Gerold Wunstel

Gerold Wunstel is more than just a pretty face. He is an avid collector of professions and cities, totaling eight different careers in ten cities in Europe and the U.S. Gerold was an almost autistic child, always sitting in the back of the class or lurking in the last row of movie theaters, spending endless hours watching films from around the world.As an adult, he planned to become a bank manager to follow in his father's footsteps, but instead used all his savings to buy a VW Bus to travel and see the world he knew only from films.In former West-Berlin, he worked as a security chauffeur for the German Government. He became involved with "Die Neuen Wilden" (a new expressionistic painting movement) in the early 1980s and began to paint and sell his work. He later moved to Munich to work with children afflicted with Downs Syndrome; lived in Hamburg where he volunteered in a hospital, worked in Detroit with abused teenagers, trained as a commercial pilot in Dallas, Denver and San Francisco; was certified as a British hot-air-balloon pilot; coached professional tennis, trained as an EMT in preparation for a firefighting career, which was interrupted by his success as a hand model. Gerold Wunstel worked as a Butler, Chauffeur, worked as a Realtor for several years; ran Marathons; opened a nightclub in Bavaria where he learned to chain smoke, and now resides in Los Angeles, where he works as an actor, hand model, screenwriter and producer.In addition to his native German, he speaks French and masters the Finnish sign language. Show less «