Frank Giering

Born and raised in Magdeburg Germany Frank Giering gained first stage experience as a background actor at the former known MaximGorki 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 teachers 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 upandcoming 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