Biography

Klaus Mikoleit was born in Berlin in 1945. He studied acting at Berlin's Max-Reinhardt-Seminar. In the course of his career Klaus Mikoleit was a company member of the Schauspielhaus Bochum (1969-1976), the Thalia Theater Hamburg (1976-1980), and the Staatliche Schauspielbühnen Berlin (1980-1986). He worked with renowned directors like Peter Zadek, Hans Neuenfels, Boy Gobert, Michael Verhoeven, and Boleslaw Barlog. In the early eighties he was discovered for film and TV after appearing in 'Die Geschwister Oppermann' (1981, director: Egon Monk), and in 'Die flambierte Frau' (1982, director: Robert van Ackeren), and he has since been working pre-eminently for these media, allowing himself occasional side-trips to the tearer, e.g. the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus in 1986 and the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg in 1992. A selection of his film- and TV-roles: 1981 'Das Ende vom Anfang' (movie feature, director: Christian Görlitz) 1982 'Die Hamburger - Krankheit' (movie feature, director: Peter Fleischmann) 1983 'Das Geschenk' (TV-feature, director: Marcus Scholz) 1985 'Killing Cars' , (director: Michael Verhoeven) 1986/87 'Die Losbergs' (TV-series, director: Karin Hercher u.a.) 1986 'Tatort - Schuldlos Schuldig' (TV-feature, director: Thomas Engel) 1986 'Wilder Westen inklusive' (3-part-TV-feature, director: Dieter Wedel) 1987 'Morgen in Shanghai' (TV-series, director: Hagen Mueller-Stahl) 1987 'Der gläserne Himmel' (movie feature, director: Nina Grosse) 1988 'Die Hexe von Köln' (TV-feature, director: Hagen Mueller-Stahl) 1989 'Büro, Büro' (TV-series, director: Ulrich König u.a.) 1989 'Marleneken' (TV-feature, director: Karin Brandauer) 1989 'Liebling Kreuzberg' (TV-series, director: Werner Masten) 1990 'Leo und Charlotte' (TV-feature, director: Kaspar Heidelbach) 1990 'Der Strohmann' (movie feature, director: Ulrich Stark)

1991 'Die Lok' (movie feature, director: Gerd Haag) 1991 'Endstation Harembar' (TV-feature, director: Rainer Wolffhardt) 1992 'Negerküsse' (TV-feature, director: Maria Theresia Wagner) 1993 'Silvesterparty' (movie feature, director: Perikles Hoursoglou) 1992-97 'Adelheid und ihre Mörder' (TV-series, director: Ulrich Stark u.a.) 1994 'Tatort - Endstation' (TV-feature, director: Hagen Mueller-Stahl) 1994-99 'Für alle Fälle Stephanie'(TV-series, director: Vera Loebner u.a.) 1995 'Große Freiheit' (TV-series, director: Christian Görlitz) 1995 'Die Grube' (documentary, director: Karl Fruchtmann) 1995 'Allein in der Welt' (Les Allumettes Suédoises), (3-part-TV-feature, director: Jacques Ertaud) 1996 'Frauen morden leichter' (TV-feature, director: Thorsten Näther) 1996 'Entre terre et mer' (6-part-TV-feature, director: Hervé Basle) 1997 'Zur Zeit zu Zweit' (TV-feature, director: Hanno Saul) 1998 'Abgehauen' (TV-feature, director: Frank Beyer) 1998 'Bella Block - Geflüsterte Morde' (TV-feature, director: Christian Görlitz) 1998 'Die Sternbergs' (TV-feature, director: Gloria Behrens) 1999 'Zum Glück verrückt - Eine unschlagbare Familie' (TV-feature, director: Klaus Rumpf) 2000 'Die Meute der Erben' (TV-feature, director: Ulrich König) 2001 'Der Verleger' (2-part-TV-feature, director: Bernd Böhlich) 2001 'Der letzte Zeuge' (TV-episode, director: Bernhard Stephan) 2003-04 'German History - Auschwitz and the Nazi-state' (BBC documentary, director: Detlef Siebert)
- IMDb mini biography by: Agentur Ute Nicolai, Berlin