Christian Steyer
Acting
Biography
Christian Steyer (*6. Dezember 1946 in Falkenstein, Vogtland, Sachsen) ist ein deutscher Schauspieler, Sprecher, Musiker und Filmkomponist. Der Sohn eines Pfarrers wuchs in Meißen, Grimma und Oschatz auf. Bereits als Kind spielte er Klavier und Orgel und erhielt Musikunterricht von seinem Vater, zudem sang er im Meißener Domchor. Mit dreizehn Jahren kam er in die Kinderförderklasse des Leipziger Musikkonservatoriums. Von 1965 bis 1970 studierte er Musik mit dem Hauptfach Klavier in Leipzig und Dresden bei Amadeus Webersinke; von 1970 bis 1972 schloss sich ein zweijähriges Schauspielstudium an der Staatlichen Schauspielschule Berlin an, das er mit der Bühnenreifeprüfung abschloss. Seit 1972 arbeitet er als freischaffender Schauspieler, Sänger, Pianist und Komponist. Seine erste Filmrolle spielte er 1972 in Es ist eine alte Geschichte; 1973 war er in Die Legende von Paul und Paula zu sehen. Ab Mitte der 1970er Jahre wurde Steyer auch als Komponist für Film- und Fernsehproduktionen tätig, zunächst 1974 für den Kinderfilm Der Untergang der Emma. Auch nach der deutschen Wiedervereinigung blieb Steyer weiter als Schauspieler und Film- und Fernsehkomponist erfolgreich. Seit 1993 ist er Lehrbeauftragter für Präsentation, Schauspiel und Sprecherziehung an der Hochschule für Musik „Hanns Eisler“ Berlin. Seit 2003 ist er Off-Sprecher der Doku-Soap Elefant, Tiger & Co. im Mitteldeutschen Rundfunk. Für seine Musik zum Kinder- und Jugendfilm Die Blindgänger wurde er beim Festival Goldener Spatz 2005mit dem Goldenen Spatzenfuß für die beste Filmmusik ausgezeichnet.
Known For
A missing child sets four families on a frantic hunt for answers as they unearth a mind-bending mystery that spans three generations.
Dark
Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.
Polizeiruf 110
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Riverboat
Wolffs Revier is a German television series.
Wolffs Revier
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Im Namen des Gesetzes
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Never Too Late for Justice
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Elefant, Tiger & Co.
A mysterious woman recruits bank teller Ludwig Dieter to lead a group of aspiring thieves on a top-secret heist during the early stages of the zombie apocalypse.
Army of Thieves
Danni Lowinski is a former hairdresser who has graduated in law. When she does not get a job at a law firm, she starts to give legal advice from the basement of a shopping mall.
Danni Lowinski
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Praxis mit Meerblick
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Der Bulle und das Biest
18-year old Georg and 13-year old Barbara have been playing together as children. Play becomes love later, which leads to a catastrophe , as their parents are hostile leading to file a report to the court, as Barbara is still under age.
Forbidden Love
When Micha's mother leaves his irascible father, he tries to prevent their divorce by any means he can think of, but his attempts to hold the family together lead to a catastrophe...
Child's Play
Europe 1990, the Berlin wall has just crumbled: Katrine, raised in East Germany, but now living in Norway for the last 20 years, is a “war child”; the result of a love relationship between a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier during World War II. She enjoys a happy family life with her mother, her husband, daughter and granddaughter. But when a lawyer asks her and her mother to witness in a trial against the Norwegian state on behalf of the war children, she resists. Gradually, a web of concealments and secrets is unveiled, until Katrine is finally stripped of everything, and her loved ones are forced to take a stand: What carries more weight, the life they have lived together, or the lie it is based on?
Two Lives
Hanna and Simon are in a 20 year marriage with an unexciting relationship. By chance, they both meet and start separate affairs with Adam. Adam has no idea that his two lovers are married, until they are all found out when Hanna becomes pregnant, with the natural doubts stemming from their situation.
Three
After he loses his job, his father, and his girlfriend, Jan's life is a shambles. Then suddenly he meets freakish street musician Vera, and a bittersweet romance unfolds...
Life Is All You Get
Hannes is a beer truck driver in Dortmund. His biggest dream is to win the first prize at the International Timetable Contest in Inari (Finland). When his new boss cancels his extra holidays to go there, Hans goes mad… On his journey to Finland by train, followed by the police, he meets lot of folks and the love of his life.
Train Birds
1934, Germany. Jan is a 13 year old boy, who is raised without a mother. His father, a communist, is accused of a political murder, and predicted to be shot by the police when he was on the run. Jan lives with his aunt and finds a friend, Max, who wants to help him to find out what really with his father happened. During a conspirative gathering Max is shot by SA (Nazi paramilitary) and Jan succeed to escape in a barge. Erika, the daughter of the captain of the barge, and a boatman hide him. They try to help Jan to escape from police and find his father, who really survived.
Jan on the Barge
Young journalist Sebastian Zöllner is writing an article on artist Manuel Kaminski. Zöllner hopes that Kaminski dies soon, so that he can cash in on his article.
Me and Kaminski
Paula, a young supporting character, studies at the Main Character School and dreams on graduating to become a lead.