Mathias Herrmann (born 16 July 1962 in Friedberg,

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) is a German

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. He studied acting from 1983–86 at the rewarded Otto-Falckenberg-School in

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. Parallel to his studies he already played at the

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. His film debut he had given in 1987 in Ralf Huettner's successful movie ''The Girl with the Lighters''. After this, he had many engagements at theatres in Bremen,

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and

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, where he played many leads in which he excited the audience, a.o. ''Prinz von Homburg'', ''Clavigo'', '' Der Stellvertreter'' and ''Ghetto''. He got international attention with the lead role of captured German soldier Beck in the Dutch WW2 series ''De Partizanen (The Partisans)'', which received many awards and was nominated for an emmy. Shortly after this he also had a successful outcome in television in the

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series ''

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''. Millions of people were watching him in the role of ''Dr. Johannes Voss''. Since then Mathias Herrmann was playing leads in many successful and awarded German TV movies, like ''Messerscharf'' (Angeliki Antoniou), ''E-mail an Gott'' ( Bernd Böhlich), ''Sperling'' (Peter Schulze-Rohr), ' ( Christoph Schrewe), ''

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'' (

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), ''Das falsche Opfer'' (Ulrich Stark) and Dieter Kehler's film version of

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's ''Land der Sehnsucht''. He has performed readings from authors such as Villon, Goethe and Schiller, Hebel and Brecht, Agota Kristof and Robert Gernhardt for many years.

Filmography

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1962 births Living people German male television actors German male stage actors 20th-century German male actors 21st-century German male actors People from Friedberg, Hesse {{Germany-tv-actor-stub