Coaching
“The body never lies” (Martha Graham)
When coaching actors in preparing the specific physicality of their characters (for film or the stage), the aim is to develop the character’s physical expression through one-to-one work.
How do I find the specific physicality that suits my character’s backstory?
How do I make their posture, gestures and movement feel natural, and bring my character to life as a real person?
How do I transform today’s physicality into a contemporary or historical context?
Beyond language, movement coaching makes the physicality of characters tangible through the senses and the body. Through improvisation – alone, with a partner or in a group – a repertoire is developed that acts as a physical matrix for the individual characters.
The study examines how psychology, living conditions and the social context shape a character’s behaviour, and how inner motivation becomes visible in outward gestures.
A different reality of life, a different era, gives rise to a different inner attitude, a different manner, different patterns of movement in space and different interactions with others.
Only when the body transforms itself and immerses itself in a new reality does it cease to appear ‘dressed up’, but instead comes to life in the costume of another era.
‘When I feel a character’s body, I am free within the scene and feel authentic.’
Best practice:
2026 : Movementcoaching for main cast / „Dolly“ / Miniserie Netflix
2026 : Movementcoaching for Alicia von Rittberg / „Queen Silvia“ (aka German Queen) / Prime Video / director: Miguel Alexandre
2026 : Movementcoaching for Tim Bergmann / „Monster“ / Miniserie /Disney, ZDF / director Adolfo J.Kolmerer
2025/26 : Movementcoaching and choreography for Loris Sichrovsky and Alicia von Rittberg / „Waiting room“ / director: Maggie Peren / KINO
2024 : Body- and movementcoaching for the main cast (Edgar Selge, Barbara Sukowa, Michael Kranz, Lars Eidinger, Aenne Schwarz, Antonia Bill) / LEIBNIZ-DIE CHRONIK EINES VERSCHOLLENEN BILDES / director : Edgar Reitz / KINO
2024 : Body- and movementcoaching for Katharina Stark / Ottla / FRANZ / director : Agnieszka Holland / KINO
2024 : Body- and movementcoaching for Dominique Devenport / Sisi in “Sisi” Staffel 4 / RTL+
2023 : Body- and movementcoaching for main cast / TITANINNEN / Filmakademie Ludwigsburg
2023 : Body- and movementcoaching for Katharina Stark /Eva Bruhns / “Deutsches Haus” / Disney +
2021 : Body- and movementcoaching for Alicia von Rittberg / Elisabeth in “Becoming Elisabeth” /STARZ
2021/ 2022 : Body- and movementcoaching for Dominique Devenport / Sisi in “Sisi” season 1 /season 2 / RTL+
2021 : Accompanying Body- and movementcoaching for Philipp Foissant / Emperor Franz “The Empress” Season 1 / NETFLIX
2021 : Body- and movementcoaching and chorerography for main cast and extras in “Der Passfälscher” / director: Maggie Peren / KINO
Expertise for movement coaching with actors:
- Since 1993 permanent teaching position at the Otto-Falckenberg-Schule in Munich, in the subject movement with focus on improvisation and dance (contemporary, modern, and historical dances from Renaissance, Baroque, Romanticism, and social dance of the 20s and Tango Argentino).
- Regular guest for workshops at the Bavarian Theater Academy, the ZHDK Zurich, the Schule für Schauspiel Hamburg and the Konservatorium Vienna.
- Years of movement and body coaching of actors for theater and film
- Continuous collaboration with directors as a movement coach and choroegrapher for historical theater and film projects
- Since 1999 successful choroegrapher and director for contemporary dance theater with interdisciplinary collaboration between dancers and actors at Munich theaters and in the independent scene
- Study of “Movement Evaluation Graphics (MEG) A System for the Analysis of the Movement Process” by Cary Rick and Claudia Jeschke
- Further development of viewpoint and contact improvisation techniques for ensemble training in acting and dance, as well as for individual acting coaching