Frank Giering

Frank Giering, born November 23, 1971, in Magdeburg, dropped out of Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen “Konrad Wolf” in Babelsberg and started a career as a theatre actor. After a leading role in the TV movie Der Verräter, director Michael Haneke noticed his talent and cast him for his adaptation of Kafka’s Das Schloss (The Castle) and the controversial psychological thriller Funny Games. In Funny Games, Giering caused a stir as a sadistic killer lurking beneath a gentle surface.

Giering subsequently played several other outsider characters, for instance in Urs Egger’s Die Halbstarken (1996) and Opernball (Opera Ball, 1998) where Giering emphatically played a young Nazi, in Detlev Buck’s Liebe deine Nächste (Love Your Female Neighbour), in Hermine Huntgeburth’s TV movie Und alles wegen Mama (both 1998), and in Volker Einrauch’s Gangster (1999). —filmportal.de read more