Matthias Weidenhöfer Biography
Matthias Weidenhöfer is a German theater and film actor and voice actor born April 16, 1985 in Achim. Matthias Weidenhöfer grew up with his two siblings in Achim near Bremen . His mother is from Uruguay while his father is from the Ottersberger district Wümmingen.
At the age of fourteen he produced his first TV program for the open channel Bremen Umland TV. From 2007 to 2010 he completed acting studies at the University of Film and Television Potsdam .
Matthias Weidenhöfer Career
During his acting training, he was playing the title role in Ivanov (2007, directed by Gustav Rueb ), the Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire (2007, directed by Andreas Kleinert ), the Petrucchio in The Taming of the Shrew (2008, directed by Thomas Dehler ), the Marinelli in Emilia Galotti (2008, directed by Angelika Heimlich) and in 2009 the Baylor in lies by Sam Shepard (director:Lukas Langhoff ); With this production Weidenhöfer also performed with the Ensemble of the Film and Television Academy at the Theatertreffen Deutschsprachiger Schauspielstudierender in Zurich . Weidenhöfer received for it, together with all the other contributors, the ensemble prize for the actor’s overall performance.
Mathias, in 2009 realized with the director Kai Gero Lenke in the Berlin Sophiensaelen the theater evening About me and how we learned to build the bomb .In the 2010/2011 season he appeared at the Schauspielhaus Zurich . Directed by Karin Henkel , he impersonated the Borachio in the Shakespeare comedy Much Ado About Nothing . Directed by Dieter Berner , Weidenhöfer played the male lead role in the feature film Disease of the Youth , a modern cinematic adaptation of the eponymous play by Ferdinand Bruckner in 2009 . In the role of Freder, he played the “arrogant” and “charismatic” boss of a Berlin residential community of medical students, who enjoys playing with the feelings of his roommates. The film premiered in October 2010 as part of the Hofer Filmtage . In December 2010, the film was broadcast on ARTE for the first time on television.
He also took over television roles. He played the young physician Dr. Loof in the crime scene -Krimi The lawyer in 2006 ; the premiere took place in April 2007. 2010 he was in the role of Kevin Erdel to fill the Wilsberg crime episode Wilsberg: Presumed Innocent . In the scene of the crime film Brothers he represented, alongside Christoph Letkowski , the role of the loner Mesut Sönmez , the best friend and blood brother of the patrolmen David Forester . In the RTL-produced pilot Mantrailer – Traces of Crime,Weidenhöfer played the Chief Commissioner Cem Deniz (broadcast: April 25, 2013). The production pilot flopped and the movie did not continue.
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Since 2008 Weidenhöfer has regularly been working as a spokesman for radio plays . He also appeared as Freder, in 2010 in the produced by Deutschlandradio radio play version of the disease of the youth , which was first broadcast in March 2010 at Deutschlandradio Kultur . He was also singer in various music projects, including in the band Destitude Allstars , where he appeared as a singer and guitarist .Weidenhöfer has two sons with German actress Jördis Triebel . In 2014 Weidenhöfer and Triebel split up. Currently Weidenhöfer is romantically involved with the German-Brazilian actress Cristina do Rego , whom he met while filming the television series Unter Gaunern .
Matthias Weidenhöfer Spouse
He was married to Jordis Triebel up to the year 2014 when they separated.
Matthias Weidenhöfer Son
Mathias has one son,Jack Oskar Weidenhöfer.
Matthias Weidenhöfer Movies
- 2006: Heteros Nomos, Director: Kai Gero Lenke , short film
- 2007: Tatort – The lawyer
- 2008: Peter Pan is dead, short film
- 2008: Tohu Wa Bohu, short film
- 2010: Disease of Youth , Director: Dieter Berner , feature film
- 2011: Unknown Identity (Unknown) , Director: Jaume Collet-Serra , feature film
- 2011: The Invisible , directed by Christian Schwochow , feature film
- 2011: Tatort – Mauerpark , Director: Heiko Schier
- 2011: A strong team – Merciless , TV series, Director: Peter Fratzscher
- 2012: Wilsberg: For lack of evidence , Director: Hans-Günther Bücking
- 2013: Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts, Director: Isabell Suba
- 2013: Mantrailer – Traces of Crime, Director: Alexander Dierbach
- 2014: Tatort – Brüder , Director: Florian Baxmeyer
- 2014: Women’s Hearts , directed by Sophie Allet-Coche
- 2014: We do it for money , directed by Manfred Stelzer
- 2014: TVLab – Alibi Agency
- 2015: Men! – Alles auf Anfang (TV series, episode: The New ), directed by Sebastian Sorger
- 2015: Tatort – Borowski and the sky over Kiel , Director: Christian Schwochow
- 2015: Under Rogues (TV series)
- 2015: Winnetous Sohn , director: André Erkau , feature film
- 2015: Alarm for Cobra 11 – The Highway Police (TV series, episode: Vendetta ), directed by Nico Zavelberg
- 2015: The state against Fritz Bauer , Director: Lars Kraume , feature film
- 2015: Metropolitan Area , Episode The Heath Queen (TV Series)
- 2016: Tatort – You belong to me
- 2016: The harbor pastor and the blue from the sky
- 2016: The last cowboy (miniseries)
- 2017: The specialists – In the name of the victims , serial role
- 2017: The fog house
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ZDF Commissioner Matthias Weidenhöfer is patron for the ORANGE HOUSE Bremen
Updated On: 6th September
Source: www.presseportal.de
Munich (ots) – Just in time for the opening on 15 September 2017, the ORANGE HOUSE now also has a patron who will publicly support the Therapy and Creative Center in the future.
Matthias Weidenhöfer is an actor and grew up in Achim near Bremen. Among other things, he became known through roles in the crime scene and in the Radio Bremen series “Unter Gaunern” and as a theater actor. He is currently seen as a commissioner in the ZDF crime series “The Specialists”.
The patronage for the ORANGE HOUSE Bremen is very important to Matthias Weidenhöfer. “A place like the Orange House would have to be everywhere in the world, a place that welcomes children with open arms, concentrated competence and potential and offers them opportunities to develop, to dream and to grow wings,” says the patron.
“We are very pleased that we were able to win Matthias Weidenhöfer as patron for our ORANGE HOUSE,” says project manager Ellen Gutschmidt. Mathias Weidenhöfer knows the region with all its possibilities and challenges, and therefore has a lot of motivation for working with socially disadvantaged children and adolescents still young and through his professional activities and media presence also interesting and approachable for the young people.The fact that he publicly committed to us, represents a special appreciation for all children and adolescents.
The ORANGE HOUSE, which is part of Diakonische Jugendhilfe Bremen and funded by the Hoffmann Group Foundation, will offer individual and group therapies for children and adolescents on around 600 square meters starting in September. In addition to games, equestrian and art therapy, this also includes creative offers for parents and their children as well as theater and music projects.
“All offers of the ORANGE HOUSE aim to promote the self-efficacy and thus the resilience, ie the psychological resistance, of the children and adolescents.All our visitors are to experience joie de vivre and security in the ORANGE HOUSE”, explains Foundation Manager Arne Langer from the Hoffmann Group.
Interested parties are cordially invited to get an idea of the future work of the ORANGE HOUSE themselves at the opening ceremony on 15 September. The opening will feature a colorful program with hands-on activities for the whole family, music by children and young people, and a raffle with high-quality prizes. The greeting will be held by Bremen’s Social Senator Anja Stahmann.