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Herbert Knaup

Acting

Born March 23, 1956 · Sonthofen, Germany

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Biography

Herbert Knaup is a German film and television actor. He is perhaps best-known to international audiences for his supporting roles in Run Lola Run and The Lives of Others. Longtime companion of actress Natalia Wörner until 2001. Supports the SOS Children's Villages. Started a career as musician with his two nephews in their band "Neffen und Knaup" (Nephews and Knaup) (2007). Founding member of the German Screen Actors Guild. After graduating from the Otto Falckenberg School, the Academy of Performing Arts in Munich, he made his stage debut in 1978.

Awards & recognition

  • Bavarian Order of Merit · 2014
  • Bavarian Culture Prize · 2010
  • Bavarian TV Awards · 2010
  • Bavarian Film Awards · 1994

Filmography12 titles

The Lives of Others

2006as Gregor Hessenstein

Run Lola Run

1998as Father

In Darkness

2011as Ignacy Chiger

Move

2012as Dinas Vater

Under Suspicion

as Georg Zechner

Hotel Desire

2011as Hotel Manager

Ordinary Decent Criminal

2000as De Heer

Polizeiruf 110

1971as Hermann Denninger

Scene of the Crime

1970as Andreas Franke

Agnes and His Brothers

2004as Werner Tschirner

Anatomy 2

2003as Professor Müller-LaRousse

Homecoming

2012as Bürgermeister