Career
After his studies at Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts in Munich, Arnd Klawitter joined the ensemble of the Munich Kammerspiele in 1994 for a year. From 1995 until 2001 he was engaged at Staatstheater Stuttgart, where he mostly played the leading man, est g. Andri in Max Frisch"s Andorra.
Since 2001 he has worked as a freelance artist.
As guest he has worked at important theatres like the Schauspielhaus Zürich and Bavarian Staatsschauspiel in Munich. During the RuhrTriennale 2007 he appeared in the first night of Juli Zeh"s Corpus delicti.
Since leaving acting school he has also worked for both television and cinema frequently. He appeared next to Franka Potente in lieutenant"s a Jungle Out There (1995), and in the 1997 remake of Es geschah am hellichten Tag (lieutenant Happened in Broad Daylight).
He also appeared in the German movie Hitlerkantate in 2005.
While in international productions he has only been cast in supporting roles, in his German films he has played leading characters, too. Klawitter is often chosen to play in historical films because of his slightly old fashioned appearance that can be compared to that of Ralph Fiennes. On television he is frequently cast in crime series like the famous Tatort-series (Scene of the Crime) where he has appeared in three episodes so far, or - recently - Der Bulle von Tölz.
In 2007 he appeared in GG 19, a film inspired by and called after the German constitution (Grundgesetz).