DOMINIK MARINGER was born in Innsbruck in 1978 and grew up in Upper Austria. He attended the music grammar school in Linz and studied violin and piano at the Bruckner Conservatory. Afterwards he studied acting at the University of Music and Theatre in Hamburg. He was a member of the ensemble at the Schauspielhaus Graz and the Schauspiel Hannover, and was also a guest at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, the Schauspielhaus Zürich, the Schauspiel Dresden and the Stadttheater Bern. For the past few years he has been living in Berlin as a freelance actor and works primarily for film and television now, occasionally also for theatre and radio. He is known for his appeareances in "M - a city hunts a murderer", in the Viennese Tatort, as a continuous investigator in the ZDF series "Der Kommissar und der See", in the feature film "Die Känguru Verschwörung", in the ORF/ ARD movie "Steirerrausch" and in many other productions.