Biography

Dirk Sikorski is a German actor known for "La Commune" by Peter Watkins, "Miracle at St.Anna" by Spike Lee, "Pepperminta" by Pippilotti Rist and "Orphesus Rhapsody" by Katharina Mihm.

He received formal Acting education in Zürich in the national Conservatory of the Arts (ZHDK) an in Paris (Conservatoire 5eme - Bruno Wacrenier) where he lived for 6 years and also got a degree in "Arts du spectacle" in the Sorbonne (together with Laetitia Eido, who he met years later on a film set in Nazareth, Israel).

He is fluent in English, French, Italian and German (mother tongue) and also speaks Greek and Hebrew from a one year residence in Tel Aviv where he directed a play in the Suzanne Dallal center of the arts with Aviva Joel, Anna Senger and Eyal Sherf.

In theatre, he has worked with Claude Stratz, Eloi Recoing, Danielle Labaki, Stephan Müller (Zürcher Festspiele), Stephan Teuwissen, Dagmar Schlingmann and Alexander Pelz among others.

He worked with Japaneses actor Issei Ogata on two occasions in Tokio and Sapporo.

While shooting "Miracle At St.Anna", he participated in the military education boot camp with Billy Budd and Paul Hornsby.

In addition to dubbing films with directors like Engelbert van Nordhausen and Lars Kraume, he has been recording audio books for more than a decade for the Swiss national library of the blind and visually impaired.

His camera work is influenced by his work with Seamus McNally.

As of May 2022, he is represented by Schauspiel Management München - Joa van Overstraaten.

He is a practitioner of Aikido (1st Dan) and Talmi-method, both with Professor Martin Gruber (6th Dan, director and choreographer) and Soto-Zen for 20 years. In his youth, he was a successful handball-player (4th German champion and select player for Nordrhein Westfalen).

Apart from theatre, he received a medical education in Berlin.
- IMDb mini biography by: Joa van Overstraaten