Andreas Stenschke

July 26, 1975

Cologne, Cologne Government Region, Germany

He has a younger brother, Christian, born in March 1980. He later received a degree in television series producing and directing from the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in March 2006. He also worked intermittently as a teen-age model in pictorial layouts. After fulfilling his national service obligation at a senior citizen home in 1995 and 1996, he attempted various pursuits in production when, during a visit to the WDR Studios in 1997, he was discovered in the commissary by the head writer of Verbotene Liebe, which led to an audition for the show. In June 2009, Andreas Stenschke began a series of commentaries online at Ändis Wirre Welt. In October 2009, Andreas Stenschke began shooting his first motion picture as an actor, taking the lead role of Marek Feldmann in writer/director Romain Gierenz"s independent film, Das Plüschtier, also known by its English translation, The Cuddly Toy. Andreas Stenschke joined the European support for the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike with a video produced in Cologne in which he warned Americans not to give in and suffer the fate befalling foreign artists who do not enjoy a residual structure for royalties and reruns as Americans do. The next year, Stenschke joined 38,000 fellow European artists signing a petition for the furtherance of the protection of artists rights.

Andreas Stenschke

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Background

Stenschke was born in Cologne, Germany and moved shortly to the nearby suburbs, where his parents, Wolfgang and Marlene, had bought a home.

Education

Andreas was educated at the Gymnasium in Erftstadt Lechenich and graduated in 1995.

Career

He has a younger brother, Christian, born in March 1980. He later received a degree in television series producing and directing from the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in March 2006. He also worked intermittently as a teen-age model in pictorial layouts.

After fulfilling his national service obligation at a senior citizen home in 1995 and 1996, he attempted various pursuits in production when, during a visit to the WDR Studios in 1997, he was discovered in the commissary by the head writer of Verbotene Liebe, which led to an audition for the show.

In June 2009, Andreas Stenschke began a series of commentaries online at Ändis Wirre Welt. In October 2009, Andreas Stenschke began shooting his first motion picture as an actor, taking the lead role of Marek Feldmann in writer/director Romain Gierenz"s independent film, Das Plüschtier, also known by its English translation, The Cuddly Toy.

Andreas Stenschke joined the European support for the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike with a video produced in Cologne in which he warned Americans not to give in and suffer the fate befalling foreign artists who do not enjoy a residual structure for royalties and reruns as Americans do. The next year, Stenschke joined 38,000 fellow European artists signing a petition for the furtherance of the protection of artists rights.

Achievements

From an early age he was drawn to cinema and won several prizes as a youthful filmmaker, including one in 1996, which, among the rewards, sent him to the Atlanta Olympics, where he sent back video reports to the WDR.

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