Matthias Brenner

Matthias Brenner

1957-09-10 Meiningen, Germany 54 Credits

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).

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Feste feiern

2025

Acting
Muxˣ

Muxˣ

2025

as Leopold

Acting

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

When Fucking Spring Is in the Air

2024

as Doctor

6.5
Acting

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

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

2022

as Otto

6.6
Acting

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

Eltern mit Hindernissen

2020

as Polizeibeamter

5.0
Acting

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

Nightlife

2020

as Georg

6.2
Acting

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

Julia Must Die

2020

as Dietmar

2.7
Acting

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

Viele Kühe und ein schwarzes Schaf

2020

as Henning Müller

5.2
Acting

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

System Crasher

2019

as Erzieher Wolfgang

7.7
Acting

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

Wir sind doch Schwestern

2018

3.5
Acting

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

The Visit

2018

as Klaus Myra

Acting

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

Trauung mit Hindernissen

2018

as Polizeibeamter

4.4
Acting

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

Adam

2018

as Friend

5.9
Acting

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

Das Wasser des Lebens

2017

as König Ansgar

3.0
Acting

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

Liebling, lass die Hühner frei

2017

as Gert Jänicke

7.0
Acting

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

Atempause

2017

as Dr. Berg

5.0
Acting

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

Familie mit Hindernissen

2017

as Polizist

4.8
Acting

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

Zwei verlorene Schafe

2016

as Hans Stanew

3.5
Acting

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

Tod auf Raten

2016

as Lorenzo

7.0
Acting

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

Lotte Jäger und das tote Mädchen

2016

as Noack

4.2
Acting
Oh No Not Rudy Again!

Oh No Not Rudy Again!

2015

as Bernd

8.0
Acting

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

Zum Sterben zu früh

2015

6.1
Acting

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

Bella Amore - Widerstand zwecklos

2014

as Olaf

1.0
Acting
Bella Dilemma

Bella Dilemma

2013

as Olaf Wolf

6.0
Acting

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

Drei Stunden

2013

as Karl Lindauer

6.5
Acting

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

Nur eine Nacht

2013

as Walter Bolt

Acting
Shores of Hope

Shores of Hope

2012

6.1
Acting

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

Das Hochzeitsvideo

2012

as Bruno Schulz

4.5
Acting

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

Bella Australia

2012

as Olaf Wolf

6.0
Acting

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

Russendisko

2012

as Anatol

5.5
Acting

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

Of Dogs and Horses

2012

as Rolf

Acting

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

Hotel Lux

2011

as Wilhelm Pieck

5.8
Acting

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

Vater Mutter Mörder

2011

as Pfarrer

7.0
Acting

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

Bella Vita

2010

as Olaf Wolf

8.0
Acting

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

Acting

The exciting, highly emotional story of a "fake" doctor who falls in love with the father of a sick child.

Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten

Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten

2010

as Robber

4.3
Acting

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

Vision – From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen

2009

as Baumeister

6.2
Acting

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

3.5
Acting
A Good Boy

A Good Boy

2008

as Dieter

5.1
Acting

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

2.0
Acting

Die Abrechnung

2006

as Bernd Hopper

8.0
Acting

A reporter has only one purpose after the death of his daughter: find the fugitive driver responsible for the accident.

The Lives of Others

The Lives of Others

2006

as Karl Wallner

8.0
Acting

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

All Men Are Suspects

2006

2.0
Acting

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

6.0
Acting

Nachbarinnen

2005

as Polizist

2.5
Acting

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

Der Stich des Skorpion

2004

as Dieter Michaelis

7.1
Acting

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

Erbsen auf halb 6

2004

as Bauer

6.6
Acting

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

Acting
The Puppet Grave Digger

The Puppet Grave Digger

2003

as Paul Lässler

Acting

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

1.0
Acting

Weihnachten

2002

as Bernhard

Acting

Several episodes set on Christmas Eve.

Vaya con Dios

Vaya con Dios

2002

as Tassilo

5.7
Acting

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

Imaginative King

1990

as Minister

Acting
Über die Grenzen

Über die Grenzen

1990

as Antognoni

Acting

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...