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 he published his first book under the title "Undwiderstehlich" (Irresistible) at Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag. Since 2015 he has been writing regularly for the first German-Turkish online culture magazine "renk" columns. He organizes staged readings with self-written pieces (The Teacher and the Dervish, 2017) as well as events where boxing and theater is played (The Noble Art - fight night, 2016). One of his feature film screenplays (Fatherland) which he has written together with filmmaker Benjamin Hopkins was funded in 2018 by the German federal ministry of culture (BKM). In 2021 he has written a theatre play for "Ballhaus Naunynstraße" in Berlin. He also works in Kreuzberg as a boxing trainer for young people and adults.