Moritz Jahn (actor)
{{Short description|German actor and musician (born 1995)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2023}}
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| birth_name = Moritz Glaser
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1995|4|17|df=y}}
| birth_place = Hamburg, Germany
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| occupation = {{hlist|Actor|musician}}
| years_active = 2007–present
| known_for = {{hlist|Die Pfefferkörner|Dark}}
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| genre = Pop rock
| instrument = Vocals, guitar
| years_active = 2018–present
| label = Frische Luft Music
| current_member_of = Moritz Jahn & Frische Luft
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Moritz Jahn (born Moritz Glaser, 17 April 1995) is a German actor and musician. He is best known to international audiences for his role in the Netflix show Dark.
Career
=Acting=
Moritz Jahn became known as "Karol" in the children's show Die Pfefferkörner, in which he was the main actor from 2007 to 2009. His first lead role came in 2010 in the two-part ZDF television movie Prinz and Bottel. Jahn played the double role of Calvin and Kevin. In 2011, Jahn starred in Der Himmel hat vier Ecken, in which he played his first theatrical role. He was nominated for the Max-Ophüls Prize for his performance in 2016's {{Ill|Offline: Are You Ready for the Next Level?|de|Offline – Das Leben ist kein Bonuslevel}}.{{cite web|title=Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis {{!}} SWR Fernsehen|work=swr.online|date=21 January 2016|url=http://www.swr.de/film/filmfestival-max-ophuels-preis-saarbruecken/-/id=5791128/did=16828986/nid=5791128/1fr2ex0/index.html|accessdate=19 July 2018}} In 2017, he was seen in Bettys Diagnose in a supporting role, playing a 17-year-old with health problems. The same year, he appeared in the mystery series Dark as Magnus Nielsen, the rebellious son of Ulrich Nielsen (played by Oliver Masucci).[http://www.filmstarts.de/serien/bildergalerien/bildergalerie-18515905/ Wer ist wer in "Dark"? Die Familien der Mystery-Serie vorgestellt] Filmstarts.de
In 2019, Jahn sat on the jury of the Bundesfestival Junger Film youth festival in Sankt Ingbert alongside director Andreas Dresen and actress Lucie Hollmann.{{cite web|title=Jurys |url=https://www.junger-film.de/jurys-2019/ |website=junger-film.de |date= |accessdate=20 April 2020 |language=de |trans-title=Juries}}
=Music=
Jahn has been performing as a musician since 2018. His band, known as Moritz Jahn & Frische Luft, consists of Moritz on vocals and guitar, Robert Koehler (bass, accordion, and vocals), Sebastian Scheipers (guitar, vocals), Jannis Heron (drums), and Henning von Hertel (guitar, mandolin). They released their debut EP, Love, Hate & the Mistakes of a Lifetime, in 2019.{{cite web|title=Moritz Jahn |url=https://www.myfanbase.de/dark/darstellerbiographien/?peopleid=6340 |website=myfanbase.de |date= |accessdate=20 April 2020 |language=de}} This was followed by another EP, Rascals, in 2020.{{cite web|title=Rascals |url=https://shop.tourhafen.de/browse/moritz-jahn-rascals-ep/en,0,10280,59170,0,0.html |website=tourhafen.de |date= |access-date=9 January 2021}} Their recent singles include "Emerald Beauty", which was released in December 2020.{{cite web|title=Von Der Bühne In Deine Kopfhörer: Moritz Jahn Veröffentlicht Ein Verfrühtes Weihnachtsgeschenk |url=https://diffusmag.de/news/p/von-der-buehne-in-deine-kopfhoerer-moritz-jahn |website=diffusmag.de |date=18 December 2020 |access-date=9 January 2021 |language=de |trans-title=From the Stage to Your Headphones: Moritz Jahn Publishes an Early Christmas Present}} More recent releases include "More Than You Can Chew" (26 November 2021), "Kanoa" (5 December 2021), and "Hamborger Veermaster" (22 December 2021).{{cite web|title=Moritz Jahn - Youtube |url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeb-LlPEdhiMAMbvRjx-aIw |website=youtube.com | date=22 December 2021 | access-date=22 December 2021 |language=en}} Moritz Jahn and Frische Luft released their debut album, Soliloquy, on 1 April 2022.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}
Filmography
| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ TV |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 2007–2008
|Karol Adamek | |
| 2016
|Vincent Lehmann | |
| rowspan=2|2017
|Florian |1 episode |
| Tatort
|Jonas Holdt |1 episode |
| 2017–2020
|Dark |Magnus Nielsen | |
| 2020
|Lennart Billstein |1 episode |
| 2022
|Corporal Herbert Brückner | |
| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Film |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 2010
|Prinz und Bottel | |TV movie |
| rowspan=2|2011
|Der Himmel hat vier Ecken | | |
| Inga Lindström – Die Hochzeit meines Mannes
| |TV movie |
| 2013
|Stiller Abschied{{cite web|title=Mortiz Jahn |url=http://www.filmstarts.de/personen/496218.html |website=filmstarts.de |date= |accessdate=20 April 2020 |language=de}} | |TV movie |
| 2014
|Die Schneekönigin |Prince | |
| 2016
|{{Ill|Offline: Are You Ready for the Next Level?|de|Offline – Das Leben ist kein Bonuslevel}} |Jan | |
| 2017
|{{Ill|Boarding-School Intrigue|de|Tod im Internat (2017)}} |Paul | |
| 2018
|Kommissarin Heller: Vorsehung |Bastian Krämer | |
| 2019
|Get Lucky – Sex verändert alles |Mats | |
Discography
Albums
- Soliloquy (2022)
EPs
- Love, Hate & the Mistakes of a Lifetime (2019)
- Rascals (2020)
Singles
- "Ghost" (2020)
- "Back to the Roots" (2019)
- "Love, Hate & the Mistakes of a Lifetime" (2019)
- "Part of the World" (2019)
- "Time" (2019)
- "Goliath – Live Session" (2019)
- "Emerald Beauty" (2020)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|2950365}}
- [https://moritzjahnofficial.com/#banner Official website]
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Category:Male actors from Hamburg
Category:German male film actors
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