Antoine Monot, Jr.

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Antoine Monot, Jr. at the German Comedy Award 2017

Antoine Monot, Jr. (born June 22, 1975 in Rheinbach ) is a German - Swiss actor and film producer ; he has German citizenship and Swiss citizenship . He had his breakthrough in 1999 with the movie Absolute Giganten . He became known to a wide audience primarily through his work as a testimonial for the Saturn technology chain . In the new edition of the series A Case for Two , he has played the role of the lawyer since 2014.

Life

childhood

He was born in Rheinbach as the son of the composer and conductor Jean-François Monot and the actress Gisela Monot . Due to the work of his parents, the family moved several times up to the age of seven. When he was seven years old, his mother took a job as a teacher at the Waldorf boarding school in Loheland near Fulda and Monot was also accepted into the boarding school, where he stayed until he first moved to Hochstadt at the age of 14 , where he went to the free Waldorf school in Frankfurt am Main and finally moved to Unterägeri near Zug in Switzerland .

Monot has two sisters, Elise Hofner and Jeanne Monot.

Career as an actor

At the age of 16 he left the Waldorf School and began studying directing at the Zurich Acting Academy in 1991 . During his last days of school he passed the casting for the movie Tschäss . Filming took place in Zurich and Wuppertal under the direction of Daniel Helfer . Subsequently, Monot Jr. only played theater until 1996. Initially in the independent scene under Volker Lösch , who left the ensemble of Theater am Neumarkt Zurich as an actor to make his directorial debut as a director with Saved in 1994. The two erasure productions Father Murder and The Big B followed, also together with Monot Jr. , whereupon the established houses became aware of Monot and he played a. a. at the Schauspielhaus Zürich (Der Krüppel von Inishmaan) , at the Theater am Neumarkt Zürich (rest stop or they all do it) and at the Theater Basel . In 1996 Monot Jr., who until then with the exception of Tschäss (1993) had only played theater in Switzerland, tried to gain a foothold in the German film and television business. He got his first episode roles in the German TV productions SK-Babies and as a patient in the alpha team . In 1997 he was invited to the casting for the German movie Absolute Giganten , with which the young actor Sebastian Schipper wanted to make his directorial debut. In Stefan Arndt and Tom Tykwer he also found two producers who realized the material together with their company X-Films Creative Pool . The casting dragged on for over a year and after the second round, Monot received the promise in the spring of 1998 to play the role of "Walter" alongside Frank Giering , Florian Lukas and Julia Hummer . On August 10, 1998, filming began in Hamburg. This film is considered his breakthrough.

Antoine Monot, Jr. (2015)

This was followed by other television and cinema productions, such as Oliver Hirschbiegel's Das Experiment (2001) , Lammbock (2001) by Christian Zübert or Robert Schwentke's egg thieves (2003) . He was on TV in Does he have a job? by Kai Wessel as well as in Wolfsheim by Nicole Weegmann . In 2004 he shot Der Wixxer in Prague with Bastian Pastewka , Oliver Kalkofe , Olli Dittrich , Anke Engelke and Christoph Maria Herbst . In 2005 he played the leading role "Momme Bief" in Till Franzen's film debut The Blue Border alongside Hanna Schygulla and Dominique Horwitz . In 2006 he appeared in the comedy Schwere Jungs by Marcus H. Rosenmüller . Remaining vacation followed in 2011 , the film adaptation of Tommy Jaud's novel .

From 2013 to 2017 , Antoine Monot Jr. played the mostly silent salesman “Tech-Nick” in an advertising campaign for the technology chain Saturn .

On September 6, 2014, the thriller Who Am I - No System Is Safe had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival . Since 2014 Monot Jr. has played the lawyer Benjamin "Benni" Hornberg alongside Wanja Mues in the series Ein Fall für Zwei. In 2014, Antoine Monot Jr. starred as Gian in The Circle .

In 2015 he was in a leading role in the crime series Tatort in the episode You will be judged , which was filmed in Swiss German by SRF . His role was subsequently dubbed to Standard German for broadcast on ARD and ORF . For his portrayal of the perpetrator, Antoine Monot, Jr. was presented with the Swiss Television Film Award on January 24, 2016 as part of the 51st Solothurn Film Festival.

Pops guys is a German Sketch - comedy - series for the first time in April 2017 Sat.1 aired. It is the first own sketch comedy by Antoine Monot, Jr. and is considered the male counterpart to Martina Hill's great women . In addition to the lead role, Monot, Jr. also directs and produces Knallerkerle.

Career as an entrepreneur

In 1998 Monot founded Creative Artists Management GmbH and represented actors from the German-speaking film industry, active as an agent until 2000, then advising the company. In 2005 the Creative Artists Management was liquidated.

On August 18th, 2004 Antoine Monot, Jr. founded TYPO3forum.net, which deals with the content management system (CMS) TYPO3 . With 150,000 visitors per month (as of August 2010), it is one of the largest TYPO3 communities. In 2013 he gave up the leadership of the forum.

In spring 2005 he founded the annual Zurich Film Festival together with Karl Spoerri and Nadja Schildknecht , for which he was artistic director until 2009. From 2008 to 2009 Antoine Monot, Jr. was responsible for the feature film production at Condor Films . In 2009, Monot, Jr. founded Zuckerfilm GmbH together with director Daniel Krauss and Franz Meiller, based on the Bavariafilm site in Grünwald near Munich. The first joint production Where it hurts was shot in 2009/2010 in Mombasa, Kenya. The second feature film, the comedy Kaiserschmarrn , was shot from September 20 to October 31, 2010 at Wörthersee, Austria and in Munich, Germany. The first documentary produced by Zuckerfilm was Scissors & Glue in 2011, directed by Helmut Schuster . The film was shown at the FLIFF Festival in Fort Lauderdale / USA.

The German Actor Award , first awarded in 2012, goes back to an idea by Monot in 2010. Since then, it has been awarded annually by the Federal Association of Film and Television Actors in six categories. At the first award, he led the evening together with Stefanie Sick as a moderator and was a member of the jury. Monot previously acted as moderator at many events and panel discussions at the Zurich Film Festival . He also moderated the Nominees' Night several times at which the nominees for the Swiss Quartz Film Prize are announced every year on the occasion of the Solothurn Film Festival .

engagement

Antoine Monot, Jr. is vice chairman of the Federal Drama Association (BFFS), where he is responsible for marketing; He is also a member of the German Film Academy and the European Film Academy .

Since 2012, Monot, Jr. has been moderating the Berlinale section LOLA @ Berlinale, which has hosted the Berlin International Film Festival, the German Film Academy and German Films since 2010 , together with Heinz Badewitz . The program in this series consists of the films that have been pre-selected by the German Film Academy commissions (feature film, documentary film and children's film) for nomination for the German Film Prize.

Personal

Antoine Monot, Jr. lived with journalist and HSE24 presenter Stefanie Sick and their three daughters together in Munich. Both had known each other for 17 years before their relationship. They met in May 1998 while filming the ARD sitcom Biggi .

In 2015 Monot's first book Trust me, I'll do it too! which he wrote with David Denk.

Filmography

Cinema (selection)

Television (selection)

As a producer

Appearances (selection)

Nominations and Awards

  • 2000: Best Actor at the Sochi Film Festival for his role in Absolute Giants .
  • 2006: In the pre-selection for the nomination for the German Film Award in the category “Best Leading Actor” for his role in The Blue Border .
  • 2016: Swiss TV Film Award for the role of Simon Amstad in Tatort You will be judged .
  • 2016: German Comedy Award for his participation in the ZDF production Sketch History
  • 2016: Genuss Film Festival Award
  • 2017: Nomination for the German Comedy Award in the category "Best Sketch Show"

Publications

Web links

Commons : Antoine Monot, Jr.  - Gallery page of photos
Commons : Antoine Monot, Jr.  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saturn testimonial: Interview with Antoine Monot Jr.: "Tech-Nick brought me a lot of new fans". In: horizont.net. HORIZONT, accessed March 1, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Santiago Campillo-Lundbeck: Saturn misses a new brand positioning - with the help of JvM. In: horizon. October 30, 2017. Retrieved November 3, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Antoine Monot receives Swiss TV film award. stern.de, January 7, 2016, accessed February 1, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Julia Emmrich: Antoine Monot is the charming newcomer to Bremen's “Tatort”. In: derwesten.de. WAZ, accessed March 1, 2016 .
  5. ↑ "Trust me, I'll do it too!" With David Denk, S. Fischer Verlage Frankfurt / M. ISBN 978-3-596-03405-5
  6. ↑ Antoine Monot receives Swiss TV film award. stern.de, January 7, 2016, accessed February 1, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Monot, Antoine, Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss actor and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheinbach