Stephan Kampwirth (born 20 March 1967) is a German theatre and screen actor.
Biography
Kampwirth graduated from
Franz Stock
The Servant of God Franz Stock (21 September 1904, Neheim – 24 February 1948, Paris) was a German Roman Catholic priest. He is known for ministering to prisoners in France during World War II, and to German prisoners of war in the years f ...
High School in
Arnsberg
Arnsberg (; wep, Arensperg) is a town in the Hochsauerland county, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is the location of the Regierungsbezirk Arnsberg administration and one of the three local administration offices of the Hochs ...
in 1986 and then did his civilian service as an ambulance driver in
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...
. After training at the Hamburg drama studio from 1989 until 1992 under the direction of Hildburg Frese, Kampwirth worked at the
Schiller Theater
The Schiller Theater is a theatre building in Berlin, Germany. It is located in the central Charlottenburg district at Bismarckstraße 110, near Ernst-Reuter-Platz.
Opened in 1907, the building served as a second venue for the Prussian State ...
in Berlin, the
Burgtheater
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in Vienna, and the
Kammerspiele in Munich. He performed under the direction of
Leander Haußmann
Leander Haußmann (sometimes Haussmann) (; born 26 June 1959, Quedlinburg) is a German theatre and film director.
The son of actor Ezard Haußmann and costume designer Doris Haußmann, he attended the Ernst Busch theatre school in Berlin.
Hauà ...
,
Dieter Dorn
Dieter Dorn (born 31 October 1935 in Leipzig) is a German theatre director, also for the opera, the manager of the Münchner Kammerspiele from 1983 to 2001 and now manager of the Bavarian Staatsschauspiel.
Career
Dieter Dorn studied at the Theat ...
,
Georg Ringsgwandl, and
Helmut Griem
Helmut Griem (6 April 1932 – 19 November 2004) was a German film, television and stage actor, and director.
Biography
Born in Hamburg, Griem was primarily a stage actor, appearing at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, the Deutsches Schauspielhaus ...
.
His film and television career began in the early 1990s with smaller roles in television series such as ''
Großstadtrevier
''Großstadtrevier'' (roughly ''(Big) City Police Station'') is a German television series, broadcast on Germany's Das Erste of the ARD. First aired on 16 December 1986, the show is one of the most popular television series in the country. It fo ...
'', ''
Wolffs Revier
''Wolffs Revier'' is a German television series.
See also
*List of German television series
The following is a list of television series produced in Germany:
Current
Drama
* ''4 Blocks'' (TNT Serie, 2017–2019)
* ''Alarm für Cobra 11 â ...
'', and ''
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 ...
''. He became known to a wider audience with the television miniseries ''Ein unmöglicher Mann'' and the film version of
Amelie Fried's novel ''Der Mann von Nebenan'', in which he played the role of Lukas Lander. Kampwirth has been part of the
Hamburg Kammerspiele
The Hamburg Kammerspiele (German: ''Hamburger Kammerspiele'') is a private theatre in Rotherbaum, Hamburg, Germany, in the borough of Eimsbüttel
Eimsbüttel () is one of the seven boroughs (Bezirke) of Hamburg, Germany. In 2020 the population ...
ensemble in his adopted home of Hamburg since 2007. From 2013 until 2015, he played Dr. Bode in the television series ''Lerchenberg''.
In 2016, he played the role of Walter Richter in the film adaptation of
Peter Stamm
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's ''
Agnes'', next to , who portrayed the titular role.
Since 2017, Kampwirth has held one of the lead roles in the
Netflix
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science fiction series ''
Dark
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Human vision is unable to distinguish colors in conditions of very low lum ...
'', that of Peter Doppler.
Selected filmography
Film
Television
Awards
*
Bavarian Art Award in the field of "performing arts" (1998)
* "Expression en corto" festival, "Best Actor" for ''Die Ãœberraschung'' (2005)
* "Concorto" festival, short film category, "Best Actor" for ''Die Ãœberraschung'' (2006)
* Rolf Mares Prize, Outstanding Performance Actor/Singer/Dancer category, for the portrayal of Sebastian in ''Wir lieben und wissen nichts'' at the
Hamburg Kammerspiele
The Hamburg Kammerspiele (German: ''Hamburger Kammerspiele'') is a private theatre in Rotherbaum, Hamburg, Germany, in the borough of Eimsbüttel
Eimsbüttel () is one of the seven boroughs (Bezirke) of Hamburg, Germany. In 2020 the population ...
(2013)
References
External links
*
Stephan Kampwirth at filmportal.deStephan Kampwirth at Lambsdorff talent agency
1967 births
Living people
German male film actors
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