Til Schweiger

Schweiger is the rare star who treats filmmaking as a full craft rather than a star vehicle. Known in Germany for Manta, Manta and Knockin' on Heaven's Door, he broke internationally with Inglourious Basterds, but the detail I admire is his insistence on directing, writing, editing, and producing through his own Barefoot Films. That is the appetite of a genuine cinema obsessive, not a vanity dabbler. He has been working since the early nineties and shows no sign of ceding control, and I respect performers who refuse to be passengers in their own careers. A true workhorse of European cinema.

Name (English)

Til Schweiger

Name (Japanese)

ティル・シュヴァイガー

Reading

てぃる・しゅゔぁいがー

Born

December 19, 1963 (age 62)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Rabbit

Origin

Freiburg im Breisgau, Freiburg Government Region, Germany

Occupation

actor / film director / screenwriter / film producer / film editor

Awards & achievements

• Romy
• 2013 Order of Karl Valentin
• 2010 Berliner Bär
• 2014 Herbert Strate Award

• Official sitehttp://www.tilschweiger.de/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/tilschweiger/
• Xhttps://x.com/TilSchweiger
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Til%20Schweiger
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AC%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57391

Tags

• Freiburg Government Region
• actor
• film director
• screenwriter

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.