Devid Striesow (born 1 October 1973[1] in Bergen auf Rügen, East Germany) is a German actor.

Devid Striesow

After his school education, he moved to Berlin to start an apprenticeship as a goldsmith but the goldsmith's business went bankrupt before Striesow could start. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 changed his life plans, so he went back to school to take his Abitur. Initially, he studied jazz guitar. He then applied to the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts, Berlin. His graduating class of 1999 included Nina Hoss and Fritzi Haberlandt.

He performs in theatre, film (since 2000) and television (since 1999). He starred as "Sturmbannführer Herzog" (Bernhard Krüger) in Stefan Ruzowitzky's 2007 film The Counterfeiters, which was awarded the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for that year. Striesow is also a speaker for audiobooks.

Striesow has been married to his manager Ines Ganzberger since 2018. They are parents to a son (born 2016) and live in Berlin. His son Ludwig Simon (born 1996) from a previous relationship is also an actor. There are three other children from a previous marriage.

Selected filmography

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Film
Year Title Role Notes
2001 Ende der Saison [de] Marius Wahls TV film
What to Do in Case of Fire? Henkel
2002 Bungalow Max
2003 Distant Lights Ingo
2004 Marseille Ivan
Before the Fall Feldwebel
Downfall Fritz Tornow
2005 I Am Guilty Matin Steeb, Jr.
2006 Windows on Monday [fr] Fenstermacher
Eden Xaver
2007 Yella Philipp
The Counterfeiters Sturmbannführer Herzog
Ein verlockendes Angebot [de] Jan Werther TV film
Head Under Water [de] Richard Sammer
Copacabana Mark Schubert TV film
The Heart Is a Dark Forest [de] Thomas
2009 I've Never Been Happier Frank Knöpfel
12 Paces Without a Head Simon of Utrecht
Vision Frederick Barbarossa
This Is Love Roland
2010 Relations Philipp Schneider TV film
Three Adam
2011 A Good Summer [de] Wilfried Gross TV film
Ein mörderisches Geschäft [de] Tom Winkler TV film
2012 Foreign Deployment [de] Herbert Glowalla TV film
2013 The Woman from the Past [de] Frank TV film
2014 Age of Cannibals Frank Öllers
Divine Sparks [de] Matthias Fabian TV film
Kafka's The Burrow [de] Handwerker
We Are Young. We Are Strong Martin
Till Eulenspiegel [de] Klaas Wüllenwever TV film
2015 A Decent Man Thomas
I'm Off Then Hape Kerkeling
2017 Luther and I [de] Martin Luther TV film
2022 All Quiet on the Western Front General Friedrichs
2023 When Will It Be Again Like It Never Was Before [de] Richard Meyerhoff
TV-Series
Year Title Role Notes
1999–2000 Für alle Fälle Stefanie Two episodes
2008 Dr. Psycho – Die Bösen, die Bullen, meine Frau und ich Episode: "Der doppelte Psycho"
2011 Der Kriminalist Episode: "Der Beschützer"
2011 Schloss Einstein One episode
2011, 2014 The Old Fox Two episodes
2013 Großstadtrevier Episode: "Wer einmal zahlt, zahlt immer"
2015 Schuld nach Ferdinand von Schirach Episode: "Der Andere"
2019–20 Dignity Bernard Hausmann Main role

References

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  1. ^ "Devid Striesow im Interview: "Ein Kind muss alles können"". www.rnz.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-05-10.
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