Axel Ranisch (born 30 June 1983 in

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) is a German

actor An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

, film and television director and author.

Life

Ranisch spent his childhood in Berlin-

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. He studied

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in Flecken Zechlin until 2004. 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 a film and theatre director, and as an actor in different film, theatre and TV productions in Germany. Ranisch shot the film ''Pink Children'' (2012) with 4 other German directors about their mentor

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. In 2018, he published and authored 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: ' * 2012: '' Pink Children'' * 2013: ' * 2013: '' Reuber'' * 2015: ' * 2015: ''

Löwenzahn ''Löwenzahn'' (''Dandelion'') is a children's television series produced and aired by German public broadcaster ZDF on German television. Originally conceived and hosted by Peter Lustig, the first episode aired on 7 January 1979, then titled '' ...

'' * 2016: ''Familie Lotzmann auf den Barrikaden'' * 2016: ''

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

: Babbeldasch'' ( Lena Odenthal

; SWR) * 2017: ''Tatort: Waldlust'' (Lena Odenthal Tatort; SWR) * 2018: ''Löwenzahn''

Actor

Television

* 2007: ''Sechs tote Studenten'' (director:

) * 2009: '' Résiste – Aufstand der Praktikanten'' (director: Jonas Grosch) * 2009: '' Meine Daten und ich'' (director: Philipp Eichholtz) * 2011: ' (also editing) (director: ) * 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 Christoph Schnee) * 2016: '' Zorn – Wie sie töten'' (director: Jochen Alexander Freydank) * 2017: '' Zorn – Kalter Rauch'' (director: Andreas Herzog) * 2017: '' Blind & Hässlich'' (director: Tom Lass) * 2019: ''Familie Lotzmann auf den Barrikaden''

Theatre

* 2009: ''A Clockwork Orange'' by

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at Brandenburger Jugendtheater, Co-Regie, together with Christiane Ziehl * 2013: ''The Bear'' by

William Walton Sir William Turner Walton (29 March 19028 March 1983) was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera. His best-known works include ''Façade'', the cantat ...

& '' 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 Christine Nöstlinger at Theater an der Parkaue * 2018: ''

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'' from Joseph Haydn at Bayerischen Staatsoper (

Prinzregententheater The Prinzregententheater, or, as it was called in its first decades, the Prinz-Regenten-Theater, in English the Prince Regent Theatre, is a concert hall and opera house on Prinzregentenplatz in the Bavarian capital of Munich, Germany. Building ...

) * 2018: '' Die Liebe zu drei Orangen'' from Sergei Prokofjew at

Staatsoper Stuttgart The Staatsoper Stuttgart (Stuttgart State Opera) is a German opera company based in Stuttgart, the capital of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The Staatsorchester Stuttgart serves as its resident orchestra. History Performances of operas, ballet an ...

* 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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