Christian Redl
Christian Redl (born April 20, 1948) is a German actor and singer. 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". 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", for which he earned the Grimme-Preis and for the 1994 film "Angst", 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 "Das Trio" 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.