Andreas Fröhlich

Andreas Fröhlich born July 11 1965 in West Berlin is a German actor voiceover artist audiobook and radio drama narrator and reciter From 1995 to 2007 he also worked as a dubbing director and dialogue scriptwriter Fröhlich became best known for his role as the Third Detective Bob Andrews in the Europa radio drama series Die drei The Three Investigators which has been running since 1979 As an audiobook narratorparticularly in the genres of speculative fiction as well as childrens and young adult literaturehe gained increasing popularity starting in the early 2000s Several of his productions have been featured on Germanys audiobook bestseller lists In 2010 he received the German Audiobook Prize for his narration of Doppler by the Norwegian author Erlend Loe Andreas Fröhlich serves as the official German voice actor for both John Cusack and Edward Norton In 2003 he was awarded the German Dubbing Prize in the category Outstanding Dubbing Script for The Lord of the Rings The Two Towers Fröhlich describes himself as a radio drama performer Andreas Fröhlich attended the WaldGymnasium in Berlin after graduating from school he began formal acting training though he did not complete the program At the age of just seven he was discovered in the childrens choir of the broadcaster Sender Freies Berlin SFB where he quickly established himself as a child voice actor within the radio drama department After landing his first radio drama roles under the direction of Kurt Vethake and Ulli Herzog Fröhlich was cast in the series Die drei in 1978 Since then he has appeared as Bob Andrews in every episode of the series released to date performing alongside Oliver Rohrbeck as Justus Jonas and Jens Wawrczeck as Peter Shaw Between 2002 and 2003 the three voice actors embarked on a nationwide tour with a program titled Master of Chess performing a live stage adaptation of a Die drei radio drama episode In 2004 to mark the series 25th anniversary the trio performed the episode Der Superpapagei The Super Parrot at the soldout Color Line Arena in Hamburg In 2009 the trio once again took a stage adaptationtitled Die drei Fragezeichen und Der seltsame Wecker live and tickingon a tour across Germany In August 2010 at the Waldbühne in Berlin they set a world record for the largest live audio drama performance drawing an audience of over 15000 people Alongside his work as a voice actor Fröhlich also worked as a stage actor at the Fränkisches Theater Schloss Maßbach during the late 1980s There his roles included performances in Was ihr wollt Twelfth Night Der Hauptmann von Köpenick Figaros Hochzeit The Marriage of Figaro and Woyzeck Since the mid1970s Fröhlich has also taken on occasional roles in film and television productions He has appeared in shows such as Sesamstraße Lemmi und die Schmöker Das feuerrote Spielmobil Ich heirate eine Familie Die Wicherts von nebenan and Ein Fall für zwei In 2007 he made a cameo appearance in the film Die drei Das Geheimnis der Geisterinsel