Star interview with Florian David Fitz
When he turns, Florian David Fitz is compulsively planning. But in love, he likes to leave the direction to chance.
Photo: Bodo Rickassel
When I meet Florian David Fitz in the "Bayerischer Hof" in Munich, he enters the interview suite quite casually in a gray shirt, short pants - and barefoot. "Did you make yourself so chic for me?" He asks mischievously, examining my striped dress and slipping into his white canvas shoes. Meanwhile, Loki, his Jack Russell Terrier, whizzes around the room.
When he looks at the stylist, who is supposed to dust off the 38-year-old for the photos, he waves away: "It works without it!" Why he is reluctant to overshadow his scar on his nose and which was the most embarrassing chewing toy, the Loki has ever retrieved, he tells me in conversation ...
JOY: In your new tragicomedy "There's something going on", you're constantly hooking up with your dad. What is your private relationship with your parents?
Florian David Fitz: My mother is ten years younger than my dad, so as a child I had a closer relationship with her because her age was just closer to me. The relationship with my father is meanwhile also very good. When I was little, we did not understand each other so well for a while. And why was that?
The fact that I question authorities extremely - which is quite exhausting for a not-so-unauthorized person.
How important is your family?
Very important. I have a fairly close relationship with my parents and sister for outsiders. They all live in Munich. My sister and my brother-in-law have taken over the hotel of my parents here - and that is a decisive reason why I too live in Munich.
Do you also want family and children?
Sure, that would be nice, yes!
In the film you live briefly in a very unusual constellation with dad and son. Do you have private WG experience privately?
Yes, after graduation I went to America to study drama. There I lived in a dorm in Boston and had there almost the extreme variant of a shared flat. Three guys in a room ...
And this trio worked?
It went amazingly well. In the dorm I also started cleaning up for the first time to distinguish myself from the garbage mountains around me. Later I moved into a suburb with a buddy and a wife.
Was it neater there?
No not that. Once I had spent the summer in Germany and when I came back to our apartment and opened the kitchen cupboard, there was almost a love parade for maggots in progress.
When do you lose patience?
In traffic! At the wheel, many are yelling and yapping like dogs on a leash. I'm no exception.
Your scar on the nose does not come from a fight?
No, I've always slipped down the banister on our backs at home and then intercepted myself at a door. It was made of safety glass and kept me for years. But at the age of 15 I was probably too heavy! My parents wanted to celebrate their wedding anniversary and invite us to dinner.
But I blew up the party! I had to call her at work in the hotel and confess that it looks very bloody at home ...
Were you sewn?
Yes. After all, his nose hung on his upper lip. You can still see today that it was broken. But I think it's kind of silly when the scar for filming is covered.
Speaking of wedding anniversary. What would you consider to be the ideal setting for a marriage proposal?
I'm not the guy who would plan something like that. Romance emerges, everything that is staged is too artificial.
Are you generally a spontaneous type?
I plan a lot, but not emotional events. I can plan: Tomorrow I go on a trip, but to say: Tomorrow I will marry and it will be the best day of my life - that will be difficult. I also do not like New Year's Eve.
Everyone is under pressure because it has to be the best night of the year. That's why people often kill themselves on Christmas or New Year's Eve. Expectations are a killer! I try to take the pressure out! Three hundred years of meditation and I can do it too (laughs).
In the movie, you are pressured to revive the passion in your marriage. But at the candlelight dinner, your hair will catch fire. Did you ever experience a similar breakdown? In a romantic sense?
No, I did not have a penile fracture like Dieter Bohlen. But the scene in which my filmmaker's dog finds her dildo under the cupboard and chews on it, that really happened in my environment. Not my mother, though!
Are you often approached by fans when you go with your dog?
Rather photographed. For biking he usually sits in my bicycle basket. When we drive by coaches with Japanese, they all start to snap like crazy.
Next year in November you will be 40. Do you celebrate big?
You actually have to celebrate birthdays. For the past few years, I've always rented a cabin in the mountains for a weekend, which was terrific every time. I always tell my friends in the summer, so that everyone has time.
What do you want from your next decade?
Currently I'm in the phase in which I have just built a career. I feel like I'm standing on a surfboard, and now I have to watch how I can ride it. And I should also expect to fall into the water. Because that's part of surfing. I just do not know how to get this surf metaphor, I can not even wave (laughs).
You are an actor, screenwriter and director. What are your next projects?
I recently finished "Lies", a movie without a script. Very exciting experience. Currently I am writing a novel into a screenplay for the movie "Baby Talk". It's about a guy who can not do anything with kids, but suddenly has a baby talking to him - and he thinks he's going crazy. In addition, the movie version of "Doctor's Diary" is planned.
Are you a strict director?
You are dependent on your people and want them to bring a good performance and something of their own to the project. But: I am borderline compulsive, as far as accuracy is concerned. Do you act differently as an actor, if you have directed before? It's like driving: when I'm in the car, I have no sympathy for the cyclists - and vice versa (laughs).
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