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Matthias Paul (born 15 July 1964 in Frankfurt (Oder)) is a German actor, singer and director.
Life and career
Matthias Paul has been living in Berlin since 1972. After school, he completed an apprenticeship as an aircraft mechanic at Berlin-Schönefeld Airport. Later he went to the television of the GDR and worked as the first camera assistant. From 1987 to 1991 he studied at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts, Berlin. In 1996, he attended the Actors Workshop with Eric Morris in Los Angeles.
Paul works as an actor and presenter. He also speaks audiobooks and was on stage as a singer of chansons and love ballads. In 1999, he played a major role in the action series "Die Motorrad-Cops – Hart am Limit".
Since 2009 he works as a director for television, increasingly for soap operas, and has directed some 300 episodes (up to 2019).
He is married since September 2006, lives in Pritzwalk and Berlin and has 3 children.
Theatre
1994: Romeo & Julia (Kleist-Theater Frankfurt (Oder))
1993: Michael Kohlhaas (Kleist-Theater Frankfurt (Oder))
1993: Hase Hase (Kleist-Theater Frankfurt (Oder))
1993: Exekutor 14 (Kleist-Theater Frankfurt (Oder))
1992: Leonce & Lena (Theater Kampnagel Hamburg)
1992: Der Cassernower (Kleine Bühne Das Ei at Friedrichstadt-Palast Berlin)
1992: Penthesilea (Kleist-Theater Frankfurt (Oder))
1992: Frühlingserwachen (Berliner Kammerspiele)
1991: Das Wintermärchen (Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz Berlin)
1989: Der Lohndrücker (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
Filmography
= Actor
=1991: Bronstein's Children
1992: Zorc-Tim
1993: Fahrschule Kampmann
1994: Feuerbach
1995: Coeur pour coeur, dent pour dent
1995: Les Alsaciens/Die Elsässer
1995: Eine Frau wird gejagt
1995: Kinder der Nacht
1996: Boom Baby Boom
1996: Gone Wrong
1996: Hollister
1997: Die Geliebte (television series): Jedes Ende ist ein neuer Anfang
1997: Lisa Falk, Anwältin
1997: Ritter der Lüfte
1998: Einfach Klasse…
1998: Medicopter 117 – Jedes Leben zählt (television series): Der Kronzeuge
1998: SK-Babies (television series): Der Ausbrecher
1999–2000: Die Motorrad-Cops – Hart am Limit (television series, 23 episodes)
1999: In aller Freundschaft (television series, 5 episodes, cast)
1999–2002: Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei (television series, 3 episodes, including Vater und Sohn)
2003: Der Zauberstein
2003: Ei verbibbsch
2003: Die Rosenheim-Cops (television series): Die sündige Sennerin
2004: Das Kommando
2004: Sabine! (television series, 7 episodes)
2004: Sharia-Gods Law
2004: Siska (television series): Zuerst kommt die Angst
2006–2007: Schmetterlinge im Bauch (soap, 82 episodes)
2007: Spielzeugland
2007–2008: Rote Rosen (soap, 16 episodes, cast)
2008–2009: Rosamunde Pilcher: Entscheidung des Herzens (series, 6 episodes)
2010–2011: Schloss Einstein (television series, 53 episodes, cast)
2014–2015: Große Fische, kleine Fische
2015: Nord bei Nordwest: Der wilde Sven
2017: Professor T.: Der perfekte Mord
2017: Das Joshua-Profil
2017–2018: Tatort: Die robuste Roswita
2018: Happiness is a warm gun (short film)
= Director
=1998: The Real Psycho (short film)
1997: Schrei leise (short film)
2009: Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten (soap, RTL)
2009–2010: Verbotene Liebe (soap, ARD)
2010–2011: Anna und die Liebe (soap, Sat.1, 14 episodes)
2010–2013: Alles was zählt (soap, RTL, 107 episodes)
References
Further reading
"Das Rote Sofa". Super TV. DAS! (in German). 2008.
"TV-Star rammt Wildsau". Bild am Sonntag. Leute (in German). 2008. p. 23.
External links
Matthias Paul at IMDb
Official website