Volker Zack

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Volker Zack, born in Dresden, aspired to an artistic career at an early age, whether it was the family theatre performance in his parents' living room at the Wilden Mann, or the musical training as a flutist and cellist. He gave ample space to the youthful urge for renewal and change in his bands "Bonbon", "Duesan Rapid" and "Fehlschicht", and with the latter he overthrew the GDR regime with his song "Generalstreik". From 1996 to 2001 he studied at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts. Just three years later, the TV station Sat.1 broadcast his own comedy show "Zack - Comedy nach Maß", in which he performed around 1500 sketches in five seasons. He played at the "St. Pauli Theater" e.g. in "Lord von Barmbeck" or "Die Dreigroschenoper", and in Bad Hersfeld at the Summer Festival the Fool in Shakespeare's "Wie es euch gefällt". At the Comödie Dresden he played Hans Pfeiffer in "Die Feuerzangenbowle" in over 100 performances. In the cinema he was the Stasi typewriter expert in "Das Leben der Anderen", the soldier Edgar Wallace in Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" and the hairdresser Hoppe in "König Ludwig II". In "Grand Budapest Hotel", directed by Wes Anderson, he played the prison inmate Günther alongside Ralph Fiennes, Harvey Keitel and Edward Norton. In 2016 he was in Bolivia with Werner Herzog to shoot the film "Salt & Fire". The highlight of his life, according to Zack, was visiting a smoke sauna in Finnish Lapland. "I'll never forget that, naked Finns in Finland, unbelievable!" last update 2023

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