Oliver Hermann

**Oliver Hermann** (born 1960 in Hamburg) is a German actor, theater producer, speaker and director.

## Life

### Education and theater

Hermann studied social pedagogy with a focus on psychiatry at the University of Lüneburg from 1982 to 1985; he graduated with a diploma. From 1984 to 1988 he completed private acting training in Hamburg and St. Petersburg.

In 1987 and 1988 he had guest engagements at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus (Macbeth, directed by Wilfried Minks and Hamlet, directed by Michael Bogdanov). In 1990 he was a guest at the Bremen Theater (Peter Pan, directed by Sigrid Andersson). From the 1990/91 season he was a permanent ensemble member at the Hildesheim City Theater until 1994. Here he kicked u. a. in productions by Albrecht Hirche (in Death and the Maiden and class enemy by Nigel Williams) and Ralf Knapp (including in The Cherry Orchard, Stories from the Vienna Woods and Nathan the Wise). In 1994 he played at the Hamburg Kammerspiele in the play Der nackte Wahnsinn by Michael Frayn (directed by Monika Steil).

In 2001 he appeared at the Schauspielhaus Kiel as Rüdiger in the play Three by Franziska Steiof. Since 2001 he has been a permanent member of Michael Batz's “Hamburg Art Ensemble”. From 2002 to 2018 he worked every year with Hamburg's everyone in the Speicherstadt.

2005/2006 he was guest development worker Lars in Henning Mankell's African play Antelope at the Landestheater Schleswig-Holstein. In the 2006/07 season he appeared at the Altona Theater as Jack Dobitch in the musical comedy Das Apartment. In 2012/2013 he played the notary Hermile Lebel in the play Burns by Wajdi Mouawad at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg.

Hermann has been an actor, producer, author and director since 1994 with numerous own theater productions at home and abroad. He is the founder of the free group "Axensprung Theater", which has gained high reputation at home and abroad with productions on historical and daily political topics at home and abroad. In 1995 he realized the theater production Feindberendung, a German-Russian, bilingual co-production about the Second World War with performances at the Opera Stabile in Hamburg and the Teatr Kukol in St. Petersburg. Other theater productions by Hermann were boiling point 1140. Marie Curie - Ein Leben (2008; Monsun theater; director: Franziska Steiof; awarded the Rolf Mares Prize).

### Movie and TV

He is known as a film and television actor. He gained greater recognition through his series lead role as senior physician in surgery Dr. Uwe Carstens in the Alphateam hospital series - The lifesaver in the operating room (1997–1999). He played this role in over 100 episodes.

Hermann participated in Lars Jessens A song for the murderer and had numerous episode roles. a. in the series Doppelter Einsatz (2007), There comes Kalle (2008; as riding stable owner Dörfel), Der Dicke (2010; as unwilling child father Uwe Jakobsen), Die Pfefferkörner (2009; as cemetery attendant) and Großstadtrevier (2014; as chairman of an allotment garden association) . In the ZDF series Sibel & Max (2015), he played a secondary role as the chief doctor of the clinic and supervisor of the series character Dr. Sibel Aydin. In Bad Cop (2017, director: Michael Kreindl) he played the police officer in the archive, in Morden in the north (2018) he was the initially suspect neighbor Siggi Kraft.

In 2018 he played in the arte / NDR documentary 1918 Uprising of the Sailors (directed by Jens Becker) alongside Ernst Stötzner the role of Heinrich von Bückwitz, in Jürgen - Today is lived (2017, directed by Lars Jessen) the passenger in the Train.

### Speaker and director

Since 2000 he has worked as a freelance actor, speaker and reciter with numerous readings. In 2018, two audio books by him were published by Griot Hörbuchverlag: Liebeslyrik and texts written by Robert Walser and Peter Dreher together with Hannelore Hoger.

As a director, Hermann has also realized film projects since 2002 with people from socially and socially marginalized groups. a. with young people from social hotspots in Hamburg on the topics of violence and bullying as well as with mentally ill people, u. a. on mania and depression.

## Involvement in *Duluth*

In the German dub of *Duluth*, he voices Lee A. Tregurtha.