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name: "Michael Wittenborn"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/michael-wittenborn"
fi1m_id: "michael-wittenborn"
imdb_id: "nm0937000"
tmdb_id: 20266
wikidata_id: "Q1929867"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "31 May 1953"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-20T08:22:31.906526+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."
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# Michael Wittenborn

## Identity

Michael Wittenborn

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/michael-wittenborn
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** michael-wittenborn
- **IMDb ID:** nm0937000
- **TMDB ID:** 20266
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1929867
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1929867, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0937000/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20266

Actor. Born 31 May 1953 in Bielefeld, North-Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany [now Germany].

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 31 May 1953, Bielefeld, North-Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany [now Germany]
- **Active:** 2016–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 78, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 86 (1), 2020s 71 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1929867, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0937000/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20266

## Biography

Michael Wittenborn is a German actor. Born on 31 May 1953 in Bielefeld, he trained at the Otto-Falckenberg-Schule in Munich and began his career in the early 1980s with stage engagements at theatres including the Wuppertaler Bühnen, Staatstheater Stuttgart and Theater Basel.

He has been a company member at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg (1993–2000 and from 2013), the Münchner Kammerspiele (until 2004), the Burgtheater Vienna (until 2007) and the Schauspiel Köln (2007–2013). On screen he is known for supporting roles in films including *Mostly Martha* (2001), *Yella* (2007), *Toni Erdmann* (2016) as Henneberg, and *All Quiet on the Western Front* (2022). He received the Preis der Deutschen Akademie für Fernsehen for his performance in the series *Merz gegen Merz* (2019–2021).

Wittenborn is married to theatre director Karin Beier; they have one child.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *All Quiet on the Western Front* (2022), Fi1m 71, as Principal — [page](https://film.one/film/all-quiet-on-the-western-front.md)
- *Toni Erdmann* (2016), Fi1m 86, as Henneberg — [page](https://film.one/film/toni-erdmann.md)

## Complete filmography (76)

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

- *Merz gegen Merz - Entscheidungen* (2026), as Ludwig Reichert
- *Merz gegen Merz - Geständnisse* (2026), as Ludwig Reichert
- *Ach, diese Lücke, diese entsetzliche Lücke* (2026), as Hermann Krings
- *Stromberg - Wieder alles wie immer* (2025), as Klaus Klinkhammer
- *Ein Fall für Conti - Der verlorene Sohn* (2025), as Friedrich Klopfer
- *Habibi Baba Boom* (2025), series, as Hagen
- *Chaos and Silence* (2025), as Dr. Wunderlich
- *Greetings from Mars* (2024), as Horst (Opa)
- *Spirit in the Blood* (2024), as Pastor Carl
- *Merz gegen Merz - Geheimnisse* (2024), as Ludwig Reichert
- *The Perfect Miss* (2024), series, as Wilhelm Lampe
- *Kommt ein Vogel geflogen* (2023), as Eli Singer
- *Merz gegen Merz - Hochzeiten* (2023), as Ludwig Reichert
- *Simply Nina* (2023), as Thilo
- *Coming home* (2023), as Werner
- *All Quiet on the Western Front* (2022), as Principal — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/all-quiet-on-the-western-front.md)
- *Die Luft zum atmen* (2022), Actor
- *Auf dem Grund* (2022), as Helmut
- *And Tomorrow the Entire World* (2021), Actor
- *Fabian: Going to the Dogs* (2021), as Justizrat Labude
- *Da kommt noch was* (2021), Actor
- *Curveball* (2021), as Retzlaff
- *Unter Freunden stirbt man nicht* (2020), series, as Friedrich
- *Das Gesetz sind wir* (2020), as Jan Bender
- *Irgendwann ist auch mal gut* (2020), as Theodor Heller
- *The German Lesson* (2019), as Pastor Treblin
- *Hartwig Seeler – Gefährliche Erinnerung* (2019), as Felix Kepler
- *Merz gegen Merz* (2019), series, as Ludwig Reichert
- *Wie gut ist deine Beziehung?* (2019), as Harald
- *In My Room* (2018), as Vater
- *Unterwerfung* (2018), as Walter Zobel
- *Du bist nicht allein* (2018), as Klaus Widermann
- *Gefangen: Der Fall K.* (2018), Actor
- *Dinky Sinky* (2018), as Harmut
- *The Carlos Benede Story* (2017), as Herr Jacobs
- *Happy Burnout* (2017), as Günther
- *Hans im Glück* (2016), as Scherenschleifer
- *Mutter reicht's jetzt* (2016), as Richard
- *Wellness für Paare* (2016), as Heinz-Peter Ellerbrook
- *Nie mehr wie es war* (2016), as Dr. Karoly Gaàl
- *Toni Erdmann* (2016), as Henneberg — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/toni-erdmann.md)
- *Die Hochzeit meiner Eltern* (2016), as Leo
- *Zweimal lebenslänglich* (2015), as Beamter
- *Die Kanzlei* (2015), series, as Paul Siemsen
- *Inspector Dupin: Brittany's Surf* (2014), as Marc Leussot
- *Bis zum Ende der Welt* (2014), as Igor Goldmann
- *Beloved Sisters* (2014), as Knebel
- *Wir sind die Neuen* (2014), as Johannes
- *Stromberg – The Movie* (2014), as Klaus Klinkhammer
- *Superegos* (2014), as Moderator
- *Halbe Hundert* (2013), as Klaus Kater
- *The Case of Jakob von Metzler* (2012), as Fellner
- *Crime Scene Cleaner* (2011), series, as Therapeut Dr. Faltenbach
- *If Not Us, Who?* (2011), as Helmut Ensslin
- *Ihr mich auch* (2010), as Matthias Schröder
- *Homicide Hills* (2008), series, as Paul Schönfelder
- *Mein alter Freund Fritz* (2007), as Zachs Nachfolger
- *Yella* (2007), as Dr. Schmidt-Ott
- *Kommissar Stolberg* (2006), series, as Burkhard Zwingel
- *A Friend of Mine* (2006), as Naumann
- *Außer Kontrolle* (2005), Actor
- *Sterne leuchten auch am Tag* (2004), as Chefarzt
- *September* (2003), as Waller
- *Bloch* (2002), series, as RA Hermann Lux
- *Die Affäre Semmeling* (2002), series, as Ullrich Jansen
- *Mostly Martha* (2001), as Lehrer
- *Die Sekretärinnen* (1998), Actor
- *Doppelter Einsatz* (1994), series, as Hans-Jürgen Schuchardt
- *Bella Block* (1993), series, Actor
- *Rosowski* (1986), series, as Max Rosowski
- *Der Fahnder* (1984), series, as Jörg Felder
- *Second Sight* (1982), as Albert
- *The Old Fox* (1977), series, as Andreas Wessling
- *Derrick* (1974), series, as Robert Becker, Udo Engler
- *Polizeiruf 110* (1971), series, as Roland Herlau
- *Scene of the Crime* (1970), series, as Hans Lüdinghaus, Gerrit Engelbrecht, Dr. Lobentag, Werner Freden, Petermann

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