Lars Eidinger

German theater and film actor. One of the formative and versatile German theater stars, Lars Eidinger played people from mothers-to-be to monsters, with whom difficult-to-identify, their complexity and physicality, however, fascinated. Used as a type who disturbs, annoys and irritates partners, Eidinger embodied people in film and TV productions who push the boundaries in excess and indifference and provoke reactions. He made his breakthrough in the cinema as Chris alongside Birgit Minichmayr in Maren Ade's relationship drama "All Others" (2009), in which a couple searches for their identity while on vacation in Italy. In Tim Fehlbaum's end-of-time horror thriller "Hell" (2011), he comes across cannibals in a Germany that has been burned out by the sun. In 2012, he is in Hans-Christian Schmid's drama "What stays" as Marko at the family reunion, perpetrator and victim in the escalating quarrel between relatives who exchange bitter truths. Lars Eidinger was born in Berlin in 1976 as the son of an engineer and a nurse and completed his acting training at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin from 1995-1998. In 1998 he made his debut at the Deutsches Theater. He has been a permanent member of the Berlin Schaubühne since 2000, where he appeared in over 40 productions, mostly under the direction of Thomas Ostermeier, in classic and modern plays from Shakespeare, Schiller and Tennessee Williams to Sarah Kane. Eidinger brought Hamlet on stage as a break dancer, irritated with striptease in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and became famous and famous for nude appearances. Lively play and indulgence are ascribed to him. Eidinger, who sees himself as a marionette player and plays "as if in a frenzy", directed himself for the first time in 2008. Eidinger made his debut in the movie "After Effect" in 2005 and played Nina Hoss' boss and lover in the love drama "Windows for Summer" in 2011. In 2011 he was in "Tabu - The soul is strange on earth" by the poet Georg Trakl, who is incestuously devoted to his sister. In 2012 he appeared in a supporting role in Peter Greenaway's biopic series about Dutch painters ("Goltzius and the Pelican Company", 2012). Eidinger is a lecturer at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art, where he is known for his parties under the motto "Autistic Disco". He is a musician and music producer for the Berlin labels! K7 and no.nine and composed music for Ostermeier's productions. In 2010 he was nominated for the German Television Prize for "Relationships". Lars Eidinger is married to the opera singer Ulrike Eidinger, with whom he has a daughter. He lives in Berlin-Charlottenburg.