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name: "Ernst Stötzner"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ernst-stotzner"
fi1m_id: "ernst-stotzner"
imdb_id: "nm0836729"
tmdb_id: 129215
wikidata_id: "Q1360326"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 January 1952"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T22:06:25.746520+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."
---

# Ernst Stötzner

## Identity

Ernst Stötzner

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ernst-stotzner
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ernst-stotzner
- **IMDb ID:** nm0836729
- **TMDB ID:** 129215
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1360326
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_St%C3%B6tzner, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1360326, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0836729/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/129215

Actor. Born 1 January 1952 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 January 1952, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- **Active:** 1995–2017
- **Also known as:** Ernst Stoetzner
- **Average Fi1m score:** 74, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 66 (1), 2010s 82 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_St%C3%B6tzner, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1360326, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0836729/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/129215

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Underground*](https://film.one/film/underground.md) (66)

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## Biography

Ernst Stötzner is a German actor. Born in 1952 in Frankfurt am Main, he trained at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main from 1974 to 1976. He joined the ensemble of the Berliner Schaubühne in 1979 and has maintained a long association with the company, alongside engagements at theatres including the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, the Berliner Ensemble and the Wiener Burgtheater.

Stötzner has also worked as a theatre director since the late 1980s. His film and television credits include the role of Franz in *Underground* (1995), Dr Hans Hoffmeister in *Frantz* (2016), General Major Seegers in *Babylon Berlin* (2017), Rudolf Virchow in *Charité* (2017) and Wilhelm Hoffmann in *Das Boot* (2018). He received the Gertrud-Eysoldt-Ring in 2007 and was named Best Actor of North Rhine-Westphalia in 2002.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, filmportal.de, de.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Babylon Berlin* (2017), Fi1m 82, as Major General Seegers — [page](https://film.one/tv/babylon-berlin.md)
- *Underground* (1995), Fi1m 66, as Franz — [page](https://film.one/film/underground.md)

## Complete filmography (75)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Anna und ihr Untermieter - Volles Haus* (2026), as Werner Kunz
- *Anna und ihr Untermieter - Plötzlich Schwiegermutter* (2025), as Werner Kurtz
- *Bones and Names* (2024), as Michael
- *Anna und ihr Untermieter - Wenn du träumst von der Liebe* (2023), as Werner Kurtz
- *A Feast for Life* (2023), as Volker
- *Ich will mein Glück zurück* (2023), as Robert
- *Check Out* (2022), as Wilhelm
- *Anna und ihr Untermieter - Dicke Luft* (2022), as Werner Kurtz
- *Christmas on the Runway* (2021), as Karl Höfer
- *Nächste Ausfahrt Glück* (2021), series, as Dr. Willi Hoffmann
- *Contra* (2020), as President Lambrecht
- *Anna und ihr Untermieter - Aller Anfang ist schwer* (2020), as Werner Kurtz
- *Isi & Ossi* (2020), as Grandpa
- *Der König von Köln* (2019), as Alfred von Hoppenheim
- *Bauhaus: A New Era* (2019), series, as Lyonel Feininger
- *Brecht* (2019), series, as Caspar Neher
- *My Mother's Girlfriend* (2019), as Dieter
- *Pagan Peak* (2019), series, as Wolfgang Stocker
- *Das Boot* (2018), series, as Wilhelm Hoffmann
- *1918 Aufstand der Matrosen* (2018), as Wilhelm Souchon
- *Oma ist verknallt* (2018), as Theodor
- *Unser Kind* (2018), as Johannes
- *Babylon Berlin* (2017), series, as General Major Seegers, Major General Seegers — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/babylon-berlin.md)
- *Zwei Bauern und kein Land* (2017), as Johannes Becker
- *Ostfriesenkrimis* (2017), series, as Ann Kathrins Vater, Anns Vater
- *Charité* (2017), series, as Rudolf Virchow
- *Mutter reicht's jetzt* (2016), as Karl Weller
- *Desired Children* (2016), as Wolfgang
- *Frantz* (2016), as Doctor Hans Hoffmeister
- *Alone in Berlin* (2016), as Dptm. Head Walter
- *Die Mutter des Mörders* (2015), as Kommissar Simon
- *Jack* (2015), as Neumann
- *Becks letzter Sommer* (2015), as Rektor Dieter Heym
- *Dengler* (2015), series, as Bernhard Voss
- *Die Himmelsleiter* (2015), series, as Adam Roth
- *Alles Verbrecher - Leiche im Keller* (2015), as Volker Quabeck
- *Tiefe Wunden* (2015), as Elard Kaltensee
- *Inspector Dupin: Brittany Calling* (2014), as Frédéric Beauvois
- *Alles Verbrecher: Eiskalte Liebe* (2014), as Volker Quabeck
- *Silent Summer* (2014), as Herbert
- *Helen Dorn* (2014), series, as Richard Dorn
- *My Sisters* (2014), Actor
- *Die Zeit mit Euch* (2014), as Klaus Lichtenhagen
- *Die Pilgerin* (2014), series, as Vater Thomas
- *Mittlere Reife* (2012), as Daniel Kaustinger
- *Letzte Spur Berlin* (2012), series, as Georg Rickert
- *Home for the Weekend* (2012), as Günter Heidtmann
- *Summer Window* (2011), as Makler Kupferschmidt
- *Hannah Mangold & Lucy Palm* (2011), as Dr. Weissdorn
- *Nord Nord Mord* (2011), series, as Hans Börschig
- *The Coming Days* (2010), as Walter Kuper
- *This Is Love* (2009), as Jörg
- *Klimt* (2006), as Minister Hartl
- *Das Schwalbennest* (2004), as Bordellkönig Nestor
- *Zwischen Nacht und Tag* (2004), as Paul
- *Der Elefant: Mord verjährt nie* (2004), series, as Prof. Peter Venkmann
- *Solo für Schwarz* (2003), series, as Ludger Zens
- *Fette Welt* (1999), Actor
- *Der letzte Zeuge* (1998), series, as Jobst Melker
- *Die Gang* (1997), series, as Anatol Ludluff
- *Ein Mord für Quandt* (1997), series, as Paul Arnheim
- *Once Upon a Time There Was a Country* (1996), series, as Franc
- *Underground* (1995), as Franz — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/underground.md)
- *A.S. Gefahr ist sein Geschäft* (1995), series, as Roland Schenk
- *Bella Block* (1993), series, as Max Von Holt
- *Never Sleep Again* (1992), as Persecuted Man
- *Wolffs Revier* (1992), series, as Sellneck
- *Ultima Thule* (1989), as Photographer
- *Spider's Web* (1989), as Günter
- *Keine Hand wäscht die Andere* (1988), as Polizei
- *Drei Schwestern* (1986), as Nikolaj Lwowitsch Tusenbach
- *Class Enemy* (1983), as Fetzer
- *Scene of the Crime* (1970), series, as Fruhmann, Professor Winter, Klaus Gerlitz, Christian Rebenow, Prof. Eisler
- *Stahlnetz* (1958), series, as Simon Mühl
- *Kristina Mahlo - Das Verstummen der Krähe*, as Robert Mahlo

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