Stephan Kampwirth (born 20 March 1967) is a German theatre and screen actor.
Biography
Kampwirth graduated from
Franz Stock High School in
Arnsberg
Arnsberg (; ) is a town in the Hochsauerland county, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is the location of the Regierungsbezirk Arnsberg (region), Arnsberg administration and one of the three local administration offices of the Ho ...
in 1986 and then did his civilian service as an ambulance driver in
Munich
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. 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 Konzerthaus Berl ...
in Berlin, the
Burgtheater
The Burgtheater (; literally: "Castle Theater" but alternatively translated as "(Imperial) Court Theater", originally known as '' K.K. Theater an der Burg'', then until 1918 as the ''K.K. Hofburgtheater'', is the national theater of Austria in ...
in Vienna, and the
Kammerspiele in Munich. He performed under the direction of
Leander Haußmann
Leander Haußmann (sometimes Haussmann) (; born 26 June 1959) is a German theatre and film director.
The son of actor Ezard Haußmann and costume designer Doris Haußmann, he was born in Quedlinburg and attended the Ernst Busch theatre school in ...
,
Dieter Dorn,
Georg Ringsgwandl
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* ''Georg'' (film), 1997
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See also
* George (disambiguation)
George may refer to:
...
, 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 Schauspielha ...
.
His film and television career began in the early 1990s with smaller roles in television series such as ''
Großstadtrevier'', ''
Wolffs Revier
is a German crime drama television series broadcast from 1992 to 2006, about chief inspector of police Andreas Wolff, who works in Berlin's homicide department. The series, which won a Grimme-Preis award, consists of 173 episodes in 13 season ...
'', and ''
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 ...
''. 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 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 luminance because the hue-sensitive photoreceptor cells on the retina are ...
'', 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 Überraschung'' (2005)
* "Concorto" festival, short film category, "Best Actor" for ''Die Überraschung'' (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 (2013)
References
External links
*
Stephan Kampwirth at filmportal.deStephan Kampwirth at Lambsdorff talent agency
1967 births
Living people
German male film actors
Male actors from North Rhine-Westphalia
People from Arnsberg
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