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* 2016: ''

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'' by

* 2017: ''

Un sac de billes ''A Bag of Marbles'' (french: Un sac de billes) is a Second World War autobiographical novel by the French Jewish author Joseph Joffo. It tells the story of his flight, as a small boy, with his brother Maurice to escape from Nazi occupied Franc ...

'' by Christian Duguay * 2017: ''

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'' * 2017: '' Our Patriots'' by Gabriel Le Bomin * 2017: ''

War Photographer ''War Photographer'' is a documentary by Christian Frei about the photographer James Nachtwey. As well as telling the story of an iconic man in the field of war photography, the film addresses the broader scope of ideas common to all those in ...

'' by Bernd Wunder * 2018: ''

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'' by Daphne Charizani * 2019: '' My Zoë'' by

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Theatre

* 2009: "Das Abenteuerliche Herz: Droge und Rausch" directed by

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(

) * 2009: "Trilogie der schönen Ferienzeit" directed by Claus Peymann (Berliner Ensemble) * 2009: "

Leonce and Lena ''Leonce and Lena'' (german: Leonce und Lena) is a play by German dramatist Georg Büchner (1813–1837) which is considered a comedy, but is actually a satire veiled in humor. It was written in the spring of 1836 for a competition 'for the best ...

" directed by

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(Berliner Ensemble) * 2009: "

Nathan the Wise ''Nathan the Wise'' (original German title: ', ) is a play by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing from 1779. It is a fervent plea for religious tolerance. It was never performed during Lessing's lifetime and was first performed in 1783 at the Döbbelinsch ...

" directed by Claus Peymann (Berliner Ensemble) * 2010: "

Oedipus at Colonus ''Oedipus at Colonus'' (also ''Oedipus Coloneus''; grc, Οἰδίπους ἐπὶ Κολωνῷ, ''Oidipous epi Kolōnōi'') is the last of the three Theban plays of the Athenian tragedian Sophocles. It was written shortly before Sophocles's d ...

" directed by Peter Stein (Salzburger Festspiele) * 2011: "

A Streetcar Named Desire (play) ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' is a play written by Tennessee Williams and first performed on Broadway on December 3, 1947. The play dramatizes the experiences of Blanche DuBois, a former Southern belle who, after encountering a series of person ...

" directed by Thomas Langhoff (Berliner Ensemble) * 2011: "Die Sonne" directed by

Olivier Py Olivier Py (; born 24 July 1965 in Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes) is a French stage director, actor and writer. Career In 1997, Py became director of the Centre dramatique national d'Orléans. In 2007, he became director of the Théâtre de l'Odéon ...

(Volksbühne Berlin and Odeon Theatre Paris) * 2016: "

Lear (opera) ''Lear'' is an opera in two parts with music by the German composer Aribert Reimann, and a libretto by Claus H. Henneberg, based on Shakespeare's tragedy ''King Lear''. Background and performance history Reimann wrote the title role specifically ...

" directed by

Calixto Bieito Calixto Bieito ( Miranda de Ebro, 2 November 1963) is a Spanish theater director known for his radical interpretations of classic operas. Biography Born in the small town of Miranda de Ebro, Bieito moved to Barcelona with his family when he wa ...

( Opera of Paris)

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References

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