Michael Lippold, born in 1970 in Regensburg, studied acting at the Hochschule der Künste Bern (Switzerland) from 1992 to 1996. His first engagement took him to the Theater Augsburg, where he appeared in the title role in Hamlet, among others. Further engagements took him to the Theater Konstanz, the Schauspielhaus Zürich, from 2002 to 2005 to the Münchner Volkstheater under Christian Stückl, and from 2005 to 2010 he was a member of the ensemble at the Schauspielhaus Bochum (Directorship Elmar Goerden), followed by guest appearances at the Ruhrtriennale. He has worked with directors such as Elmar Goerden, Jorinde Dröse, Christian Stückl, Armin Holz, Wilfried Minks, Kristo Šagor, Anna Bergmann and Johan Simons. In 2008 he was nominated several times as Young Actor of the Year NRW for the title role in Genannt Gospodin by Philipp Löhle (directed by Kristo Šagor). Since 2010 he has mainly worked as a director and author and was invited to festivals in Germany and abroad with productions and nominated for the Cologne Theatre Prize 2013. In the Rottstr 5 Theater he still plays the solo evening Traum eines lächerlichen Menschen nach Fjodor M. Dostojewski, which premiered in 2006 at the Schauspielhaus Bochum. Since the 2018/2019 season Michael Lippold is again a member of Schauspielhaus Bochum.
Current roles:
- Grelle Tage
- Ludwig, Pierrot, Francisque in Don Juan
- Mit anderen Augen
- Die Schutzbefohlenen – Was danach geschah (2024)
- Wie wollen wir hier leben?
- Der Großinquisitor
- Das große Weihnachtsliedersingen
Past roles:
- Pfarrer / Storch / Mann / Bodenwischer in Früchte der Vernunft
- Am laufenden Band
- Jegor in Kinder der Sonne
- Pink in Die Schöne und das Biest
- Das Gespenst der Normalität
- Die Hermannsschlacht – allerdings mit anderem Text und auch anderer Melodie
- Aase / Herr von Eberkopf in Peer Gynt
- Quizoola!
- Kreon in antigone. ein requiem / Die Politiker
- Regan in King Lear
- Episode 7 in Aus der Rolle fallen
- Braun in Ein Fest für Mackie
- Saturday, Sunday, Monday
- Polyhymnia (Chor junger Frauen) / Klytaimnestra (30.01.) in Iphigenie
- Rodrigue in Die Jüdin von Toledo
- Leonce und Lena
- Der ideale Chor
- Robinson in Me, a Robinson.
- Séance de travail
- New Joy
- I have a dream ...
- Bochumer Ermittlungen