Jonas Dassler

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Jonas Dassler (born March 22, 1996) is a German stage and film actor.[1]

Jonas Dassler at the Berlin Film Festival, 2019

Life

Dassler was born on March 22, 1996, in Remscheid, Germany.[1] Beginning in the eighth grade he participated in the theatre club at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt high school. After graduating in 2014, he started studying acting at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin.[2]

During the 2016 season he performed the lead role in Georg Büchner's Danton's Death at the Schaubühne in Berlin.[3] Since the 2017/18 season he has been a permanent cast member at the Maxim Gorki Theatre and appeared in several productions.[4]

Reviewing his film performance in LOMO–The Language of Many Others, Variety wrote that Dassler "show[ed] strong heartthrob potential".[5] In June 2018, it was announced that Dassler would star in Fatih Akin's Der goldene Handschuh (The Golden Glove) portraying the lead character, serial killer Fritz Honka.[6] His work earned him a German Film Awards nomination for Best Actor.[7]

Theater engagements

Filmography

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