Gunter Singer
Günter Singer (born June 7, 1967 in Mürzzuschlag, Austria als Günter Bayer) is an Austrian-American actor, writer and former professional kickboxer and K1-Fighter.
Career[edit]
Growing up in Veitsch, Austria, Singer started Kickboxing in the early 1980s. As an amateur he won the Austrian Championships and the European Championships in 1988. In 1989 he took 2nd Place at the World Championships in Graz, Austria.[1] In the following year he turned professional and in his 10th bout he won the International Muay Thai Federation (IMF) World Cruiserweight title[2] via 1st round KO against Dutchman Mark Holland.[3]
Leaving Austria for the United States, Singer lived and fought out of Los Angeles, California. He retired from competition 11 years later, with a record of 39 wins - 8 losses - 2 draws (29 KO), after the K1-World Grand Prix 2001 in Las Vegas, Nevada, in which he beat Paul Lalonde and lost to Maurice Smith.[4]
His career in film started as an actor in the award winning film Jail Caesar,[5] alongside Derek Jacobi, John Kani and Alice Krige. The film was shot over several years in the prisons of Cardiff, Wales and Pollsmoor, South Africa. Pollsmoor is also one of the prisons in which Nelson Mandela was incarcerated. Filming took place in the midst of the inmates and with their cooperation. Jail Caesar won 1st place at the 2013 Berlin Independent Film Festival.[6]
Next came the role of a French Foreign Legionnaire dealing with his war time trauma, in Shingetsu,[7]
He also worked on Resolve: A Guide To Post Traumatic Growth, a documentary about traumatized soldiers and civilians, and their search for healing, co-writing the script and consulting production.[8]
Singer lives in Los Angeles, California.
External links[edit]
- Gunter Singer on IMDb
- Jail Caesar Official website
- Jail Caesar (aka StringCaesar) Winner at Berlin Independent Film Festival 2013
- British Film Council: Shingetsu
- Shingetsu screening at Goldsmith Film University, London 25 Feb 2014
- Jakarta International Film Festival, Special Jury Prize for Alice Krige in Shingetsu
- Resolve: A Guide To Post Traumatic Growth
- Ax Muay Thai / Kickboxing Forum - Gunter Singer, November 4, 2003
- K-1 World Grand Prix 2001 - Singer vs Lalonde
- K-1 World Grand Prix 2001 - Singer vs Smith
- K1USA - IKF
- Gunter Singer Biography: Life at the Limit - Mein Bezirk am 31. Juli 2013 (German)
- Günter Singer - World Champion Kickboxer, IMF Cruiserweight - Austrian newspaper article, December 1991, Veitsch 12/1991 (German)
- OEBFK - Austrian Amateur Kickboxing Organization - European Championships 1988, Results (German)
References[edit]
- ↑ OEBFK - Austrian Amateur Kickboxing Organization - European Championships 1988, Results (German)
- ↑ Günter Singer - World Champion Kickboxer, IMF Cruiserweight - Austrian newspaper article, December 1991, Veitsch 12/1991 (German)
- ↑ Gunter Singer Biography: Life at the Limit - Mein Bezirk am 31. Juli 2013 (German)
- ↑ K-1 World Grand Prix 2001 Las Vergas - IKF
- ↑ Jail Caesar Official website
- ↑ Jail Caesar (aka StringCaesar) Winner at Berlin Independent Film Festival 2013
- ↑ British Film Council: Shingetsu
- ↑ [1] Resolve website
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- Male kickboxers
- 1967 births
- American male film actors
- Writers from Los Angeles, California
- 21st-century American male actors
- 21st-century American writers
- Austrian emigrants to the United States
- Austrian male film actors
- Kickboxers from California
- Heavyweight kickboxers
- Male actors from Los Angeles, California
- People from Styria
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