Michael Schweighöfer

Michael Schweighöfer (born February 29, 1952 in Borna ) is a German actor and theater director .

Life

Michael Schweighöfer, son of the actor and director Willy Schweighöfer , attended the Rostock State Drama School . He is best known as a stage actor. After an engagement at the Kleist Theater Frankfurt (Oder) from 1981 to 1985, he has been part of the ensemble of the Deutsches Theater Berlin since then . His son Matthias Schweighöfer , who is also an actor, comes from his marriage (until 1984) to the actress Gitta Schweighöfer . Today he is married to Ines Schweighöfer (owner of an antique shop).

In August 2010 it became known that Schweighöfer worked from 1975 to 1977 during his military service with the NVA as an unofficial employee for the State Security Service of the GDR and provided information about the views of his comrades.

Filmography (selection)

• 1976: What does Martin cost in the world? (TV movie)
• 1988: With body and soul
• 1990: Self-experiment (TV film)
• 1991: Police Call 110: A Fatal Suspicion (TV series)
• 1992: Haus Herzenstod (TV movie)
• 1995: Beside Time (TV movie)
• 1998: The mambo game
• 2000: Otto - The Disaster Film
• 2001: My Sweet Home
• 2004: A Woman Twice (TV Movie)
• 2006: The Lost (TV Movie)
• 2008: Monogamy for Beginners (TV movie)
• 2008: In the tropic of the bear
• 2008: Teenage Fear
• 2008: Until Death Do Us Part (TV Movie)
• 2009: House and Child (TV film)
• 2010: 3-fold
• 2010: Friendship!
• 2010: Doctor's Diary
• 2011: Nemez
• 2012: NeoParadise (TV film) (as "Architect")
• 2013: Dandelion Sewers - Chase in the Underworld
• 2013: the end maker
• 2015: The Nanny
• 2016: Two Lost Sheep (TV Movie)
• 2016: We are the Rosinskis
• 2018: Beat (TV movie)

Radio plays

• 1987: Selma Lagerlöf : Der Wechselbalg - Director: Christa Kowalski (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR )
• 1987: Hans-Christian Andersen : The Little And The Big Klaus - Director: Werner Buhss (Children's radio play - VEB Deutsche Schallplatten Berlin GDR)
• 1991: Gerhard Zwerenz : The Master's Student - Director: Hans Gerd Krogmann (radio play - Sachsen Radio )
• 1991: Paul Zech : Das drunken Schiff (Anatol) - Director: Wolfgang Rindfleisch (radio play - Funkhaus Berlin )
• 1994: Wolfgang Poenisch : As always (Fred) - directed by Werner Buhss (radio play - ORB )
• 1996: Franz Zauleck : Olga stays Olga - Director: Karlheinz Liefers (children's radio play - DLR Berlin)
• 2013: EM Cioran : On the disadvantage of being born - Director: Kai Grehn (radio play - SWR )

Web links

• Michael Schweighöfer on the website of Schauspiel Frankfurt
• Michael Schweighöfer in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stern , October 17, 2013, p. 62.
2. ↑ Schweighöfer: His father was a Stasi-IM. In: bz-berlin.de. August 5, 2010. Retrieved June 29, 2018 .