Mathias Herrmann

Mathias Herrmann (born 16 July 1962 in Friedberg, Germany) is a German television actor. He studied acting from 1983–86 at the rewarded Otto-Falckenberg-School in Munich. Parallel to his studies he already played at the Munich Kammerspiele. His film debut he had given in 1987 in Ralf Hüttners successful movie Das Mädchen mit den Feuerzeugen.

After this, he had many engagements at theatres in Bremen, Bonn, Mannheim and Basel, where he played many leads in which he excited the audience, a.o. Prinz von Homburg, Clavigo, Der Stellvertreter and Ghetto. He got international attention with the lead role of captured German soldier Beck in the Dutch WW2 series De Partizanen (The Partisans), which received many awards and was nominated for an emmy. Shortly after this he also had a successful outcome in television in the ZDF series Ein Fall für Zwei. Millions of people were watching him in the role of Dr. Johannes Voss.

Since then Mathias Herrmann was playing leads in many successful and awarded German TV movies, like Messerscharf (Angeliki Antoniou), E-mail an Gott (Bernd Böhlich), Sperling (Peter Schulze-Rohr), Verliebte jungs (Christoph Schrewes), Das Phantom (Dennis Gansel), Das falsche Opfer (Ulrich Stark) and Dieter Kehler's film version of Rosamunde Pilcher's Land der Sehnsucht. He has performed readings from authors such as Villon, Goethe and Schiller, Hebel and Brecht, Agota Kristof and Robert Gernhardt for many years.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1987	Das Mädchen mit den Feuerzeugen	Hotelgast
1992	Die Wahrheit über die Stasi	IM Ausland
1995	Der Leihmann	Kandidat
2002	Der Unbestechliche	Sand
2005	Joyeux Noël	L'officer allemand au quartier général
2009	John Rabe	Werner Fließ
2012	Die Abenteuer des Huck Finn	Auctioneer
2018	Grüner wird's nicht, sagte der Gärtner und flog davon	Käufer
2019	All I Never Wanted	Christian Mops
2020	Limbo	Frank Mailing
2020	Der Überläufer	Helmut Poppek

External links

• Mathias Herrmann on IMDb
• Heppeler Agency (in German and English)