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Rufus Beck is the only child of a business-owning couple. Because his parents traveled extensively abroad, he lived in the boarding school of the Odenwald School. After graduating from high school in 1976 and completing his civilian service, Beck studied Islamic Studies, Ethnology, and Philosophy at the University of Heidelberg, but later dropped out. From 1976 onward, he appeared as a musician and acting student at the Heidelberg Municipal Theatre. The following year, he was a guest performer at the Saarland State Theatre, followed by engagements at the Tübingen State Theatre, the Frankfurt Theatre, the Cologne Theatre, the Bavarian State Theatre, the Munich Kammerspiele, and the Berliner Ensemble. He later also appeared as a guest performer at the Berlin Renaissance Theatre (2006), the Stuttgart State Theatre (2010), and the Hamburg Kammerspiele (2014).
In 1989, Beck was named "Young Actor of the Year" by the magazine Theater heute. Also in 1989, he received the Young Actor Award from the Friends of the Bavarian State Theatre.
In 1990, he toured the Soviet Union with Friedrich Schiller's *The Robbers*, performing in Moscow, Irkutsk, and Alma-Ata. He toured South America in 1991 with G.E. Lessing's *Miss Sara Sampson*. In 1994, he toured Germany with Peter Maffay's *Tabaluga*.
Beck's breakthrough in film came in 1994 with Sönke Wortmann's *The Most Desired Man*, for which he received a Bambi Award for his role as Waltraut. In 1999, he was nominated for the German Film Award for *Jimmy the Kid*. He has appeared in more than 70 television and 14 feature films (as of 2018). In the children's film *The Wild Soccer Bunch* (2003), he played the role of "Coach Willi." He reprised this role in *The Wild Soccer Bunch – The Legend Lives!* (2016).
Rufus Beck is the narrator and producer of more than 200 audiobooks, including the Harry Potter novels. He gives each of the many characters a distinct voice, employing various dialects and accents. His audiobooks have received numerous awards.
During the 2006 and 2007 festival seasons, Beck played Mephisto in Goethe's *Faust* at the Bad Hersfeld Festival. Under the artistic direction of Dieter Wedel, he played Joseph Süß Oppenheimer in Jehoschua Sobol's *The Story of Joseph Süß Oppenheimer, Called Jud Süß* at the 2011 Worms Nibelungen Festival.
In 2004, he directed the dance spectacular for the world tour of *Night of the Sultans – Pandora's Legend* in Istanbul. In 2003, 2012, and 2016, he was responsible for directing, writing, and playing the magician and the beetle in the musical Tabaluga.
Rufus Beck wrote several stage adaptations for his own shows. In 2006, he published the anthology *Stories for Us Children*. His non-fiction book *Children Love Fairy Tales and Discover Values* was published in 2007.
He appeared with his son Jonathan Beck in the film *The Wild Soccer Bunch* and toured with him in 2014/15 with the play *Zorn*. Jonathan Beck also played the role of 0815 in his father's Tabaluga productions in 2012 and 2016 and was also his assistant director. Since 2018, he has starred in the television series *Deutsch-Les-Landes*.
His daughters Sarah Beck and Natalie Spinell also work as actors. Rufus Beck lives in Munich.
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25 July 2014
Henriette is terminally ill with cancer. Since her diagnosis, contact with her sister Gerlinde has fizzled out.
03 September 1992
When dishwasher Ingo, whose girl-friend has just left him, returns a borrowed bar stool to the Folkwang Acting School in Essen, he stumbles into the audition for next year's new students.
01 April 1993
Spike is a musician who, has additional income, smuggling stolen cars. He is also called Mr. Bluesman because he loves the blues more than anything.
01 January 1996
Psychotherapist Katharina welcomes a new patient, Alex Neumann. Soon she also learns to know him on a more private basis.
21 June 2003
A great mosaic, a labyrinth of scenes, dialogue splinters, interviews, portraits of people surrounding Hamlet and wanting to be part of his story.
04 March 2012
Susanne works for an auction company, and founds out that a painting that they have been charged to sell is a copy.
15 July 2005
Eddy and Bruno are ordered to break into the villa of one of Germany's most powerful bankers in order to steal a file that can prove his criminal activities.
01 January 1994
Musician Riccardo promised his son they would celebrate Christmas together in Turin. But a concert in Munich gets in the way.
26 March 2004
The work-shy, lazy Germanicus is taken to Rome by slave traders and sold straight to the nouveau riche Roman Tusnelda.
15 October 2008
A coming of age story following a young meerkat pup, Kolo, growing up in the Kalahari desert; and an inspiring look at how one family's connection to each other and their surroundings is a model of resilience and fortitude for us all.
14 August 2014
Gwen has just discovered, that she's the final member of the secret time-traveling Circle of Twelve. Now she has to juggle with constant trips to the past, her relationships with Gideon and figuring out dark secrets surrounding the Circle.
23 November 2009
Maggie and Paul senior meet in a chat room. They are so taken with each other that they decide to take the plunge and meet up in real life.
07 July 2016
Emerald Green is the stunning conclusion to Kerstin Gier's Ruby Red Trilogy, picking up where Sapphire Blue left off, reaching new heights of intrigue and romance as Gwen finally uncovers the secrets of the time-traveling society and learns her fate.
31 January 1995
Two years after an accident in which she lost her husband and son, advertising manager Marie Schiller returns to the scene - to Prague.
25 September 2002
Elation in Neustadt: by the means of a little witching, Bibi Blocksberg saved two kids from burning to death.
02 October 2003
The school year is over and for a diverse group of carefree kids, soccer is king! These kids believe that they are the local gold team and there is nothing they like more than improving their game.
24 October 1996
A businessman books a Santa Claus with his wife from the student employment service for his children on Christmas Eve.
06 December 2018
A young dragon looking for his own fire must fight against an evil wizard with help of the beautiful ice princess, Lilli.
20 December 2002
The crook Vincent loves Mona, the daughter of a policeman. When Mona's father finds out what Vincent does for a living, he puts him behind bars.
07 April 2011
Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was diagnosed with cancer in 2006.
05 October 1994
The heterosexual man Axel is thrown out of his girlfriends home for cheating and ends up moving in with a gay man.
01 September 2016
In a kingdom where plants are banned, the king's short son befriends Laurin, ruler of the dwarves, who is a great plant lover.
11 February 2016
To this very day, kids believe that the stories of "The Wild Soccer Bunch" are the best in the world, and that's why Leo, Elias, Finn, Joshua, Oskar and Matze, replay their heroes’ legendary games every spare minute.
29 September 2004
Poor Bibi - due to her bad marks in maths she has to spend the whole summer in the boarding school of Altenberg to scrape through a series of exams - otherwise she'd stay down in school, being forced to repeat the year.
26 December 2000
Modern version of The Frog King. Out of an impulse, 15-year-old Anna kisses a frog which then turns into a prince.
23 March 2006
Somewhere in the Bavarian province the robber Hotzenplotz is up to mischief. One day he robs Kasperl's grandmother's coffee grinder.
22 February 2001
The twelve-year-old Emil and his father are haunted by bad luck. To take a break from a series of family disasters, Emil is allowed to spend a few days with a friend of the family, the female priest Hummel in Berlin.
26 December 2011
Mina, a poor girl with a big heart sees stars falling from the sky and turning into Gold Talers before they land.
30 November 2012
Tabaluga und die Zeichen der Zeit - Live was recorded at the performance in Frankfurt's Festhalle. More than 350,000 spectators will see the fantastic production of the fifth and final part of the little dragon Tabaluga with Peter Maffay on stage in 54 shows in the largest halls and arenas in Germany in fall 2012.
10 March 2017
Peter Maffay has been setting his very own standards for years and he has done so again this time! In 123 days he played 64 shows and thrilled the audience with his unique, incomparable rock fairy tale, which is based on the successful album "Tabaluga - Long live friendship!", which has already been awarded platinum.
24 April 1997
9-year-old Friedrich surprises a burglar.
21 March 1996
Building contractor Jochen Schuster takes out loans worth millions to finance a dubious building project and fulfill the extravagant wishes of his lover.
13 February 1996
After the brutal robbery and murder of a wealthy senator, his daughter Nathalie turns to Munich lawyer Sina Teufel to settle the inheritance.
01 January 1995
Computer expert Silvia Berger suffers from severe amnesia: she neither knows her true identity nor can she remember the past.
28 June 2007
Mary and Marquard are painters and lovers, with a common life. Once Marquard gets a prize of a considerable sum of money, his artistic creativity wanes.
16 September 2001
Vasilis Arvanitakis after spending the E.U money for buying a poor Brazilian Football player, must face the two members of the E.
15 February 2024
Commissioner Branka Marić is summoned to the idyllic yet secretive island of Brač, where two women are brutally murdered in quick succession, forcing her and partner Emil Perica to unravel a web of long-buried feuds, jealousy, and vengeance among tight-lipped locals.
13 August 2009
Between the icy South Pole and a colorful sea-port, plays the adventure of the penguin brothers Jasper and Junior, who, with the help of 9 year old Emma, retrieve the eggs of a threatened parrot species from the evil Dr.
03 January 2000
Three women decide to turn the tables and fight back: Henriette, the feisty journalist of a women's magazine, the editor Anna and the beautiful saleswoman Sigi, together deceive the head of the publishing house by creating a fictitious author.
20 May 2018
Amy Truman has a problem: she has just messed up the second job in her probationary year as a graduate of the famous nanny school in Boldham by karate-chopping a paparazzo.
07 October 2015
Divorced, widowed or long-term single: The participants of Flirtkurs 50plus the adult education center feel not yet old, but lonely.
