Frank Giering

Acting

Frank Giering

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Nov 23, 1971 (53 years old)
Death date
Jun 23, 2010

Frank Giering

Known For

Jerry Cotton
1h 40m
Movie 2010

Jerry Cotton

Jerry Cotton is the best agent of the FBI and...

Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten
0h 58m
Movie 2010

Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten

A man had a donkey that had carried the sacks...

Keine Angst
Movie 2009

Keine Angst

Esperanza
1h 30m
Movie 2008

Esperanza

New Year's Eve, shortly after five. Ten travelers have missed...

Free to Leave
1h 36m
Movie 2007

Free to Leave

For a moment the otherwise proper station master Thomas Hudetz...

Tod einer Freundin
Movie 2006

Tod einer Freundin

When Tina arrives at home, another young woman has just...

Black Sheep
1h 34m
Movie 2006

Black Sheep

Schwarze Schafe (Black Sheep) is a german/swiss black and white...

A Pirate's Heart
3h 0m
Movie 2006

A Pirate's Heart

The end of the 14th century. Parents send the eldest...

Die Spielerin
1h 29m
Movie 2005

Die Spielerin

It all starts with a mistake. The wealthy Polina finds...

Die Rosenzüchterin
Movie 2004

Die Rosenzüchterin

Biography

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.