Biografie

31. März 1958 · Jerichow, Deutsche Demokratische Republik

1,76 m

He played Joseph Goebbels in both Mein Führer - Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler (2007) and Inglourious Basterds (2009).

Noted stage actor, performing at all important German speaking theaters.

Was romantically linked to Rosemarie Fendel, who is 31 years his senior.

Studied acting and singing at the Drama School "Ernst Busch" in Berlin.

Is an educated tenor.

[2013] In the beginning, I still found it funny that you were no longer allowed to smoke in restaurants. In the smokers' corners, contacts and conversations begin that otherwise would not exist. But I've got the feeling that the nannying is increasing and becoming more severe. People have to still be able to decide something themselves.

[2013] One way or another, I will have to die. And I simply enjoy smoking very much. If I leave out many things, I maybe live a healthier life, but I will get bored more often and experience less. We are supposed to smoke less, drink less, eat less meat...

[2013, on tenants losing their homes because they smoke, and people suing their neighbors for smoking on balconies] I think that's terrible. It is absurd, they are completely nuts. It's an intrusion into personal lives.