Til Schweiger

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Til Schweiger (2018)

Tilman Valentin "Til" Schweiger (born December 19, 1963 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German actor , director , screenwriter , producer and film editor .

He was best known in the 1990s for films such as Manta, Manta , The Moving Man and Knockin 'on Heaven's Door . After that he also played in international film productions such as Inglourious Basterds and founded his own production company Barefoot Films . Films like Keinohrhasen , Kokowääh and Honig im Kopf , in which he was director, producer and actor, had millions of viewers and made him the most commercially successful German filmmaker.

Life

education

Til Schweiger grew up as the middle of three brothers in Heuchelheim and attended the Herderschule Gießen , where his father Herbert was a teacher. His mother worked as a history teacher. After graduating from high school, he began doing his basic military service ; he was stationed in the Netherlands , among other places . After a while , he refused to do military service and, after being recognized as a civilian service provider, was employed in a hospital. He then began studying German to become a teacher, which he broke off as well as a subsequent medical degree.

In 1986 Schweiger began an acting training at the Cologne School of Theater . After successfully completing this, he was engaged in 1989 at the Contra-Kreis-Theater in Bonn .

Movie and TV

Schweiger's career away from the stage began as a voice actor for porn films before playing the role of Jo Zenker in the ARD television series Lindenstrasse from 1990 to 1992 . He played his first leading role in the film in 1991 as Bertie in the Ruhrpott comedy Manta, Manta . A year later, he received the Max Ophüls Prize for best young actor for his portrayal of a boxer in the comedy Ebbies Bluff .

Schweiger became known to a wide audience through the comedy The Moving Man . For this film, he was cast by caster Horst D. Scheel - as he had previously for Lindenstrasse and Manta, Manta . In the movie Men's Pension (1996) Schweiger was seen as a prisoner. In the US crime film Judas Kiss he played alongside Alan Rickman , Emma Thompson and Greg Wise for the first time in an international production. From 1994 to 1996 Schweiger played Detective Inspector Nick Siegel at the side of Hannelore Elsner in Die Kommissarin , and he was seen in a total of 26 episodes in the television series produced by Hessischer Rundfunk and played in Frankfurt.

Til Schweiger (1998)

In 1996, Schweiger founded the production company Mr. Brown Entertainment together with Thomas Zickler and André Hennicke and made his first appearance as a producer with the film Knockin 'on Heaven's Door . In 1998 he impersonated a professional killer in The Polar Bear and made his debut as a director. In 2001, Schweiger played the second leading role in Investigating Sex as Monty alongside Neve Campbell and Nick Nolte . In 2003, Schweiger appeared alongside Angelina Jolie in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life a Contract Killer and in 2004 as Cynric  - the son of the Anglo-Saxon leader Cerdic  - in King Arthur alongside Clive Owen and Keira Knightley in another international production. Also in 2004, Schweiger founded the production company Barefoot Films together with Thomas Zickler .

In the love comedy Barefoot 2005 produced by Barefoot Films , Schweiger acted as screenwriter, director and producer and took on the male lead of Nick Keller. Barefoot was awarded a Bambi . In his movie Keinohrhasen , which appeared in December 2007 , Schweiger stood in front of the camera for the first time with his four children. He also wrote the script for this, directed and produced the film.

In 2007 he starred in Revenge - Retribution Has Its Price alongside Christopher Plummer . The film Inglourious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino in which Schweiger next to Brad Pitt , Christoph Waltz , Melanie Laurent and Diane Kruger stood in front of the camera, ran with great success at the film festival in Cannes in 2009.

In 2009, Schweiger took on one of the leading roles in the comedy Male Hearts by Simon Verhoeven . On November 24th, 2009 his film Zweiohrküken  - the sequel to Keinohrhasen  - premiered in Berlin. The film reached 4.2 million viewers in German cinemas. Til Schweiger's production Kokowääh was shown in cinemas on February 3, 2011. Here he again directed, produced the film and starred alongside his youngest daughter Emma . The film reached 4.3 million viewers in German cinemas. As a director he often works with the cameraman Christof Wahl . In June 2009 RTL ran the casting show Mission Hollywood , in which Schweiger was asked to select one of twelve young actresses for a role in a Hollywood film. Due to bad ratings, the show was moved from prime time on Monday evening to Saturday afternoon.

On December 3, 2011, Schweiger gave during the last broadcast of Wetten, dass ..? Moderated by Thomas Gottschalk . known that he will be seen in the future at the Hamburg Tatort . At the Jupiter Awards 2012, Til Schweiger responded to the question of whether he wanted to change anything at the scene of the crime that he didn't like the opening credits and described them as "outdated" and "somehow stupid". His statement was heavily discussed in the media and criticized by Tatort colleagues, which in turn annoyed Schweiger. There were also positive voices from the media industry and brand consultants. He portrays the inspector Nick Tschiller . His first case, Willkommen in Hamburg , reached the highest number of viewers in a crime scene episode in almost 20 years. His role as crime scene inspector was parodied by radio station SWR3 in the comedy series Tatort with Til .

From January to April 2012, Schweiger shot the film Guardian Angel , an emotional action drama with him and his eldest daughter Luna in the leading roles. In doing so, he changed the genre in Germany and again directed, was involved in the script and produced the film, which was released in German cinemas on September 27, 2012. On February 7, 2013, Kokowääh 2 , the sequel to Kokowääh , was released in German cinemas. Schweiger again directed, produced the film, wrote the script and played the lead role. On December 27, 2013, Sat.1 broadcast the show Happy Birthday - Til Schweiger on the occasion of Schweiger's 50th birthday . Til Schweiger has also appeared in commercials with his daughters since 2013 ( Watchever , VHV ).

In 2014, Schweiger produced the most successful film of the year with honey in his head , in which he also played one of the leading roles alongside his daughter Emma and Dieter Hallervorden , and with 7.19 million moviegoers it was the sixth most successful film ever in Germany. The film deals with Alzheimer's disease . In 2015 he shot two sequels of the crime scene with The Great Pain and Purgatory . The fifth part of the Tatort series with the title Tschiller: Off Duty in the cinema started on February 4, 2016 and continues the plot of the four previous crime novels. In 2015, Schweiger was co-producer and supporting actor in the children's book adaptation Conni & Co , which was released in theaters on August 18, 2016. In summer 2016 he directed the sequel Conni & Co 2 , which was released in April 2017.

In 2017, Schweiger made his first film as a director for the US market. Head Full of Honey , an English-language remake of his own hit film Honey in the Head , was released in selected cinemas in the USA on November 30, 2018. The film failed critics and audiences and was removed from US theaters after six days. Schweiger also described the unsuccessful cinema release in an interview as his biggest career flop to date.

On June 5, 2020, the documentary produced by Schweiger about Bastian Schweinsteiger Schw31ns7eiger appeared on Prime Video .

Private

From 1995 to 2014 Til Schweiger was married to Dana Carlsen , with whom he has four children: Valentin (* 1995), who works as a cameraman , and the actresses Luna (* 1997), Lilli (* 1998) and Emma (* 2002) . The family lived in Point Dume, near Malibu, in the United States from 1997 to 2004 ; they then moved to Hamburg-Niendorf . The couple has been separated since 2005.

Social Commitment

Child poverty

Schweiger campaigns against child poverty in Germany. It is a "scandal" that over two million children live in poverty. Schweiger supports the encouragement project of the Stern und der Arche foundation .

Til Schweiger Foundation

On August 21, 2015, Schweiger founded the “Til Schweiger Foundation” in Hamburg. The purpose of the foundation is to improve the chances of disadvantaged children and young people of all origins and their participation in education and social integration. The foundation is supported by an advisory board that includes Sigmar Gabriel and Joachim Löw , for example .

equality

Schweiger spoke out in favor of opening up marriage to same-sex couples in Germany. In June 2015, he and 150 other prominent Germans signed the open letter " #EsIstZeit ".

Controversy

Press screening

Since his film Keinohrhasen (2007) there have been no more regular press screenings for Schweiger's new films. Instead, Schweiger only shows his directorial work to a hand-picked group of journalists.

German Film Academy

Schweiger was one of the founding members of the German Film Academy in 2003 . In 2008, however, he resigned angrily because the Academy had not included his box-office hit Keinohrhasen in the preselection for the German Film Prize . Schweiger felt it was "scandalous" that the most successful German film of the year with over three million viewers was not considered, while instead many films that "didn't know a pig" ended up in the shortlist. The academy rejected the charge, however; in the case of no-ear rabbits, the reporting regulations were simply not complied with.

Reporting obligation for sex offenders

In 2011, Schweiger called for "mandatory reporting for sex offenders" on the Markus Lanz talk show . He said that in the US you can look up the Internet to see if a sex offender lives in your neighborhood; he does not know what should be reprehensible about it. He explained that this is not permissible in Germany with the “German do- gooder ” and its respect for human dignity. He is also of the opinion that someone who commits a sexual offense has forfeited his right in this society. However, this statement is not a plea for the death penalty, he is a strict opponent of this procedure.

Colored Bag / Afghanistan War

In March 2013, the Hamburg villa that Schweiger had just moved into was pelted with white paint bags and his partner's car was set on fire. According to a presumed letter of confession from "crime scene polluters", it was an action that criticized Schweiger's attitude to the war in Afghanistan and his film Guardian Angel , the preview of which he presented personally and with media coverage for troop support in Afghanistan at the Bundeswehr Camp Marmal . At the time of the action, Schweiger and his girlfriend were in Mallorca , while his two oldest children Luna and Valentin were in the house.

refugees

Schweiger campaigned for refugees in the course of the refugee crisis in Germany from 2015 and appeared on television as a guest on this topic. His suggestion caused a sensation that protesters who demonstrate against refugee homes should be put in prison for one night, where they could think about what they were actually doing. In his opinion, freedom of assembly does not apply to such demonstrators, "the constitution [...] should be changed a little". The refugee home that he had announced as model accommodation could not be realized.

SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19

In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic , Schweiger made several statements about containment measures . In March 2020, Schweiger complained that many people would not keep the minimum distance in public spaces. They apparently do not take the risk seriously. Schweiger received encouragement from other actors for his concern. At the end of April 2020, Schweiger referred in an Instagram post to the video of an ENT doctor who assessed COVID-19 as a mild cold, and in further posts criticized the mask requirement implemented in Germany and the RKI's justification for the measures to reduce mortality Limit COVID-19. Schweiger also promoted the KenFM channel . Numerous followers accused Schweiger of spreading conspiracy theories . In May 2020 Schweiger presented on his Instagram account a caricature of the head of the Robert Koch Institute Lothar Wieler as a lottery fairy in front of a lottery drum, who says on this drawing: “Welcome to the drawing of the infection numbers!” He was criticized by followers for this. The death threats received in connection with the controversy of the Bild newspaper, which published a dubious article about Christian Drosten , both by him and by Karl Lauterbach , who also advocates a cautious approach to the demand for the easing of measures to contain the pandemic , Schweiger commented with the words: "Don't cry around now - I didn't either. Stand by your opinion - it is your right, but don't cry. The future will show whether you are right. ”He makes reference to death threats against himself when he spoke out to soldiers in Afghanistan and later in favor of accepting war refugees.

Filmography (selection)

As an actor

As a producer

As a director

As a screenwriter

As a voice actor

Awards

Schweiger at the inauguration of his star on the " Boulevard der Stars " (2011)

Reviews

  • Regardless of their commercial success, Schweiger's films usually don't get good reviews. Schweiger himself stated that "[a] ll films [he] made himself were written down in the features [...]", which is why he only shows his films to a handpicked selection of journalists before they start.
  • The Frankfurter Rundschau sees Schweiger as a “phenomenon” and one of the “most influential German film stars”, whose works, however, “pulverize” film critics year after year.
  • Gala thinks that Schweiger belongs to the "first ranks of the national drama guild", but is often accused of having a "tendency to shallow".
  • As part of a film review of Inglourious Basterds, Sonja M. Schultz noted on critic.de: "[...] Even Til Schweiger, as Nazi avenger Hugo Stiglitz, is allowed to speak a catchy sentence:" Say goodbye to your eggs! " Tarantino has a feel for everyone's potential. "

Radio plays

Audio books

  • 2006 ( Audible : 2016): Til Schweiger reads Janosch - Oh, how beautiful is Panama & two more stories , floff Publishing, EAN 4042564018196.

literature

Web links

Commons : Til Schweiger  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Til Schweiger: His contract details with Warner Bros. Retrieved July 18, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Actors, Muschi auf Toast , Der Spiegel 38/2012, September 17, 2012.
  3. ↑ munzinger.de
  4. ^ Tobias Kniebe: Film Festival in Cannes: In the Tarantino Strudel ( Memento from April 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: Süddeutsche Zeitung from May 24, 2009.
  5. ↑ The website Inglourious Basterds about the actor Til Schweiger
  6. ↑ Kokowääh at filmportal.de
  7. ↑ New Hamburg investigator: Til Schweiger wants to tip crime scene opening credits in Spiegel Online from March 30, 2012
  8. ↑ Gernot Kramper: Debate about the crime scene opening credits: Leitwolf Til and the little yappers In: Stern from April 9, 2012.
  9. ^ Til Schweiger on envy, children and the crime scene in Kurier from April 24, 2012
  10. ↑ Brand consultant agrees with Til Schweiger: "Tatort" opening credits dedusted in Werben & Sell from May 4, 2012
  11. ↑ Schweiger with the best «crime scene» for a good 20 years. (No longer available online.) Fuldaer Zeitung, March 11, 2013, formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 26, 2013 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.fuldaerzeitung.de  
  12. ↑ SWR3 (podcast@swr3.de): Tatort with Til | SWR3. Retrieved September 24, 2019 (German).
  13. ↑ New film Guardian Angel : Til Schweiger goes Afghanistan in Stern from March 22, 2012
  14. ↑ Norbert Körzdörfer: Til Schweiger shoots the first commercial. In: bild.de. August 21, 2013, accessed September 24, 2019 .
  15. ↑ New commercial - Au, Til! Bump on the head. In: bild.de. June 24, 2018, accessed September 24, 2019 .
  16. ^ VHV Insurance: New TV commercial premiere with Til Schweiger. Retrieved September 24, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Filmstarts.de , accessed on August 21, 2016
  18. ↑ Super flop: Schweiger film flies out of US cinemas , accessed on December 8, 2018
  19. ↑ Til Schweiger sees the US cinema flop as the low point of his career. Accessed December 31, 2018 .
  20. ↑ Valentin Florian Schweiger: Til Schweiger's son is so pretty. In: Wunderweib.de. Retrieved August 22, 2020 .
  21. ↑ Caught! The Hollywood Celebrity Hunter Unpacks , Hans Paul, Riva Verlag (2008), page 52
  22. ↑ WORLD - News, Backgrounds, News & Videos. Retrieved December 12, 2019 .
  23. ^ "Mutmacher" - Til Schweiger and the star help with united forces Ulli Hauser, visited September 2015.
  24. ↑ "tilschweigerfoundation" - official website
  25. ↑ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: Open letter to Merkel: Celebrities call for equality in gay marriage - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Politics. Retrieved April 26, 2017 .
  26. ↑ 150 celebrities sign for equality for gay marriage . In: stern.de . June 1, 2015 ( stern.de [accessed April 26, 2017]).
  27. ↑ Frédéric Jaeger: Guardian Angel. In: critic.de. Critic, September 19, 2012, accessed September 7, 2015 .
  28. ↑ Schweiger leaves the film academy in protest. Die Welt , January 20, 2008, accessed January 13, 2020 .
  29. ↑ Til Schweiger calls for sex offenders to be reported. (No longer available online.) In: augsburger-allgemeine.de. Augsburger Allgemeine, February 5, 2011, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; accessed on September 7, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.augsburger-allgemeine.de
  30. ↑ Kirsten Simon: Til Schweiger rages against sex offenders at Lanz. In: derwesten.de. WAZ Online, February 2, 2011, accessed September 7, 2015 .
  31. ↑ Emotional outburst on TV. In: schweizer-illustrierte.ch. Schweizer Illustrierte, February 3, 2011, accessed on September 7, 2015 .
  32. ↑ Hanns-Georg Rodek: A case of post-traumatic stress disorder. In: welt.de. Die Welt, September 18, 2012, accessed September 7, 2015 .
  33. ↑ Crime scene polluters responsible for the attack on Schweiger's house. In: stern.de. Der Stern, September 7, 2015, archived from the original on March 28, 2013 ; Retrieved March 25, 2013 .
  34. ↑ Til Schweiger's children were at home during the color attack. In: focus.de. Focus Online, March 26, 2013, accessed September 7, 2015 .
  35. ↑ Investigations against Til Schweiger for "sedition". In: Hamburger Abendblatt. September 3, 2015, accessed September 7, 2015 .
  36. ↑ "You 're pissing me off!": Til Schweiger freaks out at "Maischberger". In: focus.de. Focus Online, August 18, 2015, accessed September 7, 2015 .
  37. ↑ Doubts about plans for a refugee home , Süddeutsche, August 17, 2015.
  38. ↑ Schweiger's refugee home is about to end , Die Welt September 2, 2015
  39. ^ Asylum authorities have doubts about Til Schweiger's refugee home , FAZ, August 8, 2015
  40. ↑ Corona crisis: Til Schweiger complains about unreason. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
  41. ↑ Coronavirus - Til Schweiger on the minimum distance: "They pass you very closely". In: Der Spiegel. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
  42. ↑ "That gets me down": Til Schweiger gets upset about corona ignoramuses. March 26, 2020, accessed on April 30, 2020 .
  43. ↑ Til Schweiger angry! Minimum distance is not observed. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
  44. ↑ Corona just a cold? Til Schweiger provokes with a new attitude to the virus. In: FOCUS Online. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
  45. ↑ Marc Röhlig: Influencers and C-celebrities ignite with Corona conspiracy myths - what's going on? www.bento.de, May 7, 2020
  46. ↑ Til Schweiger shares Corona image - then his fans completely freak out. In: DerWesten - derwesten.de. April 28, 2020, accessed April 30, 2020 .
  47. ↑ Dominik Göttker: Til Schweiger causes a scandal - "Disparaging, absolutely arrogant and also disgusting" www.derwesten.de, May 23, 2020
  48. ↑ seb: "Don't cry now": Til Schweiger perks up after threats against Drosten and Lauterbach. In: Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland. RND RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland GmbH, May 27, 2020, accessed on May 27, 2020 .
  49. ↑ Desert flower in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  50. ↑ Rabbit Without Ears and Two-Eared Chick. Retrieved December 12, 2019 .
  51. ↑ Not my day. Retrieved December 12, 2019 .
  52. ^ Head Full of Honey. Retrieved December 12, 2019 .
  53. ↑ Spaceship Surprise - Period 1 - IMDb. Retrieved December 12, 2019 .
  54. ↑ 20 new stars for the boulevard at Boulevard der Stars from May 23, 2011
  55. ↑ Jochen Müller: Til Schweiger and Hannes Jaenicke are "lateral thinkers". In: Blickpunkt: Film. Retrieved April 7, 2020 .
  56. ↑ CIVIS audience award for “Honey in the Head” , accessed on July 31, 2015
  57. ^ Til Schweiger and the film review. Accessed January 21, 2020 .
  58. ↑ News from Germany and the world | Frankfurter Rundschau. Retrieved December 12, 2019 .
  59. ^ Til Schweiger - Star portrait, news, pictures. January 7, 2019, accessed September 24, 2019 .
  60. ↑ Inglourious Basterds | Criticism. In: critic.de. Retrieved December 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schweiger, Til
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schweiger, Tilman Valentin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau