Oliver Wnuk

Acting

Oliver Wnuk

Born 1976-01-28 · Konstanz, Germany

Oliver Wnuk is a German actor, author, and audio drama narrator, born on January 28, 1976, in Konstanz as Oliver Konrad Wnuk. He completed his acting training at the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding in Munich and celebrated his cinema debut in 2000 in the thriller "Anatomie" alongside Franka Potente, followed by roles in comedies like "Der Schuh des Manitu" (2001). He gained international fame through the role of the laid-back, scatterbrained Ulf Steinke in the ProSieben series "Stromberg" (2004–2012, including the feature film in 2014), which brought him his breakthrough. His further engagements include the chief detective Murat Alpay in "K3 – Kripo Hamburg" (2003–2007), Detective Chief Inspector Hinnerk Feldmann in "Nord Nord Mord" (since 2010), Thomas Zuhse in "Die Kanzlei" (2012–2019), as well as appearances in series like "Die LottoKönige" (2012–2015), "Der Bergdoktor" (2009), and films like "Das Leben ist kein Kindergarten". In addition, he is successful as an author with books like "Luftholen" (2013), children's books about "Kasi Kauz", and screenplays for TV films, and he narrates audio dramas; he weighs 68 kg at 174 cm tall, speaks fluent English and French, and resides in Munich.

Acting credits

Anatomy poster
6.1

Medical student Paula wins a place at an exclusive Heidelberg medical school. When the body of a young man she met on the train turns up on her dissection table, she begins to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death.

Anatomy

2000

Männertag poster
4.8

It's Men's Day, Men's Day, Father's Day, Ascension Day - many terms, one date, but always a reason to celebrate. Having just finished school, five Bavarian friends start a common tradition: Every year they want to get together on Men's Day and douse their friendship properly. But every good resolution eventually dies, and so after 20 years most of them lost contact.

Männertag

2016

Manitou's Shoe poster
6.8

Abahachi, Chief of the Apache Indians, and his blood brother Ranger maintain peace and justice in the Wild West. One day, Abahachi needs to take up a credit from the Shoshone Indians to finance his tribe's new saloon. Unfortunately Santa Maria, who sold the saloon, betrays Abahachi, takes the money and leaves. Soon, the Shoshones are on the warpath to get their money back, and Abahachi is forced to organize it quickly.

Manitou's Shoe

2001

Stromberg - Wieder alles wie immer poster
5.2

About twenty years ago, Germany got to know Bernd Stromberg and his team from the claims department at CAPITOL Insurance. Back then, there was nothing vegan in the cafeteria, and bullying and sexism were commonplace in the office. Since then, the world of work has changed enormously. But has Bernd Stromberg changed too?

Stromberg - Wieder alles wie immer

2025

Ein Schnupfen hätte auch gereicht poster
8.0

At the height of her career, the well-known comedy and TV star Gaby Köster suffers a serious stroke. However, the multi-award winning artist does not give up, fighting back despite many ups and downs.

Ein Schnupfen hätte auch gereicht

2017

Klassentreffen poster
5.3

It's been 25 years since they graduated from high school or could have done it if they had not left before, made honors rounds or simply failed. Now they meet again at the class reunion, the former best of class, the former genius, the ex-class brat, the ex-class-ass, in their mid-40s, and suddenly face the people with whom they dreamed their future life , But what actually happened in the meantime?

Klassentreffen

2019

Lautlose Tropfen poster
6.7

Franziska Wellmer has been happily married for several years and has a teenage daughter. At a class reunion, she celebrates 20 years of graduation with seven former schoolmates, but is drugged and raped. When she wakes up the next morning, she no longer knows what happened, only that something terrible has happened. When the police fail to make any progress in their investigation, Franziska investigates on her own and sets her sights on her seven classmates. One of them must be brought to justice.

Lautlose Tropfen

2019

Das doppelte Lottchen poster
6.6

Lotte and Louise meet at a summer camp. Everyone who sees the two falls open in surprise, the girls look so much alike. It doesn't take long before they find out that they are actually twins.

Das doppelte Lottchen

2017

Unter Umständen verliebt poster
3.6

25-year-old former model Steffi has everything that she considers necessary for a perfect future: a man who can support him financially, a beautiful home, and a pregnancy--albeit via sperm donation. Nobody's perfect, after all. But when she discovers that her husband is cheating on her, she is determined to find out more about the origins of her child. She is led to 26-year-old Tommi Gehrke's garden shed, where she finds her worst nightmare: the prototype of a total loser.

Unter Umständen verliebt

2012

U-900 poster
4.4

The year is 1944, Atze and Samuel occasionally operate on the black market, but mostly keep quiet and wait for the Americans to come. When the last German submarine, the U-900, is sent on a final mission, Atze foolishly messes with the general of this mission and has to go undercover. Together with his friend Samuel and the actress Maria, who disguises herself as a man for this purpose, he therefore smuggles himself onto the U-900 and pretends to be the captain. Since he has no idea about seafaring and gives increasingly strange orders, the crew soon becomes suspicious.

U-900

2008

Liebe auf Kredit poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Liebe auf Kredit

2007

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Solo ohne Ende

1992

Stromberg – The Movie poster
6.9

The celebration of the 50th anniversary of “Capitol-Insurance” is due – that's what the bosses thought. All employees are invited to join the party in a hotel. However, rumors say the company's not doing very well. To avoid unemployment due to the possible shutdown of the smaller branch office the only option is to move to the headquarters. Now that's the ultimate challange for Stromberg, who is notoriously trying to be the example of a department manager, gathering all of his employees behind him.

Stromberg – The Movie

2014

Es bleibt in der Familie poster
5.2

She wants an IUD and a baby: a mix-up at the gynecologist's appointment is the beginning of a nightmare come true for Lola, a young woman in her late forties: she is the frontwoman of a Berlin rock band and has not the slightest interest in a serious relationship, let alone a baby. But then, at Dr. Mertens' gynaecological practice, the fertilized egg of her daughter Marie, with whom she has had no contact for years, is accidentally implanted.

Es bleibt in der Familie

2018

29... and still a Virgin poster
7.0

Journalist Victoria gets a job at a youth magazine, where she was entrusted to the section of letters from teenagers asking questions about sex. Victoria's quite difficult to cope with it - because she... still a virgin! She need to solve this problem urgently! And the best candidate - Editor in Chief, handsome Nick. But how to tell him that he would be her first?

29... and still a Virgin

2007

Nägel mit Köppen poster
4.5

Pastor Petersen is threatened with the loss of his parish and thus also his office: The parishes of the villages of Norderup and Toestrup are to merge, but the stuffy neighbors are bothered by the fact that Petersen and his girlfriend are living in a wild marriage. Petra, a hearty Westphalian, refuses to be blackmailed and offers the bourgeois from Norderup a performance they will never forget. Meanwhile, her friends from the Ruhr are also looking for and finding their little happiness.

Nägel mit Köppen

2012

Soloalbum poster
5.5

Ben is a young editor for a famous german music magazine in the mid 90's. His life is falling apart after his girlfriend breaks up with him. From now on he decides to go solo...

Soloalbum

2003

Käse und Blei poster
NR

Like every year, Maike and her husband Sören invite family and friends over for New Year's Eve. This time, however, the raclette dinner turns out differently than the meticulously planned Maike had hoped: In addition to the cheese, all three couples sitting at the table reveal hard-to-digest truths and intimate secrets.

Käse und Blei

2019

Die Mauer – Berlin '61 poster
7.2

August 1961: To earn a bit of West German money, East Berlin "plaselayer" Hans Kuhlke smuggles scrap metal to his friend Erwin Sawatzke in West Berlin. One evening, he and his wife are invited to the Sawatzkes' house. Meanwhile, their son Paul stays with a friend in East Berlin. On this summer night, the political situation in Berlin comes to a dramatic head: the borders are closed and the construction of the Wall is initiated. The disappearance of his parents leaves 14-year-old pioneer Paul torn between family ties and loyalty to the party. At the last second, he sees through his role in the system and is taken in by his piano teacher. Together they plan their escape to the West - but it turns into a race against time.

Die Mauer – Berlin '61

2006

Lüg weiter, Liebling poster
5.2

"Hape" Wegener is an old hippie and has a lot of debts. At the cemetery he happens to meet the widow Martha Ebinghaus, who clearly comes from wealthy circles. Hape poses as a mysterious diplomat in order to gain the trust of the unstable Martha and then wants to reap financial benefits from it. Martha is fascinated by Hape and his stories and Hape's plan seems to be working.

Lüg weiter, Liebling

2010

Mein Schwiegervater, der Camper poster
6.0

There are fights, the taker qualities decide. Oliver Wnuk lets himself into a painful test in the lead role of the comedy "My father-in-law, the camper": To get his pregnant girlfriend's hand, he has to assert himself against her papa Hartmut, who openly wants someone else to be his bridegroom. Henning Baum embodies a grandiose macho patriarch who comes up with a few mean things to get rid of the unloved candidate.

Mein Schwiegervater, der Camper

2019

Friends of Friends poster
5.8

Dominik Graf relocates the story of the same name by Henry James from the 19th century to the year 2001.

Friends of Friends

2002

Männer häppchenweise poster
8.0

A former prostitute, now a rock-solid wife and mother, suddenly has to deal with two corpses, which she dissects for disposal gradually feeds to the family dog

Männer häppchenweise

2003

Alle nicht ganz dicht poster
5.8

What happens when “old” and “new work” collide? Barbara Lucke was the grand dame of the works council at Sander Versandhaus for decades. Now, after 30 years, she is unexpectedly voted out of office, loses her leave of absence and has to return to her old job as a former clerk shortly before retirement - in the department of her son Bastian, of all places, who as an up-and-coming department head wants and needs to impress with modern leadership.

Alle nicht ganz dicht

2024

Behind the camera

Das Leben ist kein Kindergarten poster
NR

While his wife Juliana commutes to Zurich as a doctor, Freddy is at home in Constance looking after their 13-year-old daughter Zoë and little Niko. Freddy believes that dropping out of medical school to work as a nursery teacher is the best decision of his life. When Juliana is offered the position of head of pediatric oncology, she wants to move to Zurich with the whole family. For her, this would mean an end to the exhausting commute, finally more time with her family and a higher income. Freddy, however, doesn't want to leave his familiar surroundings. Even he is not entirely without ambition in his poorly paid job, because Freddy has his own educational ideas - and has the prospect.

Das Leben ist kein Kindergarten

2020

Das Leben ist kein Kindergarten - Vaterfreuden poster
5.5

Freddy Kleemann from Constance, who has moved to Berlin involuntarily, doesn't get much of the capital city feeling. While his heavily pregnant wife Juliana feels abandoned by him, his business partner Lara wants more commitment from her daycare center. Not only do the children need to accept the innovative concept with quiet rooms more readily, but the parents' tempers are also running high, much to Freddy's chagrin. His father Fritz, who suffers from dementia, worries him greatly. Freddy senses that the joint search for the right facility could be the last conscious father-and-son project. Accordingly, he wants to take his time and savor the intense moments. Freddy's mother-in-law Regina is supposed to provide relief for the Kleemanns. She likes to be there for others, but would like to be pampered again herself. Perhaps a new acquaintance would do her good? That's what her grandchildren Zoë and Niko think when they secretly register their grandma on a dating platform...

Das Leben ist kein Kindergarten - Vaterfreuden

2023

Das Leben ist kein Kindergarten – Umzugschaos poster
1.0

Freddy and his wife Juliana leave the comfort zone of Constance and move to Berlin. With Grandpa Fritz in tow, the Kleemanns move in with Grandma Regina. Unlike his sister Zoe, little Niko is happy to be living with his grandparents. While Freddy and his trusted colleague Lara finally want to implement their own concept as daycare center managers, Juliana sees an unexpected stop sign in her career as a doctor: she is unplanned pregnant! Now a difficult life decision has to be made: a third child does not fit into the current family and couple concept of two full-time professionals.

Das Leben ist kein Kindergarten – Umzugschaos

2021