Volker Bruch

Volker Bruch is a German actor who trained at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna, graduating in 2005, and chose screen work over the stage. He grew up in Munich and began with minor parts in German television and television films; his first role of note, Axi in the 2005 television movie Rose, won him a German Television Award in the supporting actor category. In 2008 he appeared in Female Agents, The Red Baron, The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008) and The Reader (2008), two of which earned Academy Award nominations. He became widely known as Wilhelm Winter in the 2013 miniseries Generation War, then as Inspector Gereon Rath in Babylon Berlin, a part that brought him a 2018 Golden Camera Award and a shared Grimme Award. Later credits include The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018), Rocca Changes the World (2019) and Race for Glory: Audi vs. Lancia (2024).