Emerging from a mining family in Herne, West Germany, he pursued formal acting training at Munich’s Otto-Falckenberg-Schule from 1981 to 1984. After early roles such as Rudi Kipp in No More Mr. Nice Guy (1993), he gained wider recognition portraying the homeless Norbert von Au in the internationally acclaimed Run Lola Run (1998) and later embodying Hermann van Pels in the TV film Anne Frank: The W… Read more
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
Known for Run Lola Run 1998 The Postcard Killings 2020 Collide 2016 All About Me 2018 ★ 7.4 All About Me 2018
Willi ★ 7.4 Wonderfully Beautiful 2022
Wolfgang Abeck ★ 7.7 Gloomy Sunday 1999
László ★ 7 The Princess and the Warrior 2000
Walter Riemer ★ 7 Weekend Rebels 2023
Grandfather Gerd ★ 7.2 Silentium 2004
Sportpräfekt Fitz Series ★ 7.5 Anne Frank: The Whole Story 2001
Hermann van Pels ★ 6.9 Berlin Alexanderplatz 2020
Pums ★ 7.4 No More Mr. Nice Guy 1993
Rudi Kipp ("Kipp") ★ 7 Trick or Treaters 2007
Malente (voice) ★ 7.1 The Legend of Timm Thaler: or The Boy Who Sold His Laughter 2017
Narrator ★ 7.1 Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film 2018
Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum ★ 6.7 A Million Minutes 2024
Werner Küper ★ 6.7 Am I Beautiful? 1998
Robert Series ★ 6.6 Gotthard 2016
Knecht ★ 6.5 Confessions of Felix Krull 2021
Professor Kuckuck ★ 6.4 Nobody Loves Me 1994
Anton ★ 6.3 Soundless 2004
Viktor Series ★ 6.2 Polizeiruf 110 1971
Winter Series ★ 6 Rivals Forever - The Sneaker Battle 2017
Christoph Dassler ★ 6 Train Birds 1998
Hannes Weber ★ 5.8 Deadly Maria 1993
Dieter ★ 6.1 Rossini 1997
Jakob Windisch ★ 6.3 Maybe... Maybe Not 1994
Norbert Brommer ★ 5.6 Lost in Siberia 2012
Matthias Bleuel ★ 6 Tom Sawyer 2011
Muff Potter Series ★ 6.2 Scene of the Crime 1970
Frank Steier ★ 5.7 Henri 4 2010
Théodore Agrippa d'Aubigné ★ 6.1 Adam Resurrected 2008
Abe Wolfowitz ★ 6.3 The Postcard Killings 2020
Inspector Klaus Bublitz ★ 5 Bear's Kiss 2002
Groppo ★ 4.6 The Superwife 1996
Dr. Enno Winkel ★ 5.6 Collide 2016
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