German actor Kai Wiesinger (1966) has appeared in several German TV shows and films since 1992. In Comedian Harmonists (1997) he played singer Erwin Bootz.
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German postcard by Senator Film. Photo: Jim Rakete. Kai Wiesinger in Comedian Harmonists (Joseph Vilsmaier, 1997).
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German autograph and promotion card by Maurice Lacroix Swiss Watches.
Kai Wiesinger was born in 1966 in Hanover, West Germany. Wiesinger began taking private acting lessons as a teenager. During his Zivildienst he served as a paramedic. After that, he became an acting student in Munich.
In 1990, he made his stage debut in the role of Harold in 'Harold and Maude' at the Bavarian State Theater. Since 1992 he appeared in several German TV shows and films.
He received a Bavarian Film Award for his role in Sönke Wortmann's comedy Kleine Haie/Little Sharks (1992). Two years later, he appeared in the Anglo-German independent drama Backbeat (Ian Softley, 1994) a film on The Beatles' formative period in Hamburg, starring Stephen Dorf and Ian Hart.
He then appeared in the hit comedy Der bewegte Mann/The Most Desired Man (Sönke Wortmann, 1994) starring Til Schweiger, Joachim Król, and Katja Riemann. The film was based on the comics by Ralf König.
He had a small part in the Norwegian film Pakten/Waiting for Sunset (Leidulv Risan, 1995), starring Robert Mitchum and Cliff Robertson. A huge success was Comedian Harmonists (Joseph Vilsmaier, 1997), which chronicles the rise and fall of Germany's most famous a capella group, the Comedian Harmonists, in 1930s Germany.
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German autograph card.
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German autograph card by Rüdel-Verlag, Hamburg. Photo: Mathias Bothor.
Kai Wiesinger played the lawyer of Dr. Josef Mengele (Götz George), known as the "death angel of Auschwitz" in the film Nichts als die Wahrheit/After the Truth (Roland Suso Richter, 1999) depicting the fictional trial of Mengele.
In 2001 followed a role in the second most successful Austrian film of all time, Poppitz (Harald Sicheritz, 2002), together with Roland Düringer and Marie Bäumer.
He also played Emil's father in the family film Emil und die Detektive/Emil and the Detectives (Franziska Buch, 2001), based on the classic novel by Erich Kästner.
He had a small part in the Television mystery Murder on the Orient Express (Carl Schenkel, 2001) based on the novel by Agatha Christie, featuring Alfred Molina as Hercule Poirot.
The following year, he played in the Italian Mini-Series Dracula/Dracula's Curse (Roger Young, 2002), starring Patrick Bergin. Other notable screen appearances he had in the Mini-series Dresden (Roland Suso Richter, 2006), set during the bombing of Dresden in World War II, and the film Bis nichts mehr bleibt/Until Nothing Remains (Niki Klein, 2010) depicting a story about Scientology and its effects upon converts.
More recently he appeared in the films Lucky Loser - Ein Sommer in der Bredouille/Lucky Loser (Nico Sommer, 2017), and the comedy Takeover (Florian Ross, 2020).
From 1998 till her death in 2013, Kai Wiesinger was married to actress Chantal De Freitas. They had two children.
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German autograph card. Photo: Thomas Leidig.
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German autograph card by Jaguar.
Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.
German postcard by Senator Film. Photo: Jim Rakete. Kai Wiesinger in Comedian Harmonists (Joseph Vilsmaier, 1997).
German autograph and promotion card by Maurice Lacroix Swiss Watches.
A chronicle of the rise and fall of Germany's most famous a capella group
Kai Wiesinger was born in 1966 in Hanover, West Germany. Wiesinger began taking private acting lessons as a teenager. During his Zivildienst he served as a paramedic. After that, he became an acting student in Munich.
In 1990, he made his stage debut in the role of Harold in 'Harold and Maude' at the Bavarian State Theater. Since 1992 he appeared in several German TV shows and films.
He received a Bavarian Film Award for his role in Sönke Wortmann's comedy Kleine Haie/Little Sharks (1992). Two years later, he appeared in the Anglo-German independent drama Backbeat (Ian Softley, 1994) a film on The Beatles' formative period in Hamburg, starring Stephen Dorf and Ian Hart.
He then appeared in the hit comedy Der bewegte Mann/The Most Desired Man (Sönke Wortmann, 1994) starring Til Schweiger, Joachim Król, and Katja Riemann. The film was based on the comics by Ralf König.
He had a small part in the Norwegian film Pakten/Waiting for Sunset (Leidulv Risan, 1995), starring Robert Mitchum and Cliff Robertson. A huge success was Comedian Harmonists (Joseph Vilsmaier, 1997), which chronicles the rise and fall of Germany's most famous a capella group, the Comedian Harmonists, in 1930s Germany.
German autograph card.
German autograph card by Rüdel-Verlag, Hamburg. Photo: Mathias Bothor.
The lawyer of the death angel of Auschwitz
Kai Wiesinger played the lawyer of Dr. Josef Mengele (Götz George), known as the "death angel of Auschwitz" in the film Nichts als die Wahrheit/After the Truth (Roland Suso Richter, 1999) depicting the fictional trial of Mengele.
In 2001 followed a role in the second most successful Austrian film of all time, Poppitz (Harald Sicheritz, 2002), together with Roland Düringer and Marie Bäumer.
He also played Emil's father in the family film Emil und die Detektive/Emil and the Detectives (Franziska Buch, 2001), based on the classic novel by Erich Kästner.
He had a small part in the Television mystery Murder on the Orient Express (Carl Schenkel, 2001) based on the novel by Agatha Christie, featuring Alfred Molina as Hercule Poirot.
The following year, he played in the Italian Mini-Series Dracula/Dracula's Curse (Roger Young, 2002), starring Patrick Bergin. Other notable screen appearances he had in the Mini-series Dresden (Roland Suso Richter, 2006), set during the bombing of Dresden in World War II, and the film Bis nichts mehr bleibt/Until Nothing Remains (Niki Klein, 2010) depicting a story about Scientology and its effects upon converts.
More recently he appeared in the films Lucky Loser - Ein Sommer in der Bredouille/Lucky Loser (Nico Sommer, 2017), and the comedy Takeover (Florian Ross, 2020).
From 1998 till her death in 2013, Kai Wiesinger was married to actress Chantal De Freitas. They had two children.
German autograph card. Photo: Thomas Leidig.
German autograph card by Jaguar.
Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.