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Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 23, 1971
Died
June 23, 2010
Place of Birth
Magdeburg, Germany
Frank Giering
0.4 Popularity
Biography
Born and raised in Magdeburg (Germany), Frank Giering gained first stage experience as a background actor at the former known "Maxim-Gorki" theatre Magdeburg". During this time the desire arose to become an actor even though he said at a later time, that this desire was mainly animated due to his hunger to get visible and noticed combined with the unrealistic belief to get more interesting for the womankind. Nevertheless he started his studies at the "Westfälischen Schauspielschule Bochum" (Germany) but changed short time after to the "Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen" (HFF) in Potsdam Babelsberg (Germany). But again he felt quite uncomfortable with the education methods. Some exercises led him to his physical and mental limits. Furthermore he failed on his teacher's demands to "fill up the space of the theatre". As he realized that he clenched more and more as soon as he got instructions to "give more" or to become "louder" he decided to break off. In front of the film camera - he was able to live out his own belief of acting which was the opposite of the requirements at school. He loved to reduce and to express feelings solely by glances and a minimum of gestures and facial expression. According to his teachers in the theatre he was only able to catch the first row. But now he met the facility - not to gain the last rows by broaden himself - but to bring them closer using the camera. At last he felt like coming home. With his first role he gained the attention of the Austrian director Michael Haneke, who cast him for two of his productions. After the Kafka adaption The Castle (1997), Giering starred the cine film Funny Games (1997). With the figure of the sadistic murderer he became popular over night. The final breakthrough followed 1999 with his performance as Floyd in Gigantic (1999) by Sebastian Schipper, a small but particular film about friendship, longing and farewell and a very last but magic night in Hamburg. For a short time he was announced as one of the promising up-and-coming actors of Germany. Comparisons were drawn with James Dean, much less due to similarities in visual nature but due to an aura of "lostness" and lonesomeness which both actors surrounded. Frank Giering died on 23th of June 2010. The official cause of dead is given by multiple organ failure due to an acute bilious colic. On 9th of July 2010 he was buried at the "Neustädter Friedhof" in Magdeburg (Germany). Description above is sections taken from IMDB.
Known For
5.9
Receptionist
Jerry Cotton
2010
4.1
Hans Sittler
Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten
2010
7.0
Thomas
Keine Angst
2009
5.8
Thomas Schaller
Lasko – Die Faust Gottes
2009
6.3
Kommissar Klaus Wendt
Der Tote in der Mauer
2008
0.0
Franz
Esperanza
2008
5.0
Oberst Sprüngli
Ihr Auftrag, Pater Castell
2008
5.0
Thomas Hudetz
Free to Leave
2007
4.5
Kommissar Henry Weber
Der Kriminalist
2006
🎬
0.0
Dieter Wittmann
Tod einer Freundin
2006
Credits
Jerry Cotton
as Receptionist
2010
5.9
Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten
as Hans Sittler
2010
4.1
Keine Angst
as Thomas
2009
7.0
Lasko – Die Faust Gottes
as Thomas Schaller
2009
5.8
Der Tote in der Mauer
as Kommissar Klaus Wendt
2008
6.3
Esperanza
as Franz
2008
0.0
Ihr Auftrag, Pater Castell
as Oberst Sprüngli
2008
5.0
Free to Leave
as Thomas Hudetz
2007
5.0
Der Kriminalist
as Kommissar Henry Weber
2006
4.5
🎬
Tod einer Freundin
as Dieter Wittmann
2006
0.0
Black Sheep
as Doorman #1 of KitKat-Club
2006
5.9
A Pirate's Heart
as Jan Broderson
2006
5.0
Die ProSieben Märchenstunde
as Prinz Hohlholm von Sülzenstein
2006
7.7
🎬
Thadeusz
as self
2005
6.0
Die Spielerin
as Dietrich Schröder
2005
6.0
🎬
Erinnere dich, wenn du kannst
as Tom Walden
2005
0.0
Die Rosenzüchterin
as Alan Shaye
2004
1.0
Die Kirschenkönigin
as Colonel Stone
2004
0.0
Großglocknerliebe
as Uwe Ringelmann
2004
0.0
Nightsongs
as Junger Mann
2004
4.5
🎬
Klassentreffen
as Stüze
2004
0.0
Anatomy 2
as Sven
2003
5.6
🎬
ZIBB
as Self
2003
0.0
Dirty Sky
as Philosoph
2003
0.0
A Birthday to Remember
as Paul
2003
5.0
Der Mörder ist unter uns
as Kai Wegner
2003
6.6
🎬
Dienstreise - Was für eine Nacht
as Rudi
2003
3.0
🎬
Gangster
as Vincent
2002
0.0
Baader
as Andreas Baader
2002
3.4
🎬
Im Visier der Zielfahnder
as Norman Bleich
2002
0.0
🎬
Hannas Baby
as Junger Mann
2002
0.0
🎬
Sachsen-Anhalt heute
as Self
2001
0.0
🎬
Clowns
as Nick
2001
0.0
SOKO Leipzig
as Dr. Fischer
2001
5.9
🎬
Ein mörderischer Plan
as Mark Stettner
2001
6.5
Marmor, Stein & Eisen
as Nicki
2000
0.0
🎬
Die Aufschneider
as Nick
2000
0.0
Der Himmel kann warten
as Alex Feldkamp
2000
7.5
🎬
Der Gerechte Richter
as Jan
2000
0.0
Gran Paradiso
as Edwin
2000
6.0
🎬
Koschwitz
as Self
2000
3.0
Kaliber Deluxe
as Rochus
2000
5.2
🎬
Ebene 9
as Gregor
2000
0.0
Gigantic
as Floyd
1999
7.6
🎬
Volle Kanne
as Self
1999
3.8
Und alles wegen Mama
as Benny Zucker
1999
0.0
Love Your Female Neighbor!
as Locke
1998
7.0
Siska
as Sven Gardener
1998
7.5
Love Scenes from Planet Earth
as Henrik Jr.
1998
5.9
Caipiranha - Vorsicht, bissiger Nachbar!
as Frank Wolters
1998
6.4
Der letzte Zeuge
as Helmut Kluge
1998
4.5
Opera ball
as Jörg Blahacek 'Ingenieur'
1998
7.0
Opernball
as Jörg Blahacek, Ingenieur
1998
0.0
Die Cleveren
as Siegfried Schwender
1998
6.8
Hundert Jahre Brecht
1998
0.0
🎬
Die Ulla Kock am Brink Show
as Self
1998
0.0
🎬
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
as Self
1998
4.0
Sentimental Education
as Minaichmis
1998
0.0
🎬
Die Kids von Berlin
as Alexander Bürkel
1997
10.0
The Castle
as Artur
1997
6.1
Funny Games
as Peter
1997
7.3
🎬
Sophie – Schlauer als die Polizei erlaubt
as Philipp Armbruster
1997
1.0
🎬
Here from Four
as Self
1997
0.0
Die Halbstarken
as Günther
1996
6.2
🎬
Wolkenstein
as Stefan Zeranski
1996
0.0
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
as Hans-Joachim Schneider
1996
6.6
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
as Ziegler
1996
6.6
Zwei Brüder
as Joseph Herzfeld
1994
5.5
Rosa Roth
as Wolf Gotschlich
1994
4.8
🎬
Der König
as Jens Wohlbrück
1994
0.0
Ein starkes Team
as Ulrich Baring
1994
5.5
Brisant
as Self
1994
5.5
Auf eigene Gefahr
1993
3.0
Wolffs Revier
as Stefan Träger
1992
3.0
Morgenmagazin
as self
1992
3.5
Riverboat
as Self
1992
4.0
Nachtcafé
as Self
1987
4.7
A Case For Two
as Rolf Fürst
1981
5.3
A Case For Two
as Albert Becker
1981
5.3
NDR Talk Show
as Self
1979
6.5
Der Alte
as Joachim Horst
1977
6.1
Polizeiruf 110
1971
6.2
Polizeiruf 110
as Gregor Karolewski
1971
6.2
Polizeiruf 110
as Louis
1971
6.2
Scene of the Crime
as Herr Heymann
1970
6.1
Scene of the Crime
as Markus Engel
1970
6.1
🎬
German Film Award
as Self
1951
6.0