Christoph Bach (actor)

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Christoph Bach, 2015

Christoph Bach (* 1975 in Reutlingen ) is a German actor .

Life

Christoph Bach already took part in workshops at the Tübingen State Theater during his school days . After the civil service he studied in Berlin first German literature, philosophy and theater, film and television studies at the Free University of Berlin , before his acting training at the Berlin University of the Arts graduated. At the end of the 1990s, he and the director Jan-Christoph Glaser developed the 12-part martial arts clip series Mission Moabit , which was broadcast in Christian Ulmen's show Unter Ulmen on MTV .

Christoph Bach made his cinema debut in 2003 in the surreal drama Fools . In the same year he received the German Film Award as Best Actor for his role as the loner Edzard in Detroit from Carsten Ludwig and Jan-Christoph Glaser . In the years that followed, he made a name for himself in German art house cinema with portraits of outsiders and ambivalent characters. Bach was seen in the Kammerspiel Close (2004) by Marcus Lenz, in Florian Schwarz's highly acclaimed debut film Katzen im Sack , the tragic comedy Finnish Tango (2008) and the hooligan drama 66/67 - Fairplay was yesterday (2009). In 2006 Das kleine Fernsehspiel dedicated a four-part series to him.

On television, Bach played the leading role in Elisabeth Scharang's film Mein Mörder in 2005 , which was awarded the Austrian Television Prize in 2006 and the FIPA D'Or at the TV Festival in Biarritz . In it he embodied a traumatized young man who, as a small boy , got caught in the mill of a children's euthanasia institution during the Nazi era and who years later demands accountability from his tormentor. Bach also appeared in television films such as The Snail Shell (2006) by Florian Schwarz, Blindflug (2007) by Ben von Grafenstein and the political drama Prague Embassy (2007).

In 2008 he played the role of student leader Rudi Dutschke in Dutschke (2009) directed by Stefan Krohmer . In 2010 Christoph Bach was awarded the German Television Prize for “Best Actor” for his performance . In Olivier Assayas ' film adaptation of the life of Ilich Ramírez Sánchez Carlos - The Jackal , Bach was seen as Hans-Joachim Klein in 2010.

This was followed by Shirley - Visions of Reality (2012), Gustav Deutsch's cinematic revival of 13 paintings by Edward Hopper , and Frauke Finsterwalder's Finsterworld (2013), in which he took on the role of the tragically failed history teacher Nickel. In the tragic comedy Global Player - Where We Are Isch Front by Hannes Stöhr , also realized in 2013 , he played Michael Bogenschütz, who was fighting for the survival of his company.

In 2015, Christoph Bach took on one of the leading roles in the Scandinavian-British TV series The Heavy Water War and embodied the German scientist Werner Heisenberg . In the same year, he played the game developer Marcus, who was slowly decaying mad, in the Swiss-German science fiction film Polder, which has won several awards .

In addition, Christoph Bach was seen in a number of Tatort productions. In the Vienna scene sequence No escape , he was in 2012 as a former Serbian irregulars Mirko Gradic itself the target of who brings himself and his family in grave danger. In 2015 he also played in the Ludwigshafen Tatort LU as Dr. Mark Moss a murderer.

In 2016 he stood in front of the camera for Sönke Wortmann's historical hospital series Charité (2017) as the German doctor and researcher Paul Ehrlich .

Christoph Bach lives in Berlin. He is married to the video artist Rebecca Riedel.

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personal data
SURNAME Bach, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Reutlingen , Germany