Max Hopp

Max Hopp (born 26 July 1972 in East Berlin) is a German actor and director. Hopp completed his education at the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch in Berlin. He began his acting career in 1995 at the Bremer Theater, after already working as a teenager between 1986 and 1989, still under the name Marcus Hopp, in the pleasure series of television of the GDR Ferienheim Bergkristall as Robert Schneeberger, later Robert Wachtel.He later had engagements at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg (1996 to 2000), at the Schauspielhaus Zürich (2001 to 2005), at the Munich Kammerspiele (2001 to 2003) and at the Deutsche Theater Berlin (2002). Since 2005, Max Hopp has been working regularly at the Volksbühne Berlin at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. In the 2012/2013 season, Max Hopp plays a leading role at the Basel Theater together with Michael von der Heide in the rock opera The Black Rider (directed by Corinna von Rad).Max Hopp played under directors such as Barbara Bilabel, Dimiter Gotscheff, Christoph Marthaler, Frank Castorf, Ronald Steckel, Ulrich Waller, Luk Perceval, Calixto Bieito and Elke Lang. He also played the solo programs Epitaph and Hollywood Songbook.Max Hopp is co-founder of the nootheater, a Berlin artist group whose first work is the documentary Das schöne Licht der Utopie. Since 2000, Max Hopp has also been present in cinema and television. He has been involved in the theatre adaptations Lulu by Frank Wedekind and Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen, among others. In the 2019/2020 season Max Hopp is the director of the opera Zanaida at the Staatstheater Mainz.