Axel Ranisch (born 30 June 1983 in Berlin) is a German actor, film and television director and author.
Life
Ranisch spent his childhood in Berlin-Lichtenberg. He studied theatre pedagogy in Flecken Zechlin until 2004. From 2004 to 2011 Ranisch studied at Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg. Ranisch works as a film and theatre director, and as an actor in different film, theatre and TV productions in Germany. Ranisch shot the film Pink Children (2012) with 4 other German directors about their mentor Rosa von Praunheim. In 2018, he published and authored the book Nackt über Berlin. In 2016, he married his partner Paul in Berlin.
Filmography
Director
Short films
- 2004: Rhythmus im Kopf
- 2005: Hollbüllhuus
- 2008: Liebe Liebe…
- 2010: Diego Alonso
Cinema & television
- 2008: Der will nur spielen!
- 2008: Glioblastom
- 2011: Heavy Girls [de]
- 2012: Pink Children
- 2013: I Feel Like Disco [de]
- 2013: Reuber
- 2015: Alky Alky [de]
- 2015: Löwenzahn
- 2016: Familie Lotzmann auf den Barrikaden
- 2016: Tatort: Babbeldasch (Lena Odenthal Tatort; SWR)
- 2017: Tatort: Waldlust (Lena Odenthal Tatort; SWR)
- 2018: Löwenzahn
Actor
Television
- 2007: Sechs tote Studenten (director: Rosa von Praunheim)
- 2009: Résiste – Aufstand der Praktikanten (director: Jonas Grosch)
- 2009: Meine Daten und ich (director: Philipp Eichholtz)
- 2011: Papa Gold [de] (also editing) (director: Tom Lass [de])
- 2011: Wie man leben soll (director: David Schalko)
- 2012: Glory: A Tale of Mistaken Identities [de] (director: Isabel Kleefeld)
- 2013: Axel und Peter – Titten für Arsch (director: Rosa von Praunheim)
- 2014: Zorn – Tod und Regen (1. Teil der Serie Zorn, director: Mark Schlichter)
- 2014: Liebe mich! (director: Philipp Eichholtz)
- 2015: Zorn – Vom Lieben und Sterben (director: Mark Schlichter)
- 2015: Zorn – Wo kein Licht (director Christoph Schnee)
- 2016: Zorn – Wie sie töten (director: Jochen Alexander Freydank)
- 2017: Zorn – Kalter Rauch (director: Andreas Herzog)
- 2017: Blind & Hässlich (director: Tom Lass)
- 2019: Familie Lotzmann auf den Barrikaden
Theatre
- 2009: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess at Brandenburger Jugendtheater, Co-Regie, together with Christiane Ziehl
- 2013: The Bear by William Walton & La voix humaine from Francis Poulenc at Bayerischen Staatsoper (Spielstätte: Kino Theatiner Film)
- 2014: George (UA) Komische Oper in three acts, with a prolog and an epilog. music from Elena Kats-Chernin, libretto from Axel Ranisch, a production from Danya Segal and Theater für Niedersachsen in cooperation with Niedersächsische Musiktage and KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen
- 2015: Pinocchio by Pierangelo Valtinoni at Bayerische Staatsoper (Reithalle)
- 2018: Konrad oder Das Kind aus der Konservenbüchse by Christine Nöstlinger at Theater an der Parkaue
- 2018: Orlando paladino from Joseph Haydn at Bayerischen Staatsoper (Prinzregententheater)
- 2018: Die Liebe zu drei Orangen from Sergei Prokofjew at Staatsoper Stuttgart
- 2019: Mavra from Igor Strawinsky & Jolanthe by Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski at Bayerische Staatsoper (Cuvilliés-Theater)
Writer
- Nackt über Berlin, Ullstein fünf Verlag, Berlin 2018. 384 pages
References
- ARD.de: Interview with Axel Ranisch
- "Rosakinder". filmportal. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
- Mitteldeutsche Zeitung.de: Zwischen den „Zorn“-Drehs auf Geheim-Mission Hochzeit (german)
- Deutschlandfunk.de: Axel Ranisch gewinnt den Debütpreis der Lit.Cologne
External links
- Official website by Axel Ranisch
- Axel Ranisch by agentur
- Interview in SWR2
- Mitteldeutsche Zeitung.de: Zwischen den „Zorn“-Drehs auf Geheim-Mission Hochzeit
- Deutschlandfunk.de: Axel Ranisch gewinnt den Debütpreis der Lit.Cologne
- 1983 births
- Living people
- German male film actors
- German male television actors
- German male stage actors
- German-language film directors
- German male writers
- German gay actors
- 21st-century German male actors
- German male actors
- Film directors from Berlin
- German LGBTQ film directors
- LGBTQ television directors
- Actors from East Berlin
- People from Lichtenberg
- 21st-century German LGBTQ people
- Male actors from Berlin