Daniel Krauss

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Daniel Krauss (left) in Der Goldene Nazivampir von Absam 2 - The Secret of Kottlitz Castle with Götz Burger (right)

Daniel Krauss (born February 12, 1973 in Gießen ) is a German actor , screenwriter and director .

Life

After graduating from high school , Daniel Krauss first completed a one-year internship at the Bavaria Film production facility in Munich . He then studied at the New York Film Academy, where he attended various seminars and workshops. During this time he also published his first texts as an author . From 1996 he completed a degree in film and directing at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin . During his studies he made short films and directed the theater productions Windmühlen and Schnitzeljagd at the amateur theater Theaterdock Berlin . In 2001/2002 he shot his graduation film with the title Heimatfilm! In coproduction with Westdeutscher Rundfunk . , a tragicomic provincial drama from a small Westphalian town with Fritzi Haberlandt and Hannes Jaenicke in the leading roles.

From 2000 Krauss was also seen in movies and regularly on German television . Krauss took on several continuous series roles, recurring episode roles and guest roles. From 2004 to 2007 he played alongside Ulrich Mühe as the detective and detective Etzel Hanisch in the television series The Last Witness . In the Sat.1 series Dr. He played Molly & Karl in 2008/2009 the continuous series role of the team of Dr. Molly owned physician Dr. Tobias Wienandt. In 2009 he was seen alongside Senta Berger as communications and computer specialist Pit Moser in the crime series Unter Verdacht . From 2007 he also had a recurring series role in the MDR hospital series In all friendship ; there he played the role of Fabian Althaus, the drug addict son of the series character Dr. Rolf Kaminski ( Udo Schenk ), who repeatedly has to deal with unresolved contradictions and conflicts with his father.

Krauss continued to work for the theater. At the beginning of 2005 he directed the play Die Wälder by David Mamet at the Berlin Vaganten stage ; In November 2005 there followed his production of Büchner'schen Woyzeck . In 2007, Krauss also taught acting and scriptwriting at the Cape Town Film School . In 2007, together with Maria Brüning, he founded the art and literature magazine Spella tells stories and was editor of the quarterly magazine until 2010. He produced the educational film Nina - A Life with MS (2006), which he also directed.

In 2009 Daniel Krauss founded the production company Zuckerfilm GmbH together with Antoine Monot Jr., based in Berlin and since August 2010 also in Grünwald near Munich on the premises of Bavaria-Film . The first joint production Where it hurts was shot in 2009/2010 in Mombasa , Kenya . The second feature film, the musical comedy Kaiserschmarrn , followed in 2010. The first documentary was Scissors & Glue , directed by Helmut Schuster .

In 2011 he directed seasons 4 and 5 of the RTL comedy format Cindy and the young wild ones . In 2015 he developed the TV series Wir sind die Rosinskis together with Anika Soisson on behalf of ARD ( Degeto ) . The pilot film was broadcast in November 2016. The main roles are played by Katharina , Anna and Nellie Thalbach , as well as Milan Peschel , Emma Bading and Vincent Krüger . Since the end of 2014 Krauss has been directing the show Kalkofes Mattscheibe together with Lasse Nolte .

Since 2009 Krauss has also had episode roles in numerous television series, including a. in the SOKO formats of ZDF, in Coast Guard , Großstadtrevier and Alles Klara . He also took on guest roles in several Tatort episodes. In January 2017 he was seen in the ZDF series Der Bergdoktor in a leading role in the episode; He played the widower Michael Lanzinger, whose wife died in an accident a few months ago, and who is now looking for the person who had his wife's heart transplanted.

Since 2019 he has worked for the artistic direction of the comedy on Kurfürstendamm in the Schiller Theater and chairman of the association “Friends and Patrons of Comedy on Kurfürstendamm Berlin e. V. ".

Daniel Krauss lives in Berlin .

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personal data
SURNAME Krauss, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kraus, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, screenwriter and director
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH to water