Franz Dinda, actor
at Westwind on Friday, January 20
Franz Dinda was born in Jena, Germany in 1983. Shortly before the Wall fell, he fled from East Germany with his mother, a minister, to the Federal Republic of Germany. After graduating from school, he moved to Berlin, where he started out in small television and film productions. In 2004, he was exposed to a bigger audience while starring in the Max Ophüls Prize-winning film Am Tag Als Bobby Ewing Starb. In 2007, Franz Dinda won the German Television Award (category: Rising Star Award) for his impressive performance in the big-budget television film Blackout. He also received the German magazine Bunte’s New Faces Award for starring in Gregor Schnitzler’s Die Wolke.
For his lead role in Teenage Angst, Dinda received the Best Emerging German Film award at the 2008 Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival, which he also co-produced. He was honored with the Style Award for "Gentleman of the Year 2010" by German magazine Musikexpress. In 2010, Dinda published his first collection of poetry, Ein bilder Reimbuch Der Liebe, which includes illustrations by Armin Müller-Stahl, Norbert Bisky, Jonathan Meese, and Udo Lindenberg. Through his agency TCP (Taking Care of Passion), which he founded in 2011, he is in the process of organizing Reimklang, a musical reading tour. Along with his band and well-known German actress Anna Thalbach, Dinda plans to tour Germany at the end of 2012.
