Oliver Stokowski

Geboren 1962 in Kassel, studierte Oliver Stokowski dort zuerst Musik, bevor er sein Schauspielstudium an der Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Graz absolvierte. Anschließend wurde er Ensemblemitglied am Staatstheater Hannover. Von 1993 bis 2001 war er Ensemblemitglied am Residenztheater, spielte u. a. den Hamlet inszeniert von Matthias Hartmann und erhielt 1999 den Kurt-Meisel-Preis der Freunde des Residenztheaters.

Im ZDF war er von 2001 bis 2005 «Der Ermittler» in der gleichnamigen Hamburger Krimi-Reihe, wofür er den Deutschen Schauspielerpreis bekam. Er spielte in der amerikanischen Krimireihe «Crossing Lines» und in der Hollywoodproduktion «The Bookthief» an der Seite von Geoffrey Rush und Emily Watson.

2014 erhielt er den Grimmepreis und zum zweiten Mal den Deutschen Schauspielerpreis für «Zeit der Helden». Es folgten Engagements am Schauspielhaus Bochum und am Schauspielhaus Zürich, bevor er 2013 Ensemblemitglied am Burgtheater in Wien wurde. Er arbeitete u. a. mit Jürgen Gosch, Klaus Emmerich, Hans Neuenfels, Leander Haußmann, David Bösch, Roland Schimmelpfennig, Alvis Hermanis und Andrea Breth zusammen. Seit der Spielzeit 2019/2020 ist er erneut festes Ensemblemitglied am Residenztheater.

 

 

Performing in

One stormy night in 1836, Hans Christian Andersen arrives uninvited at the home of his childhood friend Edvard Collin, who is to marry his fiancée Henriette the next day. Andersen has travelled through the wind and the rain to once again confess his love for Edvard. The family provide a frosty reception and the groom himself is out celebrating his last night as a bachelor. Only Henriette feels attracted to the unconventional charm of their guest, who lives in a fantasy world continually surrounded by characters from his own fairy tales. He magically transforms a sober room into a sparkling underwater landscape and castles of otherworldly beauty. And he starts telling his friend’s fiancée the fairy tale of The Little Mermaid: burning with love for a Prince, she wishes to become human and is willing to sacrifice her voice and her home to do so – risking her life.

Andersens Erzählungen (Andersen’s stories)
Residenztheater, 19.30 o'clock
Sat 26 Oct
Residenztheater, 18.30 o'clock
Fri 01 Nov
Residenztheater, 19.30 o'clock
Sat 09 Nov
Residenztheater, 19.30 o'clock
Fri 22 Nov
Gastspiel, 19.30 o'clock
Fri 29 Nov
Gastspiel, 16.00 o'clock
Sat 30 Nov

With «Success», we journey into the inner workings of a society in which everything is measured in terms of personal career advantage, the demands of embittered contemporaries, hatred of one’s neighbours, anger at those with a different political opinion and one’s own lack of any sense of direction.

Erfolg (Success)

New York City in the final months of the Obama Presidency. While the writer Toby Darling feverishly awaits the premiere of his play, his partner Eric Glass spends time with his acquaintance Walter. His conversations with the 55-year-old take Eric back to a past which as a gay man in his early thirties he only knows from hearsay: the devastating AIDS epidemic that rocked the LGBTQ community at the beginning of the 1980s. 

Das Vermächtnis (The Inheritance) – Part 1

New York City in the final months of the Obama Presidency. While the writer Toby Darling feverishly awaits the premiere of his play, his partner Eric Glass spends time with his acquaintance Walter. His conversations with the 55-year-old take Eric back to a past which as a gay man in his early thirties he only knows from hearsay: the devastating AIDS epidemic that rocked the LGBTQ community at the beginning of the 1980s.

Das Vermächtnis (The Inheritance) – Part 2

Maria Stuart, the deposed queen of Scotland, seeks asylum in England but soon finds herself imprisoned in a fortress as her aunt, the English queen Elisabeth Tudor, begins to investigate her. When she was seventeen, Maria was allegedly involved in the murder of her husband – that is the official charge, but there are also rumours of a plot to seize the crown right now. Schiller portrays neither of his female protagonists in a particularly flattering light: Maria is an impulsive seductress, Elisabeth is a jealous and indecisive monarch.

Maria Stuart
Residenztheater, 19.30 o'clock
Mon 21 Oct
Residenztheater, 19.30 o'clock
Tue 29 Oct
Residenztheater, 19.30 o'clock
Thu 07 Nov
Residenztheater, 18.30 o'clock
Sun 10 Nov
Residenztheater, 19.30 o'clock
Sat 16 Nov

After many years, Gregers returns to his home country. His father, a successful entrepreneur, offers him the opportunity to join the company management, from which he has to retire for health reasons. Gregers refuses and at the same time learns that his father is secretly financially supporting the family of his old friend Hjalmar Ekdal, who lives in the most modest of circumstances, and becomes suspicious. Why is the capitalist suddenly showing himself to be a philanthropist? In his tragedy, Henrik Ibsen shows how the capitalist system has a direct impact on the private sphere and undermines social cohesion. The Norwegian Johannes Holmen Dahl, one of the most sought-after directors in Scandinavia, is now staging his German debut with a major work by his famous compatriot.

Die Wildente (The wild duck)
Premiere
Cuvilliéstheater
Thu 17 Oct
Cuvilliéstheater, 19.30 o'clock
Sun 20 Oct
Cuvilliéstheater, 19.30 o'clock
Wed 23 Oct
Cuvilliéstheater, 19.30 o'clock
Sun 27 Oct
Cuvilliéstheater, 19.30 o'clock
Mon 04 Nov
Cuvilliéstheater, 19.30 o'clock
Sun 24 Nov

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