Bastian Semm (born 26 September 1979 in

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) is a German actor.

Life and career

Bastian Semm was born in 1979 in Bochum and grew up there until he graduated from high school in 1999. He studied drama at the University of Music and Theatre ''Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy'' in Leipzig and was firmly committed at the Theater Basel until 2009. He played ''Octavian'' in Shakespeare's ''

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''. In 2009 he was awarded with the Rosenthal Talent Award for his portrayal of "

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" at the ''Luisenburg Festival'' in Wunsiedel. At the ''Theatre of Heidelberg'' he was seen in the plays ''Lennon'' and ''East of Eden''. In the summer of 2011 he played the role of Hamlet at the Bad Hersfelder Festspiele for which he gained the Hersfeld-Preis. Since 2011 he is touring through Germany with ''CASH - a singer of songs'' a musical program on the life of actor and singer

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In the summer of 2012, he played again at the Luisenburg Festival, this time in the theater production of ''

Romeo and Juliet ''Romeo and Juliet'' is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about the romance between two Italian youths from feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetim ...

'' as Romeo. Since June 2013 Bastian Semm is playing the new Störtebeker in

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on the island of Rügen at the

Störtebeker Festival The Störtebeker Festival (german: Störtebeker-Festspiele) is an yearly open-air theatre festival in Germany. It is based on stories around the medieval German privateer Klaus Störtebeker and his Victual Brothers, who later turned to pirates. ...

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(PDF; 10,5 MB) stoertebeker.de, retrieved 24 July 2013.

Awards

* 2009: Rosenthal Talent Award for the role of "Peer Gynt" * 2011: Hersfeld-Preis for the title role in "Hamlet"

Theater roles (selection)

* 2009: Peer Gynt (Luisenburg Festival) as Peer Gynt * 2011: Hamlet Bad Hersfelder Festspiele as Hamlet * 2012: Romeo & Juliet (Luisenburg Festival) as Romeo * 2013:

as Störtebeker

Filmography (selection)

* 2004: ''Das Abenteuer Freiheit'' * 2004: '' Tatort - Friedhof'' (TV-series) * 2004: '' Hallo Robbie!'' (TV-series) * 2005: ''Eine Chance für die Liebe'' * 2006: ''City for Ransom'' * 2014: ''Winnetous Sohn'' * 2015: '' Verbotene Liebe'' (TV-series)

External links

*
Homepage of Bastian Semm

CASH - a singer of songs

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Semm, Bastian 1979 births Living people 21st-century German male actors Male actors from Bochum German male film actors German male stage actors German male television actors