Alexander Beyer

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Alexander Beyer (2014)

Alexander Beyer (born June 24, 1973 in Erfurt ) is a German actor .

Life

Alexander Beyer is the son of a Thuringian violin making family. He spent his childhood and youth in the GDR .

After German reunification , he studied at the Ernst Busch drama school . Then Alexander Beyer played various supporting roles before he became known to a large audience in 1999 in Sonnenallee (director: Leander Haußmann ). Since then, the actor, who lives in Zurich and Berlin, has shown his talent in many successful cinema and television films, including Eierdiebe (director: Robert Schwentke ), Schimanski muss suffer (director: Matthias Glasner ) and War and Peace (director: Robert Dornhelm ). In the lavish remake of the novel by Leo Tolstoy , Alexander Beyer slipped into the role of Count Pierre Kirillowitsch VISITOR, who becomes the richest Russian in the country thanks to a fairy tale heir to millions and who fights against Napoléon . Beyer was nominated for the Bavarian Television Award in 2008 in the category Best Actor - Series and Series .

In the 2000s, Alexander Beyer played Gregor's greatest invention in the Oscar- nominated short film (director: Johannes Kiefer), in Volker Schlöndorff's terrorist drama The Silence after the Shot and the audience favorite Good Bye, Lenin! (Director: Wolfgang Becker ). The Tatort - Schlaraffenland (director: Nina Grosse ) and the family tragedy Hierankl (director: Hans Steinbichler ) saw a lot of viewers. In Florian Hoffmeister's directorial debut 3 ° colder , Alexander Beyer was seen alongside Meret Becker and Bibiana Beglau . The team was invited to the Locarno International Film Festival in 2005 and won a Silver Leopard. In Aleksandr Buravsky's world war epic Leningrad , Alexander Beyer played a key role alongside Armin Mueller-Stahl .

Alexander Beyer is an alpinist , skier and expedition mountaineer . He and his partner, actress Annika Blendl , have a son.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Alexander Beyer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual proof

  1. Talent for devotion . In: taz , November 26, 2011