![]() Groth’s performance in Dani Levy’s comedy Mein Führer, as the Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, surprised critics and audience alike, and he was nominated for the German Film Award for Best Supporting Actor. For example, he has played: the author Clemens Brentano in Requiem für eine romantische Frau a snobbish film director in Andrea Dresen’s Whisky mit Wodka the theater director Boleslaw Barlog in Hilde, Kai Wessel’s biopic about Hildegard Knef and the prosecutor in the US-German coproduction The Reader, alongside Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, and Bruno Ganz. ![]() Groth has played in countless cinema and television productions, and film critics have praised his versatility as a character actor. One of Groth’s first film roles in his new theater and film career in West Germany was in Johannes Schaaf’s successful children’s book adaptation, Momo, in which he shared the screen with Mario Adorf and Armin Mueller-Stahl. ![]() After a West German theater engagement the following year, Groth did not return to East Germany. In 1984, the Salzburg Festival invited him to play the Young Templar in Lessing’s Nathan the Wise (dir. His sensitive performance also drew the attention of western theater directors. His outstanding performance as a young German POW who is wrongly accused of a murder resulted in an international breakthrough. He has worked with the most prominent German theater directors, such as Peter Zadek, Christoph Schroth, Frank Castorf, Horst Schönemann and Piet Drescher, and with the American experimental theater director Robert Wilson.Īt the beginning of the 1980s, director Frank Beyer cast the highly talented Groth, who had played only a few supporting roles in films, to play the demanding role of Mark Niebuhr, the protagonist in his DEFA film, Der Aufenthalt. ![]() Since then, Groth has performed at many prestigious theaters, including: the Deutsches Theater, Volksbühne and Schaubühne in Berlin the Kammerspiele and Residenztheater in Munich the Schauspielhaus Zurich the Schauspielhaus Dresden the Burgtheater in Vienna and the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg. After his graduation, theater director Christoph Schroth engaged him for his ensemble at the Staatstheater Schwerin. He studied acting and singing at the Staatliche Schauspielschule in Berlin from 1977 to 1980. Sylvester Groth was born in Jerichow, East Germany, on March 31, 1958. ![]()
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