Christian Kohlund

Christian Kohlund 2013

Christian Kohlund (born August 17, 1950 in Basel ) is a Swiss actor .

Life

Kohlund is the son of the actors Erwin Kohlund and Margrit Winter , his sister Franziska Kohlund was an actress and director. He completed his training at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna and then worked at many theaters. Important stations in his career were the Munich Residenztheater , the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna, the Freie Volksbühne in Berlin, the Schauspielhaus Zurich and the Ernst Deutsch Theater in Hamburg. He also studied in the English university city of Cambridge .

In addition to numerous theater tours, Kohlund also worked in film distribution. He worked as a producer, director and cameraman and began his career as a television actor during the 1970s. At the beginning of his film career, Kohlund made several films such as The Pedestrian with Maximilian Schell (1973) or The Bridge of Zupanja (1975) and was seen in the 1977 film The Chinese Miracle alongside Heinz Rühmann and Senta Berger . In 1983, based on a true story in the German-German tragic comedy Once Ku'damm and Back, he played the head chef Peter Gross of the Swiss embassy, who fell in love with a GDR citizen and wanted to smuggle her to West Berlin .

Kohlund is mainly at home in the light genre: In addition to crime novels and TV films, he was often seen in entertainment series, including as Professor Vollmers in the ZDF series Die Schwarzwaldklinik . These roles brought him a high profile.

In the following years he worked as an actor in numerous television productions, including comedies such as Happy Chaots or film series such as Klinik unter Palmen . But he also played in thrillers like Tenerife - Day of Vengeance or At Any Price . He has also worked on television films such as the Race to Bombay (1981), Deadly Money (1995), Confusion of the Heart (1997), The Girl from Stranger (1999), Julius Caesar (2002), Love, Lies, Passions (2002) or With all my heart (2009) with.

Kohlund has repeatedly appeared in series, film series and multi-parts, including Anna Maria - A woman goes her way , Under white sails , Abel lawyer , Das Traumhotel , Die Alpenklinik , Insel der Träume or in Rosamunde-Pilcher films. In addition, he continuously took on guest roles in well-known German crime series such as Derrick or Ein Fall für Zwei . Since 2016 he has played the leading role of lawyer Thomas Borchert in the ARD crime series Der Zürich-Krimi .

Kohlund was married to the Austrian actress Christine Buchegger , then to Sylvana Henriques for four years. His third marriage was in 1982 with the former pop singer Elke Best , with whom he has two children.