Christian Redl

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Christian Redl
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Redl in 2009
Background information
Born (1948-04-20) 20 April 1948 (age 76)
Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein, Allied-occupied Germany
Occupations
  • Actor
  • narrator
  • singer
Years active1986–present

Christian Redl (born 20 April 1948) is a German actor and singer.

Contents

Life

Christian Redl is the son of a teacher. He grew up in Kassel, trained from 1967 to 1970 at the Schauspielschule Bochum and was then engaged in theatres in Wuppertal, Frankfurt, Bremen, and Hamburg, where he worked with Claus Peymann, Luc Bondy, and Peter Zadek. In 1986, he starred in his first big role in a cinema production, which is Uwe Schrader's Sierra Leone  [ de ]. He became well-known in the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s for films by Bernd Schadewald, especially for his lead role in the 1990 TV film Der Hammermörder  [ de ], for which he earned the Grimme-Preis and for the 1994 film Angst  [ de ], for which he was nominated for a Telestar award.

Along with his theatre work, there were more TV productions, in which he worked with Matti Geschonneck holding a special place: Der Rosenmörder, Ein mörderischer Plan, and Späte Rache. Two more cinema productions were Lea directed by Ivan Fíla and The Trio  [ de ] directed by Hermine Huntgeburth. He also starred as Generaloberst Alfred Jodl in the 2004 Oliver Hirschbiegel film Downfall . Redl also played abysmal figures in the German film Tattoo directed by Robert Schwentke and in the ZDF police film series Nachtschicht by Lars Becker. He is regularly seen in cinema and TV productions, especially in TV thrillers like the ZDF series KDD – Kriminaldauerdienst and in international films like Krabat by Marco Kreuzpaintner and Die Päpstin by Sönke Wortmann. At the Hamburger Kammerspiele, he starred in Kunst and Der Totmacher , and at the St.-Pauli-Theater in the Dreigroschenoper , in Sonny Boys, and in Arsen und Spitzenhäubchen. In the spring of 2009, he starred in Tod in der Eifel, a TV film directed by Johannes Grieser, and in Der Tote im Spreewald. Since 2006, Redl starred as the laconic and lonely commissioner Thorsten Krüger in the ZDF crime series Spreewaldkrimi, playing in Spreewald, where the aftermaths of which are sporadically filmed. In 2013, he won the German Academy of Television award for best supporting actor for his role in Marie Brand und die offene Rechnung.

He also works as an audiobook speaker and musician.

Christian Redl had been dating actress Maja Maranow for many years. He is the stepbrother of actor Wolf Redl.

Selected filmography

Selected radioplays

Discography

Literature

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