Daniel Hoevels

Hoevels was born in Sweden. After three years studying politics in Berlin at Freie Universität Berlin, where his first roles were Huck in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Haimon in Christine Eders's Antigone, and the Duke of Burgundy in Andreas Kriegenburg's production of Shakespeare's King Lear. His subsequent Shakespearean roles have been Lysander in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo Montague in Romeo and Juliet''. From 2005 to 2009 he was part of Thalia Theater Hamburg. From 2009 on he works at Deutsches Theater Berlin. He is noted for bringing a touch of comedy to rather serious roles. ==Accidental stabbing==

On 6 December 2008, Hoevels slit his neck while playing "Mortimer" in Mary Stuart, written by Friedrich Schiller. His character's suicide scene was to feature a dull knife, but it was damaged and was replaced by a sharp one. Thalia - the theatre company - requested that the sharp one be dulled too, though this was "carelessly" disregarded. The near-fatal knife was bought at a local store and reportedly still contained a price tag. and some rumors claim that the knife was replaced by a rival of Hoevels. They reportedly questioned the cast and crew and performed DNA tests. Later performance Hoevels returned to Hamburg on 8 December. He was to play the character Willi in The New Sorrows of Young W. by Ulrich Plenzdorf. Coincidentally, the main character Edgar Wibeau was also to commit suicide in the play. ==References==