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ABOUT ME

Benjamin-Lew Klon was born in 1983 in Düsseldorf and from 1991 to 1998 he was an actor at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, performing in productions directed by Wilfried Minks, Werner Schroeter, Joachim Lux, Franz-Xaver Kroetz and Detlev Altenbeck.

From 2002 on he studied media and cultural studies (MA) at the Heinrich Heine University, made short films and founded the university’s first film festival in Düsseldorf. After finishing his bachelor thesis on Wong Kar-Wai and Gilles Deleuze in 2006 he went to New York and worked as a production assistent for the feature film “Funny Games U.S.” by Michael Haneke and a year later for “My Blueberry Nights” by Wong Kar-Wai.

From 2008-2010 he studied theatre direction at the Academy of Performing Arts Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg, Germany where Luk Perceval was responsible for the actors and directors training. Since 2010 he studied acting for stage and camera there. During this year he made an internship at Robert Wilson’s “Káťa Kabanová” in Prague, Czech Republic he went to Vienna, Austria to play a part in the production “Der Jäger Gracchus” an adaptation of Kafkas short story and in the contemporary opera “Flaschenpost” by Georges Aperghis, both directed by Helga Utz.

As a theatre director he created a performance at the State Gallery Stuttgart to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the futurist manifesto. He created the short film “Reduktion 22” and the piece “Deine Hoffnungen mein Herz wie Furien” after “Kabale und Liebe” by Friedrich Schiller. He also created a performance for the state theatre Stuttgart to commemorate the tragical and cryptical death of Pier Paolo Pasolini. As an actor he participated in various short films and plays at the academy in Ludwigsburg. Most influencial for his development where the workshops of Luk Perceval, Hilde Stark, Ted Stoffer and Gennadij Bogdanov. He is part of two independent theatre groups: “Wunschmaschinen" and "Shane Drinion”. Benjamin-Lew Klon is a guest actor at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg since 2012. He speaks German, English and Polish fluently.

PHILOSOPHY

God help me to keep my big mouth shut until I know what I'm talking about!

兴趣

art (new and old), cinema, philosophy, design, architecture, theatre, acting, photography, reading, archeology, biology, sci-fi, robots, magic, food, ...

• arts
• poetry
• theater
• performing arts
• architecture
• design
• photography
• film making
• acting
• festivals
• dining
• cooking
• movies
• reading
• magic
• opera
• archeology
• biology
• communications
• cultural studies
• history

音乐、电影和书籍

MOVIES
Grand Hotel (1932), Miracolo a Milano (1951), L'Année dernière à Marienbad (1961), Ran (1985), 東邪西毒Ashes of Time (1994), Lucía y el sexo (2001)

BOOKS
Austerlitz (Sebald), The Wild Party (March), Everything Is Illuminated (Foer), L'image-temps (Deleuze), Epic of Gilgamesh ...

教，学，和分享

I can teach you magic tricks. How to speak German or Polish. Want to learn some Latin phrases, recite Shakespearean quotations or poems by Heinrich Heine? I can explain some difficult philosophical questions. We could cook together. Do you want to talk about film history, film making, film philosophy? I'm good in photography, web design, layout, photoshop...

我游览过的国家

Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Russian Federation, Spain, Switzerland, United States

我居住过的国家

Germany

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