Rainer Bock

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Rainer Bock at the Munich Film Festival , 2010

Rainer Bock (born July 31, 1954 in Kiel ) is a German actor .

Life

After graduating from high school , Rainer Bock ran a café in his hometown, which also had a cabaret program. After studying acting at a private drama school in Kiel , he made his debut in 1982 as a theater actor on the stages of the state capital Kiel . He came to Heidelberg and the Mannheim National Theater via the Schleswig-Holstein State Theater . At the State Theater in Stuttgart he had a commitment from 1995 to 2001. Until 2011 he was engaged at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich. In 2017 he played the main male role in Athina Rachel Tsangari's Lulu production at the Salzburg Festival .

Bock often appears in supporting roles, including in his initially rare appearances in film and television. The part of the doctor in Michael Haneke's award-winning drama The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story (2009) earned him a nomination for the German Film Prize for best supporting actor. In 2011 he was represented with four films at the Berlinale . For his leading role as a movers in the movie Atlas , he was nominated for the German Film Award 2019 as best leading actor and was awarded the German Acting Award 2019 in the category Actor in a Leading Role .

Bock is also active as an audio book speaker . He is a member of the German Film Academy .

Bock lives in Munich, is married and has a son.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Audio books

Awards

Web links

Commons : Rainer Bock  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dorothee Krings: Rainer Bock plays in "Hamlet". In: RP Online. September 27, 2011, accessed January 6, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Rainer Bock in the Munzinger archive , accessed on January 6, 2020 ( beginning of article freely available)
  3. ↑ Reinhard Kriechbaum: Love eats its women. In: Nachtkritik.de . Retrieved January 6, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Acting award for Valerie Pachner and Rainer Bock. In: Wetterauer Zeitung . September 13, 2019, accessed September 13, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Rainer Bock. In: deutsche-filmakademie.de. German Film Academy , accessed on January 5, 2020 .
  6. ^ Günter Rohrbach Film Prize - Start. Retrieved January 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Bock, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel