Thomas Borchert

German actor, singer, and songwriter

Thomas Borchert
Born	(1966-07-20) 20 July 1966 (age 57) Essen, West Germany
Occupation	Stage actor

Thomas Borchert (born 20 July 1966 in Essen, Germany) is a German actor, singer, and songwriter. He has performed especially in musical theatre.

Biography

In 1988, Borchert, with his rock band "Cakewalk", won a prize in a music festival sponsored by the German broadcasting network NDR. He finished high school that same year, then went to the Stage School of Music, Dance and Drama in Hamburg. His first professional role was as Rum Tum Tugger in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats, in 1990-1991. Recently, he appeared as Maxim de Winter in a Stuttgart production of the musical Rebecca.^[1]

The musical The Count of Monte Cristo, in which Thomas plays the title role, was written especially for him by composer Frank Wildhorn in 2009. He was voted "Best Actor in a Musical 2014/15" by the readers of the German Magazine "Musicals". As a singer and pianist, he has recorded several CDs and has often discussed with concerts in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Borchert married the violinist Rebecca Thümer in 2005 in Hamburg. He has a son Jonas from his first marriage. He has been married to the musical performer and actress Navina Heyne since the summer of 2018.^[2]

Career^[3]

1990 - 1991: Cats - as Rum Tum Tugger
1991: You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Hamburg) - as Snoopy
1991: The Rocky Horror Show (Hamburg) - as Frank N. Furter
1992: Jesus Christ Superstar - as Judas
1993 - 1994: Elisabeth (Vienna) - as Luigi Lucheni
1994 - 1996: Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story (Hamburg) - as Buddy Holly
1996 - 1997: Evita (Schwäbisch Hall) - as Ché Guevara
1997 - 1998: Elisabeth (Vienna) - as Luigi Lucheni
1998 - 1999: Les Misérables (Duisburg) - as Jean Valjean
1999 - 2000: Mozart! (Vienna) as Leopold Mozart
2000 - 2001: Mozart! (Vienna) as Count Hieronymus von Colloredo
2001 + 2002: Judy - Somewhere over the Rainbow (Vienna) - all principal male roles
2001 - 2003: Jekyll & Hyde (Vienna) - as Henry Jekyll & Edward Hyde
2002: Divas (Vienna) - as Herb Hammerschmidt, King of Entertainment
2003: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Rosenburg) - as Oberon & Theseus
2003 - 2005: Dance of the Vampires (Hamburg) - as Graf von Krolock
2004: Elisabeth (Trieste operetta festival) - as Death
2005 - 2006: Dracula, the Musical (St. Gallen) - as Count Dracula
2005: The Phantom of the Opera (Essen) - as The Phantom
2006: Best of Musical (Tour) - as a soloist
2006 - 2008: Dance of the Vampires (Berlin) - as Graf von Krolock
2007: Best of Musical (Tour) - as a soloist
2007: Dracula, the Musical (Graz music festival) - as Count Dracula
2008: Novecento - Die Legende vom Ozeanpianisten (Hamburg) - als Novecento
2008: Gigi - Das Musical (London) - als Gaston
2008: Novecento - The Legend of the Red Pianist (Tour) - as Novecento
2009: The Count of Monte Cristo (St. Gallen) - as Edmond Dantès
2009 - 2011 Dance of the Vampires (Vienna) - as Graf von Krolock
2011: Rebecca (Stuttgart) - as Maxim de Winter
2012: Dance of the Vampires (Berlin) - as Graf von Krolock
2014: Artus-Excalibur (St. Gallen) - as Merlin
2018 - 2019: Dance of the Vampires (St-Petersburg) - as Graf von Krolock
2021 Dracula, the Musical (Ulm) - as Count Dracula
2022: Dance of the Vampires (St-Petersburg) - as Graf von Krolock
2022 Dracula, the Musical (München) - as Count Dracula
2023: Dance of the Vampires (Stuttgart) - as Graf von Krolock
2023 - 2024: The Count of Monte Cristo (Lüneburg) - as Edmond Dantès

Discography (selected works)

Jim Steinman: Tanz der Vampire. Markus Tüpker, Essen [2004]
Deluxe. Markus Tüpker, Essen / Alive, Cologne (Vertrieb) [2004]
Frank Wildhorn: Jekyll & Hyde (highlights). BMG Ariola, Munich [u. a.] [2002]
Buddy. Sony Music Entertainment, Frankfurt am Main [1994]

Awards

Borchert won the 2002 German Musical Award for best actor for his performance in the title roles of Jekyll & Hyde.

References

^ Rebecca – Das Musical (in German)
^ I. Marquardt (2018-09-26). "IT TAKES TWO - Thomas Borchert und Navina Heyne". Retrieved 2018-12-31.
^ Thomas Borchert Infoservice - Biografie Archived 2009-06-04 at the Wayback Machine