Stefan Weinert
Born in Cologne, Germany, in 1964, Weinert launched his career in 1986 when he took on a leading role in the play Tchaikovsky. After numerous successful theater productions, he decided to shift his focus. In 1991, he graduated as a master student of Axel Manthey and Klaus Zehelein from the renowned University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where he studied stage and film design and received a Magister Artium degree. Weinert moved to Barcelona in 1991 and worked as an art director and set designer, including at opera houses such as the Vienna State Opera and the Cologne City Opera.
In 1995, he appeared in front of the camera for the first time in Manuel Poll's film Pan in Barcelona, where he discovered his passion for film. After brief intermissions and camera acting classes in New York, Geneva, and Vienna, he moved back to Germany in 1997, where he worked as a film actor.
In 2001, he appeared in his first international film, The Musketeer alongside Catherine Deneuve and Tim Roth. In 2004, he co-starred with Patrick Swayze, Michael Clarke Duncan, and Val Kilmer in George and the Dragon, and in 2006 he was in a supporting role alongside Tom Hardy and Rutger Hauer.
In 2017, he made his debut as the antagonist Colonel Maier in the Spanish film The Chessplayer. In 2018, he played the Mauthausen commander in the film The Photographer of Mauthausen with Mario Casas, and in 2020, he appeared in the series Tell Me Who I Am as Ulrich Jürgens.
In 2021, he played the role of Otto Bachmann, a character based on a true figure, known as the most dangerous man in Europe, who is hunted by survivors of the Mauthausen concentration camp, Blanca Suarez, Oscar Casas, in the Spanish Netflix series Jaguar. This was followed by the Brazilian series Passport to Freedom, based on the true story of Aracy de Carvalho who helped Jews obtain visas to flee to Brazil, alongside Sophie Charlotte and Rodrigo Lombardi.
In 2023, Weinert took on the role of the antagonist Friedrich Schneider in the Spanish TV production Operation Barrio Ingles.
In addition to his acting work, he has been working as a director and producer of short films and documentaries since 2000, representing the Federal Republic of Germany at international film festivals. On February 8, 2009, his first 90-minute documentary Gesicht zur Wand premiered at the Volksbühne Berlin, with Weinert being responsible for the book, production, and direction. He was supported by the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial. Gesicht zur Wand was awarded the "highly recomended" predicate and "Documentary of the Month" by the Wiesbaden Film Evaluation Center on October 9, 2009.
On August 23, 2013, his second cinema documentary Die Familie premiered at the Festival des Films du Monde in Montreal, with Weinert once again responsible for the book, production, and direction. The film was awarded the "highly recomended " predicate and "Documentary of the Month" by the Wiesbaden Film Evaluation Center on July 31, 2013. In 2022, his documentary Verlorene Kinder about forced adoptions in the former GDR premiered on RBB German television.
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