Erol Sander

He was raised in the Muslim faith. At the age of four, he moved to Munich with his mother and sister in 1973. He last spent his school years at a boarding school on Lake Chiemsee. He then studied political science and economics. In 1992 he traveled to Paris, where he began a career as a model. Meanwhile, he's keeping an eye on acting. After his first film projects in 1997, Sander celebrated his television debut in Germany in 1999 with the TV pilot for the series "Sinan Toprak - The Untouchable". In 2000 he married Caroline Godet, a niece of film director Oliver Stone. By 2001, 16 episodes of the series "Sinan Toprak" had been created with Sander. In the same year he appeared in front of the camera for the TV film "Now we're killing our men". With "The Apocalypse" (2002) and "Forever Lost" (2003) he also asserted himself in demanding roles.

He celebrated his breakthrough in 2003 in the role of the Persian ruler Shah in Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in the two-part TV series "Soraya", which was about the life story of Soraya of Persia. In the same year the TV film "My husband, my life and you" was made. Erol Sander made his film debut in 2004 in a supporting role in "Aexander", directed by Oliver Stone. For the 2007 open-air season he took on the role of Winnetou at the Karl May Festival in Bad Segeberg. At the same time, he starred in the films "A Love in the Sign of the Dragon" and "A Love in Cuba," among others. From 2006 to 2010 he was a Dr. Daniel Guth in front of the camera for the TV series "The Alpine Clinic - Love Heals Wounds" (ARD). This was followed in 2011 by the crime novels "Istanbul Murder Commission - Blood Ties" and "Istanbul Murder Commission - Transit".