Matthias Schweighofer

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Matthias Schweighöfer, 2016

Matthias Schweighöfer (born March 11, 1981 in Anklam ) is a German actor , voice actor , director , producer and singer . He is one of the founders of the film production company Pantaleon Films .

Life

Origin and education

Matthias Schweighöfer is the son of the actors Michael and Gitta Schweighöfer . His grandfather Willy Schweighöfer (1906–1980) and his uncles Joachim Schweighöfer (* 1936) and Götz Schweighöfer (* 1960) are actors. He came into contact with the stage at an early age through his parents and made his first stage experience in a school performance of Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera , in which Schweighöfer played the role of Mackie Messer. After completing his Abitur at the Dr. Wilhelm André Gymnasium in Chemnitz , he began studying at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin , but dropped out after a year.

Movie and TV

In 1997, at the age of 16, he appeared in front of the camera for the first time in the television film Raus aus der Haut, directed by Andreas Dresen . Further roles in German television productions followed by 1999, for example in Spuk aus der Gruft (1997), in the episode Die Macht der Denk (1998) from the RTL doctor series Dr. Stefan Frank - The doctor whom women trust , 1999 in the opening episode Der neue Mann , Leonardo's secret in the ZDF crime series Siska in the 16th episode and in Spuk im Reich der Schatten (1999).

From 2000 Matthias Schweighöfer worked in other film and television productions. In the television film Forbidden Desires - I love my student (2000) by Zoltan Spirandelli , he portrays the student Ben who enters into a relationship with his teacher. For this performance he received the German Television Award in 2001 for the best young actor. In the TV film comedy Kiss Me, Frosch , which was awarded the Erich Kästner TV Prize and is based on the fairy tale The Frog King or the Iron Heinrich by the Brothers Grimm , he played Prince Dietbert von Tümpelberg, who was born in 2000 by Anna Sandmann is kissed back to life after 1000 years. The following year was seen in two TV crime films. So in Polizeiruf 110: Destroyed dreams in the role of the singer Daniel Cross, who is seen in his preparation room with a lifeless drug dealer and a fruit knife and then reported to the police. In the Ludwigshafen crime scene: Violent fever , he was seen in the role of the young Jacky Bräutigam.

After repeated television appearances, he made his debut on the big screen in 2001 in the youth film Herz im Kopf as Dirk. In 2002 Schweighöfer starred alongside Henriette Confurius as Holger in Anne Wild's short film Ballet is failed . In addition, further cinema roles followed in the same year. William Malone's horror film FearDotCom , in which he played the role of Dieter Schrader, was his first film role in the USA. His final breakthrough came in 2003 at the side of Nora Tschirner in the film adaptation of the novel Solo Album , which earned him the New Faces Award . Schweighöfer has since worked in numerous national and international productions as well as at renowned German theaters.

Schweighöfer played the role of the communist Piffl in the play Eins, Zwei, Drei by Ferenc Molnár at the Hebbel Theater in 2004, directed by Johannes Grebert and Matthias Matschke .

In Hendrik Hölzemann's love drama Kammerflimmern , he played alongside Jessica Schwarz the leading role of Paul 'Crash' Partenheimer, who at a young age survived both a tumor on his right cheek and a car accident in which his parents were killed (2004; Award: Bavarian Film Prize , DIVA Award ). In the artist drama Baal , which is based on the play Bertolt Brecht , which premiered in December 1923 , he played alongside Pasquale Aleardi in the title role (2004; Award: Baden-Baden TV Film Festival ). In the crime comedy Polly Blue Eyes he played Ronald Ronny Helske, the new friend of Polly's sister, played by Maxi Warwel (2005; Award: DIVA-Award). In Schiller (2005) Matthias Schweighofer was seen in the title role. For his acting performance there, he was honored at the Undine Award ceremony as best young actor in a television film and also received the DIVA Award . At the side of Natalia Avelon , who could be seen in the role of Uschi Obermaier , Schweighöfer portrayed Obermaier's relationship partner Rainer Langhans in Das wilde Leben (2007; Award: Undine Award).

Matthias Schweighöfer at the Berlinale 2008

Schweighöfer repeatedly works with the actor, director and producer Til Schweiger . In the love comedies Keinohrhasen (2007) and Zweiohrküken (2009) he was seen in the role of Moritz. In 2013 he played himself in Kokowääh 2 .

In the autobiography Mein Leben - Marcel Reich-Ranicki he took on the title role of the then young literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki (2009; Award: Golden Camera ). For the role in the crime scene: Because they are angry with Balthasar Staupen, whose father is killed with a morning star by the single father of an autistic child , Schweighöfer was awarded the Hessian TV Prize. In the German-English production Friendship! (2010) by Markus Goller he was seen alongside Friedrich Mücke as Tom, who, with his best friend Veit, whom he knew from school, wanted to go to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco after the fall of the Berlin Wall . In this film Schweighöfer's film parents are also his birth parents.

Schweighöfer made his debut as a director in 2010 with the romantic comedy What a Man , in which he worked as a leading actor and co-author as well as as a co-producer via his production company Pantaleon Films . The film started in German cinemas in August 2011, where it reached around 1.8 million visitors. On 10 January 2013 his second feature film was closing makers to the movies again from Pantaleon Films and 20th Century Fox realized with Schweighöfer as director and star. For this film, he and Marco Beckmann , Dan Maag and Cornel Schäfer received a Romy in the Best Film category . With Vaterfreuden 2014 Schweighöfers third feature film came in February in German cinemas, pursued the approximately two million viewers. In autumn 2014 he shot his fourth in-house production The Nanny , which opened in German cinemas on March 26, 2015. In February 2016, the film comedy Der geilste Tag started in German cinemas, in which he embodies the terminally ill Andi, who starts a road trip to South Africa together with Benno ( Florian David Fitz ), his older roommate in the hospice , about the "coolest day “To spend his life. His play partner Fitz directed the production and wrote the script, Schweighöfer acted as producer.

He has also been involved in various music videos , such as Silbermonds Ich reru dich nie (2009), Philipp Poisel's Eiserner Steg (2011) or Six60s Forever (2014).

Matthias Schweighöfer also works as a voice actor . For example, he lent his voice to the titular turtle Sammy in the Belgian animated film Sammy's Adventure - The Search for the Secret Passage (2010). In Til Schweiger's Keinohrhase und Zweihrküken he spoke the fox. In 2014 he dubbed the voice of the cat Thunder in The Magic House . In the Belgian-French computer animation film Robinson Crusoe (2016), he gave the eponymous seaman his voice.

In February 2016 it was announced that Schweighöfer will be involved in the first German series of the streaming service Amazon.com . The first season of the thriller series, which Schweighöfer also directs, aired in March 2017 under the title You Are Wanted . Schweighöfer plays a hotel manager who is the victim of a mysterious hacker attack, which throws his life off course. Next to him are Karoline Herfurth , Tom Beck and Katrin Bauerfeind .

From February to May 2018 he was back in front of the camera with Florian David Fitz in the film 100 Things , which was also a scriptwriter and director at the same time.

Career as a singer

In 2014, Schweighöfer released his first single flies , which formed the soundtrack for his film The Nanny . The single placed 58th in the German single charts .

On December 3, 2016, Schweighöfer sang his song Durch den Sturm in the ZDF program Ein Herz für Kinder . It was his first public appearance as a singer.

In February 2017 his first studio album “Lachen Weinen Tanzen” was released. The music label PantaSounds , a subsidiary of PANTAFLIX AG, is responsible for the production .

In Tempodrom Berlin Schweighöfer gave his first concert on February 18 2017th

Others

A wax image of Matthias Schweighöfer has been in the wax museum of Madame Tussauds in Berlin since 2012 .

Private

When Schweighöfer was three years old, his parents separated. First he moved to Frankfurt (Oder) with his mother and later to Karl-Marx-Stadt . He kept in touch with his father, who lives in Berlin , and shared a small apartment with him in the Mitte district of Berlin until 2010 .

Matthias Schweighöfer was in a relationship with assistant director Angelika “Ani” Schromm from 2004 to 2018 , with whom he moved to a four-sided farm near Nauen in Brandenburg in 2009 . They have a daughter (* 2009) and a son (* 2014) together. In January 2019 Schweighöfer announced the separation. Shortly afterwards it became known that Schweighöfer is in a relationship with the actress Ruby O. Fee .

Filmography

movie theater

watch TV

Short films

  • 2000: 3 days 44
  • 2000: My friend, his mother and the Elbe
  • 2002: Ballet is canceled
  • 2005: hypochondriac
  • 2005: happy ending
  • 2005: The blue monkey

Speaker / dubbing voice

Music videos

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Laughing crying dancing
  DE 5 02/17/2017 (11 weeks)
  AT 6th 02/24/2017 (4 weeks)
  CH 19th 02/19/2017 (3 weeks)
Singles
To fly
  DE 58 04/17/2015 (13 weeks)

Albums

  • 2017: laughing crying dancing

Singles

  • 2015: Flying (Soundtrack to The Nanny )
  • 2015: laughing, crying, dancing
  • 2018: Superman and his wife
  • 2018: When I hear you sing
  • 2020: time
  • 2020: run

theatre

Radio plays and audio books

reception

Schweighöfer is regarded by critics - also because of his theater experience - as an actor who has mastered his craft. Especially with regard to his earlier films, he is said to be enormously versatile. Since his collaboration with Til Schweiger , however, critical voices have also increased that Schweighöfer did not see Schweighöfer's full potential in Schweiger's comedies, which were extremely successful but not very demanding. Schweighöfer remains true to shallow comedy with his own films What a Man , schlussmacher and Vaterfreuden .

Awards

Bambi

  • 2007: Best Male Lead Actor, National
  • 2013: in the national film category for finalists

Bavarian film award

Berlin Bear (BZ Culture Prize)

  • 2013: Category: Film / Director

German television award

  • 2001: Best Young Actor for the role of Ben in Forbidden Desire

DIVA Award

  • 2006: Actor of the Year for Ventricular Fibrillation , Schiller , Polly Blue Eyes

TV film festival Baden-Baden

  • 2004: Special jury prize for outstanding performance in Kalter Frühling and Baal

Golden hen

  • 2012 and 2016: Audience Award - Acting

Golden camera

Grimme Prize

  • 2003: for his role as Gregor in the film Friends of Friends

Günter Strack TV Prize

New Faces Award

  • 2003: Best Actor for the role of Ben in solo album

Undine Award

  • 2005: Best young actor in a television film for Schiller
  • 2007: Best young leading actor in a feature film for Das wilde Leben

Hessian television award

Video champion

  • 2010: Artist Award

Romy

Jupiter Award

literature

  • Matthias Schweighöfer in conversation with Béatrice Ottersbach: The soul must have something to tell. In: Béatrice Ottersbach, Thomas Schadt, Nina Haun: Actor Confessions. UVK Verlagsgesellschaft , Konstanz 2007, ISBN 978-3-89669-685-4 .

Web links

Commons : Matthias Schweighöfer  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katja Hübner: Schweighöfer plays literary critic: The young Reich-Ranicki . In: Der Tagesspiegel , April 5, 2009, accessed on May 27, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b Matthias Schweighöfer - Biography ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) at film-zeit.de. Retrieved July 19, 2014.
  3. ↑ Ballet is canceled on swr.de ; Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  4. ↑ Berliner Zeitung: On a new one: one, two, three (February 28, 2004)
  5. ↑ Pantaleon Films at pantaleonfilms.com. Retrieved July 19, 2014.
  6. ↑ What a Man at Filmportal.de
  7. ↑ Closer to mediabiz.de
  8. ↑ That was the ROMY Gala 2013. In: Kurier , April 21, 2013.
  9. ↑ Father joys at vaterfreuden-der-film.de; Retrieved June 7, 2014.
  10. ↑ New in the cinema: "Der heilste Tag" - tragic comedy full of clichés on deutschlandradiokultur.de from February 24, 2016; accessed on October 31, 2016.
  11. ↑ Matthias Schweighöfer is shooting the first German Amazon series. In: moviepilot.de. February 9, 2016, accessed January 19, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Matthias Schweighöfer's appearance on "A Heart for Children" on December 3, 2016 ( Memento from December 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on zdf.de; Retrieved December 9, 2016.
  13. ↑ Pantaleon Entertainment AG | Matthias Schweighöfer releases album "Lachen Weinen Tanzen". (No longer available online.) In: www.pantaleonentertainment.com. Archived from the original on November 4, 2016 ; Retrieved November 4, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Pantaleon Entertainment AG | Foundation of the music label PANTASOUNDS GmbH. (No longer available online.) In: www.pantaleonentertainment.com. Archived from the original on November 4, 2016 ; Retrieved November 4, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Madame Tussauds Berlin at madametussauds.com
  16. ↑ a b Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Matthias Schweighöfer: "I never go to parties" (February 17, 2010)
  17. ^ Separation - Matthias Schweighöfer is solo again . spiegel.de. Retrieved May 5, 2012
  18. ^ Matthias Schweighöfer is in a relationship with Ex again. In Berliner Zeitung , September 24, 2013
  19. ↑ "Madness, my son is in the world" - silent father: Now Matthias Schweighöfer shows his son after all . In: focus.de , February 17, 2014, accessed on May 12, 2014
  20. ↑ Angelika Ani Schromm at the Internet Movie Database . Retrieved July 29, 2014.
  21. ↑ Schweighöfer announces separation from longtime girlfriend. In Berliner Zeitung . Retrieved January 27, 2019.
  22. ↑ Matthias Schweighöfer and Ruby O. Fee post their first snuggly photo together . vip.de, February 13, 2019, accessed on March 28, 2019.
  23. ↑ a b DE - AT - CH
  24. ↑ Matthias Schweighöfer at kino.de
  25. ^ Actor Matthias Schweighoefer - Narcissus and vernacular at sueddeutsche.de
  26. ↑ Max Scharnigg: Number one: Til Schweighöfer ( Memento from November 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin from September 7, 2011. Accessed on May 1, 2019.
  27. ↑ Angela's showcase Junker: The Matthias Schweighöfer principle ( Memento from January 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at br.de
personal data
SURNAME Schweighöfer, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, voice actor, director, film producer and singer
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Anklam , Rostock district , GDR