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Frank Giering

Frank Giering

Actor · 1971 – 2010 · Magdeburg, Germany

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.

Movies23

  • Movie7.3

    Funny Games

    1997 · 2.2K votes

  • Movie5.6

    Anatomie 2

    Anatomy 2

    2003 · 120 votes

  • Movie6.0
  • Movie5.6

    Gran Paradiso

    2000 · 5 votes

  • Movie3.7

    Baader

    2002 · 17 votes

  • Movie7.6

    Absolute Giganten

    Gigantic

    1999 · 110 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Liebe Deine Nächste!

    Love Your Female Neighbor!

    1998 · 5 votes

  • Movie9.0

    Und alles wegen Mama

    1999 · 1 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Jerry Cotton

    2010 · 44 votes

  • Movie5.3

    Störtebeker

    A Pirate's Heart

    2006 · 12 votes

  • Movie8.0

    Die Aufschneider

    2000 · 1 votes

  • Movie6.9
  • Movie10.0

    Clowns

    2001 · 1 votes

  • Movie5.2

    Hierankl

    A Birthday to Remember

    2003 · 13 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Das Schloß

    The Castle

    1997 · 70 votes

  • Movie5.0

    Freigesprochen

    Free to Leave

    2007 · 9 votes

  • Movie8.0

    Der Himmel kann warten

    2000 · 3 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Schwarze Schafe

    Black Sheep

    2006 · 33 votes

  • Movie7.4

    Opernball

    Opera ball

    1998 · 7 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Gangster

    2002 · 1 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Sentimental Education

    1998 · 2 votes

  • Movie5.3

    Die Nacht singt ihre Lieder

    Nightsongs

    2004 · 10 votes

  • Movie6.5

Series23

  • TV6.2

    Tatort

    Scene of the Crime

    1970 · 127 votes

  • TV4.4

    Volle Kanne

    1999 · 7 votes

  • TV6.3

    Der Alte

    The Old Fox

    1977 · 20 votes

  • TV7.0

    ZIBB

    2003 · 1 votes

  • TV5.3

    Morgenmagazin

    1992 · 3 votes

  • TV6.6

    NDR Talk Show

    1979 · 5 votes

  • TV6.3

    Polizeiruf 110

    1971 · 26 votes

  • TV5.7

    Ein Fall für zwei

    A Case For Two

    1981 · 19 votes

  • TV6.6

    Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei

    Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police

    1996 · 140 votes

  • TV7.5

    Die Johannes B. Kerner Show

    The Johannes B. Kerner Show

    1998 · 4 votes

  • TV5.9

    SOKO Leipzig

    2001 · 20 votes

  • TV5.2

    Riverboat

    1992 · 4 votes

  • TV4.7

    Nachtcafé

    1987 · 3 votes

  • TV4.5

    Der Kriminalist

    2006 · 6 votes

  • TV3.7

    Wolffs Revier

    1992 · 7 votes

  • TV5.0

    Ein starkes Team

    1994 · 11 votes

  • TV6.2

    Brisant

    1994 · 5 votes

  • TV8.0

    Siska

    1998 · 3 votes

  • TV5.0

    Der letzte Zeuge

    1998 · 7 votes

  • TV6.0

    Thadeusz

    2005 · 1 votes

  • TV4.8

    Rosa Roth

    1994 · 5 votes

  • TV7.4

    Die Cleveren

    1998 · 5 votes

  • TV7.7