Jens Harzer (born 14 March 1972) is a German stage, film, and television actor. He began his career at the Munich Kammerspiele, and has been a member of the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg since 2009. He has appeared at the Salzburg Festival regularly since 2000. Harzer received prizes for roles on stage, in film and on television. He has been the bearer of the Iffland-Ring since March 2019.
Jens Harzer | |
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 Harzer in 2017 | |
| Born | 14 March 1972 |
| Education | Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1995–present |
| Organizations | |
| Awards | Iffland-Ring |
Career
editBorn in Wiesbaden, he was trained as an actor at the Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts in Munich.[1] From 1993 to 2009 he was a member of the ensemble of Dieter Dorn, first at the Munich Kammerspiele and then at the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel.[2] He played the title roles of Roberto Zucco by Bernard-Marie Koltès, staged by Christian Stückl, Goethe's Urfaust and Torquato Tasso, Kleist's Amphitryon and Büchner's Woyzeck, staged by Martin Kušej.[2] Harzer has been a member of the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg since 2009.[3][4]
Since 2000, Harzer has been a regular guest at the Salzburg Festival.[2] Again in a production staged by Stückl, he played the role of Death in Hofmannsthal's Jedermann. In 2008 there, Harzer played the leading role in a staged version of Dostoevsky's Verbrechen und Strafe, staged by Andrea Breth. In 2011, he played the role of Ich in the world premiere of Peter Handke's Immer noch Sturm at the Festival.[5]
Harzer has appeared in 15 films since 1995. At the 56th Berlin International Film Festival in 2006, he performed in two films, Requiem by Hans-Christian Schmid and, in the title role, the drama Der Lebensversicherer by Bülent Akıncı.[2] He won the Silver George for Best Actor at the 28th Moscow International Film Festival for the latter film.[6]
Harzer was named by Bruno Ganz to be his successor as bearer of the Republic of Austria's Iffland-Ring, traditionally bestowed upon the "most significant and most worthy actor of the German-speaking theatre" in the opinion of the previous bearer.[3][7][8][9] Harzer was awarded the ring in a ceremony at the Burgtheater in June 2019, four months after Ganz's death.[10][11][12]
Awards
editHarzer has received several awards, including:[2]
- 1996: Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis in the category Performing Art
- 1996: Berliner Kunstpreis of the Akademie der Künste (Förderpreis)
- 2003: Kurt-Meisel-Preis for excellent acting, by the association Verein der Freunde des Bayrischen Staatsschauspiels
- 2006: Silver George of the Moscow International Film Festival as Best actor for Der Lebensversicherer
- 2008: Actor of the Year, critics' selection by Theater heute, for Onkel Wanja
- 2011: Actor of the year, for Don Carlos
- 2015: Theaterpreis Hamburg – Rolf Mares for the role Friedrich Wetter Graf vom Strahl in Das Käthchen von Heilbronn at the Thalia Theater
- 2017: Hessischer Fernsehpreis for Tatort Amour Fou
- 2019: Iffland-Ring[8][13]
Memberships
edit- 2005 Member of the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste[14]
- 2012 Member of the Freie Akademie der Künste Hamburg[15]
- 2013 Member of the Akademie der Künste Berlin[2]
Filmography
editFilms with Harzer have included:[2]
- Hades (1995)
- Der Lebensversicherer (2006)
- Requiem (2006)
- Same Same But Different (2009)
- Boy 7 (2015)
- The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez (2016)
- Long Live Death (Tatort: Es lebe der Tod) (2016)
- Babylon Berlin (2017)
References
edit- ^ "Iffland-Ring für Jens Harzer – Bruno Ganz war sein Idol". Die Zeit (in German). Hamburg. 22 March 2019. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Darstellende Kunst – Mitglieder: Jens Harzer". Akademie der Künste (in German). Berlin. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
- ^ a b "Iffland-Ring geht an Jens Harzer". Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). Munich. 22 March 2019. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
- ^ Kern, Ingolf (11 January 2008). "Jens Harzer sucht eine neue Heimat". Die Welt (in German). Berlin. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
- ^ Wie soll man denn das bitte spielen? In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, 14 August 2011, p. 23.
- ^ "28th Moscow International Film Festival (2006)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 21 April 2013. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
- ^ Affenzeller, Margarete (22 March 2019). "Deutscher Schauspieler Jens Harzer erhält den Iffland-Ring". Der Standard (in German). Vienna. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
- ^ a b Strauß, Simon (22 March 2019). "Jens Harzer bekommt den Iffland-Ring". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Frankfurt. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
- ^ Dürr, Anke (24 March 2019). "Er zerrt an den Worten, dehnt, singt und zelebriert sie". Der Spiegel (in German). Hamburg. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
- ^ Petsch, Barbara (17 June 2019). "Iffland-Ring: "Ein begnadeter Schauspieler ist etwas Gewaltiges"". Die Presse (in German). Vienna. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
- ^ Hilpold, Stephan (16 June 2019). "Iffland-Ring an Jens Harzer: Der Würdigste der Begnadeten". Der Standard (in German). Vienna. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
- ^ Rogers, Thomas (12 June 2019). "Is This Ring an Honor, or a Curse?". The New York Times. New York City. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
- ^ Lottmann, Joachim (16 June 2019). "Und dann rollt der unschätzbar wertvolle Iffland-Ring über das Parkett". Die Welt (in German). Berlin. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
- ^ "Ordentliche Mitglieder". www.badsk.de. München: Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste. 2018. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
- ^ "Mitglieder". Freie Akademie der Künste Hamburg. Hamburg. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
External links
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- Literature by and about Jens Harzer in the German National Library catalogue
- Jens Harzer at IMDb