Christian Friedel

Christian Friedel

Actor. Born 9 March 1979 in Magdeburg, German Democratic Republic [now Germany].

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9 March 1979, Magdeburg, German Democratic Republic [now Germany]

Biography

Christian Friedel is a German actor and singer. He was born on 9 March 1979 in Magdeburg, then in East Germany.

He trained at the Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts in Munich and has worked extensively in German theatre, including at the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel, Munich Kammerspiele, Schauspiel Hannover and Staatsschauspiel Dresden.

Friedel is known for his film and television roles as the schoolteacher in The White Ribbon (2009), Reinhold Gräf in Babylon Berlin (2017–), Rudolf Höss in The Zone of Interest (2023) and Fabian in season three of The White Lotus (2025). He is also a musician with the band Woods of Birnam.

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Filmography

Beyond what we have reviewed, Christian Friedel is known for The White Lotus (2021), The White Ribbon (2009), Babylon Berlin (2017), Perfume (2018), 13 Minutes (2015), The Agency (2024), Chicken with Plums (2011) and Scene of the Crime (1970).

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The Zone of Interest

2023 · as Rudolf Höss