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Jan Josef Liefers - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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Jan Josef Lifers - biography, date of birth, place of birth, filmography, clips, Actor, Director, Composer, Writer, Producer.
Born August 8, 1964, Dresden - German actor, director, screenwriter, producer, composer.
After leaving school, from 1983 to 1987, he studied at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art in Berlin. From 1987 to 1990, he was an actor at the Deutsche Theater, after which he moved to the Thalia Theater in Hamburg. His first film role was Alexander von Humboldt in the German film The Rise of the Director de Chimborazo in 1989.
In 1998, Yang began his career as a singer.
Jan has played some minor film roles, but in 1996 he made his first appearance in Helmut Dietl's Rossini - or the killer question, who slept with whom ?, receiving a Bavarian Film Award for his role as Bodo Krignitz. In 1997, he achieved worldwide recognition by starring in the cult film Knocking on Heaven directed by Thomas Yan. As a result, he was honored with roles in several German films. Yang also played the role of a pathologist in the TV series "Crime Scene" in 2002.
Jan Lifers is a big fan of motorcycles and in 2007 decided to make a 10 thousand kilometers trip from Quito (Ecuador) to Patagonia in South America. His journey was interrupted due to injury. In 2008, a film about the trip entitled "70 ° West - Interchange in Peru" was shot, which was shown on the German TV channel DMAX.
In the German detective series Crime Scene, Lifers played the role of Professor Karl Friedrich Borne, director of the Institute for Forensic Medicine and Forensic Science at the University of Munster.
