Felician Hohnloser

Biography

Felician Hohnloser (born 1986 in Heidelberg) is a German actor and theater artist.

From 2009 to 2014, Felician Hohnloser studied acting at the Zurich University of the Arts; while still a student, he collaborated with directors such as Herbert Fritsch, Martina Eitner-Acheampong, and Hannes Weiler at the Schauspielhaus Zürich. Subsequent engagements took him to venues including Theater Chemnitz and the Staatstheater Karlsruhe.

Since 2016, Hohnloser has worked as a freelancer on stages such as the Nationaltheater Mannheim and the Stadttheater Heidelberg, as well as within the independent theater scene and on film productions. Together with director Matthias Rippert, he developed the solo performance Der mit dem Sohn tanzt (The One Who Dances with His Son), a piece exploring father-son relationships that toured throughout Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

In 2020, Hohnloser initiated and curated neu.txt, a Heidelberg-based festival dedicated to new theatrical texts. He also realized interdisciplinary projects such as the immersive video performance Gift (Poison), which examines internalized images of masculinity. In 2023, he collaborated with his son, the author Lorenz Just, on a stage project exploring the subject of gender from a child's perspective.

Hohnloser also appears regularly in front of the camera. In 2024, he played the role of Günther in the film The Shipwrecked Triptych by Deniz Eroglu; the film won the Grand Prize at the Filmadrid festival. Additionally, he appeared in the Tatort episode "Der Reini" alongside Hans-Jochen Wagner. In the film adaptation of Ein Mann seiner Klasse (A Man of His Class), he played the main character's uncle; in 2025, the film was awarded the German Television Prize for Best Television Film.