Max Hopp
Guest Actor
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Max Hopp completed his training at the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch in Berlin from 1992-1996. Subsequent engagements took him first to the Theater Bremen and in the course of his career to the Schauspielhäuser Hamburg and Zürich, the Deutsches Theater Berlin, the Münchner Kammerspiele and the Salzburg Festival, among others. Since 2005 he has been part of the ensemble of the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. His most important works there include "Berlin Alexanderplatz" (directed by Frank Castorf), "Prometheus" (directed by Dimiter Gotscheff) and "Wozzeck" (directed by David Marton). He has been working closely with the Komische Oper Berlin since 2010. Max Hopp is also present in cinema and TV: among others, he appeared in the theater adaptations "Lulu" (Wedekind) and "Peer Gynt" (Ibsen) and became known to a wider TV audience for the first time as police chief Mark Dononelli in the ZDF series "Doktor Martin". He can be seen in numerous TV productions (f.e. "Die Spiegel-Affäre" or "Der gleiche Himmel") as well as regularly in crime series, especially on ARD and ZDF. Important feature films of the last years were "Das schweigende Klassenzimmer" (director: Lars Kraume), "Der goldene Handschuh" (director: Fatih Akin) and "Die Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull" (director: Detlev Buck).
Max Hopp is co-founder of nootheater, whose film "Morgenröte im Aufgang - Hommage a Jacob Bohme" was awarded the German Filmgeist Prize in 2016. He has worked with directors such as Barbara Bilabel, Christoph Marthaler, Roland Steckel, Ulrich Waller, Luk Perceval, Elke Lang, Andreas Homoki, Barrie Kosky and Calixto Bieito, among others. He made his debut as an opera director in 2019 with the Offenbach operetta "The Princess of Trapezunt" at the Theater für Niedersachsen. This was followed in 2021 by productions in Mainz (J. C. Bach "Zanaida") and Lucerne (Mozart "Così fan tutte"), and in 2022 he plans to direct at Opernhaus Zürich.
At the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Max Hopp can be seen as John Styx in Offenbach's "Orpheus in der Unterwelt" (director: Barrie Kosky).
Max Hopp is co-founder of nootheater, whose film "Morgenröte im Aufgang - Hommage a Jacob Bohme" was awarded the German Filmgeist Prize in 2016. He has worked with directors such as Barbara Bilabel, Christoph Marthaler, Roland Steckel, Ulrich Waller, Luk Perceval, Elke Lang, Andreas Homoki, Barrie Kosky and Calixto Bieito, among others. He made his debut as an opera director in 2019 with the Offenbach operetta "The Princess of Trapezunt" at the Theater für Niedersachsen. This was followed in 2021 by productions in Mainz (J. C. Bach "Zanaida") and Lucerne (Mozart "Così fan tutte"), and in 2022 he plans to direct at Opernhaus Zürich.
At the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Max Hopp can be seen as John Styx in Offenbach's "Orpheus in der Unterwelt" (director: Barrie Kosky).