Rudolf Krause

born in Karlsruhe in 1964, trained as an actor at the Berlin University of the Arts. This was followed by a one-year engagement at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz and then at the Landesbühne Niedersachsen Nord in Wilhelmshaven. He then worked as a freelancer in Berlin, Vienna and Zurich in drama, dance and musical theater productions at the Maxim Gorki Theater, the Berliner Ensemble, the Neuköllner Oper, the Fasson Theater Zurich and increasingly also in television productions.

For six years he did improvisational theater and performed at the Chamäleon-Varieté in Berlin and as a guest of the improvisational theater ensemble Die Gorillas. Since then, he has been teaching various forms of improvisation as well as role and scene work as a lecturer at the Michael Tschechow Studio Berlin.

He is a member of the Freyer Ensemble, the painter, director and stage designer Achim Freyer and has worked with him in productions at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden and most recently in 2013 at the Musiktheater Linz in ‘Cage Stage’, a project with works – and based on ideas – by John Cage, together with musicians from the Bruckner Orchestra Linz and the conductor Dennis Russell Davies.
For his role as Chief Inspector André Langner in the pilot film Verdecktes Spiel of the crime series Unter Verdacht, Rudolf Krause was nominated for the German Television Award in the Best Supporting Actor category in 2002 and was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize in 2003 together with screenwriter Alexander Adolph, director Friedemann Fromm and actors Senta Berger and Gerd Anthoff.