Urs Rechn
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Urs Rechn, February 2015
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| Born |
18 January 1978 Halle an der Saale, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1999-present |
| Known for | Appearance in Son of Saul and Eight Miles High |
Urs Rechn is a German actor, most famous for his appearance in the 2015 Cannes Grand Prix-winning Holocaust drama Son of Saul.
Urs Günther Rechn was born on January 18, 1978 in Halle an der Saale, then German Democratic Republic, now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, to Günther Rechn (a renowned painter and graphic artist from Eastern Germany, GDR) and his wife Beate Rechn, and was the second of their three children.
From 1987 onwards, Urs Rechn attended the Special Grammar School for Music "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" in Halle, where he excelled in Violoncello, French Horn and Singing. After the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the family relocated to Cottbus, Brandenburg, where Urs Rechn attended the 1. Heinrich Heine Academic High School for Music and Fine Arts and the Konservatorium Cottbus, where he gained an outstanding reputation as Junior Conductor of the youth symphony orchestra and brass band.
Despite having received no formal previous training in acting, Urs Rechn segued into an acting career, encouraged by the honoured and renowned East German Director and Impresario Christoph Schroth. He appeared on the stage plays Hamlet (1995), The Beaver Coat (1996) and Steig'in das Traumboot der Liebe (1996) and as a chorister in the opera The Magic Flute (1995) on the State Theater Cottbus.
In 1997, owing to conscription, Urs Rechn went to the German paratroops and later to the German special forces. In the meantime, he played in several TV episodes thanks to an agreement with his Colonel. Upon completion of the active service in 2002, Urs Rechn attended the University of Music and Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Leipzig, and graduated in 2004. He became then – and still is – a visiting scholar at this very institution.
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