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Torsten Münchow, actor, Berlin
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  • Actor
Born 1965 in Berlin Moabit (58 Years)

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LanguagesEnglishGerman
DialectsLow German (Native dialect), Rheinisch, Swabian
SingingChansonRock/PopSchlager
Instrumentsguitar
Skills (dance)Standard
Skills (sports)boxingfencing (stage)golfhorseback ridingswimming
Immediate working areaBerlin
1st residence (federal state or country)Germany - Berlin
NationalityGerman

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About Torsten Münchow

Torsten Münchow
stage, film and TV actor, theatre director, voice actor, radio-theatre and dubbing director, was born in Berlin-Wedding.

Torsten Münchow has been seen on stage in Berlin, Munich, Hamburg and all over Germany, as well as in Vienna and Gda?sk. He also works extensively in film and television.

The films he has appeared in include Keep On Running, Superbrain, with Oliver Reed, Der Film deines Lebens (The Film of your Life) and Die Liebe Deines Lebens (The Love of your Life). His TV credits feature German and Austrian TV series such as Tatort, Soko, Eine Couch für alle (A Couch for Everyone), Der Alte (The Old Fox), Derrick, and Anna Maria, eine Frau geht ihren Weg (Anna Maria. A Woman Goes Her Way; 1994-98).

On stage, he has starred in over ninety productions, creating roles such as Ernest Hemingway in Rolf Hochhuth’s play for solo actor, Death of a Hunter, Norman (Dave) in Ladies Night, the German version of Anthony McCarten’s The Full Monty, Sir Toby Belch in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, John Proctor in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Lennie in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men,and Everyman in Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Everyman, to name but a very few.

In 2012, Münchow took on the leading role of Prince OTTO VON BISMARCK in a very well-known, two-part series for German TV, Die Reichsgründung & Die nervöse Grossmacht, directed by Bernd Fischerauer (1943-2017). He starred opposite Esther Schweins in the documentary feature Viking Women (Germany, 2014), which won the Silver World Medal for the Best Docudrama at the New York Film Festival in 2015. He also starred in Father Rupert Mayer (US/Germany, 2014), appearing alongside Stacy Keach and Daryl Hannah, and in Die Gefangenen der SS (The Prisoners of the SS; Germany, 2014).

As a voice actor, Torsten Münchow has lent his sonorous, dark, smoky voice to Brendan Fraser since 1993 and to Ice-T since 1994, as well as to Michael Madson and Antonio Banderas. The long list of German-language audiobooks which feature his resonant tones and invariably command great attention includes Rolf Hochhuth’s Death of a Hunter, Alex Kershaw’s The Liberator and Francis Winwar’s Napoleon and the Battle of Waterloo, to mention just three.

Münchow also enjoys great popularity on the anime scene, where he thrills younger listeners in cult series such as Hellsing, where he voices Alucard, and Drifters, where he features as the Black King.

He has directed fifteen radio plays and audiobooks and, as a dubbing director, he has more than eighty feature films and series to his credit.

After the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall, Münchow was the first ‘West German’ theatre director to celebrate a directing success in the former German Democratic Republic with his staging of Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love at the Anklam Theatre in the East German town of Anklam (1990). That was followed by Gerhard Woyda’s Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Hoffnung (Society with Limited Hope) at the Renitenz Theater Stuttgart, Sam Shephard’s Fool for Love at Teater Sörmland, Sweden, Harry Schärer’s musical, Spacedream at the Space Dream Musical Theater, Berlin, and many more productions. They include a musical based on motifs drawn from Hugo von Hofmannsthal and entitled Jederman, the King for the Salzach Festival, Laufen (2007) and William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night for the same event in 2018.

Münchow’s acclaimed staging of Rolf Hochhuth's Sommer 14 for the Berliner Ensamble at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in August 2014 was reported across the media throughout Germany, Austria and Swizerland (http://www.sommer14.com/).

From 2009 to 2010, he hosted the ARD-alpha talk show alpha FORUM, interviewing the then Federal Minister, Peter Ramsauer, Ph.D, and a multitude of well-known German actors and artists, including Harald Dietl, Cordula Trantow, Markus Meindl, Ellen Schwiers, Katerina Jacob, Gil Ofarim, Ottfried Fischer, Jürgen Tarrach, Markus Meindl, Pascal Breuer and Theatre Director Margit Bönisch (1942-2017).

Torsten Münchow is a passionate builder of cultural bridges between Eastern and Western Europe. Over the past five years he has collaborated with the Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Gda?sk, Cornelia Pieper, initiating and bringing to fruition a number of international projects aimed at furthering German-Polish understanding through culture. In September 2016, he founded and ran the successful 1st INTERNATIONAL MUSIC & THEATRE DAYS in Ko?obrzeg, with a programme featuring musicians and actors from Poland, Italy, Great Britain and Germany.

That same year, Consul General Pieper invited him to premiere his solo theatre piece, Rolf Hochhuth’s Death of a Hunter during the German Week at the Wybrze?e Teatr in Gda?sk, where the audience celebrated his role as Ernest Hemingway with a standing ovation. Bavarian Radio and Television (BR) also became aware of his bridgebuilding work and made a TV documentary, Double Homeland about him. The film was first broadcast in July 2016.

In December 2017, he became the first German director to direct a play in Poland’s Pomeranian region since the Second World War. The January 2018 premiere of his production of Max Frisch’s Biedermann and the Arsonists for the Nowy Teatr im. Witkacego (New Witkacy Theatre) in S?upsk received a standing ovations from the Polish audience and thus Münchow succeeded in building another cultural bridge between Poland and Germany.

In June 2018, he and a Polish colleague, Magda Bo?, presented Antje Vollmer's book, Doppelleben, at the European Solidarity Centre in Gdansk and he also gave a reading at the University of Gdansk’s Centrum Herdera (Herder Centre), with violinist Adam Vogelsinger of the Koszalin Philharmonic providing a musical setting for the text.

Training

Year 
1984 to 1986Hochschule für Musik Saar

Awards

YearAward
2015Silver Medal New York Filmfestival (Odin`s Daughter/Die Frauen der Wikinger)
1999Bayerisches Filmzentum / VGF Stipendium

Movies as actor

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YearTitleGenreDirectorRole
2022Großstadtrevier
Helmut Husmann [SS]
TV Series, ARD [de], NDR [de]MultipleHelmut Husmann [SS]
2021Großstadtrevier
Helmut Husmann [SS]
TV Series, ARD [de], NDR [de]MultipleHelmut Husmann [SS]
2020Großstadtrevier
Helmut Husmann [SS]
TV Series, ARD [de], NDR [de]MultipleHelmut Husmann [SS]
2019
WaPo Berlin

Ludwig Groß [LE]
TV Series, ARD [de]MultipleLudwig Groß [LE]
2019Sztynort 1935
Oberst Kurt von Schandow [GS]
Independent Feature FilmJakub MaińskiOberst Kurt von Schandow [GS]
2018
A box full of guilt

Thomas [L]
Short FilmMarco WojciechowskiThomas [L]
2017
Die Liebe Deines Lebens

Reinhold Bär [L]
Independent Feature FilmSebastian GoderReinhold Bär [L]
2016Leningrad Symphony
Andrei Schdanow [SR]
Docu-Fiction, arte, DR [dk], NDR [de], NRK [no], ORF [at], rbb [de], SWR [de], TVN [pl]MultipleAndrei Schdanow [SR]
2014
Father Rupert Mayer

SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer Müller [SR]
Independent Feature FilmDamian ChapaSS-Oberst-Gruppenführer Müller [SR]
2013
Wir, Geiseln der SS

Garibaldi [L]
Docu-Fiction (multi-part), arte, ORF [at], RAI [it], ZDF [de]MultipleGaribaldi [L]
2013
Viking Women

Stenar und Ansgar [SR]
Docu-Fiction (multi-part), arte, NDR [de]MultipleStenar und Ansgar [SR]
2013SOKO 5113
Dieter Prinz [SR]
TV Series, ZDF [de]MultipleDieter Prinz [SR]
2012
Die Reichsgründung / Die nervöse Großmacht

Fürst Otto von Bismarck [L]
TV Movie (multi-part), BR [de]Bernd FischerauerFürst Otto von Bismarck [L]
2012Mutter, Seelen, allein
Manfred [SR]
Short FilmFriederike GüssefeldManfred [SR]
2010Eine Couch für alle
Vitali,der Schamane [SR]
TV Series, Servus TV [at]Reinhard SchwabenitzkyVitali,der Schamane [SR]
2010Eloquent Silence
Herbert [SR]
Short FilmJulia KellerHerbert [SR]
2010The Movie of a Lifetime
Entlassener [SR]
Independent Feature FilmSebastian GoderEntlassener [SR]
2010Konterrevolution und Machtergreifung
Noske [L]
TV Movie, ARD-alpha [de]Bernd FischerauerNoske [L]
2009
Der Gewaltfrieden - Die Legende vom Dolchstoß und der Vertrag von Versailles

Gustav Noske [L]
Docu-Fiction (multi-part), ARD-alpha [de]Bernd FischerauerGustav Noske [L]
2009
Der Staat ist für den Menschen da

Prof. Dr. Carlo Schmid [L]
TV Movie, ARD-alpha [de]Bernd FischerauerProf. Dr. Carlo Schmid [L]

Movies as voice actor / speaker

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YearTitleGenreRoleActor
2021The Count of Monte Cristo - GankutsuouTV SeriesGraf von Monte Christo [SS]
2019The Dead Don't DieFeature FilmDanny Perkins [L]Larry Fessenden
2018Mayans MCTV Series, FX [us]Che „Taza“ Romero [SS]
2015The 101-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and DisappearedFeature FilmGäddan [SR]Jens Hultén
2012Ritter Sport - Form FactorCommercialSprecher
2012Rust and BoneFeature FilmMartial [SR]Bouli Lanners
2010Furry VengeanceFeature FilmDan Sanders [L]Brendan Fraser
2010Corruption.GovFeature FilmSenator John Mordire [L]Michael Madsen
2010Extraordinary MeasuresFeature FilmJohn Crowley [L]Brendan Fraser
2009G.I Joe - The Rise of CobraFeature FilmSgt. Stone [SR]Brendan Fraser
2008InkheartFeature FilmMo 'Silvertongue' Folchart [L]Brendan Fraser
2008Journey to the Center of the EarthFeature FilmTrevor Anderson [L]Brendan Fraser
2007The Air I BreatheFeature FilmPleasure [L]Brendan Fraser
2006Journey to the End of the NightFeature FilmPaul [L]Brendan Fraser
2005CrashFeature FilmRick Cabot [L]Brendan Fraser
2003Looney Tunes - Back in ActionFeature FilmDJ Drake / er selbst [L]Brendan Fraser
2002The Quiet AmericanFeature FilmAlden Pyle [L]Brendan Fraser
2001MonkeyboneFeature FilmStu Miley [L]Brendan Fraser
2000BedazzledFeature FilmElliot Richards, Mary, Jefe [L]Brendan Fraser
1999The MummyFeature FilmRichard 'Rick' O'Connell [L]Brendan Fraser

Theatre engagements

YearProduction nameRoleDirectorTheatre
2018Ladies NightFreddyVolke BrabandTheater am Dom, Köln
2017Tod Eines JägersErnest HemingwayPeter ThiersTheater Aufm Kahn / Berlin
2016PabloNerudaProjectPablo NerudaHans L. WellesTAK Koszalin-Kołobrzeg / Sprechwerk Hamburg
2016Tod Eines JägersErnest HemingwayPeter ThiersTAK Koszalin-Koł / Wybrzeże Teatr Danzig
2014Sommer 14General Nikolai JudenitschTorsten MünchowTheater am Schiffbauerdamm
2012 - 2013Warte bis es dunkel istCarlinoSusanne KielingKomödie im bayerischen Hof
2011 - 2012Ladies NightNormanFolke BrabandTheater in der Josefstadt
2011MännerhortHelmutMichael WedekindMünchner Tournee Margit Bönisch
2010 - 2018Ladies NightNormanFolke BrabandKomödie am Kurfürstendamm
2009MännerhortHelmutMichael WedekindKomödie im bayerischen Hof
2007JedermannJedermannBrkhardt JahnSalzachfestspiele Laufen/Festungsspiele Salzburg
2006 - 2017Ladies NightNormanFolke BrabandKomödie im bayerischen Hof
2004HexenjagdJohn ProctorBurkhard JahnBurgfestspiele Tittmoning

Basic data

Height188 cm
Weight114 kg - 251 lb.
Body typefull figure/heavyset
Clothing size58
Ethnic appearancewhite central european
Hair colourdark blond
Hair lengthshort
Eye colourblue-green
NationalityGerman
LanguagesEnglishGerman
DialectsLow German (Native dialect), Rheinisch, Swabian
Voice typebaritone
SingingChansonRock/PopSchlager
Instrumentsguitar
Skills (dance)Standard
Skills (sports)boxingfencing (stage)golfhorseback ridingswimming
Experience abroadCentral Europe: Poland
North America: USA
Eastern Europe: Russia
Immediate working areaBerlin
1st residence (federal state or country)Germany - Berlin