Biography
Matthias Brenner was born on September 10, 1957 in Meiningen, German Democratic Republic. He is an actor, known for Das Leben der Anderen (2006), Vaya con Dios (2002) and Der Stich des Skorpion (2004).
Known For
Complete Filmography
Feste feiern
2025

Muxˣ
2025
as Leopold
Mux spent many years in a coma in a clinic with a constant stream of television. But at least he survived a serious car accident! Now he has woken up,...

When Fucking Spring Is in the Air
2024
as Doctor
It is winter in Gdynia, Poland. This is Kasia's town, a rebellious teenager: headstrong, fearless, and streetwise. When Kasia was 3 years old, her par...

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
2022
as Otto
Professor Albus Dumbledore knows the powerful, dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald is moving to seize control of the wizarding world. Unable to stop him a...

Eltern mit Hindernissen
2020
as Polizeibeamter
Katrin Wiedemann is on the verge of becoming a school principal. All she has to do is give birth to her third child and then she can start immediately...

Nightlife
2020
as Georg
Milo works as a bartender in Berlin and one night gets to know his dream woman Sunny through a series of coincidences. The two meet for a date, but th...

Julia Must Die
2020
as Dietmar
What a curious plan of Lya. Putting sleeping pills in the morning tea of her father. Pulling the sleeping wheelchair user to the vegetable store of he...

Viele Kühe und ein schwarzes Schaf
2020
as Henning Müller
Martin has failed as a veterinary surgeon and works in research. But then he loses this job too. He is neither stupid nor lazy, just incredibly scatte...

System Crasher
2019
as Erzieher Wolfgang
Wherever 9-year-old Benni ends up, she is expelled. She has become what child protection services call a “system crasher.” But she is not looking to c...

Wir sind doch Schwestern
2018
Hiltrud Janssen soon achieves what only a few people in her life are able to do: she celebrates her 100th birthday. It's just a shame that she fell ou...

The Visit
2018
as Klaus Myra
Klaus works voluntary as a Santa Claus in a shopping mall. After an exhausting day, he considers to hang up his job. But then, he gets a call from the...

Trauung mit Hindernissen
2018
as Polizeibeamter
Everything could be so nice between Katrin and Philip, if it were not the love (patchwork) family! Philipp surprises Katrin with a marriage proposal. ...

Adam
2018
as Friend
Adam tells the story of a techno musician, who after years of hospitalizations for alcoholism makes her son swear that he will never let her spend the...

Das Wasser des Lebens
2017
as König Ansgar
King Ansgar is dying and wants to name one of his two sons as his successor. Lennard, the youngest, is wise and is got heart. His brother Falk is thir...

Liebling, lass die Hühner frei
2017
as Gert Jänicke
In the third part of the TV movie series about the Teuffel family, it is once again family man Steffen who shakes up everyday life in the Brandenburg ...

Atempause
2017
as Dr. Berg
The story of Esther (40) and her ex-husband Frank (42). Their nine-year-old son Hannes is declared brain dead after a soccer accident. From one second...

Familie mit Hindernissen
2017
as Polizist
Katrin can only dream of a happy family. Because the patchwork constellation with several involuntarily connected families puts their nerves to the te...

Zwei verlorene Schafe
2016
as Hans Stanew
What happens when an ambitious but unsuccessful actress in the middle of her life coaches a young, not a bit ambitious and equally unsuccessful pastor...

Tod auf Raten
2016
as Lorenzo
The former boxer Ronald has lost his short-term memory after an accident. Now nothing is the same. Roland's world has no future, and the past only exi...

Lotte Jäger und das tote Mädchen
2016
as Noack

Oh No Not Rudy Again!
2015
as Bernd
Four men at the lake. What begins as a relaxed, quiet fishing weekend quickly ends in chaos when one of them loses his memory and searches for his dog...

Zum Sterben zu früh
2015
A night-time chase. The dealers in their off-road vehicle are sweating bullets, because Diller and Kessel have them in their sights. A routine operati...

Bella Amore - Widerstand zwecklos
2014
as Olaf

Bella Dilemma
2013
as Olaf Wolf
Bella is in a dilemma: She lives with her ex Martin and her new boyfriend Sebastian in a shared flat. Neither does she dare to pour Martin pure wine, ...

Drei Stunden
2013
as Karl Lindauer
For years, Martin has been working on his great play about cloud castles, flying pirates and a feisty princess. His secret role model for the leading ...

Nur eine Nacht
2013
as Walter Bolt

Shores of Hope
2012
In this vivid historical drama set in 1980s East Germany, two dockworkers and best friends who dream of escaping the repressive regime are forced to c...

Das Hochzeitsvideo
2012
as Bruno Schulz
Pia and Sebastian want to get married and this wedding is to be recorded for posterity by Sebastian's best friend Daniel. However, Daniel takes his jo...

Bella Australia
2012
as Olaf Wolf
Bella enjoys her life in Berlin after separating from her husband Martin. She buys her daughter Lena a dress for their Abifeier and proposes a joint t...

Russendisko
2012
as Anatol
Three young Russian friends, who move from Moscow to Berlin in a lucky wave of emigration right after the fall of the Berlin wall. They take their cha...

Of Dogs and Horses
2012
as Rolf
To save his deathly ill dog, the unemployed Rolf bets the little money that he has on a horse and hopes for the best. Sometimes even outsiders get a c...

Hotel Lux
2011
as Wilhelm Pieck
In 1938 Hans Zeisig, an apolitical comedian, impersonator and cabaret actor, flees with a Russian passport (instead of American, which he would have p...

Vater Mutter Mörder
2011
as Pfarrer
Early in the morning, Tom Wesnik is driving home from a party with his wife Esther. At the entrance to their home village of Sarezin, they are confron...

Bella Vita
2010
as Olaf Wolf
Isn't life beautiful? Isabella Jung - who everyone just calls Bella - is tempted to answer the question with a firm "No!", because her husband Martin ...
Eine Frage des Vertrauens
2010
as Dr. Thomas Preskow
The exciting, highly emotional story of a "fake" doctor who falls in love with the father of a sick child.

Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten
2010
as Robber
A man had a donkey that had carried the sacks to the mill for many years, but whose strength was now coming to an end, so that he became increasingly ...

Vision – From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen
2009
as Baumeister
Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed 12th-century Benedictine nun was a Christ...
Die Freundin der Tochter
2009
as Lehrer Cellogruppe

A Good Boy
2008
as Dieter
After his mother's death, 17-year-old Sven moves in with his dad Achim, a taxi driver, who had divorced his mother several years earlier. It is not ea...
Paparazzo
2007
as Vico
Die Abrechnung
2006
as Bernd Hopper
A reporter has only one purpose after the death of his daughter: find the fugitive driver responsible for the accident.

The Lives of Others
2006
as Karl Wallner
In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes un...

All Men Are Suspects
2006
From beautiful Bavaria to a backyard apartment in Berlin - Helga feels surrounded by all sorts of darklings. One night, Helga thinks she sees Cem, a T...
Noch einmal lieben
2005
as Homöopat Dr. Sogard
Nachbarinnen
2005
as Polizist
The single package-delivery woman Dora lives a somewhat reclusive life in a high-rise in Leipzig and gets through everyday life with her dry sense of ...

Der Stich des Skorpion
2004
as Dieter Michaelis
Wolfgang Stein spends years in Bautzen prison for attempting to flee the republic. He was ransomed by the West German government in 1971 and ended up ...

Erbsen auf halb 6
2004
as Bauer
It all starts with a bang. The car breaks through the crash barrier and falls off the bridge. The lights go out. After that, he is not able to see any...
Zeit nach der Trauer
2004
as Arno

The Puppet Grave Digger
2003
as Paul Lässler
In a small German town roams Ben, a boy with mental disorders. When several youths are murdered Ben becomes suspect.
D.I.K. - Jagd auf Virus X
2003
as Dr. Erwin Huhn
Weihnachten
2002
as Bernhard
Several episodes set on Christmas Eve.

Vaya con Dios
2002
as Tassilo
Three monks are making their way from Germany to a monastry in Italy, because they cannot afford the rent for their facility any longer.

Imaginative King
1990
as Minister

Über die Grenzen
1990
as Antognoni
Documentary filmmaker Paul Krewer follows his friend Thomas Ritter in the Peace Race, aiming to capture a winner’s story. When Ritter crashes and fall...