Martin Brambach (born 28 October 1967) is a German actor. He grew up in Dresden, East Berlin and Hamburg. After attending Westfälische Schauspielschule drama school in Bochum, Brambach was engaged at

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Schauspiel Köln Schauspiel Köln is a theatre and company in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It forms together with the Cologne Opera and other houses the Bühnen der Stadt Köln (Stages of the city of Cologne). The listed building has 830 seats in the ...

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Vienna (company member from 1989 to 1999) and

Schaubühne The (Theatre on Lehniner Square) is a famous theatre in the Wilmersdorf district of Berlin, located on the Kurfürstendamm boulevard. It is a conversion of the ''Universum'' cinema, built according to plans designed by Erich Mendelsohn in 192 ...

Berlin. He appeared in more than one hundred films since 1988. He played minor roles in the

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-winning films ''

The Lives of Others ''The Lives of Others'' (, ) is a 2006 German drama film written and directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck marking his feature film directorial debut. The plot is about the monitoring of East Berlin residents by agents of the Stasi, Ea ...

'', '' The Counterfeiters'' and ''

The Reader ''The Reader'' () is a novel by German law professor and judge Bernhard Schlink, published in 1995. The story is a parable dealing with the difficulties post-war German generations have had comprehending the Holocaust; Ruth Franklin writes th ...

'', and worked with internationally known directors like

Michael Haneke Michael Haneke (; born 23 March 1942) is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. His work often examines social issues and depicts the feelings of estrangement experienced by individuals in modern society. Haneke has made films in French, Ge ...

and

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. Brambach lives in

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with actress Christine Sommer, her daughters and their son. He is the step brother of

Jan Josef Liefers Jan Josef Liefers (born 8 August 1964) is a German actor, producer, director and musician. Life Liefers was born in Dresden, the son of director Karlheinz Liefers and actress Brigitte Liefers-Wähner. After his apprenticeship he studied at th ...

Filmography

*1993: ''Das Geheimnis'' .... Walter Rosner *1997: '' Comedian Harmonists'' *1999: ''Kubanisch rauchen'' .... Polizist *1999: ' *2002: ''Sophiiiie!'' .... Mann mit Toupet *2003: ''Ravioli'' .... Grocer *2003: '' Anatomie 2'' .... Vorstopper *2003: '' Good Bye, Lenin'' .... Stasi 1 *2003: ''Struggle'' .... Martin *2003: ''Adam & Eva'' .... Erik *2003: ''

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'' .... Reini, Manu's brother *2003: ''MA 2412 - Die Staatsdiener'' *2004: ''About a Girl'' .... Igor *2005: ' .... Kähler *2006: '' Goldene Zeiten'' .... Hotelmanager *2006: '' Klimt'' .... Thomas *2006: ''

'' .... Einsatzleiter Meyer *2006: '' Where Is Fred?'' .... Johansen *2007: ' .... Scharrer (segment "Artikel 11") *2007: '' The Counterfeiters'' .... Hauptscharführer Holst *2007: '' Yella'' .... Dr. Fritz *2008: ' .... Gewehrverkäufer *2008: ' .... Gauredner *2008: ''

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'' .... Redakteur Henze *2008: ''

'' .... Remand Prison Guard #1 *2009: '' Barfuß bis zum Hals'' .... Helmut Steiner *2009: ''Diamantenhochzeit'' .... Manfred *2009: ' .... Journalist *2010: '' Tag und Nacht'' (''Day and Night'') .... Kai *2011: '' Avé'' .... Truck-driver *2011: '' 4 Days in May'' .... Oberleutnant Wendt *2012: '' A Coffee in Berlin'' .... Kontrolleur Jörg *2012: ''Nothing but Women'' .... Cornelius Berger *2013: ''Harms'' .... Timm *2013: '' The Almost Perfect Man'' .... Henssler *2014: ' .... Herr Hiller jr. *2014: ''Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain'' .... Ted *2016: ''Frauen'' .... Rüdiger Kneppke *2018: ''

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'' .... Captain Gennady Shirokov (Kursk) *2018: ''25 km/h'' *2020: ''Lindenberg! Mach dein Ding'' .... Herm Television *1988: ''

Mother Courage and Her Children ''Mother Courage and Her Children'' () is a play written in 1939 by the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), with significant contributions from Margarete Steffin. Four theatrical productions were produced in Switzerland and ...

'' (TV Movie) .... Schweizerkas *1997: '' The Castle'' (TV Movie) .... Schwarzer *2004–2006: ''

SOKO Wismar ''SOKO Wismar'' is a German police procedural television series that premiered on 6 October 2004 on ZDF. It is the fifth offshoot of '' SOKO München'', launched in 1978 under the name ''SOKO 5113''. "SOKO" is an abbreviation of the German word ...

'' (TV Series) .... Kriminaloberkommissar Winfried 'Winnie' Scheel *2007–2010: '' KDD – Berlin Crime Squad'' .... Thomas Behrens *2012–2014: ''

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'' .... Dr. Metzler *1999–2020: ''

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'' .... Kommissariatsleiter Peter Michael Schnabel *2017: '' Schuld nach Ferdinand von Schirach'' (''Guilt'')

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* 1967 births Living people Male actors from Dresden German male film actors German male television actors {{Germany-film-actor-1960s-stub