Sergej Moya

Sergej Moya (born 14 January 1987 in Berlin) is a German actor, screenwriter and director. He won the Undine Award for Best Young Leading Actor in the 2005 film Keller – Teenage Wasteland.

Sergej Moya
Born (1987-01-14) 14 January 1987
Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, Germany[1]
Occupationactor, screenwriter and director
Years active2001–present

Early life

Moya was born in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin.[1] He went to six different schools including the Berlin State Ballet School,[1] and went to school in the US for half a year in 2005.[2] Moya started his film career during his early teens, while at comprehensive school in Mitte, Berlin. He left school before Grade 10, due to having to travel and stay away for periods of time to make films,[2][3] such as "The Angel Tonight" in Munich for 14 days in 2006.[2] He received a scholarship from the Berenberg Bank Foundation in 2006 to further his acting development.[2] He went to a workshop at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York.[2][4]

Acting career

Sergei Moya's first acting role aged 12,[2] was in 2001 in the German movie Frau2 sucht HappyEnd with Ben Becker.[2] There followed a small role in the remake of the Erich Kästner 's novel Emil and the Detectives. The acting breakthrough came in 2003 alongside Götz George and Klaus J. Behrendt in the multi-awarded (Emmy and a Grimme Award,[2]) WDR television movie Mein Vater.[3][5] In 2005, he once again acted beside Götz George in a Schimanski episode.[6]

In the Sat.1 series, he played a case for the Old Fox, as the son of Walter Sittler and then in the ARD series Commissario Laurenti, he was alongside of Henry Hübchen. For his role in Keller - Teenage Wasteland, Moya received the 2006 Undine Award for best actor in a feature film. In 2006, he was next to Uwe Ochsenknecht in Der beste Lehrer der Welt.[2] In 2007, he was nominated for a Golden Romy as "Most Popular Shooting Star". Moya has no degree and has been focusing on acting since the beginning of 2006. He has appeared in several TV series such as Polizeiruf 110, Commissario Laurenti, Der Alte and several Tatort episodes.[7]

Career as a director and screenwriter

He founded a film company,[2] Von Fiessbach Film,[8] with his girlfriend and producer Julia Lischinski,[1] and friend Sascha Pollack.[3]

Since 2009, Moya has also worked as a director and author. His short film Hollywood Drama was part of the competition at the film festival Max Ophüls Preis 2010 and was shown in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino series of the Berlinale 2010.[1] His film project Hotel Desire, an erotic film with Clemens Schick and Saralisa Volm, was funded by crowdfunding. The sum of 170,000 euros was collected before the official deadline of 80 days.[9] The later found the budget of $241,000 to complete the film.[8]

In 2014, the 26-year-old Moya directed a TV film, about actor Jan Josef Liefers, Jan Josef Liefers - soundtrack of my life on the MDR channel . Tatjana Kerschbaumer noted in Tagesspiegel about the film, "Rarely has it been possible to summarize the biography of a person, music history and politics in such a condensed and anything but tenuous way".[10]

Awards
  • 2005 - (Austrian Media Prize) Undine Award for Best Young Leading Actor in the film Keller – Teenage Wasteland[3][2]
  • 2008 - "Best Actor" at the Madrid Mostoles International Film Festival [3][2]
  • 2009 - Moya received the Max Ophüls Award for "Best Newcomer" [3]

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role Notes
2001 Frau2 sucht HappyEnd ill little boy[11]
Emil and the Detectives Flügel
2005 Out of Hand Sebastian also known as Keller - Teenage Wasteland[12]
2006 Der Engel heute Nacht (or "The Angel Tonight") (Short)[2]
The Cloud Jannes (credited as Sergej Moja) [4]
2007 Evil Images Jonas (Short)
2008 Kronos. End and Beginning Kronos original german title Kronos. Ende und Anfang
Der zweite Bruder Tobias (Short)
2009 Jedem das Seine Milos
Freunde von früher Sunny aged 17 also known as Les Amis du passé[13]
2010 Shahada Daniel [8]
2017 The Invisibles Ludwig Lichtwitz

Television
Year Title Role Notes
2003 Mein Vater Oliver Esser (TV Movie)
2003-2013 Tatort (TV Series) Philipp Rabe 2003[4] / Mika Mende 2007[4] / Mischa Celinski 2009 [7]/ Tobias Rothgerber 2010 / Konstantin 2013 TV Series, 5 episodes
2004 Die Farben der Liebe Alex (TV Movie)
2004-2007 Ein Fall für den Fuchs Lukas Kerner TV Series, 6 episodes
2005 Schimanski David TV Series, 1 episode
Im Namen des Gesetzes Pit Daubler TV Series, 1 episode
2006 Ein Fall für zwei Tobias von Kleist TV Series, 1 episode
Der beste Lehrer der Welt Igor (TV Movie)
2006-2009 Commissario Laurenti Marco Laurenti TV Series, 5 episodes
2007 Der Kriminalist Sascha Rohrbach TV Series, 1 episode[4]
2007-2012 Polizeiruf 110 Jürgen Baumann TV Series, 2 episodes
2008 Rosa Roth Sascha Bremer TV Series, 1 episode
Stille Post Niklas / Andrea's student (TV Movie)
2008-2014 Leipzig Homicide Sven Kaspari 2008/ Heiko Bender 2014 TV Series, 2 episodes
2009 The Old Fox Markus Fletzinger TV Series, 1 episode
2010 Des Kaisers neue Kleider Jakob (TV Movie)
Lutter (TV Series) Lukas Taschenbeck TV Series, 1 episode
2011 Fugitives Frank Korbach TV Series, 2 episodes
2012 Der Dicke Björn Matuschek TV Series, 1 episode
Cologne P.D. Mick Gebert TV Series, 1 episode
Stolberg Marcel Kaminski TV Series, 1 episode
The Tower Ezzo Rohde (TV Movie)
2013 Beste Freundinnen Bastian Ellermann (TV Movie)
Letzte Spur Berlin Tom Harthof TV Series, 1 episode
2014 München 7 Kuba TV Series, 1 episode
Heiter bis tödlich - Hauptstadtrevier Adam TV Series, 1 episode
2017 Die Chefin Tobias Weidenbach TV Series, 1 episode
2018 Wolfsland Clemens Olmützer TV Series, 1 episode[14]

(as) Director
Year Title Notes
2010 Die blaue Periode ('The Blue Period') (Short, written and directed by Moya), premiered at the Max Ophüls Film Festival[3]
Hollywood Drama (Short, written and directed by Moya), was screened at the Berlinale[3]
2011 Hotel Desire (Short, written and directed by Moya),[8]
2015 Stefanie Heinzmann's song In the End (music Video short)[15]
2016 The Huntingtans: Chewing Gum and Love Affairs (Short, written and directed by Moya) won 'Best Casting' at Berlin Fashion Film Festival.[16]
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References
  1. "Flucht-Drama "Go West": Was würden Franz Dinda, Sergej Moya und Frederick Lau für die Freiheit tun?". bild.de (in German). 6 January 2011. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  2. Goltz, Tobias (24 September 2006). "Sergej Moya im Interview: "Ich lebe in meinem Kopf in einer Welt von Märchen und Geschichten."". Planet Interview (in German). Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  3. Jänichen, Barbara (26 January 2010). "Nachwuchsstar Sergej Moya: "Götz George ist für mich der Größte"". www.morgenpost.de (in German). Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  4. Goltz, Tobias (11 April 2007). "Sergej Moya - 663. TATORT - Das namenlose Mädchen". tatort-fundus.de (in German). Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  5. "Auszeichnung: "Emmy" für deutschen Fernsehfilm". FAZ.NET (in German). 25 November 2003. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  6. "Stolberg-Breinig: Schimanski und das Wunder von Breinig". Aachener Zeitung (in German). 1 December 2004. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  7. Joachim Hess Tatort A-Z: 40 Jahre Tatort - Referenzbuch mit Glossar 1970 - 2012, p. 245, at Google Books
  8. Meza, Ed (13 August 2011). "TeamWorx titillates online". Variety. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  9. Hotel Desire – Crowdfunding Experiment finanziert at the Wayback Machine (archived March 5, 2012) Pressemitteilung der Produktionsfirma teamWorx vom 19. August 2011
  10. Kerschbaumer, Tatjana (26 October 2014). "So wurde Jan Josef Liefers in der DDR groß". www.tagesspiegel.de (in German). Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  11. Dreier, Harriet (10 January 2001). "Kinopremiere: Happy End für Sabrina". Spiegel Online (in German). Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  12. "Out of hand. Keller, 2005". Cine Gay Online (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  13. "Les Amis du passé". Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  14. Miller, Julian (30 May 2018). "Die Kritiker: "Wolfsland - Irrlichter"". Quotenmeter (in German). Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  15. "Video: In The End". Universal-Music.de. Retrieved 2015-03-16.
  16. "Berlin Fashion Film Festival 2016 - The Winners". BFFF. 3 June 2016. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
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