August Zirner

August Zirner (born 7 January 1956) is an American-Austrian actor, who starred in over 60 film productions. He is one of the most popular actors in Germany.

Biography Zirner was born as son of Austrian Jewish immigrants in the United States in Urbana, Illinois. His father had fled from the Nazis. In 1976 he studied drama at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna before he made his debut as an actor at the Volkstheater in Vienna. After that he was engaged in Hanover, Wiesbaden and at the Munich Kammerspiele. His breakthrough into film was in The Promise in 1994. Talk of the Town (1995) by Rainer Kaufmann, (1997) by Margarethe von Trotta, The Pharmacist (1997) by Rainer Kaufmann and The Counterfeiters by Stefan Ruzowitzky, which was awarded with the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2008. For the film Rage, he got the 2006 Grimme-Preis.

In 2009 Zirner played the transverse flute together with the Spardosen-Trio and the Theatre Program Diagnose: Jazz. In May 2011 Zirner acts in Blind Date, a play based on a film by Theo van Gogh at the Schauspielhaus Graz, a production of Bernadette Sonnenbichler.

Zirner is married to actress Katalin Zsigmondy and one of his four children is the actor Johannes Zirner. Although he has lived in Europe since 1973, August Zirner has retained his U.S. citizenship. .... Konrad 1995: Talk of the Town .... Erik Kirsch 1996: Hannah (directed by Reinhard Schwabenitzky) .... Wolfgang Heck 1997: Der rote Schakal (TV Movie) .... Werner Leiser 1997: Der Wald (TV Movie, based on a novel by ) .... Karl Fürst 1997: The Pharmacist .... Pawel Siebert 1997: (TV Movie, directed by Margarethe von Trotta) .... Michael 1998: Suzie Washington (directed by ) .... Herbert Korn 1999: Annaluise & Anton .... Richard Pogge 2000: Kissing My Sister .... Jan Lomberg 2001: Mostly Martha .... Martha's Therapist 2001: Taking Sides (directed by István Szabó) .... Captain Ed Martin 2001: .... Herr Oberstein 2002: Amen. (directed by Costa-Gavras) .... Von Weizsäcker 2002: Joe and Max (TV Movie) .... David Lewin 2002: Gebürtig .... Danny Demant 2002: (TV Movie, directed by Gernot Roll) .... König Friedrich II. 2003: (TV Movie) .... Dr. Günther Erhardt 2004: (TV Mini-Series, directed by Rainer Kaufmann) .... Samuel Goldfisch 2004: Sergeant Pepper .... Dr. Theobald 2005: Speer und Er (TV Mini-Series) .... Dr. Gilbert 2005: Liebe nach dem Tod (TV Movie) .... Paul Markwart 2005: A Sound of Thunder .... Clay Derris 2005: Tara Road .... Greg Vine 2005: Der Todestunnel (TV Movie) .... Manfred Grabowski 2005: Mutig in die neuen Zeiten (TV Movie, directed by Harald Sicheritz) .... Paul Berkowitz 2006: Helen, Ted und Fred (TV Movie, directed by Sherry Hormann) .... Peter Kowalski 2006: Rage (TV Movie) .... Simon Laub 2007: The Counterfeiters .... Dr. Klinger 2007: Herr Bello .... Herr Sternheim / Traugott Sternheim 2007: Meine böse Freundin (TV Movie) .... Robert Mahrtaler 2007: (TV Movie) .... Dr. Gerd Naumann 2008: .... Richard Harms 2008: Ein starker Abgang (TV Movie) .... Dr. Kübler 2009: (TV Movie) .... Dr. Borchert 2009: (TV Movie) .... Dr. Martin Langhammer 2009: (TV Movie) .... Ludwig von Arnstetten 2009: Berlin 36 .... Edwin Bergmann 2009: Ein Dorf sieht Mord (TV Movie) .... Martin Selig 2009: (TV Movie) .... Ludwig Norderstedt 2009: Meine Familie bringt mich um (TV Movie) .... Peter 2010: Klimawechsel (TV Series) .... Dr. Dieter Dumont 2010: The Last 30 Years (TV Movie) .... Oskar Landrock 2010: (TV Movie) .... Ulf Kamprath 2011: Der Kardinal (TV Movie) .... Franz König 2012: Sams im Glück .... Herr Oberstein 2012: (TV Movie) .... Dr. Martin Langhammer 2012: (TV Movie) .... August Staudenmeyer 2012: .... Lenzi Weiss 2013: .... Meier 2014: (TV Movie) .... Alexander Halbach 2014: (TV Movie) .... Philipp Immerwahr 2014: Coming In .... Salvatore 2015: .... Georg 2015: (TV Movie) .... Andreas Niethammer 2015: Colonia Dignidad .... German Ambassador 2017: Euphoria .... Frank 2018: Wackersdorf .... Innenminister 2018: .... Maximilian 2018: .... Direktor Nationalbank 2018: (TV Movie) .... Wilhelm Nolting-Hauff 2019: Das Ende der Wahrheit .... Dr. Grünhagen 2022: The Silent Forest .... Gustav Dallmann