Rudolf Krause
Biography
Rudolf Krause (1964 in Karlsruhe) ist ein deutscher Schauspieler. Rudolf Krause wurde 1964 in Karlsruhe geboren und lebte dort bis er acht Jahre alt war. Dann siedelte die Familie nach Hannover über. Durch seinen Musiklehrer kam ein Kontakt zur Statisterie des Opernhauses Hannover zustande. In kleinen Rollen sammelte er erste Erfahrungen auf der Bühne und war an vielen Musiktheater-Inszenierungen beteiligt u.a. mit den Regisseuren Herbert Wernicke und Intendant Hans-Peter Lehmann. Er entschloss sich für eine Schauspielausbildung, die er an der Hochschule der Künste Berlin erhielt. Danach war er für ein Jahr an der Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz engagiert und anschließend an der Landesbühne Niedersachsen Nord in Wilhelmshaven. Danach arbeitete er frei - in Berlin, in Wien und Zürich, in Schauspiel-, Tanz- und Musiktheaterproduktionen, u.a. am Maxim-Gorki-Theater, dem Berliner Ensemble, der Neuköllner Oper, dem Fasson Theater Zürich - und immer öfter auch in Fernsehproduktionen. Sechs Jahre lang machte er Improvisationstheater und trat im Chamäleon-Varieté in Berlin und als Gast des Impro-Theater-Ensembles Die Gorillas auf. Seitdem unterrichtet er unterschiedliche Formen der Improvisation sowie Rollen- und Szenenarbeit als Dozent am Michael Tschechow Studio Berlin. Er ist Mitglied des Freyer Ensembles, des Malers, Regisseurs und Bühnenbildners Achim Freyer und arbeitete mit ihm in Inszenierungen an der Deutschen Oper Berlin, der Staatsoper Unter den Linden und zuletzt 2013 am Musiktheater Linzin 'Cage Stage', einem Projekt mit Werken - und nach Ideen - von John Gage, zusammen mit Musikern desBrucknerorchesters Linz und dem Dirigenten Dennis Russell Davies. Rudolf Krause wurde für seine Rolle als Hauptkommissar André Langner im Pilotfilm Verdecktes Spiel der Krimi-ReiheUnter Verdacht 2002 für den Deutschen Fernsehpreis in der Kategorie Bester Schauspieler in einer Nebenrolle nominiert und 2003 zusammen mit Drehbuchautor Alexander Adolph, Regisseur Friedemann Fromm und den SchauspielernSenta Berger und Gerd Anthoff mit dem Adolf-Grimme-Preis ausgezeichnet.
Known For & Full Filmography20 Titles
Drama Series - 2003, 16 episodes • as Bernd Bude
The SOKO Köln investigates the cathedral city with humor and often with hard work. Their cases take them into a variety of environments, from the Cologne clique to the terraced housing estates on the outskirts of the city.
Drama Series - 2003, 16 episodes • as Max Hartung
The SOKO Köln investigates the cathedral city with humor and often with hard work. Their cases take them into a variety of environments, from the Cologne clique to the terraced housing estates on the outskirts of the city.
Drama Series - 2001, 16 episodes • as Volker
SOKO Leipzig is a German police procedural television programme, a spin-off of the earlier German police programme SOKO 5113. It was first broadcast on 31 January 2001, on German television channel ZDF. On 12 November 2008, the first part of a two-part crossover between SOKO Leipzig and British police procedural The Bill was aired, with the same version being shown on both ZDF and British television channel ITV1.
Drama Series - 2009, 16 episodes • as Horst Kollberg
The SOKO Stuttgart team investigates analytically and with sensitivity in the likeable state capital. The exciting cases of the series lead them to bizarre crime scenes and to different milieus.
Drama Series - 2005, 16 episodes • as Hannes Rot
SOKO Donau is an Austrian television series.
Drama Series - 2007, 16 episodes • as Handwerker
Shows the interaction between Hamburg police officers and paramedics.
Drama Series - 2005, 16 episodes • as Kai Anker
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 2015, 16 episodes • as Harald Preisker
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 2015, 16 episodes • as Gerhard Endemann
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 2012, 16 episodes • as Jens Dürschlag
First Police Chief Inspector Vera Lanz, a Munich police detective, attempts to balance her professional and private life.
Drama Series - 2003, 16 episodes • as Porschefahrer
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 2023, 16 episodes • as Dr. Lipp
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 2002, 16 episodes • as André Langner
Detective Dr. Eva Maria Prohacek and her colleague Langner investigate cases of civil servant crime and internal disciplinary matters. From the little patrol officer in uniform to the public prosecutor or the government director - anyone can become a suspect.
Movie - 2014, 2h 15m • as Reporter
Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.
Movie - 2026, 2h 15m • as Bjoern
Twenty-year-old Joachim is unexpectedly accepted at drama school in Munich and moves into his grandparents' upper-class villa. From then on, he tries to find his identity as a young man between the world of theater and the everyday life of his eccentric grandparents.
Drama Series - 2002, 16 episodes • as Beckmann
A funny comedy about a various adventures of Körner (Grains) family and their dog.
Movie - 2025, 2h 15m • as Fred
The monkey child Akiko lives in the zoo, but his family sends him on a big mission: he is supposed to go out into the world and get his relatives out of the forest. Together they want to free the animals from the zoo
Movie - 2015, 2h 15m • as Samuel Kolle
The famous Hamburg psychiatrist Dr. Magnus Sorel is in a deep crisis. Not only that his Serbo-Croatian patient Masha has reported him for sexual assault. Magnus is also struggling with blackmail: a stranger has stolen his diaries, which reveal his innermost desires and abysses. The well-known psychotherapist is an obsessional neurotic who can only with difficulty hide his disgust from his fellow man. After a failed appearance on "Günther Jauch", Magnus tried to use force to bring the stolen diaries back into his possession. But he has to rethink in order to solve his problems.
Movie - 2022, 2h 15m • as Dirk Büscher
After taking several years off to have children, nurse Clara Horn returns to work and begins to feel the effects of the much tougher daily routine at the clinic - pressure, stress and tension are the order of the day. But she soon realizes that there is much more going on in her clinic: Apparently, one of her colleagues is deliberately killing patients. Clara must overcome not only her own doubts, but also massive resistance among her colleagues in order to convict the perpetrator, Rico Weber.
Movie - 2022, 2h 15m • as Dr. Groos
Since Ben has been living apart from his ex-wife Mira and his children, his life has fallen apart. But unexpectedly, he gets a second chance: when Mira, pregnant to the teeth, has to be hospitalized, his children live with him again. This time, everything will be fine - he thinks! But his son Oskar brings a small problem: he wears a dress that he doesn't want to take off.