Jonas Dassler


Jonas Dassler is a German stage and film actor.

Life

Dassler was born on March 22, 1996, in Remscheid, Germany. Beginning in the eighth grade he participated in the theatre club at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt high school. After graduating in 2014, he started studying acting at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin.
During the 2016 season he performed the lead role in Georg Büchner's Danton's Death at the Schaubühne in Berlin. Since the 2017/18 season he has been a permanent cast member at the Maxim Gorki Theatre and appeared in several productions.
Reviewing his film performance in LOMO–The Language of Many Others, Variety wrote that Dassler "show strong heartthrob potential". In June 2018, it was announced that Dassler would star in Fatih Akin's Der goldene Handschuh portraying the lead character, serial killer Fritz Honka. His work earned him a German Film Awards nomination for Best Actor.

Theater engagements

Filmography