Acting

Johannes Rotter

Born

1960-06-06 (66)

Place of birth

Dortmund, Germany

Known for

Acting

Credits

26 titles

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 8 titles

Das große Comeback poster
4.0

Hansi Haller was a successful pop singer in the 1980s. But now that he only performs in Bauhaus and his fame has faded, he is struggling with life. Even his agents Swens and Dreher can't help him. There is the only Hansi Haller fan club in the Eifel village of Bad Böhlen. Its members are Erika Plausen and Irene Büggel. Erika receives a visit from her daughter Heike, who has just left her unfaithful boyfriend after his infidelity.

Das große Comeback

2011

Sources of Life poster
5.9

This is a family story that covers thirty years in the life of the Freytag family (narrated by the grandson, Robert). When his grandfather returns from Russia in 1949, he becomes part of the German "economic miracle" by producing garden gnomes. Klaus, Robert's father, wants to become a writer. He marries Gisela who almost immediately gets pregnant with Robert - but the marriage doesn't work. Both parents abandon the child, and Robert goes on living with both pairs of grand parents. While his father belongs to the 1968 generation that rebels against their fathers he falls in love with the neighbor's's daughter Laura.

Sources of Life

2013

Arschkalt poster
5.1

Rainer Berg is a frozen food delivery man who has been let down by life. He has withdrawn from the world in order to avoid emotional trauma. His outlook on life is shaken when he is assigned a new colleague, ex-hairdresser Moerer, who turns out to be a pain in the neck. "This van is too small for two!" But it's no use, Berg can only get rid of his annoying co-driver once he has turned him into a good salesman, according to the new boss. Team spirit is suddenly required from the cold-ass misanthrope Berg.

Arschkalt

2011

Partly Sunny poster
6.2

Two young guys in a bar hit on the woman they fancy by sending one of them over who tells her that the other one is terminally ill...

Partly Sunny

2012

Wir sind die Rosinskis poster
3.8

Peggy Rosinski lives in a shabby neighborhood in Frankfurt/Oder. The patchwork mom has three children, but only one of them is from her current husband Torben. She also works two different jobs to make ends meet and reduce her mountain of debt. Meanwhile, the eldest of the Rosinskis, Angelique, only hangs out with her new boyfriend Devid and the youngest, Finn, is teased by his classmates because of his family's poverty. When Torben loses his job, Peggy is at a loss. Her mother Angelika knows what to do, as she has been earning a few cents for years through illegal activities. But does Peggy really want to get involved in this kind of business?

Wir sind die Rosinskis

2016

Tessa Hennig - Mutti steigt aus poster
NR

During her holiday in Gran Canaria, the conservative Maria is overwhelmed by the future plans of her friends Sigrun and Elke.

Tessa Hennig - Mutti steigt aus

2013

Brezeln für den Pott poster
4.8

Two worlds collide when the thoroughbred Swabian Roland Reuter is transferred to Duisburg by his employer, the bakery Weckle. There he is supposed to bring the downsized company branch back into the black. For the solid employee an immense challenge - not least because his wife Sybille and pubescent daughter at home in the country has remained. Thus, Roland works hard from Monday to Friday to implement Swabian work ethic for his staff, who are endowed with typical Ruhr-pot-serenity.

Brezeln für den Pott

2014

Pommes Essen poster
6.7

It's all about the currywurst. In the unequal battle between a family business and a snack bar chain, Frieda, who runs the sausage stand inherited from her father with her three daughters, clearly has the worse cards, as she is nastily tricked by her own brother. Because Walter sneakily outmaneuvers his sister in the competition for catering at the stadium of the traditional club MSV Duisburg...

Pommes Essen

2012

2000s · 2 titles

Series credits

Scene of the Crime poster
6.2

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

Scene of the Crime

1970

Scene of the Crime poster
6.2

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

Scene of the Crime

1970

SOKO Köln poster
6.4

The SOKO Köln investigates the cathedral city with humor and often with hard work. Their cases take them into a variety of environments, from the Cologne clique to the terraced housing estates on the outskirts of the city.

SOKO Köln

2003

SOKO Köln poster
6.4

The SOKO Köln investigates the cathedral city with humor and often with hard work. Their cases take them into a variety of environments, from the Cologne clique to the terraced housing estates on the outskirts of the city.

SOKO Köln

2003

No artwork available
3.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Wache

1994

Pastewka poster
7.6

Pastewka is a German television sitcom that began airing on German TV channel Sat.1 in 2005. The series, currently in its sixth season, is set in Cologne, with German actor Bastian Pastewka starring as a fictionalized version of himself. It has been compared to Seinfeld and Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm. The series was awarded, among others, the Rose d'Or and the German Television Prize. Series was directed by Joseph Orr and Jan Markus Linhof.

Pastewka

2005

Homicide Hills poster
7.4

Mord mit Aussicht is a German satirical crime comedy television series, produced by ARD, following the adventures of Sophie Haas, a detective from the city that takes a job in the fictional country village of Hengasch. Much of the humour of the series derives from the clichés of both city and provincial lives, in a similar manner to the English comedy crime series Midsomer Murders.

Homicide Hills

2008

Here Comes Kalle poster
3.5

Da kommt Kalle is a German television series.

Here Comes Kalle

2006

Die Camper poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Die Camper

1997

Ritas Welt poster
5.9

Ritas Welt is a German television sitcom that premiered on RTL on 17 September 1999 and ended its run after five successful seasons on 19 December 2003. Starring Gaby Köster, the show was about a confident sales assistant, Rita Kruse; her fight with her self-righteous boss, Achim Schuhmann; and her life with her loving husband Horst and their two children, Sandra and Markus. Through it all, Rita is supported by her wacky best friend Gisi Wiemers.

Ritas Welt

1999

Alles Atze poster
7.3

Alles Atze is a German comedy television series which aired on RTL between 2000 and 2007. The series revolves around the fictional character Atze Schröder.

Alles Atze

2000

Der kleine Mönch poster
NR

Der kleine Mönch is a German television series.

Der kleine Mönch

2002

Was nicht passt, wird passend gemacht poster
4.8

Was nicht passt, wird passend gemacht is a German television series which is based on a 2002 movie with the same name.

Was nicht passt, wird passend gemacht

2003

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