Carlo Ljubek (born 21 May 1976) is a Croatian-German actor.
Life
Carlo Ljubek was born as a son of Croatian migrants in
Bocholt, Germany. He graduated after his actor's training 2002 in
Munich
Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...
, Germany at the Otto-Falckenberg-School. At the intimate theatre of Munich (), which is affiliated to the school he performed among other plays in Shakespeares ''
What You Will''. He then performed at the , Germany from 2002 to 2007. Since summer 2007 he is employed at the playhouse Cologne (), where he was very successfully seen as Siegfried (Nibelungen saga) and Jason ("The
Golden Fleece").
After a few appearances on German TV he further played in movie productions, such as Sherry Hormans "
Guys and Balls" or Stefan Komandarev's "
The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner" (based on the novel of
Ilija Trojanow)
He is married to the actress
Maja Schöne and they have a daughter.
/nowiki>">">[2
/nowiki>/sup>
Theater
1999 to 2002, Muenchner Kammerspiele
* ''Golem'', director: Carsten Dane, Christopher Blenkinsop
* ''Twelfth Night'' (or '' What You Will'') (Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's natio ...
), director: Erich Siedler
* , director: Dominik Flaschka
2002 to 2007, Staatstheater Wiesbaden
* ''A Midsummer Night's Dream
''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' is a Comedy (drama), comedy play written by William Shakespeare in about 1595 or 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One s ...
'' (Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's natio ...
), director: Manfred Beilharz, role: Lysander
* ''Don Carlos
''Don Carlos'' is an 1867 five-act grand opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi to a French-language libretto by Joseph Méry and Camille du Locle, based on the 1787 play '' Don Karlos, Infant von Spanien'' (''Don Carlos, Infante of Spain'') by Fried ...
'' (Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (, short: ; 10 November 17599 May 1805) was a German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian. Schiller is considered by most Germans to be Germany's most important classical playwright.
He was born i ...
), director: András Fricsay
András Fricsay (born András Fricsay Kali Son; 2 April 1942 – 19 November 2024) was a German actor and director. Born in Szeged, Hungary on 2 April 1942, he died in Gais, Switzerland, at the age of 82.Hamlet
''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play. Set in Denmark, the play (the ...
'' (Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's natio ...
), director: Tilman Gersch, role: Hamlet
* (Coline Serreau
Coline Serreau (born 29 October 1947) is a French people, French actress, film director and writer.
Early life and education
She was born in Paris, ), director: Pavel Mikulastik, roles: policeman 1, narrator, little soldier
* (John von Düffel), director: Beat Fäh role: Manuel
* ''Leonce and Lena
''Leonce and Lena'' () is a play by German dramatist Georg Büchner (1813–1837); while considered a comedy, it is a satire veiled in humor. Written in the spring of 1836 for a competition 'for the best one- or two-act comedy in prose or verse' ...
'' (Georg Büchner
Karl Georg Büchner (17 October 1813 – 19 February 1837) was a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose, considered part of the Young Germany movement. He was also a revolutionary and the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchn ...
), director: Tilman Gersch, role: Leonce
* (Wassilij Sigarew), director: Rüdiger Burbach, role: Maxim
* '' What You Will'' (Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's natio ...
), director: Tillmann Gersch, roles: Fabian, Sebastian
2007 to 2009 playhouse Cologne
* ( Friedrich Hebbel), director: Karin Beier, roles: Siegfried, Etzels footman
* ''The Misanthrope
''The Misanthrope, or the Cantankerous Lover'' (; ) is a 17th-century comedy of manners in verse written by Molière. It was first performed on 4 June 1666 at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré), Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Paris by ...
'' (Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (; 15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière (, ; ), was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world liter ...
), director: Karin Henkel, role: Philinte
* ''The Golden Fleece'' (Franz Grillparzer
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer (15 January 1791 – 21 January 1872) was an Austrian writer who was considered to be the leading Austrian dramatist of the 19th century. His plays were and are frequently performed at the Burgtheater in Vienna. He ...
), director: Karin Beier, roles: Jason, Phryxus
* ''Faust
Faust ( , ) is the protagonist of a classic German folklore, German legend based on the historical Johann Georg Faust (). The erudite Faust is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a deal with the Devil at a ...
'' Teil 1 (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang (von) Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on Western literature, literary, Polit ...
), director: Laurent Chétouane
* (Juli Zeh
Juli Zeh (, Julia Barbara Finck, née Zeh; born 30 June 1974) is a German writer and judge. She is known for novels such as '' The Method'' (2009), '' Unterleuten'' (2016) and '' About People'' (2021).
Early life and education
Juli Zeh is the da ...
), director: Jette Steckel, role: Alev
Film / TV
* 2000: (short)
* 2000:
* 2001:
* 2004:
Going Home
'
* 2004:
* 2004: '' Guys and Balls''
* 2004: '' Off Beat''
* 2005: ''Gisela''
* 2005:
* 2006:
* 2006:
* 2006:
* 2004:
* 2004: ''Lulu''
* 2006:
* 2006:
* 2007:
* 2007: '' The World is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner''
* 2007: (written by Bernd Eichinger)
* 2008:
* 2008: (short)
* 2008:
* 2009:
* 2010: ''Shahada
The ''Shahada'' ( ; , 'the testimony'), also transliterated as ''Shahadah'', is an Islamic oath and creed, and one of the Five Pillars of Islam and part of the Adhan. It reads: "I bear witness that there is no Ilah, god but God in Islam, God ...
''
* 2013: ''West
West is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth.
Etymology
The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some Romance langu ...
''
* 2017: ''Luna
Luna commonly refers to:
* Earth's Moon, named "Luna" in Latin, Spanish and other languages
* Luna (goddess)
In Sabine and ancient Roman religion and myth, Luna is the divine embodiment of the Moon (Latin ''Lūna'' ). She is often presented as t ...
''
* 2024: '' Every You Every Me''
External links
www.ljubek-fan.de first and only fan homepage
*
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ljubek, Carlo
1976 births
Living people
People from Bocholt, Germany
German people of Croatian descent
German male stage actors
German male television actors
German male film actors
Male actors from North Rhine-Westphalia