Oliver Stokowski
Geboren 1962 in Kassel, studierte Oliver Stokowski zuerst dort 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 bereits 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 festes Ensemblemitglied am Residenztheater.
Performing in
Ephraim Cabot has built his farm in New England up out of nothing, through hard work and the sweat of his brow and he keeps his three sons in line with Puritan discipline. However, instead of handing on the fruits of their collective toil to the next generation, he introduces the young Abbie to them as his bride, thereby unleashing a tragedy of ancient dimensions. While the elder brothers entirely abandon any hope of inheriting from their father and follow the call of gold to California, a fateful triangle develops between his youngest son Eben, his father and his step-mother – and Abbie too raises a claim to the farm that Eben is willing to defend by any means.
Gier unter Ulmen (Desire under the elms)
Hamsun’s trilogy tells the story of a man who feels he has been overlooked by the elites that set the tone and cheated of social recognition. The philosopher Ivar Kareno evolves from a 30-year-old radical and anti-liberal writer on the fringes of poverty into a 40-year-old private tutor to the two sons of a businessman in a distant coastal region. Here Kareno sits brooding in his writing tower, while an infectious fever descends on people, arriving from the North, the businessman Otermann is driven mad by his wealth and a strange man wanders between the houses, rumoured to be justice. Ten years later, the 50-year-old Kareno is still hoping for a major turning point in his life. And he will indeed reach a milestone where he must decide whether he will remain true to the radical ideas of his youth or to pursue a career that is more measured politically.
Spiel des Lebens (The game of life)
Seven years after her production of «Oedipus», the Slovenian director Mateja Koležnik now brings the next instalment of the Theban myths to the Resi stage: both a political thriller and an epic family drama.
Antigone
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)
