The first steps of acting could be so easy for him, but Christian’s deep trauma happened in fifth grade. The class’s new guy replaced him within one day of rehearsal as the Sheriff of Nottingham due to better skills (and gosh good looks!). Since then Christian has aimed every now and then for a chance to prove himself as a good actor.
Up to now he has played various roles in various groups. At school he did Goethe’s Faust which has been his most favorite play ever since. With german-language drama groups at Trier University he has so far played an ancient Greek farm boy and a selfish modern contempary coward.
With Trier English Drama he had various roles. At first, Christian slipped into the role of Robin „Moonshine“ Starveling from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a foolish, wannabe stage-rocking, head-banging craftsman (Summer 2010). After that, he went into catching rats in Terry Pratchett’s Maskerade: as Mr Pounder and as Greebo he played two characters with extremely peculiar behavior (Winter 2011). At Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, Christian acted both as Lane and Merriman – again, two foolish characters with very peculiar behaviour perfectly made to hyperbolize every gesture (Spring 2011). In his final production, he took the roles James Morland, a benign but naïve lad, and Dorothy, a person close to madness, yet taking care of all needs in the abbey, in the stage-adaptation of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey. He dearly hopes that every performance gave the audience a good bunch of sincere laughs, that is what he always has been aiming for.
In the meantime, he’s studying politics and international relationships, sometimes Japanese culture, and everything he might find interesting (like lectures on Russian literature or linguistics in general) and is very close to the finish line. He certainly will take a job as a teacher or an university lecturer or a novelist or a newspaper man or whatever – as long as it has something to do with wisdom and words and stuff. Or maybe he’ll become a Power Ranger for the mere sake of justice and due to childhood ambitions.
Only time will tell.