Born and raised in Magdeburg (Germany), Frank Giering gained first stage experience as a background actor at the former known "Maxim-Gorki" theatre Magdeburg". During this time the desire arose to become an actor even though he said at a later time, that this desire was mainly animated due to his hunger to get visible and noticed combined with the unrealistic belief to get more interesting for the womankind.
Nevertheless he started his studies at the "Westfälischen Schauspielschule Bochum" (Germany) but changed short time after to the "Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen" (HFF) in Potsdam Babelsberg (Germany). But again he felt quite uncomfortable with the education methods. Some exercises led him to his physical and mental limits. Furthermore he failed on his teacher's demands to "fill up the space of the theatre". As he realized that he clenched more and more as soon as he got instructions to "give more" or to become "louder" he decided to break off. In front of the film camera - he was able to live out his own belief of acting which was the opposite of the requirements at school. He loved to reduce and to express feelings solely by glances and a minimum of gestures and facial expression. According to his teachers in the theatre he was only able to catch the first row. But now he met the facility - not to gain the last rows by broaden himself - but to bring them closer using the camera. At last he felt like coming home. With his first role he gained the attention of the Austrian director Michael Haneke, who cast him for two of his productions. After the Kafka adaption The Castle (1997), Giering starred the cine film Funny Games (1997). With the figure of the sadistic murderer he became popular over night.
The final breakthrough followed 1999 with his performance as Floyd in Gigantic (1999) by Sebastian Schipper, a small but particular film about friendship, longing and farewell and a very last but magic night in Hamburg. For a short time he was announced as one of the promising up-and-coming actors of Germany. Comparisons were drawn with James Dean, much less due to similarities in visual nature but due to an aura of "lostness" and lonesomeness which both actors surrounded.
Frank Giering died on 23th of June 2010. The official cause of dead is given by multiple organ failure due to an acute bilious colic. On 9th of July 2010 he was buried at the "Neustädter Friedhof" in Magdeburg (Germany).
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as Receptionist
2010
as Hans Sittler
2009
as Thomas
2009
as Thomas Schaller
2008
as Kommissar Klaus Wendt
2008
as Franz
2008
as Oberst Sprüngli
2007
as Thomas Hudetz
2006
as Kommissar Henry Weber
2006
as Dieter Wittmann
2006
as Doorman #1 of KitKat-Club
2006
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2006
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2005
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2005
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2004
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2004
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2004
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2004
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2004
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2003
as Sven
2003
as Philosoph
2003
as Paul
2003
as Kai Wegner
2003
as Rudi (Wurstverkäufer)
2002
as Vincent
2002
as Andreas Baader
2002
as Norman Bleich
2002
as Junger Mann
2001
as Nick
2001
as Dr. Fischer
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as Psychopath Mark Stettner
2000
as Nicki
2000
as Alex Feldkamp
2000
as Nick
2000
as Jan
2000
as Edwin
2000
as Rochus
2000
as Gregor
1999
as Floyd
1999
as Benny Zucker
1998
as Locke
1998
as Sven Gardener
1998
as Henrik Jr.
1998
as Frank Wolters
1998
as Helmut Kluge
1998
as Jörg Blahacek 'Ingenieur'
1998
as Jörg Blahacek, Ingenieur
1998
as Siegfried Schwender
1998
1998
as Self
1998
as Minaichmis
1997
as Alexander Bürkel
1997
as Artur
1997
as Peter
1997
as Philipp Armbruster
1996
as Günther
1996
as Stefan Zeranski
1996
as Hans-Joachim Schneider
1996
as Ziegler
1994
as Joseph Herzfeld
1994
as Wolf Gotschlich
1994
as Jens Wohlbrück
1994
as Ulrich Baring
1993
1992
as Stefan Träger
1981
as Rolf Fürst
1981
as Albert Becker
1977
as Joachim Horst
1971
1971
as Gregor Karolewski
1971
as Louis
1970
as Herr Heymann
1970
as Markus Engel
1951
as Self