Thomas Unger (actor)

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Thomas Unger (* 1970 in Munich ) is a German actor .

Life

Education and theater

Unger grew up in Unterhaching near Munich. He did his community service in the child psychosomatics department of the clinic and polyclinic for child and adolescent psychiatry in Munich. In 1990 he completed his professional training as a typesetter . He then studied special education at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. During his studies, however, Unger increasingly discovered his interest in acting.

From 1998 to 2002 he completed an acting training at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin and was engaged as a guest at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater in Berlin during his training . He received his first permanent engagement at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe ; there he was a member of the ensemble from 2002 to 2008. Since 2008 he has continued to appear as a guest at the Karlsruhe State Theater. There he played Carlos Bueno in the play The Grönholm Method by Jordi Galceran (2008-2011) and the role of Woody Guthrie in the music revue Dylan - the times they are a-changin by Heiner Kondschak (2011/12 season).

He had other theater engagements at the Theater Heidelberg (2008-2010; with Dylan - the times they are a-changin ) and at the Stadttheater Ingolstadt (2011/2012).

In 2017 he made his debut at the Luisenburg Festival as musician Ambros Flohreiter in the folk piece Die Pfingstorgel .

Movie and TV

Unger has also played roles in feature films , television films, and television series on a regular basis since 2007 . He was often used in roles with a South German , Upper Bavarian or Austrian background. He made his film debut in the feature film Baching (2008), a Bavarian homeland drama directed by Matthias Kiefersauer . Unger embodied, at the side of Bernadette Heerwagen , the cook Benedikt Kirchner, who returns to his home village after an absence of three years to face his past and his responsibility for the death of a young girl.

Unger made his television debut in 2007, also directed by Matthias Kiefersauer, in the homeland comedy Das große Hobeditzn ; Unger played the farmer's son Christoph Hobeditz. In 2009 Unger was seen in the ZDF television film Gletscherblut . He took on the role of professional diver Markus, who is returning to his homeland Tyrol for the wedding of his ex-girlfriend . In 2008 he took on the role of city police officer Hubert Würzbauer in the Tatort episode Der oide Depp . Unger played the role of the young Hubert Würzbauer in black and white flashbacks.

ZDF also cast Unger in the role of the attractive, willing to marry, Stockholm doctor Jonas Jansson standing between two women in the Inga Lindström television film My Husband's Wedding (2011). In the Austrian television series The International Velvet (2011) Unger had next to Eva Herzig a continuous series starring role as veterinarian Dr. Michael Haas. In 2012 he was seen in the ZDF television series Katie Fforde in a leading role. He embodied, at the side of Maresa Hörbiger and Fiona Coors , in the television film Diagnosis: Love the boat builder and boat seller John Walker.

In the ZDF series Die Garmisch-Cops , he played the main role of the chief investigator Anton "Toni" Wölk (2012-2014). He had leading episode roles in the TV series Der Dicke (2009, as a game-addicted accountant and husband Frank Hellner), in A Case for Two (2009, as Inspector Wegner), in Um Himmels Willen (2009, as an unemployed bistro regular Jörg Wissmann) and in SOKO Kitzbühel (2010, as family doctor Dr. Gerald Rainer).

In December 2016 Unger was seen alongside Minh-Khai Phan-Thi in the ZDF Sunday film Katie Fforde: Dance on Broadway in the male lead as composer and single father Michael Tandsom. In the ZDF television series Mordkommission Königswinkel (2017), which was discontinued after the opening film , Thomas Unger played the single farmer Breitkreuz, who tries to hide a gruesome secret. In the ARD television series Daheim in den Bergen , Unger has been seen alongside Matthi Faust and Catherine Bode in the role of the grumpy, separated cook Georg Leitner since 2018 . In the ZDF Sunday film Katie Fforde: Room with a Sea View (first broadcast: November 2018), in which he again stood in front of the camera with Catherine Bode as a partner, he embodied the “uncouth, taciturn nature boy” Rick Seymour. In the 11th season of the ZDF series Die Bergretter (2019), Unger took on one of the leading roles in the episode as the subtle friar Elias, who once had a lot in common with a book restaurateur.

Private

Unger lives in Munich with his wife and their three sons.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Thomas Unger Vita (official website Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe )
  2. ↑ a b c Thomas Unger - Just don't force anything ( Memento from January 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Portrait of Thomas Unger ( Monsters and Critics , 2011)
  3. ↑ Thomas Unger . Vita and list of roles ( press partner price ; as of 2011)
  4. ↑ Thomas Unger . Vita. Official website of the Luisenburg Festival . Retrieved November 9, 2019.
  5. ↑ Baching (trailer, content and photos from Kino.de )
  6. ↑ «Gletscherblut»: ecological and private catastrophes , plot and photos ( Monsters and Critics , 2009) ( Memento from August 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  7. ↑ Series “Inga Lindström - My Husband's Wedding” . TV review at Tittelbach.tv . Retrieved November 9, 2019.
  8. ↑ Thomas Unger plays in "Inga Lindström: The wedding of my husband" . In: Weserkurier from August 26, 2011. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
  9. ↑ Thomas Unger as Dr. Michael Haas ( Memento from September 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Role portrait and short vita (Official website of the series Das Glück hier Erde )
  10. ^ "Katie Fforde - Diagnosis Love" series . TV review at Tittelbach.tv . Retrieved November 9, 2019.
  11. ↑ Investigate Wednesdays "The Garmisch-Cops" . In: Der Westen, December 8, 2012. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
  12. ^ "Katie Fforde - Dance on Broadway" series . TV review at Tittelbach.tv . Retrieved November 9, 2019.
  13. ↑ "Katie-Fforde: Dance on Broadway": ZDF shoots a film for the "Herzkino" with Minh-Khai Phan-Thi, Thomas Unger and Walter Kreye . ZDF press release at Presseportal.de from June 15, 2016. Accessed November 9, 2019.
  14. ↑ TV film "Mordkommission Königswinkel - Love to Beyond Death" . TV review at Tittelbach.tv . Retrieved November 9, 2019.
  15. ↑ TV CRIME "KÖNIGSWINKEL": In the Allgäu it is particularly beautiful . TV review. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of July 10, 2017. Accessed November 9, 2019.
  16. ↑ Will "At Home in the Mountains" remain a two-part? . In: STERN of May 7, 2018. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
  17. ↑ Interview with Thomas Unger and Matthi Faust . Official website Das Erste . Retrieved November 9, 2019.
  18. ^ "Katie Fforde - Ocean View Room" series . TV review at Tittelbach.tv . Retrieved November 9, 2019.
  19. ↑ Katie Fforde: Ocean View Room . Press kit. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
  20. ^ The mountain rescuers: Goodbye . Plot and cast. Official website of the ZDF . Retrieved November 9, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Unger, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich