Alexander Scheer

Alexander Scheer (born 1 June 1976 in East Berlin) is a German actor and musician. He has won several national awards for his performances in film and theater, including one German Film Award for "Best Actor in a Leading Role" and one Bavarian Film Award for "Best Actor", both in the year 2019.

Biography Scheer studied at in Berlin with main focus on music. In addition to the singing, he played piano and drums in different bands. He left school after the 11th grade and then took up various occupations. He also performed in commercials during this period and turned their own amateur films with his friends. The film series "American Showdown" by André Jagusch, when Scheer stood in front of the camera, became a small festival hit and was shown, for example, at the (Workshop of the young film scene) and at the (Weiterstadt Open Air Film Festival). During a casting, he was discovered by the director Leander Haussmann, who cast him in his 1999 film Sonnenallee. After the shooting, Scheer and Haußmann followed to the Schauspiel Bochum theater. There he played among other things in various plays such as Much Ado About Nothing, Leonce and Lena, and The Tempest.

As a result, he worked with the directors like Christoph Marthaler, Frank Castorf, and , played in theaters such as "Berlin Alexanderplatz", "the idiot" at the Volksbühne Berlin, and "The Seagull" at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. For his acting performances, he was awarded the (the Ulrich Wildgruber prize). For the personification of the English Shakespearean actor Edmund Kean in Frank Castorf's production of the same name in 2009, Scheer was voted Actor of the Year by the theater magazine Theater heute. In addition to his theater engagements, he was also in the national and international productions such as Viktor Vogel – Commercial Man, Eight Miles High, Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution, and Carlos (miniseries) which its full 5½-hour version was shown out of competition at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.

To prepare for the portrayal of Keith Richards in the film Eight Miles High, Scheer founded the band The Rockboys which played concerts for one summer. In 2007 he joined Jan Opoczynski as guitarist in his band . In the following year, he became the front man of the Viennese band Gruppe Pegel. In 2009 he toured Europe as a percussionist with The Whitest Boy Alive. In 2012 he appeared as Mephistopheles in the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's tragedy play Faust, Part One.

Scheer played a total of 16 years under the direction of Frank Castorf at the Volksbühne Berlin. The decision of the secretary for cultural affairs of Berlin, Tim Renner, caused Castorf's contract as director not to be extended and Scheer was critical of it. He then asked Tim Renner not to enter the theater again, and when Scheer met Renner there in 2018 after a film screening, he poured a glass of beer over his head.

In the Andreas Dresen's 2018 biographical film Gundermann about the East German songwriter, rock musician, and skilled excavator operator Gerhard Gundermann, Scheer played the title role and sang all the songs himself. For this role, he was awarded German Film Award (Deutscher Filmpreis) the most important cinema awards in Germany and the most highly endowed German cultural awards, for the Best Actor in a Leading Role in 2019.

In the television series , he embodied the British musician David Bowie.

Scheer was in a long-term relationship with the fashion designer .

Filmography Film

Year Title Role Notes 1999 Sonnenallee Micha Ehrenreich 2001 Viktor Vogel – Commercial Man Viktor Vogel Getting My Brother Laid Manu 2006 Lulu Walter Schwarz TV film Burning Heart Kurt TV film 2007 Eight Miles High Keith Richards 2008 Meine fremde Tochter Markus Bergkamp TV film Tom 2009 12 Paces Without a Head Herman Lange 2010 Bennett Carlos Johannes Weinrich Film and TV miniseries2011 Vincent TV film Niklas Julebukk Christmas film 2012 Jakob Kronibus TV film 2013 West Hans Pischke 2014 GKF-Manager 2015 Blixa Bargeld 2016 Rambo Weiler Friedrich Nietzsche Goodbye Berlin Judge 2017 Klaus Ullmann film The Young Karl Marx Wilhelm Weitling Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Young Edward Teague 2018 Dieter Degowski film Gundermann Gerhard Gundermann 2019 The Aftermath Siegfried Leitmann 2020 Enfant Terrible Andy Warhol 2021 Blood Red Sky Eightball 2022 Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush Bernhard Docke Christiaan Barnard TV film 2023 Blood & Gold Obersturmbannführer von Starnfeld 2025 Köln 75 Manfred Eicher Leonora in the Morning Light Max Ernst

Television series

Awards 2006: Der Faust (a German theater prize), the best performer of a drama performance (nomination) 2008: (a German theater prize), originality and best actor 2009: , honorary title by the German magazine Theater heute, for Kean 2018: (a German film awards), best actor for his role in Gundermann 2019: Bavarian Film Awards, best actor for Gundermann 2019: Berliner Kunstpreis (Berlin Art Prize) for performing arts (Darstellende Kunst) 2019: German Film Award – "Best Actor in a Leading Role" for Gundermann