Media Appearances and Acting
Campino has a high media presence, both as spokesman of Die Toten Hosen and as an individual. He has appeared on numerous television talk shows since the mid 1980s, commenting on a wide variety of social and religious issues. NDR television made a documentatary of his life and beliefs that they screened within their weekly 'Gott und die Welt' (God and the world) show in 2001.
Campino has acted as a journalist on several occasions. In 1994 German magazine Der Spiegel printed his interview with then Youth Minister Angela Merkel in which he asked her about her experiences with drugs, alcohol and pop music. In 1993 he asked Paul McCartney similar questions. He interviewed Joe Strummer, singer of The Clash for SZ magazine in August 2001, one year before Strummer died.
Campino has performed as an actor on several occasions. In 1986 he played a significant role in the movie 'Verlierer' by Bernd Schadewald and in 1990, he played a punk in the early evening television serial 'Der Fahnder'. In 1992, he played the lead role in the comedy 'Langer Samstag' by Hanns Christian Müller, alongside Gisela Schneeberger, Dieter Pfaff, Ottfried Fischer, Jochen Busse and others.
Apart from a small role in the play A Clockwork Orange in Bad Godesberg in May 1998 for which Die Toten Hosen also wrote the soundtrack, he had his theatre debut playing the role of Mack the Knife in Bertolt Brecht’s “Dreigroschenoper” (engl. ‘The Threepenny Opera’) from August to October 2006, with Gottfried John, Katrin Saß, Birgit Minichmayr and Maria Happel. The play was directed by Klaus Maria Brandauer and staged at the Admiralspalast (engl. ‘admiral’s palace’) theatre in Berlin.
Campino was voted one of the 100 most significant Germans in a audience poll by ZDF German TV in 2003. He was ranked 65th of the 300 people nominated. In 2006 he presented a Echo music award for extraordinary achievements to Bob Geldof on behalf of the German recorded music industry.
Campino has supported the Regine Hildebrandt School in Birkenwerder since December 2006 with special emphasis on campaigns against racism.
He played the lead role in Wim Wenders’ movie Palermo Shooting (2008), which premiered in Germany on 20 November 2008.
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