{"id":839,"date":"2016-11-15T17:36:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T16:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gotha-mittermayer.de\/en\/?p=839"},"modified":"2026-03-18T11:53:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:53:58","slug":"herbert-schaefer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gotha-mittermayer.de\/en\/herbert-schaefer\/","title":{"rendered":"Herbert Sch\u00e4fer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It happened during his high school graduation party that Herbert Sch\u00e4fer parodied a drunken principal which definitely made him gain the favor of his fellow students and also rendered grades a matter of secondary importance.\u00a0 Everyone who witnessed the scene knew that Herbert Sch\u00e4fer was to become an actor.\u00a0 He also convinced the Otto Falckenberg Drama School audition panel of his skills and subsequently received the best of acting training that there is in Germany.\u00a0 Upon performing his absolutely convincing graduation monologues he became a fixed member with the ensemble at the theater in Ulm, Germany where for four years he got to play classics by Schiller, Goethe, Lessing, Kleist, and Brecht.\u00a0 Following a 3 year intermission and a couple of forays into summer theater, he joined another fixed ensemble, this time at the Theater Freiburg.\u00a0 This was a time in which plays\u00a0 started to be interpreted in a more modern and unconventional way.\u00a0 At that time he also got to know Am\u00e9lie Niermeyer.\u00a0 She helped Herbert Sch\u00e4fer take a big leap forward as an actor and they collaborated in a number of plays at the Schauspielhaus Duesseldorf.\u00a0 Risa Kes who was one of the very first and finest casting directors, introduced him to director Rainer Kaufmann which paved Herbert Sch\u00e4fer&#8217;s way to work in film.\u00a0 Thanks to his impressively sonorous voice he is also a well-established narrator for radio features, radio plays, audio books as well as for TV documentaries on the French-German TV network ARTE.\u00a0 As for truly convincing lead roles, Herbert Sch\u00e4fer is currently performing in\u00a0<em><strong>Superstar sucht Deutschland<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>at the Kammerspiele Landshut, Germany and in\u00a0<em><strong>Benefiz<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0at the Metropol Theater M\u00fcnchen.\u00a0 His last lead performance in a film for the big screen was opposite Ulrike Tscharre in Ian Dilthey&#8217;s\u00a0<em><strong>Eines Tages . . .<\/strong><\/em>. Herbert Sch\u00e4fer is a thoroughbred actor!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It happened during his high school graduation party that Herbert Sch\u00e4fer parodied a drunken principal which definitely made him gain the favor of his fellow students and also rendered grades a matter of secondary importance.\u00a0 Everyone who witnessed the scene knew that Herbert Sch\u00e4fer was to become an actor.\u00a0 He also convinced the Otto Falckenberg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schauspieler-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gotha-mittermayer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gotha-mittermayer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gotha-mittermayer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotha-mittermayer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotha-mittermayer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotha-mittermayer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39408,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotha-mittermayer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions\/39408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gotha-mittermayer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotha-mittermayer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotha-mittermayer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}