Christian Kohlund

Christian Kohlund ( born August 17, 1950 in Basel ) is a Swiss actor.

Life

Kohlund is the son of actor Erwin Kohlund and Margrit winter. He trained at Vienna's Max Reinhardt Seminar and was subsequently involved in many theaters. Important milestones in his career were the Munich Residenz Theater, the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna, the Freie Volksbühne in Berlin, the Schauspielhaus Zurich and the German Ernst Theatre in Hamburg. The same time he studied in the English university town of Cambridge.

In addition to numerous theater tours Kohlund also worked in film distribution. He worked as a producer, director and cameraman and began his career during the 1970s as a television actor. At the beginning of his film career turned Kohlund some movies like The pedestrian with Maximilian Schell ( 1973) and The Bridge of Zupanja (1975) and was featured in the film The Chinese miracle in 1977 on the side of Heinz Riihmann and Senta Berger. In 1983 he played in the German - German tragicomedy Once Kurfürstendamm and returns the chef of the Swiss Embassy, located in a GDR citizen (played by Ursela Monn ) love and smuggle them to West Berlin.

Kohlund is found mainly in the light Genre: Besides thrillers and television films, he was often seen in entertainment series, including as Professor Vollmer in the ZDF series The Black Forest Clinic. These roles earned him a high reputation.

In the following years he worked as an actor in numerous television productions, including comedies like Happy anarchists or film series as Klinik unter Palmen. But even in thrillers such as Tenerife - day of vengeance or at any price, he played with. He has also appeared in television movies such as race to Bombay ( 1981), Deadly Money (1995 ), Confusion of the Heart (1997), The Girl of the stranger (1999), Julius Caesar (2002), Love, Lies, passions (2002) or with all my heart ( 2009).

Kohlund appeared repeatedly in series, film series and mini-series with, among others, in Anna Maria - A woman comes their way, under white sails, lawyer Abel, The Dream Hotel, The Alpine Clinic, island of dreams or in Rosamunde Pilcher films. In addition, he regularly has guest starred in popular German crime series such as Derrick or A Case for Two. Christian Kohlund was married to the Austrian actress Christine Buchegger. His third marriage, he went in 1982 with the former pop singer Elke Best, with whom he has two children.

Filmography (selection)