Paul Frielinghaus

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Paul Erich Frielinghaus (born December 14, 1959 in Darmstadt ) is a German actor . From 2000 to 2012 he played the role of Dr. Markus Lessing in the ZDF crime series One case for two .

Life

Paul Frielinghaus is the son of a veterinarian and his wife. One brother is the architect Michael Frielinghaus . The actress Erna Fassbinder and the Kammersänger Wilhelm Fassbinder , who died in 1946, were his grandparents, the Cologne sculptor Wilhelm Fassbinder was his great-grandfather. Frielinghaus grew up in Hünfeld , East Hesse , where his father worked as an official veterinarian from 1960. There he graduated from high school in 1978. In the same year he took 5th place with a computer program for the bean game ( Kalaha ) in the national competition Jugend forscht , which earned him a one-month study visit at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. After his community service as a paramedic, he took the entrance exam for an acting course.

From 1980 to 1984 he studied acting at the Hanover University of Music and Drama . He then played numerous roles at the Stadttheater Würzburg . In 1988 he moved to Berlin, where he received his first engagement at the Freie Volksbühne under the direction of Ruth Berghaus . In the "magazine" of the Theater am Kurfürstendamm he played the Philinte in Enzensberger's Misanthrope by Moliere. In 1990 he had a small role in the movie Dr. M. by Claude Chabrol . A German-Japanese theater project by director Shogo Ohta brought him to Tokyo in 1993.

He became known to a wider public as the teacher Thomas Brenner in the ARD television series Not from Bad Parents , which won the Telestar and a viewer Bambi in 1994 . Roles in television films and series followed. In 2000 Frielinghaus was named Dr. Markus Lessing the fourth lawyer in the ZDF crime series One case for two . When he left in 2012, he was the longest partner of the private detective Matula, played by Claus Theo Gärtner, with 118 episodes . Since then he has been working freelance for television, film and stage again.

The short film Tantalum , shot in 2014 , which addresses the connection between cell phones and child labor, was shown at thirty festivals around the world and won prizes in London and New York.

In 2016 he played William von Baskerville in the stage version of Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose at the Jagsthausen Castle Festival .

Paul Frielinghaus lives with his wife, their son from their first marriage and a daughter in Berlin.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Lessing solves every case - Stiftung Jugend forscht e. V. Accessed April 17, 2019 .
  2. ^ Paul Frielinghaus. In: Gotha • Mittermayer. September 14, 2018, accessed on April 17, 2019 (German).
  3. ^ Unchosen, Modern days slavery film festival 2014 Jury President Ken Loach
  4. ↑ Golden Egg Film Festival 2015
  5. ↑ Paul Frielinghaus in an interview with Moritz Stadtmagazin, July 2, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Frielinghaus, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frielinghaus, Paul Erich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt