Jasper Engelhardt

Screen

A screen actor with lead credits across German public television, streaming and film-school features, first noticed as Farim in Jan Bonny's Polizeiruf 110.

Works in German, Swiss German and English. Showreel through Agentur Schneider.

Two men face to face in an empty room — *Polizeiruf 110 – Das Gespenst der Freiheit*, dir. Jan Bonny, ARD, 2017.

Man in a light jacket raising one hand — *Polizeiruf 110*, 2017.

Young man with headphones on a train — *Nicht nur Körper*, dir. Frédéric Jaeger, UdK Berlin, 2020.

Selected

2017Polizeiruf 110 – Das Gespenst der FreiheitFarim, lead · ARD, dir. Jan Bonny
Deutscher Schauspielpreis 2019, nomination Best Newcomer

2023The Grimm RealityHänsel, lead · Netflix, dir. Sven Bohse

2024Herr L.Philipp L., lead · HFF München / BR, dir. Ivan Dubrovin

2025Der Kroatien-Krimi: Mord am JadroMiran · ARD, dir. Carolina Hellsgård

Complete

2025	Der Kroatien-Krimi: Mord am Jadro, Miran	ARD, dir. Carolina Hellsgård
2024	Herr L., Philipp L. (lead)	HFF München / BR, dir. Ivan Dubrovin
2023	The Grimm Reality, Hänsel (lead)	Netflix, dir. Sven Bohse
2023	Der totale Traum, Romeo	dir. Roman Toulany
2023	Morden im Norden – Niemandsland	ARD, dir. Christoph Eichhorn
2022	Tańcząca chmura, short	Łódź Film School, dir. Platon Ogareov
2021	Die Heiland – Wir sind Anwalt: Brandstiftung	ARD, dir. Oliver Schmitz
2021	SOKO Köln – Party bis zum bitteren Ende	ZDF, dir. Ulrike Hamacher
2021	Ununterbrochen reden, short	dir. Frédéric Jaeger
2021	Der Geruch von nassem Stein, short	dir. Moritz Buchmann
2020	Nicht nur Körper, Levi (lead), short	UdK Berlin, dir. Frédéric Jaeger
2019	Der gute Bulle – Nur Tote reden nicht, Don Quixote	ZDF / Arte, dir. Lars Becker
2019	Blind ermittelt, Uli	ORF, dir. Jano Ben Chaabane
2018	Beats, Sefi (lead), short	HFF München, dir. Simon Pfister
2017	Polizeiruf 110 – Das Gespenst der Freiheit, Farim (lead)	ARD, dir. Jan Bonny

Stage

Leading roles in the German-language repertory system, from Kafka and Thomas Bernhard at Theater der Jugend Wien to Staatstheater Darmstadt and Schauspielhaus Zürich. Since 2025, New York's experimental stages.

Actor in a white shirt shouting, black feathers behind him — *Im Panoptikum des Franz K.*, Theater der Jugend Wien, 2024.

Actor in a grey coat looking up — Franz Kafka, 2024.

Actor emptying a crate of apples over his head — *Ein Kind*, Thomas Bernhard, 2023.

Stage with a glowing moon and four actors — *Endstation Sehnsucht*, Anhaltisches Theater Dessau, dir. Mîzgîn Bilmen, 2022.

Selected

2026Douglass: The ReckoningA working process · La MaMa and 651 ARTS, New York, dir. Charlotte Brathwaite

2025Robin HoodRed Squirrel · Schauspielhaus Zürich, Moved by the Motion / Wu Tsang

2024Im Panoptikum des Franz K.Franz Kafka, lead · Theater der Jugend Wien, dir. Gerald Maria Bauer

2023Ein KindThomas Bernhard, lead · Theater der Jugend Wien, dir. Gerald Maria Bauer

Complete

2026	Douglass: The Reckoning, a working process	La MaMa / 651 ARTS, New York, dir. Charlotte Brathwaite
2026	The Seagull, New York, 2029, director	Advanced Directing, The New School, New York
2026	Die Cute, Cute Bunny	The Brick, New York, dir. Yiseul LeMieux
2025	Robin Hood, Red Squirrel	Schauspielhaus Zürich, Moved by the Motion / Wu Tsang
2024	Zwei Fleischfachverkäuferinnen	HfS Ernst Busch, Berlin, dir. Michi Jansky
2024	Im Panoptikum des Franz K., Franz Kafka (lead)	Theater der Jugend Wien, dir. Gerald Maria Bauer
2023	Ein Kind, Thomas Bernhard (lead)	Theater der Jugend Wien, dir. Gerald Maria Bauer
2022	Endstation Sehnsucht, Alan Grey	Anhaltisches Theater Dessau, dir. Mîzgîn Bilmen
2022	Supergute Tage, Christopher Boone (lead)	Theater der Jugend Wien, dir. Carmen Schwarz
2021	Tom und Huck, Alfred	Theater der Jugend Wien, dir. Felix Metzner
2020	Aladin, Aladin (lead)	Staatstheater Darmstadt, dir. Annette Raffalt
2019	Der Process, Titorelli	Theater der Künste Zürich, dir. Mélanie Huber
2018	Aleppo. A Portrait of Absence, Adam (lead)	Theater Spektakel Zürich, dir. Mohammad Al Attar
2017	Peter Pan, Curly	Schauspielhaus Zürich, dir. Ingo Berk

Museum

Durational, body-based work for artists who ask a performer to hold still, stay exposed and repeat. Reperformer in Marina Abramović's retrospective at Kunsthaus Zürich, and this December in her Balkan Erotic Epic at Park Avenue Armory.

Two naked performers facing each other in a narrow doorway — Marina Abramović, *Imponderabilia*. Kunsthaus Zürich, 2025.

Performer lying under a skeleton on a white plinth — Marina Abramović, *Nude with Skeleton*. Kunsthaus Zürich, 2025.

Naked performer suspended on a wall, arms raised — Marina Abramović, *Luminosity*. Kunsthaus Zürich, 2025.

Selected

2026Marina Abramović, Balkan Erotic EpicPark Avenue Armory, New York · 8 – 20 December · Tickets

2024–25Marina Abramović, retrospectiveImponderabilia, Luminosity, Nude with Skeleton · Kunsthaus Zürich

2019Florentina Holzinger, BoleroHKB Bern

2016Michel Kessler, The Artist's ArmManifesta 11, Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich

Complete

2026	Marina Abramović, Balkan Erotic Epic	Park Avenue Armory, New York
2026	Berghein, solo performance	The New School, New York
2024–25	Marina Abramović retrospective: Luminosity, Imponderabilia, Nude with Skeleton	Kunsthaus Zürich
2019	Florentina Holzinger, Bolero	HKB Bern
2017	Gregory Hari, The Odyssey	Tanzhaus Zürich
2016	Michel Kessler, The Artist's Arm	Manifesta 11, Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich
2016	Darrel Toulon, Story Without Soldier	Contemporary Dance, ZHdK Zürich

Own work

Work that starts from research and from machines: a family archive, recorded conversations, small computers and language models that read the room. Made for the black box, the page and the classroom.

AI-automated performance · 2026, in development

Infinite Jest

A performance about making the performer obsolete. After David Foster Wallace's novel, whose film is so entertaining that no one can look away, a machine takes over the show: a 2009 Nokia N900 becomes a haptic controller for up to eight channels of video projection, while a Raspberry Pi 5 on stage listens, reacts and re-cues the projections in real time, working with large language models. The system reads the room, the day and the audience, so no two performances are alike. Developed in David Carroll's course Small Linux Devices, Large Language Models at Parsons School of Design, in open collaboration with AI.

Solo performance · The New School, April 2026

Berghein

A solo with live projection: the Furka Pass on film, a grandfather's front-line letters from the Second World War, archive documents, and the news of present wars. Built from the same archive as Never Again. Next Time. Shown in Solo Together, 151 Bank Street, New York, 17 and 18 April 2026.

Projection still: an Alpine valley in sepia — *Berghein*, projection still, 2026.

Projection still: handwritten letters in German script — Front-line letters, projection still.

Black frame with the subtitle: Nothing else. There is no word. — “Nothing else. There is no word.”

Director · The New School, 7 May 2026

The Seagull, New York, 2029

Chekhov's The Seagull, moved to New York three years from now. With Aster Drewe, Shannon Stowe, Magdi Hazaa and Bryce Hayden Henry. Sound by Catherine Ashley, souffleuse Rebecca Berger. Advanced Directing, The New School.

Two performers seated side by side, one with an afro and a dark red suit, one in a crop top and camouflage trousers — *The Seagull, New York, 2029*, The New School, 2026.

The studio set: a red neon tube and a chair, stepped black cubes before a skyline print, the audience on the floor, a performer with an afro crossing the space

A performer with an afro and long earrings in front of a chalkboard

A wooden stairwell; a dead bird lies on the landing above — Poster image.

Readings · GRIMMWELT Kassel, 2026 – 2027

Reading Helga

For Reshaping Tales | Helga Gebert (Zwischen Gestalten), the first comprehensive solo exhibition of his grandmother's work, he recorded the stories for the reading corner of GRIMMWELT Kassel: Grimm tales in their 1857 versions, from Aschenputtel to Frau Holle, and Helga Gebert's own retellings, from Die Seejungfrau to Igel und Maus. Visitors can listen to them in the museum until 11 April 2027.

Watercolour: a large spotted creature on a stool reads a book aloud to a small grey mouse — Helga Gebert, illustration for *Igel und Maus*.

Watercolour: a mouse in a tall red cap stands on a stool at a table under a bare light bulb — Helga Gebert, illustration for *Igel und Maus*.

Writing and performance · 2026, in progress

Never Again. Next Time.

Prose and solo performance on a German family's war history, built from recorded interviews with relatives in their nineties and more than five hundred pages of front-line letters. Research in Romania, summer 2026.

Participatory theatre · in development

Echoes Across Oceans

Youth theatre on climate justice, linking Neukölln in Berlin with Chinatown and Two Bridges in New York.

Photographs

Shot on an Olympus mju III point-and-shoot, on 35 mm colour and black-and-white film, between Berlin, Zurich, Vienna, Rome, the Alps and New York.

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Midtown skyline over the frozen lake in Central Park — Central Park, New York. Olympus mju III, colour film.

The Empire State Building from the street — Empire State Building, New York. Olympus mju III, colour film.

A peeled orange on a concrete ledge — Olympus mju III, colour film.

A white sack on a New York sidewalk, a pigeon beside it — New York. Olympus mju III, colour film.

A window at night, black and white — Olympus mju III, black-and-white film.

Yellow work gloves on a blue metal surface — Berlin. Olympus mju III, colour film.

Sparrows on a café table beside a coffee cup — Olympus mju III, colour film.

Two photographs taped to a wall under a fluorescent tube — Olympus mju III, colour film.

The white rotunda of a museum with a red sofa — Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich. Olympus mju III, colour film.

Looking up a stairwell, black and white — Berlin. Olympus mju III, black-and-white film.

A framed landscape photograph on a white wall — Olympus mju III, colour film.

Alpine valley with snow under cloud — Furka Pass. Olympus mju III, colour film.

Subway station tiles reading Elmhurst, black and white — Elmhurst, Queens. Olympus mju III, black-and-white film.

A dried branch in a vase against an orange wall — Olympus mju III, colour film.

A pool seen from above — Vienna. Olympus mju III, colour film.

Two old hands resting on each other — Olympus mju III, colour film.

A brick apartment block above trees at dusk — New York. Olympus mju III, colour film.

Shop sign offering a free ride in a police car to shoplifters — New York. Olympus mju III, colour film.

A traffic mirror at night, black and white — Olympus mju III, black-and-white film.

Study

An MFA in Contemporary Theatre and Performance at The New School, supported by the DAAD, on top of a full actor's training in Zurich and New York.

Education

2025–28	MFA Contemporary Theatre and Performance	The New School, New York
2021–23	History and Social Sciences	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2019	Summer Conservatory	Stella Adler Studio of Acting, New York University
2018–20	MA Acting	Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK)
2014–17	BA Acting	Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK)

Awards and positions

2026	DAAD scholarship	German Academic Exchange Service
2026	Research assistant	The New School, New York
2025	Performing Arts Scholarship	The New School / Parsons
2019	Deutscher Schauspielpreis, nomination	Best Newcomer, Polizeiruf 110

Teachers include Harald Schmidt, Heike M. Goetze, Philipp Becker and Peter Ender for theatre, and Mel Churcher, Florian Kerber, Martin Ostermeier, Oliver Paulus, Stefan Hillebrand and Pierre Mennel for film.

Subway station tiles reading Elmhurst — Elmhurst, Queens. Olympus mju III, black-and-white film.

Alongside

He also knows the other side of the table: how exhibitions are made, and how a technology company explains itself to the people it serves.

2026–Klaus BiesenbachAssistant to the curator · New York and Berlin

2025–nolasBusiness development · nolas / epostbox epb GmbH, Berlin. European software for document workflows in public administration and healthcare.

Languages and skills

Languages	German (native), Swiss German, English (fluent), French, Romanian
Voice	Baritone. Guitar, piano, drums
Movement	Ballet, modern dance, acrobatics, boxing, bouldering, riding

The white rotunda of a museum — Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich. Olympus mju III, colour film.

Actor and performer.Screen, stage, museum.

Screen

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Own work

Infinite Jest

Berghein

The Seagull, New York, 2029

Reading Helga

Never Again. Next Time.

Echoes Across Oceans

Photographs

Study

Education

Awards and positions

Alongside

Languages and skills