# Ronald Zehrfeld

Ronald Zehrfeld (German:; born 15 January 1977) is a German actor. His movie roles include Barbara (2012), Inbetween Worlds (2014), and Phoenix (2014).

## Career

Zehrfeld made his film debut in 2005 with a lead role in Dominik Graf's The Red Cockatoo. He starred in the comedic pirate movie 12 Paces Without a Head directed by Sven Taddicken where he played the role of the pirate Klaus Störtebeker.
In 2010, he played a major role as an idealistic Berlin police detective in Dominik Graf's elaborate and critically acclaimed television ten-part series Im Angesicht des Verbrechens. In 2011 he works with Graf again in the crime drama "Cassandra's Warning" (2011) from the series Polizeiruf 110, this time in an unfamiliar role as a murderous villain, and in the TV crime drama The Invisible Girl. He also takes supporting role in Matthias Glasner's TV mystery thriller The Hour of the Wolf (2011).
In 2012 he starred in Christian Petzold's Barbara, which won Silver Bear for Best Director at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival. The film was selected as the German entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.
In 2014 Zehrfeld appeared in several movies. In Dominik Graf's historical film Beloved Sisters he played Wilhelm von Wolzogen, a college friend of the main character Friedrich Schiller, it was selected as the German entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards, but was not nominated. In the war drama Inbetween Worlds he appears as a German soldier in Afghanistan, who falls into a crisis of conscience. The children's film The Pasta Detectives [de] shows him as a new resident of an apartment building in which there are mysterious happenings. He also starred in Christian Petzold's postwar drama Phoenix alongside Nina Hoss; the movie received universal acclaim from critics.
Zehrfeld won the 2016 German Film Award in the category Best Supporting Actor for his role in Lars Kraume's history-thriller film The People vs. Fritz Bauer.

## Selected filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 2005 | Goldjunge | Ronny | Stephan Schiffers [de] | Short film |
| 2006 | The Red Cockatoo [de] | Wolle | Dominik Graf | |
| 2008 | The Wall: The Final Days [de] | Dirk Faber | Thomas Berger [de] | TV film |
| 2008 | At Any Second [de] | Ben Weissner | Jan Fehse [de] | |
| 2009 | 12 Paces Without a Head | Klaus Störtebeker | Sven Taddicken [de] | |
| 2010 | The Frontier [de] | Robert Klaars | Roland Suso Richter | TV film |
| 2010 | Im Angesicht des Verbrechens | Sven Lottner | Dominik Graf | TV miniseries |
| 2010 | In the Jungle | Frank Sperber | Elmar Fischer [de] | TV film |
| 2011 | Polizeiruf 110 - Episode: "Cassandras Warnung" [de] | Gerry Vogt | Dominik Graf | TV series episode |
| 2011 | Cracks in the Shell | Joachim | Christian Schwochow | |
| 2011 | Die Stunde des Wolfes [de] | Tom Faller | Matthias Glasner | TV film |
| 2011 | The Invisible Girl [de] | Niklas Tanner | Dominik Graf | TV film |
| 2012 | Barbara | Dr. André Reiser | Christian Petzold | |
| 2012 | Shores of Hope [de] | Matthias Schönherr | Toke Constantin Hebbeln [de] | |
| 2013 | The Impossible Crime [de] | Kommissar Gödicke | Stephan Wagner [de] | TV film |
| 2013 | Finsterworld | Tom | Frauke Finsterwalder | |
| 2014 | Lose My Self [de] | Roman | Jan Schomburg [de] | |
| 2014 | Inbetween Worlds | Jesper | Feo Aladag | |
| 2014 | The Pasta Detectives [de] | Simon Westbühl | Neele Vollmar [de] | |
| 2014 | Beloved Sisters | Wilhelm von Wolzogen | Dominik Graf | |
| 2014 | Phoenix | Johnny Lenz | Christian Petzold | |
| 2014 | The King's Surrender | Kevin | Philipp Leinemann [de] | |
| 2015 | Tannbach | Konrad Werner | Alexander Dierbach [de] | TV miniseries |
| 2015 | The Pasta Detectives 2 [de] | Simon Westbühl | Wolfgang Groos [de] | |
| 2015 | The People vs. Fritz Bauer | Prosecutor Karl Angermann | Lars Kraume | |
| 2015 | The Burglar | Michael | Hagar Ben-Asher | Israeli co-production |
| 2016 | Sag mir nichts [de] | Martin | Andreas Kleinert [de] | TV film |
| 2016 | Manhunt: Escape to the Carpathians [de] | Sven Schröder | Dominik Graf | TV film |
| 2017 | Redemption Road | Richard Kornitzer | Matthias Glasner | TV film |
| 2017 | SS-GB | Captain Hans Hesse | Philipp Kadelbach | TV miniseries/2 episodes |
| 2018 | The Silent Revolution | | Lars Kraume | |
| 2019 | Sweethearts | Frank | Karoline Herfurth | |
| 2020 | Babylon Berlin | Walter Weintraub | | TV miniseries/12 episodes |
| 2020 | Barbarians | Berulf | | TV miniseries/2 episodes |
| 2023 | Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert | | Margarethe von Trotta | |

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result |
| 2006 | Undine Award | Best Debut, Male | The Red Cockatoo | Nominated |
| 2006 | New Faces Award | Actor | The Red Cockatoo | Nominated |
| 2011 | Grimme-Preis | Fiction | Im Angesicht des Verbrechens | Won |
| 2012 | Deutscher Filmpreis | Best Actor | Barbara | Nominated |
| 2013 | Baden-Baden TV Film Festival | Best Performance | The Impossible Crime [de] | Won |
| 2013 | German Film Critics Association Award | Best Actor | Barbara | Nominated |
| 2013 | Jupiter Award | Best German TV Actor | The Invisible Girl | Won |
| 2014 | Grimme-Preis | Fiction | The Impossible Crime [de] | Won |
| 2016 | German Film Award | Best Supporting Actor | The People vs. Fritz Bauer | Won |