August Diehl

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August Diehl (2017)

August Diehl (born January 4, 1976 in West Berlin ) is a German actor .

Life

August Diehl comes from a family of artists . He is the son of the actor Hans Diehl (* 1940); his mother is a costume designer . His younger brother Jakob Diehl (* 1978) is a composer and actor.

Diehl has been married to actress Julia Malik since 1999 . He played with her in May 2008 at the Ruhr Festival Recklinghausen . In May 2009 their first child, a daughter, was born in Berlin.

On the night of March 8, 2011, Diehl went on a pub crawl in Regensburg with Pete Doherty and a stranger , where both were staying for the filming of the film Confession of a Child of the Century . One or more of the three people broke into the window of a record and CD shop in the old town and stole a guitar and a record from the decoration. If the police initially assumed theft was burglary, they later came to the conclusion that those involved were intoxicated and incapable of guilt at the time of the crime. The public prosecutor's office in Regensburg applied for a penalty warrant against Diehl and Doherty for negligent intoxication .

Acting career

After graduating from a Waldorf school , Diehl studied drama at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin . Diehl's role models are the actors Gert Voss , with whom he played together, and Robert De Niro .

His first film work, the leading role as computer hacker Karl Koch in the movie 23 - Nothing is As It Seems from 1998, brought him notoriety and the German Film Prize for best actor. Numerous other film roles and theater works on the major German-speaking theaters followed, for which he received further awards. In the film drama What is the use of love in thoughts (released in November 2004) after the student tragedy in Steglitz in 1927, he played the role of 19-year-old high school student Günther Scheller alongside Daniel Brühl .

In Quentin Tarantino's Oscar- winning film Inglourious Basterds , Diehl had a bigger role than SS-Sturmbannführer Dieter Hellstrom in 2009 . In the American action thriller Salt , which was released in August 2010, Diehl can be seen as the husband of the main character played by Angelina Jolie .

In addition to his leading roles in the German films The Coming Days (2010) and Who if Not Us , Diehl also appeared in the music video for Herbert Grönemeyer's single Schiffsverkehr in 2011 .

Since 2009 Diehl has been active as a guitarist in the band “hands up-excitement!”.

At the beginning of the 2013/2014 season, August Diehl has been a member of the ensemble at the Burgtheater Vienna .

In 2019, Diehl played the Austrian farmer and conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter in Terrence Malick's film drama A Hidden Life . In the six-part TV series Die Neue Zeit (first broadcast: September 2019) about the founding years of the State Bauhaus in Weimar , he took on the role of the architect and Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius , who invented a love affair with the art student Dörte Helm ( Anna Maria Mühe ) leads.

August Diehl is a member of the German Film Academy . He lives in Berlin .

theatre

Peter Simonischek as Elector and August Diehl as Homburg, Salzburg Festival 2012

Filmography

Audio books

Awards

See also

Web links

Commons : August Diehl  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kerstin Halstenbach: The joy of playing gene. derwesten.de , April 27, 2008, accessed March 8, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Did scandal rocker Doherty break into record store?
  3. ^ Criminal warrant against Pete Doherty
  4. ↑ Annabel Wahba: The year of August Diehl. In: The time . November 27, 2008, accessed January 4, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Show “ Gero von Boehm encounters: August Diehl”, broadcast on April 7, 2008, 10:25 pm on 3sat
  6. ↑ hands-up-excitement.de
  7. ↑ August Diehl in "Die Neue Zeit": Speeches about the image of women at the Bauhaus. In: kurier.at. Retrieved January 13, 2020 .
  8. ↑ August Diehl. In: deutsche-filmakademie.de. German Film Academy , accessed on March 6, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Popshot: Review of the audio book. September 30, 2014, accessed October 2, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Diehl, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin