Heino Ferch

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Heino Ferch (2018)

Heino Ferch (born August 18, 1963 in Bremerhaven ) is a German actor .

He is known to a large audience through numerous roles, including in the movies Comedian Harmonists , Der Untergang , Vincent will Meer , The Baader Meinhof Complex and Life is Too Long .

Life

Ferch is the son of a captain. At the age of fifteen, he was still in high school for the musical Can Can under the direction of the former solo dancer of the Bavarian State Opera Franz Baur-Pantouiler for dance acrobatic numbers on the stage of the Bremerhaven City Theater . Until 1984 he also traveled through Europe in the German gymnastics squad (2nd Bundesliga of the German Gymnastics League ). In 1987 he finished his studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg . In addition to majoring in acting, he also took courses in tap dance , ballet and singing.

From 1987 to 2007 Ferch lived in Berlin , since 2007 in Inning am Ammersee , Bavaria .

From 1990 to 1999 he was in a relationship with the actress Suzanne von Borsody , with whom he appeared in several film projects. A daughter comes from the subsequent relationship with a Berlin doctor. In 2002 Ferch met the eventing rider Marie-Jeanette Steinle , whom he married in 2005. They have two children, a daughter and a son. Both are active as players and in promoting young talent in polo and are members of the Polo Club Landsberg-Ammersee. Heino Ferch has a handicap of 0 reported to the German Polo Association (as of 2020).

Career

theatre

From 1987 to 1990 Ferch had his first engagement at the Freie Volksbühne Berlin , where he was part of the ensemble under Hans Neuenfels . He took on the role of Rupert in a television adaptation of Der zerbrochne Krug, directed by Heinz Schirk . From 1990 to 1994 he was a member of the ensemble at the Schillertheater under Alfred Kirchner and Alexander Lang ( Die Räuber , Mockinpott , Kasimir and Karoline , As You Like It ). He made guest appearances at the Teatro alla Scala and at the Burgtheater ( Die Geisel ). In 1992 he played 120 performances in The Blue Angel under the direction of Peter Zadek at the Theater des Westens . At the end of the 1980s, Ferch switched from theater to film.

Movie

Ferch made his feature film debut in 1988 with a brief appearance in Königswald Castle . In 1989 he played his first role as Klaus Asmus in Wedding . The police call 110 followed in 1994 : Saturdays, when there is war , in 1995 the multi-part Deutschlandlied directed by Tom Toelle and in 1996 the film Der Unhold by Volker Schlöndorff , in which Ferch drew attention to himself with the role of Napola commandant Raufeisen.

In 1997 he made his breakthrough as a film actor in Joseph Vilsmaier's film Comedian Harmonists with the role of a cappella baritone Roman Cycowski and with the personification of ski instructor Marco in Tom Tykwer's Winter Sleeper . 1997 saw Ferch in nine different roles, seven of them leading or co-leading roles.

In 1998 he played the gangster Ronnie in Tom Tykwer's Run Lola Run . The following year he took on the role of Johannes in Buddy Giovinazzo's English film noir thriller The Unscarred (Everyone dies) . In 1999 he repeated the issue of gunmen in the role of ex-Foreign Legionnaire Volker Bretz, battle name: Straight Shooter in the film of the same name. The resemblance at that time to the American actor Bruce Willis at the time of the film The Mercury Puzzle (1998) gave him the label of a "German Bruce Willis", which he himself has perceived with personal distance to this day. In 2002 he starred in the thriller satire Night in the Park .

In 2001 the two-part TV series Der Tunnel started . Ferch was awarded the Golden Camera for his portrayal of the escape helper Harry Melchior . In 2004 the film The Downfall was released . Ferch played the Nazi armaments minister and architect Albert Speer in this film . In 2005, Ferch played the role of American General Philipp Turner in the two-part television series The Airlift - Only Heaven Was Free .

Positive press coverage for Ferch resulted from his role interpretation of the Jewish ghetto leader Jacob Gens in the film adaptation of the play Ghetto by Yehoshua Sobol . In 2006 he was seen in the role of an East Berlin construction worker in The Wall - Berlin '61 . He was awarded the Jupiter in 2008 for the role interpretation of the character Hans Kuhlke . At the end of 2007, after a long period of abstinence from comedy, he played the role of the jealous husband Jan in the movie comedy My beautiful gift .

Heino Ferch (2007)

In addition to historical characters, Ferch repeatedly takes on roles in semi-documentary feature films that tell current topics, for example in 1991 in Death Came as a Friend , in 1993 in Dangerous Relationship , in 2005 in Hunt for Justice or in 2005 in Murder by the Sea . In the Canadian large-scale TV production The Trojan Horse (2008), he played Johann Kruse, representative of the Federal Intelligence Service in Canada. In 2008 he was in the production of Der Baader Meinhof Complex in the role of Horst Herold Dietrich Koch's assistant on the side of the prosecuting judiciary.

In 2008 Ferch played in the family and children's film Hanni & Nanni . In 2009 he was seen in the multiple award-winning road movie Vincent will Meer alongside Florian David Fitz in the role of the exasperated father of the protagonist Robert Gellner; For this role Ferch received a nomination for the German Film Prize 2011. Parallel to the large productions, he regularly plays in smaller productions - often thrillers - some of which have received film awards (e.g. The Lawyer and his Guest , The Account , Hell in the Head , Murder by the Sea , Hunt for Justice ). Roles in international productions such as Lucie Aubrac , Julius Caesar , Napoleon , Mávahlátur , Hunt for Justice - The Louise Arbor Story , The Three Musketeers and H2O Part II: The Trojan Horse raised the German actor's profile in the international arena.

As voice actor, he loaned David Morse in Prototype and Woody Harrelson in Palmetto - stupid people don't die from his voice. In 2014 Ferch dubbed the secret agent ( Benedict Cumberbatch ) in the animated film The Penguins from Madagascar and in 2017 Ernesto de la Cruz ( Benjamin Bratt ), the main antagonist in the animated film Coco - Alive Than Life!

Ferch has worked with numerous renowned German-speaking directors such as Volker Schlöndorff , Tom Toelle , Peter Schamoni , Nico Hofmann , Roland Suso Richter , Tom Tykwer , Joseph Vilsmaier , Vivian Naefe , Sherry Hormann , Hartmut Schoen , Uli Edel , Matti Geschonneck , Helmut Dietl , Markus Imboden , Carlo Rola , Margarethe von Trotta and Oliver Hirschbiegel together. After early projects under the auteur film director Heiko Schier , he repeatedly collaborated with the director and screenwriter Uwe Janson in the 1990s .

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Shoot the ball into the goal (with Max Raabe , Palast Orchester & Peter Lohmeyer )
  DE 36 03/17/2006 (9 weeks)
Heino Ferch (2013)

theatre

Free Volksbühne Berlin 1987–1990

Salzburg Festival 1990–1994

Schillertheater Berlin 1990–1994

Theater des Westens / Schauspielhaus Hamburg 1992

Burgtheater Vienna 1995

  • The hostage . Role: the English hostage Leslie A. Williams. Director: Alfred Kirchner

Filmography

movie theater

watch TV

Radio plays

Audio documents

  • Easter - Biblical texts and festive music . Heino Ferch reads texts from the Old Testament and the Easter story. German Bible Society, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-438-01826-8 .
  • Rilke project "Overflowing Heavens" . Heino Ferch reads the poems The Carousel and Lullaby . Schönherz & Fleer, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-89830-695-X .

Awards

Web links

Commons : Heino Ferch  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of eligible members of the DPV , DPV
  2. ↑ Chart sources: DE
personal data
SURNAME Ferch, Heino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremerhaven