Birol Unel
Birol Ünel (born August 18, 1961 in Silifke , Turkey ) is a German actor .
Life
Born in Silifke in southern Turkey, Ünel moved to his parents in Germany in 1968 and last grew up in Brinkum near Bremen . After training as a parquet layer, he completed his acting training at the University of Music and Theater in Hanover .
Ünel repeatedly suffers from alcohol problems. In an interview with Die Welt in 2012 , he said, "I can't handle money". Despite his great success with Soul Kitchen and Gegen die Wand , he had to live with a friend for a while.
theatre
In 1992 he started out as a theater actor at the Berlin Kunsthaus Tacheles , where he directed and played the title role in the play Caligula . In 1994, Ünel played Siegfried in Frank Castorf's production of Die Nibelungen - Born Bad at the Volksbühne on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin.
In February 2007, played Stadttheater Hildesheim , the two-person piece Winter by Jon Fosse , in the Ünel one of the two rolls side Göksen Güntel embodied.
Cinema and television
Ünel made his cinema debut in 1988 in Der Passenger - Welcome to Germany at the side of Tony Curtis , followed by small and medium-sized roles, mostly as a seedy guy, until he attracted more attention as a civil investigator in Dealer (1999). He played in Fatih Akıns In July 2000 . He celebrated his big breakthrough in 2004 as an alcoholic in Fatih Akıns Gegen die Wand , for which he also won the German Film Prize for Best Actor .
In Heinrich Breloer's 1997 two-part docu-drama Todesspiel about the kidnapping of the employer president Hanns Martin Schleyer by members of the RAF and the kidnapping of the Lufthansa plane Landshut by a Palestinian terror squad, he impressed with his portrayal of the Palestinian terrorist "Captain Mahmoud".
As a result, there were also international inquiries (e.g. Not a Lovestory , 2005) and roles in Turkish films (e.g. Diebstahl alla turca , 2005). In 2009 he was seen again in a Fatih Akın film, in the comedy Soul Kitchen .
Filmography (selection)
- 1987: A Case for Two - Payday
- 1988: The Passenger - Welcome to Germany
- 1989: A Wopbobaloobop a Lopb Bäumen
- 1992: Mau Mau
- 1996–2003: Tatort (TV series, 4 episodes)
- 1996: decoys
- 1998: Angel fly
- 1999: Open account
- 2003: shadowless
- 1997: Death Game
- 1999: dealer
- 2000: In July
- 2001: Duel - Enemy at the Gates
- 2001: Anam
- 2004: Against the wall
- 2004: Blackberries
- 2004: King of Thieves
- 2005: Theft alla turca (Hırsız var!)
- 2005: Not a Lovestory
- 2006: The house of the sleeping beauties
- 2007: Valerie
- 2007: Transylvania
- 2007: The uneducated
- 2008: The moon and other lovers
- 2008: Mach One Problem District (Music Video)
- 2009: Soul Kitchen
- 2011: KIZ - department head of love (music video)
- 2011: Sleepless Night (Nuit blanche)
- 2012: Looking for Eimish
- 2015: I'll be gone then
- 2016: Back To Nothing
- 2016: Falling
Awards
- 2004: German Film Award for Best Actor in Gegen die Wand
Web links
- Birol Ünel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Birol Ünel at filmportal.de (with photo gallery)
- Portrait on Prisma-Online , August 4, 2010
- Sven Hillenkamp: "The fierce - Birol Ünel in portrait" , Die Zeit , February 10, 2005
- Til Biermann: "From star to self-destructive, gentle drunkard" , Die Welt , December 6, 2012
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Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/prominente/article106423860/Vom-Star-zum-selbstzerstoererischen-sanften-Saeufer.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Unel, Birol |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Turkish actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Silifke |