Frank Giering

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Frank Giering (born November 23, 1971 in Magdeburg , † June 23, 2010 in Berlin ) was a German actor .

Life

Frank Giering's grave (2012)
Frank Giering memorial plaque at the lift bridge, Magdeburg

Born and raised in Magdeburg, Giering gained his first stage experience as an extra in the former Maxim-Gorki-Theater Magdeburg . After high school and community service, he first began studying at the Westphalian Drama School in Bochum . After a year he moved to the "Konrad Wolf" University of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg. He also broke off this course prematurely because he refused the exercises that were “psychologically and physically questionable” from his point of view.

In the season 1994/1995 he first played for one season at the Staatstheater Cottbus in a production of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole , before his first leading role in the television play Der Verräter (1995) brought him the certainty that the work in front of the camera was his Future was. The Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke became aware of him through his role of the insecure youngster Paul, who is looking for recognition in the neo-Nazi scene , who then cast him in two of his films, Das Schloß and Funny Games (both 1997) . Giering became known overnight for his portrayal of the psychopathic, merciless killer in Funny Games , his first movie starring role.

Giering's final breakthrough came in the role of Floyd in Sebastian Schipper's Absolute Giganten (1999), for which he and Florian Lukas and Antoine Monot Jr. received the award for best actor at the Sochi International Film Festival in 2000.

Since then, Giering has regularly appeared in cinema and television film productions and almost exclusively focused on working in front of the camera. According to his own statements, he had "difficulties filling a room" in the theater. While filming, he was able to “express feelings that can only be seen in the theater in the first row”.

Giering was represented with two contributions at the Berlin International Film Festival , in 2002 with the film Baader (2002) in the role of the eponymous leader of the Red Army Faction , and two years later with Romuald Karmakar's adaptation of Jon Fosse's play Die Nacht sings her Lieder über das End of a love affair. At the Berlinale, both films met with severe rejection from film critics.

Because of these experiences, Giering withdrew almost completely from film after 2004 and limited himself to television productions as far as possible, as he said he felt less vulnerable on the small screen.

From 2006 to 2010 Giering played the role of Commissioner Henry Weber in the ZDF series Der Kriminalist at the side of Christian Berkel . Due to his sudden death while filming was in progress, the character of Henry Weber also died because the production “didn't want to add a fictional ending” to him.

In addition to the award for Best Actor for Absolute Giants at the Sotschi Film Festival in 2000, Giering was nominated twice for Best Supporting Actor, in 2001 for his role of Nazi Edwin in Gran Paradiso for the German Film Prize and for Der Mörder ist unter uns as best Supporting Actor for the German TV award 2004 .

Giering died on June 23, 2010 at the age of 38 in his apartment in Berlin. According to his agency, the cause of death was acute biliary colic . On July 9, 2010 he was buried in the Neustädter Friedhof in Magdeburg-Neue Neustadt .

Filmography

Audio productions

  • 1999: Abrahadabra , by Achim Koch (radio play)
  • 2002: The sun doesn't shine for us , by Léo Malet (radio play)
  • 2003: The Faculty , by Pablo de Santis (radio play)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ jjc: Actor Frank Giering is dead. Spiegel Online , June 24, 2010, accessed on August 16, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Arthur Jung: Portrait: Paths to Fame. In: Cinema issue 2/2001, pp. 84–85.
  3. ↑ Hanns-Georg Rodek and Eva Sudholt: Frank Giering - He died of a life overdose. Welt online , June 26, 2010, accessed August 19, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Katja Hübner: Portrait: The Sentimental. Der Tagesspiegel , February 24, 2010, accessed on August 19, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Antje Hildebrandt: Interview: I admire Homer Simpson. In: Frankfurter Rundschau of December 7, 2006
  6. ^ Rainer Vogt: Interview: Alone at home. In: Stern TV Magazin , issue 48/2006, pp. 2-3
  7. ↑ Julia Teichmann: A shy rebel. Berliner Zeitung , June 25, 2010, accessed on October 7, 2012 .
  8. ↑ Antje Hildebrandt: Nesthocker and melancholy. Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung , December 2, 2006, archived from the original on February 11, 2013 ; Retrieved December 15, 2013 .
  9. ^ Herbert Spaich: On the death of Frank Giering. Filmspaicher Das SWR-Kino-Blog, June 27, 2010, accessed on October 7, 2012 .
  10. ^ Ulrich Kriest: Frank Giering. In: film-dienst , issue 15/2010, p. 18.
  11. ↑ Thomas Wahl: The sadness remains. Berliner Zeitung , February 25, 2011, accessed on October 7, 2012 .
  12. ↑ dpa : Giering's alcohol poisoning denied - “That's not true”. Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 29, 2010, accessed October 18, 2011 .
  13. ↑ The grave of Frank Giering. knerger.de, accessed on August 16, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Giering, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg , GDR
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 2010
Place of death Berlin