Benno Fürmann

One of Germany’s most acclaimed actors, Benno Fürmann was born in Berlin-Kreuzberg in 1972. After his first acting experience in Edgar Reitz’s legendary 1991 TV series Heimat II, he went to New York to study at the Lee Strasberg Institute. Upon his return to Germany, Fürmann’s breakthrough was in the television mini-series Und Tschüss (1995), followed by his performance as boxing legend Bubi Scholz in the popular ARD biopic, Die Bubi- Scholz-Story (1998), which earned him the German TV Award as Best Actor in a Leading Role.

Mr. Fürmann‘s subsequent roles include Granz Henman’s The Polar Bear (1998); Sönke Wortmanns’ St. Pauli Nacht (1998) and Stefan Ruzowitzky’s blockbuster, Anatomy (1999). He worked with Tom Tykwer in The Princess And The Warrior (1999), and was honored with the 2001 Bavarian Film Award for his performance in Martin Eigler’s Trust Me (1999). He was selected as European Shooting Star at the 2001 Berlin Film Festival and received the 2002 Golden Adolf Grimme Award as Best Actor for his performance in Christian Petzold’s Wolfsburg.

Internationally, Fürmann acted alongside Heath Ledger in Brian Helgeland’s 2003 Sin Eater, and portrayed the melancholic World War I soldier Nikolaus Sprink in Christian Carion’s Academy Award® nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, Joyeux Noël (Merry Christmas.) Fürmann impressed audiences in the physically challenging role of a mountaineer in Philipp Stölzl’s 2008 North Face. He was recently seen in the Wachowski brothers’ Speed Racer, Mutant Chronicles and Christian Petzold’s Jerichow.

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