Christian Grashof

Christian Grashof, born in Löbau on 5 August 1943, has been an honorary member of the Deutsches Theater Berlin since 30 September 2018. Christian Grashof studied at the Staatliche Schauspielschule Berlin from 1964 to 1967 and made his debut at the Theater Karl-Marx-Stadt, to which he belonged from 1967 to 1970. There he played Ferdinand in Kabale und Liebe, the title role in Prince Friedrich von Homburg and Franz in Kasimir and Karoline. He has been engaged at the Deutsches Theater since 1970 and has played more than 50 roles there. These include Torquato Tasso and Edgar in King Lear (both directed by Friedo Solter), the double role Danton/Robespierre in Danton's Death, Edgar in Dance of Death (Trilogy of Passion 3) and the title character in Grabbe's Duke Theodor of Gothland, all directed by Alexander Lang. He played the title role in Robert Wilson's production of Dr. Caligari. He was among others in the Heiner Müller evening GERMANIA. Pieces (director: Dimiter Gotscheff), in Horváth's Kasimir and Karoline (director: Andreas Dresen), in Neil Simons Sonny Boys (director: Martin Duncan) or in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, staged by Dimiter Gotscheff, in Über Leben. Leas Hochzeit. Heftgarn. Simon. Trilogie by Judith Herzberg (director: Stephan Kimmig). He also worked with director Barbara Frey and Jürgen Gosch, among others in Idomeneus by Roland Schimmelpfennig, in Onkel Wanja and Die Möwe, in the latter two Gosch productions Christian Grashof can currently be seen in the Deutsches Theater Berlin, as well as in Warten auf Godot (directed by Ivan Panteleev). Christian Grashof was repeatedly engaged at other theaters, for example 1989 at the Thalia Theater in Platonow, Hamburg (director: Jürgen Flimm) and 1990 in Rückkehr in die Wüste (director: Alexander Lang), at the Münchner Kammerspiele 1990 in Goethe's Stella (director: Thomas Langhoff), from 1990 to 1992 at the Schillertheater, where he played the title role, among others, at the Thalia Theater in Platonow, Hamburg (director: Jürgen Flimm). a. the title role in Faust (director: Alfred Kirchner), also in 2010 at the Berliner Ensemble in Nachtasyl (director: Thomas Langhoff) and in Mark Ravenhill's Freedom and Democracy I hate you (director: Claus Peymann). In the 2019/20 season he can be seen in Decameron (Director: Kirill Serebrennikov), a co-production with the Gogol-Center Moscow, which premieres at the Deutsches Theater in March 2020.

Ulrich Khuon, director of the Deutsches Theater Berlin, on Christian Grashof: "Christian Grashof doesn't throw his characters at the heart of the audience, but makes them strange and thus invites us to engage with them".