Albrecht Abraham Schuch (born 21 August 1985) is a German actor. He is the recipient of several accolades, including four

German Film Award The German Film Award (), also known as Lola after its prize statuette, is the national film award of Germany. It is presented at an annual ceremony honouring cinematic achievements in the Cinema of Germany, German film industry. Besides being ...

s, a

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, and a

German Television Award The Deutscher Fernsehpreis (''German Television Award'') is an annual German award for television programming, created in 1999, by German television channels Das Erste, ZDF, RTL and Sat.1. It was created to be an equivalent to the Emmy Awards, th ...

. He was nominated for a

BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role Best Actor in a Supporting Role is a British Academy Film Awards, British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to recognise an actor who has delivered an outstanding supporting performan ...

for his performance in ''

All Quiet on the Western Front ''All Quiet on the Western Front'' () is a semi-autobiographical novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental trauma during the war as well as the detachme ...

'' (2022).

Early life

Schuch was born in 1985 in

Jena Jena (; ) is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in Germany and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 in ...

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. He is the younger brother of actress

Karoline Schuch Karoline Schuch (born 19 October 1981) is a German actress. She has appeared in more than 50 films and television shows since 2002. She is the sister of actor Albrecht Schuch. Selected filmography * '' Zeiten ändern dich'' (2010) * ''Men Do ...

. He studied acting at the

University of Music and Theatre Leipzig The University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig () is a public university in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. Founded in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn as the Conservatorium der Musik (Conservatory of Music), it is the oldest univ ...

from 2006 to 2010.

Career

Schuch made his film debut in

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's ''Westwind.'' In 2012, he played his first film starring role as

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Detlev Buck Detlev Buck (; born 1 December 1962 in Bad Segeberg) is a German film director, actor, producer and screenwriter. Life and work Buck made his first short film, ', in 1982, and his first feature, '' Karniggels'', in 1991. He often makes cameo a ...

's ''

Measuring the World ''Measuring the World'' () is a novel by German-Austrian author Daniel Kehlmann, published in 2005 by Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek. The novel re-imagines the lives of German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss and German geographer Alexander von Humbo ...

'' based on

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in two categories as lead and supporting actor at the same award ceremony. In 2020, he won both awards for the films ''

System Crasher ''System Crasher'' () is a 2019 German drama film directed by Nora Fingscheidt. Plot The nine-year-old Bernadette, known as “Benni”, is considered aggressive and wayward. If anyone but her mother touches her face, she lashes out – a conse ...

'' and ''

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''. Two years later, he won again as Best Actor for the Film '' Dear Thomas''. In 2023 he won the German Film Award as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in ''

''.

Filmography

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Schuch, Albrecht 1985 births Living people Actors from Jena People from Bezirk Gera German male film actors German male television actors 21st-century German male actors Male actors from Thuringia