Jonas Nay

Jonas Nay ([ˈjoːnas naɪ], born 20 September 1990) is a German actor and musician known for starring as Martin Rauch in Deutschland 83, the first German-language TV series shown on American television, and its sequel, Deutschland 86.

Jonas Nay
Jonas Nay in 2016
Born (1990-09-20) 20 September 1990
Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany
OccupationActor
Years active2005–present

Early life

Jonas Nay was born in Lübeck in 1990, days before the reunification of Germany. An active boy, he rarely watched television growing up preferring to spend his leisure time on his interests of sport and music. He received his secondary education at the Johanneum zu Lübeck, a Gymnasium (selective school) with a music specialty, where he also played in the school's band.

Career

Because of his interest in the theatre, Nay responded to a newspaper advert looking for actors in 2004 and successively auditioned for a part in the German children's series Vier gegen Z on German TV station NDR. In the first two seasons of the television series, Nay portrayed character Otti Sörensen while using the stage name Jonas Friedebom.[1] In the following years, he played minor roles in several television productions on German television stations ARD and ZDF.

After finishing school, Nay took the lead role in the TV series Home Video, a drama about a young boy bullied by his classmates, who publish an intimate video of him. The production was awarded Best TV film at the 2011 German Television Awards. Nay himself received a German Television Award, as well as a 2012 Grimme-Preis Award, for his role. This work was followed by other leading roles in TV films. In 2012, Nay had a role as Hamburg investigator Cenk Batu in Tatort: Die Ballade von Cenk und Valerie, about a disturbed serial killer who is killed by his mother in the heat of the moment. For his role as the son of a schizophrenic in the 2013 film Hirngespinster, he was awarded the Bavarian Film Award in 2013 as "Best Newcomer."[2]

Nay opted for Zivildienst, rather than military service, working with people with disabilities; he went on to look at film scoring.[1] He founded the band Concerted with other students at the Johanneum he had attended in his adolescence,[3] in which he sang, played guitar and piano, and wrote the lyrics. The band worked on music for the Stephan Rick film The Good Neighbour in January 2013. The result was the forming of the new band Northern Lights.[4]

In 2015, Nay starred as Martin Rauch, an East German spy, in the Cold War thriller Deutschland 83, the first German-language TV series shown on American television,[5][6][7] and later its 2018 sequel, Deutschland 86.[8] He reached a certain level of international notoriety for this role being interviewed by multiple media outlets in the United Kingdom and United states. [9][10][11]

Filmography

Awards

References
  1. "Nur nicht abheben". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). 6 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
  2. "Wer welchen Preis gewonnen hat" [Who won which prize?]. Süddeutsche Zeitung. 17 January 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
  3. "Concerted: Über uns". Archived from the original on 14 January 2015. Retrieved 17 September 2012.
  4. Northern Lights on Facebook. Retrieved on 29 May 2013.
  5. "6 Questions with Deutschland 83 Star Jonas Nay". www.sundance.tv. Sundance TV. Archived from the original on 21 July 2015. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  6. Jones, Owen. "Deutschland 83 star Jonas Nay: we have a responsibility towards refugees – video". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  7. "Interview with Jonas Nay". www.channel4.com. Channel 4. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  8. Fernandez, Matt (10 November 2017). "Chris Veres Lands Series Regular Role on Deutschland 86". Broadway World. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  9. "Deutschland 83 star would love to play James Bond". Evening Standard. 19 February 2016. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  10. Jonas Nay: 'Deutschland 83' Is 'new for Germany', retrieved 24 January 2020
  11. Owen Jones meets Deutschland 83 star Jonas Nay | 'We have a responsibility towards refugees', retrieved 24 January 2020
  12. "Deutscher Fernsehpreis 2016". www.deutscher-fernsehpreis.de (in German). Retrieved 16 February 2016.
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