Michael Jussen

Michael Jussen (born 1965) is a German actor and cabaret artist. After training as a television technician and briefly studying Latin and theology, Jussen attended acting school in Berlin. His first engagements took him to the Anhaltisches Theater Dessau, the Stadttheater Bremerhaven and the Grenzlandtheater Aachen, the Theater Lutherstadt Wittenberg and the Theaterlabor Berlin. He played the title roles in Marlowe's The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus and in Osborne's Martin Luther, as well as the laborer Jimmy Porter in Osborne's Look Back in Anger, among others. As Luther, he also made a guest appearance at the Palermo Theater Festival. In 2005 - on the occasion of the 1,200th anniversary of the city of Magdeburg - he appeared as the heroic actor in the theater spectacle Otto and Other Greats, and in 2006 he played Inspector Ledoux in The Phantom of the Opera. Since 2010, he has appeared annually in the Jedermann Festival at Berlin Cathedral, directed by Brigitte Grothum, first as the Schuldknecht, then as the Hausvogt. In the 1990s, Jussen set a number of audio books to music, including Goethe's Die Leiden des jungen Werthers, Büchner's Lenz, Storm's Der Schimmelreiter and Kafka's Die Verwandlung. Since 2004, Jussen has regularly created solo and cabaret programs with which he performs all over the country. He works closely with the Brettl-Keller in Lutherstadt Wittenberg and with the Kiebitzensteiners in Halle (Saale). Jussen also works as an acting teacher for voice and drama in Berlin and Wittenberg.