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| Born | March 25, 1980 West Berlin, West Germany |
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| Years active | 2000–present |
Hanno Koffler (born March 25, 1980) is a German actor and musician. His most famous films include Summer Storm , Krabat and Free Fall . He also starred in the Oscar-nominated film, Never Look Away (2018), directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.
Koffler was born in West Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany. He was raised with his three brothers in Charlottenburg by a working middle-class family. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Koffler family was severely affected, as Hanno's father fell professionally, forcing the family to move to Saxony-Anhalt. At an early age, Koffler began acting in small roles in plays.
In 1994 he founded the band "Kerosin" with his brother Max Koffler, Hanno being the drummer. The band ranked second in the world's largest live band contest "Emergenza" in 2002.
Upon returning to Berlin at the age of 18, Koffler applied for admission to the Ernst Busch Theater School, but was rejected. In 2002, he would officially begin his acting career with various roles in cinema films such as Anatomy 2 and in Marco Kreuzpaintner films, including the 2004 Summer Storm and Krabat in 2008. He later moved to Austria. to study acting until 2007 at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna, where he would play roles in various theatrical productions directed by Klaus Maria Brandauer.
After several performances in television, theater, and cinema, in 2013 he starred in the film Free Fall , along with Max Riemelt and Katharina Schüttler. The film was directed by Stephan Lacant and became a huge success both in Germany and internationally.
In 2015, he was nominated for a Best Actor for the Deutscher Filmpreis for the drama/documentary film Tough Love (Härte), by director Rosa von Praunheim, in which he plays Andreas Marquardt. It was screened in the Panorama section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival where it won third place in the Panorama Audience Award.
In 2016, he appeared in the Rivals Forever: The Sneaker Battle miniseries, playing Rudolf Dassler.
In 2018, he starred in Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's Oscar-nominated film Never Look Away with Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer, and Saskia Rosendahl.
In 2019, he joined the original Amazon Beat series, again under the direction of Marco Kreuzpaintner, playing the character of Paul. That same year, he was part of the cast of the first season of German series, Pagan Peak .
He assumed the recurring role of Walther Stennes in Babylon Berlin's third and fourth seasons.
Summer Storm is a 2004 German coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner, starring Robert Stadlober, Kostja Ullmann, Alicja Bachleda-Curuś, and Miriam Morgenstern. The story is set to the background of a rowing regatta, which climaxes into a summer storm.
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Free Fall is a 2013 German drama film directed by Stephan Lacant who also wrote the script with Karsten Dahlem, and starring Hanno Koffler, Max Riemelt, and Katharina Schüttler. The film tells the story of police officer, Marc Borgmann (Koffler), who lives with his pregnant girlfriend, Bettina Bischoff (Schüttler). Whilst on a training course, Borgmann meets fellow police officer, Kay Engel (Riemelt), and a romance develops between the two men. Borgmann is torn between his love for Bettina and his new found feelings for another man. When Engel disappears for a while, Borgmann realises his life is rapidly going into "free fall", as he cannot meet the high expectations of the people he knows.
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