Gernot Kunert

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Gernot Kunert (born May 27, 1952 in Lübeck ) is a German actor , author and behavioral therapist .

Live and act

Before the acting career

Before Gernot Kunert started his acting career, he was already an author, assistant director, director, producer and finally a producer, for example at Ufa and Bavaria .

As assistant to program director Peter Gerlach, Kunert was also the editor in charge of the TV magazine scene in 1986 - people, muses and motifs at Sat.1 . In addition, Kunert developed the concept for the station's breakfast television on behalf of Gerlach.

In 1991 he was the founding chairman of the Berlin Communication Forum .

From the start of shooting in 1992 until 1993, Gernot Kunert worked for Gute Zeiten, haben Zeiten as an assistant director, director and producer of a special on the series.

At Bavaria Film in Munich in 1995 he was the producer of the first German daily soap , So ist das Leben! The Wagenfelds .

In 2000, Kunert wrote the script for the episode Party for four corpses in the crime series SOKO 5113 .

Acting career

Gernot Kunert first appeared in front of the camera in 2007 at the age of 55. Kunert became famous for his portrayal of Hanns-Martin Schleyer in the ARD film “ Mogadischu ” (director: Roland Suso Richter ). In the following years he was able to work with many well-known directors, for example Rainer Kaufmann (Operation Zucker), Thomas Schadt (Der Mann aus der Pfalz), Friedemann Fromm (Die Wölfe), Roman Polanski (Ghost Writer), Quentin Tarantino ( Inglourious Basterds ) and Brian DePalma (Passion). Kunert most recently played in Michael "Bully" Herbig's film "BALLON".

As a member of the ensemble, Gernot Kunert won the German TV Award / Best TV Film twice : in 2009 for Mogadischu (role: Hanns-Martin Schleyer) and in 2013 for Operation Zucker (role: Johannes / Michael Guthen).

Gernot Kunert works parallel to acting as a behavioral therapist (HPG) with a focus on anxiety disorders. He lives in Berlin .

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Chronicle, p. 8
  2. a b Gernot Kunert at Crew United
  3. Soko 5113