Christian Redl (born 20 April 1948) is a German actor and singer.
Contents
Life
Christian Redl is the son of a teacher. He grew up in Kassel, trained from 1967 to 1970 at the Schauspielschule Bochum and was then engaged in theatres in Wuppertal, Frankfurt, Bremen, and Hamburg, where he worked with Claus Peymann, Luc Bondy, and Peter Zadek. In 1986, he starred in his first big role in a cinema production, which is Uwe Schrader's Sierra Leone. He became well-known in the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s for films by Bernd Schadewald, especially for his lead role in the 1990 TV film Der Hammermörder, for which he earned the Grimme-Preis and for the 1994 film Angst, for which he was nominated for a Telestar award.
Along with his theatre work, there were more TV productions, in which he worked with Matti Geschonneck holding a special place: Der Rosenmörder, Ein mörderischer Plan, and Späte Rache. Two more cinema productions were Lea directed by Ivan Fíla and The Trio directed by Hermine Huntgeburth. He also starred as Generaloberst Alfred Jodl in the 2004 Oliver Hirschbiegel film Downfall. Redl also played abysmal figures in the German film Tattoo directed by Robert Schwentke and in the ZDF police film series Nachtschicht by Lars Becker. He is regularly seen in cinema and TV productions, especially in TV thrillers like the ZDF series KDD – Kriminaldauerdienst and in international films like Krabat by Marco Kreuzpaintner and Die Päpstin by Sönke Wortmann. At the Hamburger Kammerspiele, he starred in Kunst and Der Totmacher, and at the St.-Pauli-Theater in the Dreigroschenoper, in Sonny Boys, and in Arsen und Spitzenhäubchen. In the spring of 2009, he starred in Tod in der Eifel, a TV film directed by Johannes Grieser, and in Der Tote im Spreewald. Since 2006, Redl starred as the laconic and lonely commissioner Thorsten Krüger in the ZDF crime series Spreewaldkrimi, playing in Spreewald, where the aftermaths of which are sporadically filmed. In 2013, he won the German Academy of Television award for best supporting actor for his role in Marie Brand und die offene Rechnung.
He also works as an audiobook speaker and musician.
Christian Redl had been dating actress Maja Maranow for many years. He is the stepbrother of actor Wolf Redl.
Selected radioplays
1977: Victor Hugo: Der letzte Tag eines Verurteilten – Editing und Director: Charles Benoit (Hörspiel – SR DRS)
1985: Mario Benedetti: Pedro und der Hauptmann – Director: Charles Benoit (SR DRS)
1989: Margaret Millar: Kannibalenherz – Director: Bernd Lau (Hörspiel – NDR)
1991: Adolf Schröder: Berger und Levin – Director: Bernd Lau (NDR)
1992: J. R. R. Tolkien: Der Herr der Ringe – Director: Bernd Lau (WDR + SWR)
1993: Tankred Dorst: Merlin oder das wüste Land (Sänger) – Director: Walter Adler (Hörspiel – MDR)
1994: Hanspeter Gschwend: Code-Execute – Director: Charles Benoit (SR DRS)
1996: Yasmina Reza: Kunst – Director: Christiane Ohaus – Hörspiel Radio Bremen
1997: Dirk Spelsberg: Going Home – Director: Norbert Schaeffer Hörspiel SDR
1999: Ken Follett: Die Säulen der Erde (Philip) – Director: Leonhard Koppelmann (Hörspiel (9 Teile) – WDR)
1999: Jack Kerouac: Am Schwimmbecken sitzen mit Blondinen – Editing und Director: Charles Benoit (SR DRS)
2000: Yasmina Reza: Drei Mal Leben – Director: Charles Benoit (SR DRS)
2002: Felix Thijssen: Cleopatra – Director: Norbert Schaeffer (WDR)
Discography
1990: Vierzehnundeinviertel Jahr – Lieder von François Villon (Singer, Music: Frank and Stefan Wulff)
2003: François Villon
2003: Van Gogh. Briefe an seinen Bruder Theo
2003: Dostojewskij – Aufzeichnungen aus dem Kellerloch
2005: Christa-Maria Zimmermann: Gefangen im Packeis. Sprecher
2005: Das Wilde Herz (own songs)
2007: G. Simenon – Betty
2007: Baudelaire – Liebesgedichte
2008: Rilke – Liebesgedichte
2008: James Graham Ballard: Karneval der Alligatoren. Editing/Director: Oliver Sturm, NDR 2008.
2009: Deutsche Schauerballaden
2010: Baudelaire – Die Blumen des Bösen, Goldbek Rekords
2014: Sehnsucht (own songs)
2016: Louise (Francois Villon / Paul Zech)
2016: John Williams: Augustus – Role: Augustus – HR 2 2016
Literature
Christian Redl, in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 10/2013 on 5 March 2013, in the Munzinger-Archiv
Links
Literature by and about Christian Redl in the German National Library catalogue
Christian Redl at IMDb
Christian Redl auf Filmmakers.de
