About Volker Bruch
Volker Bruch (German: [ˈfɔlkɐ ˈbʁʊx]; born 1980) is a German television and film actor. He is best known internationally for his leading roles as Wilhelm Winter in the television drama Generation War (2013) and as Inspector Gereon Rath in the neo-noir series Babylon Berlin (2017–present); for the latter, he was awarded the 2018 Grimme-Preis, Germany's most prestigious television award. In film, he was part of the ensemble cast of two films nominated for Academy Awards in 2009: The Reader (Best Picture) and The Baader Meinhof Complex (Best Foreign Language Film); more recently, he appeared in the thriller The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018) and Race for Glory: Audi vs. Lancia (2024). His first noteworthy role was as Axi in the 2005 German television movie Rose, for which he won a German Television Award for Best Supporting Actor. The first two series of the show were filmed over eight months beginning in May 2016 and released consecutively in the fall of 2017. In film, he was part of the ensemble cast of two films nominated for Academy Awards in 2009: The Reader and The Baader Meinhof Complex; more recently, he appeared in the thriller The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018) and Race for Glory: Audi vs.
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