Matthias Schuppli

As a young actor, after his training with Ellen Widmann and radio plays with Gerd Westphal, Matthias Schuppli played great classical roles at the stages of the city of Bonn, at the Freie Volksbühne Berlin, at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg and at the Schauspielhaus in Zurich. Shakespeare's Hamlet, Schiller's Ferdinand in Kabale und Liebe and Essex in Elisabeth von England by Ferdinand Bruckner, to name but a few. He has always been fortunate to work with well-known partners and directors such as Rudolf Noelte, Achim Benning, Dieter Wedel, Maria Schell, Michael Degen, Martin Benrath ..
A part-time vocal training also took him to music theater. To the Lucerne Opera, the Lehar Festival Bad Ischl and major Swiss musical productions. His most recent work for drama was the role of Salieri in Amadeus by Peter Shaffer, Möbius in the physicists by Dürrenmatt and Wronskij in Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy in Bonn and on tour.
In addition to his acting activities, also in international film productions, he developed many of his own poetry music evenings, in collaboration with various musicians. With the Basler Streichquartett - a Nordic evening, with Jean Jacques Dünki - a Shakespeare sonnet evening, with Jan Schultsz and Werner Güra - Heine's Lyrisches Intermezzo and die Dichterliebe, for example.