Christian Friedel was born on March 9, 1979 in Magdeburg, East Germany [now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany]. He is an actor and music artist, known for The Zone of Interest (2023), Babylon Berlin (2017), and The White Lotus (2025).

Filmography

• 2027Athos 2643 — Marwan
• 2026Corpus Delicti — Lutz Rosentreter
• 2026The Idiot(s)
• The American Revolution — (voice)
• 202415 Years — Harry Mangold
• Kafka — Franz Werfel
• The Agency — Nils Jansen
• 2023The Zone of Interest — Rudolf Höss
• 2021Confessions of Felix Krull — King of Portugal
• The White Lotus — Fabian
• 2019Angelo — Curator
• 2019Happiness Sucks — Dr. Wolfgang Teuter
• Perfume — Daniel 'Zahnlos' Sluiter
• Babylon Berlin — Reinhold Gräf
• Rivals Forever - The Sneaker Battle — Adi Dassler
• 2017Sugar Sand — Günter Ernst
• 201513 Minutes — Georg Elser
• 2014Amour Fou — Heinrich
• 2014The Chosen Ones — Manfred Wolf
• 2013Closed Season — Albert
• 2013Erbgut — Max
• 2012Russendisko — Andrej
• 2011Chicken with Plums — Cyrus, 22 ans
• 2009The White Ribbon — The School Teacher
• Polizeiruf 110 — Max Schwarz
• Scene of the Crime — Jürgen von Mierendorff
• 1968Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt — Beaty
• The Peasant

Appearances as themselves (7)

• 2022Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious — Self
• Zärtlichkeiten im Bus — Self
• Fakt ist! — self
• ZIBB — Self
• Lebensläufe — Self
• Brisant — Self
• German Film Award — Self, Self - Host