NATIONALITY

Citizen of the United States

Citizen of Germany

PROFESSIONAL CAREER CLASSIFICATION: ACTOR

POSITION SOUGHT: I AM LOOKING FOR A LEADING CHARACTER ROLE WHERE I CAN USE MY INSIGHT, WIT, AND CHARM (AND PHYSICAL PRESENCE) TO THEIR FULL POTENTIAL 

Height: 6'3" (192 cm), Weight: 295 lbs (134Kg)

I am sure many of you have read resumes where a person will tell you WHAT they are and not WHO they are. In doing so, they attempt to create this imaginary identity around their career. I have seen this with careers such as an accountant, an analyst, a therapist, a sales-man, and yes, even an executive. In the end though, that still does not answer the question of who they are.

This would be comparable to a dog barking, "I can roll over, sit, and play dead on command in three different languages! I have had three masters and fulfilled a different set of needs for each one! I am looking for a new master at this time, so anyone interested should look at my credentials and my pedigree."

This would be great if I were a dog!

However, I am not a dog! I am a gay man in a man's world who wants and needs the respect befitting any and all men (gay, straight, Christian, Jewish, Moslem.....................)

So, what am I and who am I? I am a 43 year-old gay male actor with a great deal of experience in many facets of living in today's ever-changing industrialized information hungry society!

I see myself as an ever-changing ever-growing humane human who is here to experience life to its fullest!  These life experiences in turn help any and all of my appearances and performances convey an austere sense of directness and security, making people quite aware of the fact that I have absolute control of whatever stage I am on.

I have included some of my skills and accomplishments in order to put a little detail, colour and sharpness into the self-portrait I am trying to create here! Just remember that any portrait I present to you is only ONE of the many frames in the suspense-filled motion picture I call: "My Life". 

FOREIGN LANGUAGES: Learning, speaking, and writing many a foreign language is a deep passion of mine. To me it is a reminder of the times when Europe's elite frequently traveled and socialized throughout the historic cities of Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Copenhagen, Madrid, Barcelona and many more. Learning the histories, the languages, conversing with the peoples in their native tongue and experiencing their cities, geography, and customs takes me back to the days of yore and the magic that had given them their birth.   

To me this is indeed a beautiful awakening experience and presents an opportunity to effectively portray a varying assortment of other character roles, which would normally not be an option in my home country. 

It also helps me to present selected roles of foreigners with cultural and national sensitivity. After all, as a German actor, I am very proud of my heritage and quite aware of my country's history. I take great offence when the simple mentioning of my German ancestry / citizenship is immediately greeted with someone attempting to make me feel guilty for the holocaust and/or other atrocities of WWII.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN

German

English

French

Spanish

Danish

EDUCATION

Degrees

Masters of International Business

B. A. in Foreign Languages / Political Science

EXPERIENCES:

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE

Contriving business/service idea / Conducting market analysis & business plan formulation / Directing & controlling all aspects of start-up business operations / Targeting particular clientele / Analysing requirements of prospective clientele / Engineering programs to develop client base and enhance business volume / Promoting Effective Business/client relations / Identifying opportunities for business growth / Providing comprehensive client support through in-depth industry knowledge / Interacting effectively with diverse individuals

MARKETING EXPERIENCE

Introducing and promoting varied programs and services / Highlighting advantages of my organizational services / Engineering and executing innovative marketing and advertising strategies so as to standout from the crowd and entice customers / Developing and implementing unique promotional advertising materials / Gathering and validating market information / Solving advertising and marketing problems / Evaluating competitive position within industry

COMMUNICATION AND MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE

Proposing to a client that he has a host of unsatisfied wants and needs / Assisting the client in assessing and analysing these unsatisfied wants and needs / Facilitating the client in the categorization and evaluation of these unsatisfied wants and needs / Consulting the client on which of my programs would satisfy these unsatisfied wants and needs in an optimum fashion / Implementing selected programs so as to fulfil these unsatisfied wants and needs / Continually monitoring the client to be sure that he is achieving the desired results with the selected program / insuring that his unsatisfied wants and needs are always being met in a paramount fashion

PUBLIC RELATIONS EXPERIENCE

Maintaining a user-friendly profile / Creating a concrete definition of myself, and the services that I offer / Continually re-educating thereby establishing myself as an authority on the services that I offer / Presenting myself as a fully knowledgeable professional through action, appearance and conduct / Representing myself, and my business at community functions in one form or another / Facilitating communication with customers through the maintenance of an open dialogue.

FORMAL ACTOR TRAINING (OR LACK THEREOF):

To justify my lack of a formal training / education in Theatre arts, I would like to make reference to the mystic named OSHO! 

"It does not matter whether you paint, sculpt, or make shoes; whether you are a gardener, a farmer, a fisherman, a carpenter -- it does not matter. What matters is, "are you putting your very soul into what you are creating?" Then your creative products have something of the quality of divine.

Except creativity, there is nothing divine.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

If you want to create, you have to get rid of all conditionings otherwise your creativity will be nothing but copying, it will be just a carbon copy. You can be creative only if you are an individual, you cannot create as a part of the mob psychology. The mob psychology is uncreative; it lives a life of drag, it knows no dance, no song, no joy; it is mechanical."