Marc Bischoff

Acting

Marc Bischoff

Born 1969-01-01 · Berlin, Germany

Marc-Michael Bischoff (born 1969 in Berlin) is a German actor. Bischoff grew up in Bochum and studied music and acting from 1987 to 1991 at the Detmold University of Music, as well as at Studio TIP Berlin—the former master class of the Academy of Arts of the GDR. From 1993 onwards, he worked at various theaters—including those in Celle, Zittau, Dresden, Cologne, and Berlin—before shifting his focus increasingly to film productions starting in 2000. Since the mid-1990s, he has appeared in numerous feature films and television movies. His most well-known works include roles in *Run Lola Run*, *Good Bye, Lenin!*, *Enemy at the Gates*, *(T)Raumschiff Surprise – Periode 1*, *Alles auf Zucker!*, *Taxidermia*, and *Pope Joan*. In 2008, Bischoff returned to the theater stage for the Berlin Festival production *Hommage à Klaus Nomi*, directed by Ulrike Ottinger, in which he portrayed the singer Klaus Nomi. In addition to his work as an actor, he also participates in radio drama productions. Furthermore, he plays the guitar and the cello. Bischoff lives in Berlin and, at times, in southern Norway.

Acting credits

Enemy at the Gates poster
7.4

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

Enemy at the Gates

2001

Run Lola Run poster
7.3

Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. She has 20 minutes to raise this amount and meet Manni. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola's run.

Run Lola Run

1998

Good Bye, Lenin! poster
7.5

Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack.

Good Bye, Lenin!

2003

(T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1 poster
6.2

Hundreds of years after humans have settled on Mars, Regulator Rogul and Lord Jens Maul, lead a force of Martians to Earth in order to conquer the planet. Queen Metaphor looks to the gay heroes aboard the spaceship Surprise -- Captain Kork, Mr. Spuck, and first engineer Schrotty -- for help.

(T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1

2004

Taxidermia poster
6.6

Three stories. Three ages. Three men. Grandfather, father, son. One is an orderly, one is a leading sportsman, and one is a master taxidermist. One desires love, the other success, and the third immortality.

Taxidermia

2006

Aimée & Jaguar poster
6.8

In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women – one a Jewish member of the underground, the other an exemplar of Nazi motherhood.

Aimée & Jaguar

1999

Murder Sisters poster
5.0

After 20 years in prison, the former angel of death at Lainz hospital has been released, and she now works in the Prater amusement park, at a restaurant that specializes in roast knuckle of pork. Observing the guests and how they behave reawaken old emotions, and she poisons a pork knuckle to punish the happy people. The movie audience can use their remote control devices to decide who dies.

Murder Sisters

2011

Amour Fou poster
6.5

Heinrich wishes to conquer death through love, and when he meets Henriette, the wife of a business acquaintance, she expresses interest in a suicide pact when she learns she has a terminal illness.

Amour Fou

2014

The Golden Goose poster
5.5

Simpleton is a poor carpenter's apprentice. Everyone makes fun of his naivete. His greatest wish is to make the sad Princess happy. When he gets a Golden Goose as a gift, he resolves to give it to the Princess...

The Golden Goose

2013

The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes poster
6.3

Dark fairytale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transforming her into a mechanical nightingale.

The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes

2005

Max and Moritz Reloaded poster
2.8

Max and Moritz are two young brothers living an adventurous life of petty crime in Hamburg, Germany. After the two boys steal a car and get into an accident, with the adolescent daughter of a Hamburg Senator sitting in the passenger seat, the two scoundrels are packed up and sent to a boot camp. This military-style camp is run by Axel and Henry, two former East German soldiers who still strongly believe in Communism but are secretly gay lovers. Max and Moritz steal another car...a red Ferrari owned by small-town pimp Murder-Hanne. The nationalistic sadist teaches the boys a painful lesson, but Max and Moritz wouldn’t be Max and Moritz if they let this weekend-fascist get them down... and when they acquire the key to their military school’s ordinance depot, things start to change.

Max and Moritz Reloaded

2005

Nick Knatterton – Der Film poster
7.5

Little Berthold Wettelsteck is an avid comic book reader and is particularly fond of the comic book hero Nick Knatterton's stories. Until the story suddenly becomes reality and he suddenly finds himself in it.

Nick Knatterton – Der Film

2005

Die Entbehrlichen poster
6.3

Jacob tries to hide the suicide of his father because he is afraid to have to live in an orphanage.

Die Entbehrlichen

2009