Atilla Oener

Atilla Oener is a Turkish born German theater and movie actor, writer and boxing trainer. He grew up in Duisburg / Marxloh / Germany, and graduated from high school there. He then studied economics at the Duisburg University, and financed his studies as a bartender and later also as a doorman. Until 2001 he was in charge of his older brother Ahmet's professional boxing route. Instead of boxing professionally himself, he quit his studies at the age of 25 and became an actor. In 2005 he completed his acting studies at the "Theater of cellar" in Cologne with distinction. In the second year of his studies he played in the city theater of Neuss. Later this was followed by a beginner's engagement at the "Rheinisches Landestheater Neuss" and various film and television roles in Germany and Turkey. He has been living in Berlin since 2008 as a father of three and plays in the "Ballhaus Naunynstrasse", "Atze Musiktheater" and "Wolfgang Borchert Theater" (in Münster), among others. In June 2012 h