---
name: "Joachim Król"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/joachim-krol"
fi1m_id: "joachim-krol"
imdb_id: "nm0473166"
tmdb_id: 1084
wikidata_id: "Q66011"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "17 June 1957"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T22:19:23.791827+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."
---

# Joachim Król

## Identity

Joachim Król

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/joachim-krol
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** joachim-krol
- **IMDb ID:** nm0473166
- **TMDB ID:** 1084
- **Wikidata ID:** Q66011
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Kr%C3%B3l, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q66011, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0473166/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1084

Actor. Born 17 June 1957 in Herne, Germany.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 17 June 1957, Herne, Germany
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Kr%C3%B3l, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q66011, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0473166/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1084

## Coming up

- *Wochenendrebellen 2* (2027-09-23), as Grandfather Gerd

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Run Lola Run*](https://film.one/film/run-lola-run.md) (82)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Joachim Król is a German actor born on 17 June 1957 in Herne, West Germany. He trained at the Otto-Falckenberg-Schule in Munich from 1981 to 1984 and has worked extensively in theatre, including at the Bochumer Schauspielhaus and Schauspielhaus Köln.

He is known for film and television roles including Norbert Brommer in *Maybe... Maybe Not* (1994), Norbert von Au in *Run Lola Run* (1998), Walter Riemer in *The Princess and the Warrior* (2000), Hermann van Pels in the television film *Anne Frank: The Whole Story* (2001), and Wolfgang Abeck in *Wonderfully Beautiful* (2022). He was a co-founder of the Deutsche Filmakademie in 2003.

Król is married to Heidrun Teusner Król and lives in Cologne.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Run Lola Run* (1998), Fi1m 82, as Norbert von Au — [page](https://film.one/film/run-lola-run.md)

## Complete filmography (109)

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

- *Wochenendrebellen 2* (2027), as Grandfather Gerd
- *Love, After All* (2026), as Harry
- *Weihnachten im Olymp* (2025), Actor
- *My Lady in Blue* (2025), as Alfred Hansen
- *Rosamunde Pilcher: Wer immer du bist* (2025), as Stephen Crayshaw
- *No Beast. So Fierce.* (2025), as Fernsehsprecher (voice)
- *Zeit Verbrechen* (2024), series, as Miehe
- *Where's Wanda?* (2024), series, as Harald Hessel
- *Endlich Witwer - Griechische Odyssee* (2024), as Georg Weiser
- *A Million Minutes* (2024), as Werner Küper
- *791 km* (2023), as Josef
- *Zwei Weihnachtsmänner sind einer zu viel* (2023), as Bernd Hoffmann
- *Weekend Rebels* (2023), as Grandfather Gerd
- *Endlich Witwer - Über alle Berge* (2023), as Georg Weiser
- *Blutholz* (2022), as Hans Schüssler
- *Mostly Minimalistic* (2022), as Magnus Joosten
- *Endlich Witwer - Forever Young* (2022), as Georg Weiser
- *Wonderfully Beautiful* (2022), as Wolfgang Abeck
- *Confessions of Felix Krull* (2021), as Professor Kuckuck
- *Schuss in der Nacht - Die Ermordung Walter Lübckes* (2020), as Norbert Bartels
- *Berlin Alexanderplatz* (2020), as Pums
- *The Postcard Killings* (2020), as Inspector Klaus Bublitz
- *The Wall* (2020), series, Actor
- *Der König von Köln* (2019), as Lothar Stüssgen
- *Erzgebirgskrimi* (2019), series, as Dr. Lothar Uhlig
- *Jupp, watt hamwer jemaht?* (2019), Actor
- *Ganz: How I Lost My Beetle* (2019), as Josef Ganz (voice)
- *All About Me* (2018), as Willi
- *Lehman. Gier frisst Herz* (2018), as Arno Breuer
- *Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film* (2018), as Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum
- *Endlich Witwer* (2018), as Georg Weiser
- *Die Auferstehung* (2018), as Joschi
- *Ingo Thiel* (2017), series, as Staatsanwalt
- *Reformation* (2017), series, as Albrecht von Brandenburg
- *Tod im Internat* (2017), series, as Herbert Wichert
- *In Wahrheit* (2017), series, as Wolfgang Abeck
- *You'll Never Walk Alone* (2017), as Narrator
- *Rivals Forever - The Sneaker Battle* (2017), series, as Christoph Dassler
- *The Legend of Timm Thaler: or The Boy Who Sold His Laughter* (2017), as Narrator
- *Hotel Sacher* (2016), series, as Arthur Grünstein
- *Gotthard* (2016), series, as Knecht
- *Über Barbarossaplatz* (2016), as Benjamin Mahler
- *Collide* (2016), as Wolfgang
- *Der Bankraub* (2016), as Werner Kreye
- *Letzte Ausfahrt Gera: Acht Stunden mit Beate Zschäpe* (2016), as BKA-Beamter Troller
- *Pampa Blues* (2015), as Maslow
- *Neben der Spur* (2015), series, as Philip Kampmann
- *Salomea's Nose* (2014), Actor
- *Helen Dorn* (2014), series, as Dr. Ising
- *Lost in Siberia* (2012), as Matthias Bleuel
- *King of Comics* (2012), Actor
- *Tom Sawyer* (2011), as Muff Potter
- *Aghet* (2010), as Graf Wolff Metternich zur Gracht
- *Henri 4* (2010), as Théodore Agrippa d'Aubigné
- *Friends Forever* (2009), as Waldemar (voice)
- *Marcel Reich-Ranicki - Mein Leben* (2009), as David Reich
- *Adam Resurrected* (2008), as Abe Wolfowitz
- *Trick or Treaters* (2007), as Malente (voice)
- *Windland* (2007), as Oskar
- *Lutter* (2007), series, as Alex Lutter
- *Der Kriminalist* (2006), series, as Martin Poll, Volker Pütz
- *Kronprinz Rudolf* (2006), series, as Moritz Szeps
- *Tod eines Keilers* (2006), as Gottfried Binder
- *The Call of the Toad* (2005), as Pastor Karau
- *Snowland* (2005), as Rubert
- *Drechslers zweite Chance* (2004), as Budde
- *Silentium* (2004), as Sportpräfekt Fitz
- *Soundless* (2004), as Viktor
- *Wenn Weihnachten wahr wird* (2003), as Hannes Fischer
- *SOKO Köln* (2003), series, as Professor Reinhardt
- *Nachtschicht* (2003), series, as Kurt Rockenbach
- *Bear's Kiss* (2002), as Groppo
- *BAP - Ode to Cologne* (2002), as Projectionist
- *The Short Life of Anne Frank* (2001), as Narrator (German version)
- *Anne Frank: The Whole Story* (2001), series, as Hermann van Pels
- *Einsatz in Hamburg* (2000), series, as Oskar Camphaus / Gero Camphaus
- *The Princess and the Warrior* (2000), as Walter Riemer
- *Donna Leon* (2000), series, as Commissario Guido Brunetti
- *Gloomy Sunday* (1999), as László
- *Die Unschuld der Krähen* (1998), as Georg Finke
- *Am I Beautiful?* (1998), as Robert
- *Run Lola Run* (1998), as Norbert von Au — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/run-lola-run.md)
- *Train Birds* (1998), as Hannes Weber
- *When the Light Comes* (1998), as Lars
- *Rossini* (1997), as Jakob Windisch
- *It Happened in Broad Daylight* (1997), as Kommissar Matthäus
- *Schräge Vögel* (1997), as Rick
- *The Superwife* (1996), as Dr. Enno Winkel
- *Regen in New York* (1995), as Wilfried
- *Nobody Loves Me* (1994), as Anton
- *Maybe... Maybe Not* (1994), as Norbert Brommer
- *Faust* (1994), series, Actor
- *Deadly Maria* (1993), as Dieter
- *Without Me* (1993), as Bannert
- *No More Mr. Nice Guy* (1993), as Rudi Kipp ("Kipp")
- *Modell Adenauer - Ein Tag im Leben des Herrn K.* (1993), as Held
- *Wolffs Revier* (1992), series, as Stefan Kranz
- *Happy Birthday, Türke!* (1992), as Polizist
- *Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe* (1991), as oficer SS
- *Eine Wahnsinnsehe* (1990), Actor
- *Das Nest* (1989), series, as Gabriel Longius
- *Eurocops* (1988), series, as Hermann
- *Wherever You Are...* (1988), as Eduard
- *Ticket to Rome* (1986), Actor
- *Der Fahnder* (1984), series, as Neuner
- *Kaltes Fieber* (1984), Actor
- *Polizeiruf 110* (1971), series, as Winter, Peter Röhl
- *Scene of the Crime* (1970), series, as Frank Steier, Martin Jahnn, Manfred Schirmer
- *An Impossible Wedding*, as Standesbeamter

## Gallery

- ![Joachim Krol beim Tatort-Dreh 2013](https://film.one/media/person/87816/gallery-b8740cebac68.jpg) Joachim Krol beim Tatort-Dreh 2013 — joho345, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Joachim_Krol_2.jpg/1280px-Joachim_Krol_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![German actor Joachim Król at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival at a Berlin street (2009)](https://film.one/media/person/87816/gallery-ca0ba577e958.jpg) German actor Joachim Król at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival at a Berlin street (2009) — Siebbi, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Joachim_Kr%C3%B3l_%28Berlin_Film_Festival_2009%29.jpg/1280px-Joachim_Kr%C3%B3l_%28Berlin_Film_Festival_2009%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Joachim Król](https://film.one/media/person/87816/gallery-3463f7c7f518.jpg) Joachim Król — Joachim_Król_(Berlin_Film_Festival_2009).jpg: Siebbi
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- ![German actor Joachim Król at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival at a Berlin street (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/87816/gallery-186bfbed3a65.jpg) German actor Joachim Król at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival at a Berlin street (2012) — Joachim_Król_(Berlin_Film_Festival_2009)_small-sized.jpg: *Joachim_Król_(Berlin_Film_Festival_2009).jpg: Siebbi
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- ![Joachim Król](https://film.one/media/person/87816/gallery-c2efb9f68c77.jpg) Joachim Król — Image via TMDB
- ![Gudrun Landgrebe and Joachim Król at the Romy TV awards (Hofburg Imperial Palace in Vienna) (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/87816/gallery-6a036b69e8cb.jpg) Gudrun Landgrebe and Joachim Król at the Romy TV awards (Hofburg Imperial Palace in Vienna) (2011) — Manfred Werner (Tsui), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/ROMY2011_a15_Gudrun_Landgrebe%2C_Joachim_Kr%C3%B3l.jpg/1280px-ROMY2011_a15_Gudrun_Landgrebe%2C_Joachim_Kr%C3%B3l.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won, 1 nominated

- Deutscher Fernsehpreis 2020 2020: Deutscher Fernsehpreis 2020 (won), for *Preis der Freiheit*
- German Film Award for Best Actor 2000: German Film Award for Best Actor (nominated), for *Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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