--- name: "Andreas Pietschmann" canonical: "https://film.one/person/andreas-pietschmann" roles: ["Actor"] born: "22 March 1969" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-17T13:45:50.891503+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Andreas Pietschmann Actor. Born 22 March 1969 in Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 22 March 1969, Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Pietschmann, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125338, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0682960/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1073985 ## Coming up - *The Wild Between Us* (2027-02-10), as Liam - *The Last Druid* (2027-06-24) ## Streaming the US now - **Netflix:** [*Dark*](https://film.one/tv/dark.md) (80) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Andreas Pietschmann > Pietschmann is the man who walks in knowing more than everyone else and says as little as he can get away with. In *Dark* that was exactly the job, and he did it well; we have seen too little of the rest to say more. He arrives in *Dark* (2017) with a hood, a hotel room and a book about time, and for a long while that is all we are given. Everyone else in Winden is running, shouting or writing things down; Pietschmann's Stranger has already done the sums and is waiting for the others to catch up. It is a part built on withholding, and he plays it without the smirk that usually comes with a character who knows how things end. We found ourselves waiting for his scenes in the first season, not because he did much in them but because, in a town where every adult was behaving badly out of fear, he was the only one who seemed to have a plan. Our own review called the people in *Dark* pieces on a board, and he is not exempt: the part gives him a function more than a life, and he fills the function. He came to television late, by television standards. He trained in Bochum from 1993 to 1996 and spent the next decade on stage, at the Schauspielhaus Bochum and then the Thalia in Hamburg, before turning to film and television in 2007, the year a lead in the series *GSG 9* got him noticed at home. There were episodes of *Tatort* and *Polizeiruf 110*, the German crime series most working actors there pass through, and film parts before and after: *Sonnenallee* (1999), *Belle and Sebastian* (2013). Then Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar cast him as the Stranger across three seasons, and a working German character actor became a name people abroad could place. Friese and bo Odar went back to him for *1899* (2022), where he plays Eyk Larsen, another man carrying information the series doles out slowly. We have not reviewed it and will not judge it here, but the casting tells you how he is seen. He has said as much himself: "I have a penchant for mysterious material because I like it when viewers are challenged." The risk for an actor of this kind is that the withholding becomes the whole performance. *Dark* protected him from that because the writing kept every promise it made; a lesser puzzle would leave him standing in a hotel room looking meaningful. *Nuremberg* (2025), in which he plays Rudolf Hess, suggests he is at last being asked for something else: a real man in a real room rather than a figure in a hood. We would like to see what he does when he is not the one holding the book. ## Biography Andreas Pietschmann is a German stage, film and television actor. He was born on 22 March 1969 in Würzburg, Bavaria. Pietschmann trained at the drama school in Bochum from 1993 to 1996 and held engagements at the Schauspielhaus Bochum and the Thalia Theater in Hamburg until 2007, after which he focused on screen work. He has also appeared at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin. He is known for his role as The Stranger in the Netflix series *Dark* (2017–2020) and as Eyk Larsen in *1899* (2022). Other credits include *Belle and Sebastian* (2013) and the film *Nuremberg* (2025). Pietschmann lives in Berlin with actress Jasmin Tabatabai. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Dark* (2017), Fi1m 80, as The Stranger — [page](https://film.one/tv/dark.md) ## Complete filmography (94) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *The Last Druid* (2027), Acting - *The Wild Between Us* (2027), as Liam - *Banksters* (2026), series, as Dr. Jakob Kaiser - *Unfamiliar* (2026), series, as Jonas Auken - *The Three Investigators: Isle of Death* (2026), as Professor Phoenix - *Nuremberg* (2025), as Rudolf Hess - *Colonius* (2025), as René Horvath - *After the Very End* (2024), as Cais Müller - *Magdalena Hausen: Frozen in Time* (2024), as Andreas Werder - *The Investigation* (2024), as Zeuge 37 - *Survive* (2024), as Tom - *Farah* (2024), as Herr Kron - *The Shadow* (2023), series, as Wolfgang Balder - *1899* (2022), series, as Eyk Larsen - *Kitz* (2021), series, as Conny Breidenbacher - *Fly* (2021), as Tanzlehrer Grzibowski - *Jenseits der Spree* (2021), series, as Karl-Heinz Bessler - *The Perfect Mother* (2021), series, as Matthias Berg - *Ku'damm 63* (2021), series, as Hans Liebknecht - *It's for Your Own Good* (2020), as Pierre - *Gegen die Angst* (2019), as Jan Wiegand - *Nimm Du ihn* (2019), as Frank - *Herr und Frau Bulle* (2018), series, as Piet Bernsdorff - *Driven* (2018), as Christoph Becker - *Wir lieben das Leben* (2018), as Uwe Kowalke - *Dark* (2017), series, as The Stranger — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/dark.md) - *Protocols* (2017), Acting - *Ostfriesenkrimis* (2017), series, as Hero Klaasen - *jerks.* (2017), series, as Arne - *Teapot* (2016), Acting - *Familie!* (2016), series, as Gero - *Die Eifelpraxis* (2016), series, as Martin Hürtgen - *Dresden Mord - Nachtgestalten* (2016), as Roland Steiner - *Die Truckerin - Eine Frau geht durchs Feuer* (2016), as Henning - *Der Beobachter* (2015), as John Burton - *The Team* (2015), series, as Elias Mueller - *X Company* (2015), series, as Drescher - *Männer! Alles auf Anfang* (2015), series, as Ben Schäfer - *Beloved Sisters* (2014), as Friedrich von Beulwitz - *Die Hebamme* (2014), as Clemens Heuser - *Ohne Dich* (2014), as Ralf - *Belle and Sebastian* (2013), as Lieutenant Peter - *Storm Clouds in Marriage Heaven* (2013), as Christian Frey - *Vorzimmer zur Hölle III - Plötzlich Boss* (2013), as Philip Richter - *Zu schön um wahr zu sein* (2012), as Jonas Bauer - *Letzte Spur Berlin* (2012), series, as Holger Merbold - *Mary of Nazareth* (2012), as Jesus - *Mary of Nazareth* (2012), series, as Jesus - *Kommissar Marthaler* (2012), series, as Steinwachs - *Die Chefin* (2012), series, as Amar Lukic, Karl-Heinz Bessler - *Männer ticken, Frauen anders* (2011), as Lukas Landwehr - *Vorzimmer zur Hölle - Streng geheim!* (2011), as Dr. Philip Richter - *Nord Nord Mord* (2011), series, as Manfred Dobisch - *Hindenburg: The Last Flight* (2011), series, as Fritz Rittenberg - *Der letzte Bulle* (2010), series, as Erik Schwertfeger - *Auf Doktor komm raus* (2010), as Dr. Jan Büchner - *Altiplano* (2009), as Paul - *Böseckendorf - Die Nacht, in der ein Dorf verschwand* (2009), as Harald Bittmann - *Vorzimmer zur Hölle* (2009), as Dr. Philip Richter - *The Godmother - No Way Back* (2008), series, as Weirauch - *Missing* (2007), as Thomas Hausbach - *GSG 9 - Ihr Einsatz ist ihr Leben* (2007), series, as Konstantin von Brendorp - *Der Kriminalist* (2006), series, as Dr. Bernd Büttner - *Fremder Bruder* (2006), as Nico - *Unter anderen Umständen* (2006), series, as Karsten Rogge - *Freundinnen fürs Leben* (2006), as Martin - *Die Verlorenen* (2006), as Eric Gassinger - *FC Venus* (2006), as Marc Ritter - *4 Against Z* (2005), series, as Matreus - *Apollonia* (2005), as Max Kaminski - *Der Staatsanwalt* (2005), series, as Jürgen Krüger - *SOKO Köln* (2003), series, as Max Schausten - *Traumprinz in Farbe* (2003), as Leonard Balz - *Edel & Starck* (2002), series, as Oliver Sebold - *Der Tanz mit dem Teufel - Die Entführung des Richard Oetker* (2001), Acting - *Höllische Nachbarn – Chaos im Hotel* (2000), as Marcel Kandt - *Donna Leon* (2000), series, as Teo Lando-Continui, Dr. Linero - *Thrill - Spiel um Dein Leben* (2000), as Kay Kleine - *John Gabriel Borkman* (2000), as Erhard - *Anke* (2000), series, as Jo - *The Peppercorns* (1999), series, as Rhunau - *Sonnenallee* (1999), as Sheikh of Berlin - *SK Kölsch* (1999), series, as Eric Voss - *Regular Guys* (1996), as Marco - *Wilsberg* (1995), series, as Ingo Vogt - *Ein starkes Team* (1994), series, as Frank Machnow, Michael Sanders - *Adelheid und ihre Mörder* (1993), series, as Martin Hellwig - *Großstadtrevier* (1986), series, as Karsten Sprengler - *A Case For Two* (1981), series, as Tom Berger - *SOKO München* (1978), series, as Alexander Rohde, Dr. Christian Borchert - *Polizeiruf 110* (1971), series, as Felix - *Scene of the Crime* (1970), series, as Holger Riekert, Herr Dr. Neumann, Maik Balthasar, René Horvath - *Play Dead*, Acting - *Das Haus am Gletscher*, Acting ## Gallery - ![Andreas Pietschmann](https://film.one/media/person/715383/gallery-f8442654f145.jpg) Andreas Pietschmann — Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/MJK30683_Andreas_Pietschmann_%28Berlinale_2017%29.jpg/1280px-MJK30683_Andreas_Pietschmann_%28Berlinale_2017%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - 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