1. Peter Kurth was born on 4 April 1957 and is a German actor.
11 Facts About Peter Kurth
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Peter Kurth won the 2016 German Film Award for Best Actor for portraying a former boxer diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in the drama film A Heavy Heart.
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Peter Kurth attended the state drama school in Rostock from 1978 to 1981.
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Peter Kurth then moved to Karl-Marx-Stadt, where he performed at Stadtisches Theater.
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In 1997, Peter Kurth joined the Schauspiel Leipzig in Leipzig, where he taught drama.
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Peter Kurth moved to Hamburg in 2000 to perform at the Thalia Theater.
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Peter Kurth joined the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin in 2006, and later transferred to the Stuttgart Drama Theater.
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Peter Kurth was named Actor of the Year by the German theater magazine Theater heute in 2014.
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Peter Kurth won the German Film Award for Best Actor, as well as the Deutscher Schauspielpreis, for the 2015 film A Heavy Heart in which he played Herbert, a boxer diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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Peter Kurth prepared extensively for the role, gaining 35 pounds in the months before filming to physically resemble a former boxer, before losing his newly gained weight over the course of the 35-day shoot to portray Herbert's ALS progression.
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In 2018, Peter Kurth was nominated for the Deutscher Fernsehpreis award for Best Actor, for his role as Detective Bruno Wolter in the German neo-noir television series Babylon Berlin.