1971-11-23 ( 53 years old ) in 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).
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Movies
Jerry Cotton
2010-03-11
Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten
2010-01-02
Keine Angst
2009-09-15
Der Tote in der Mauer
2008-11-17
Esperanza
2008-05-29
Free to Leave
2007-01-01
Tod einer Freundin
2006-11-27
Black Sheep
2006-10-25
A Pirate's Heart
2006-04-15
Die Spielerin
2005-06-17
Erinnere dich, wenn du kannst
2005-02-16
Die Rosenzüchterin
2004-11-07
Großglocknerliebe
2004-06-04
Nightsongs
2004-02-11
Klassentreffen
2004-01-28
Anatomy 2
2003-11-23
Dirty Sky
2003-11-10
A Birthday to Remember
2003-07-01
Der Mörder ist unter uns
2003-04-14
Dienstreise - Was für eine Nacht
2003-03-17
Gangster
2002-12-20
Baader
2002-11-10
Hannas Baby
2002-01-01
Clowns
2001-05-25
Ein mörderischer Plan
2001-01-24
Marmor, Stein & Eisen
2000-11-18
Der Himmel kann warten
2000-11-17
Die Aufschneider
2000-11-17
Der Gerechte Richter
2000-11-16
Gran Paradiso
2000-08-28
Kaliber Deluxe
2000-03-02
Ebene 9
2000-01-02
Gigantic
1999-09-30
Und alles wegen Mama
1999-03-31
Love Your Female Neighbor!
1998-12-24
Love Scenes from Planet Earth
1998-08-27
Caipiranha - Vorsicht, bissiger Nachbar!
1998-07-08
Opera ball
1998-03-15
Hundert Jahre Brecht
1998-02-26
Sentimental Education
1998-01-01
The Castle
1997-09-06
Funny Games
1997-08-23
Die Halbstarken
1996-12-20
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