Matthias Paul (born 15 July 1964 in

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) is a German actor, singer and director.

Life and career

Matthias Paul has been living in

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since 1972. After school, he completed an apprenticeship as an aircraft mechanic at Berlin-Schönefeld Airport. Later he went to the television of the GDR and worked as the first

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. From 1987 to 1991 he studied at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts, Berlin. In 1996, he attended the ''Actors Workshop'' with Eric Morris in

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. Paul works as an actor and presenter. He also speaks audiobooks and was on stage as a singer of chansons and love ballads. In 1999, he played a major role in the action series "'". Since 2009 he works as a director for television, increasingly for

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s, and has directed some 300 episodes (up to 2019). He is married since September 2006, lives in Pritzwalk and Berlin and has 3 children.

Theatre

* 1994: '' Romeo & Julia'' ( Kleist-Theater Frankfurt (Oder)) * 1993: ''

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'' (Kleist-Theater Frankfurt (Oder)) * 1993: ' (Kleist-Theater Frankfurt (Oder)) * 1993: ''Exekutor 14'' (Kleist-Theater Frankfurt (Oder)) * 1992: '' Leonce & Lena'' (Theater Kampnagel

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) * 1992: ''Der Cassernower'' (Kleine Bühne ''Das Ei'' at Friedrichstadt-Palast Berlin) * 1992: ''

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'' (Kleist-Theater Frankfurt (Oder)) * 1992: '' Frühlingserwachen'' () * 1991: '' Das Wintermärchen'' ( Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz Berlin) * 1989: ''Der Lohndrücker'' ( Deutsches Theater Berlin)

Filmography

Actor

* 1991: ' * 1992: ''Zorc-Tim'' * 1993: ''Fahrschule Kampmann'' * 1994: ''Feuerbach'' * 1995: ''Coeur pour coeur, dent pour dent'' * 1995: ' * 1995: ''Eine Frau wird gejagt'' * 1995: ''Kinder der Nacht'' * 1996: ''Boom Baby Boom'' * 1996: ' * 1996: ''Hollister'' * 1997: ''Die Geliebte'' (television series): ''Jedes Ende ist ein neuer Anfang'' * 1997: ''Lisa Falk, Anwältin'' * 1997: ''Ritter der Lüfte'' * 1998: ''Einfach Klasse…'' * 1998: '' Medicopter 117 – Jedes Leben zählt'' (television series): ' * 1998: ''

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'' (television series): ''Der Ausbrecher'' * 1999–2000: ' (television series, 23 episodes) * 1999: '' In aller Freundschaft'' (television series, 5 episodes, ) * 1999–2002: ''

Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei ''Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei'' ("Alarm for Cobra 11 – The Highway Police") is a long-running, popular German television series about a two-man team of highway police (Autobahnpolizei), originally set in Berlin and since 1999 in ...

'' (television series, 3 episodes, including ''Vater und Sohn'') * 2003: ''Der Zauberstein'' * 2003: ''Ei verbibbsch'' * 2003: '' Die Rosenheim-Cops'' (television series): ''Die sündige Sennerin'' * 2004: ' * 2004: '' Sabine!'' (television series, 7 episodes) * 2004: ''Sharia-Gods Law'' * 2004: '' Siska'' (television series): ''Zuerst kommt die Angst'' * 2006–2007: ''

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'' (soap, 82 episodes) * 2007: '' Spielzeugland'' * 2007–2008: ''

Rote Rosen ''Rote Rosen'' (Red Roses) is a German telenovela produced by Studio Hamburg Serienwerft Lüneburg and broadcast by Das Erste Das Erste (; "The First") is the flagship national television channel of the ARD association of public broadcasti ...

'' (soap, 16 episodes, ) * 2008–2009:

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: ' (series, 6 episodes) * 2010–2011: ''

Schloss Einstein ''Schloss Einstein'' is a long-running, popular German television series which is designed as a teenage soap opera. It portrays the lives of teenagers in Schloss Einstein (Castle Einstein), a fictional boarding school. The intended audience is 1 ...

'' (television series, 53 episodes, ) * 2014–2015: ' * 2015: ': ' * 2017: '' Professor T.'': ''Der perfekte Mord'' * 2017: ' * 2017–2018: ''

Tatort ''Tatort'' ("Crime scene") is a German language police procedural television series that has been running continuously since 1970 with some 30 feature-length episodes per year, which makes it the longest-running German TV drama. Developed by ...

'': ' * 2018: ''Happiness is a warm gun'' (

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)

Director

* 1998: ''The Real Psycho'' (short film) * 1997: ''Schrei leise'' (short film) * 2009: ''

Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten ''Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten'' ("Good Times, Bad Times"), often abbreviated ''GZSZ'', is a long-running German television soap opera, first broadcast on RTL in 1992. The programme concerns the lives of a fictional neighborhood in Germany's ...

'' (soap, RTL) * 2009–2010: ''

Verbotene Liebe ''Verbotene Liebe'' (, "Forbidden Love") was a German television soap opera created by Reg Watson for Das Erste. The show was set primarily in the German city of Düsseldorf although, at times, the city of Cologne and the Spanish island of Ma ...

'' (soap, ARD) * 2010–2011: '' Anna und die Liebe'' (soap,

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, 14 episodes) * 2010–2013: ''

Alles was zählt ''Alles was zählt'' ("All That Matters") is a German television soap opera first broadcast on RTL on 4 September 2006. Plot The original plot revolved around Diana Sommer's dream to become a world class ice skater. She fell in love with Jul ...

'' (soap, RTL, 107 episodes)

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Paul, Matthias German directors German male stage actors German male television actors German male actors Male actors from Berlin 20th-century German male actors 21st-century German male actors German television presenters 1964 births Living people