Max Riemelt is a German actor born in Berlin in 1984 . He says "it was more by coincidence because I hadn't really thought about getting involved in acting and hadn't joined any drama groups at school".
Max decided early on that he was not interested in the latter: "I have an aversion to drama schools because their methods seem suspect to me. The way they treat people is sometimes inhuman, they build people up and then break them. Some people can cope with this, but I don't want to risk that". He explains that he feels "much happier in front of a camera than acting on a stage. I am a minimalist as far as my approach to acting is concerned" and prefers working for cinema, although "I am prepared to work for television if it is an interesting project, there is a good script and the characters are good." Similarly, he welcomes the chance every now and then to act in student films "because it gives me the chance to try out things and bring in my own ideas and often create quite different characters from the ones they had originally planned".

Filmography

• 1997: Praxis Bülowbogen
• 1997: Eine Familie zum Küssen
• 1998: Zwei allein
• 1999: Wenn alle Herzen schmelzen
• 1999: Der Bär ist los
• 2000: Brennendes Schweigen
• 2000: Mädchen, Mädchen
  Mädchen, Mädchen
  Mädchen, Mädchen is a 2001 German film directed by Dennis Gansel. Its story is about an eighteen year old girl named Inken , who is frustrated at not having had an orgasm yet with her boyfriend. Her two best friends are Vicky , who is in the same situation as Inken, and the still virgin Lena...
  
  
• 2001: Mein Vater und andere Betrüger
• 2002: Alarm für Cobra 11
• 2002: Balko "Giftzwerge"
  Balko
  Balko is a German prime time television series broadcast on the private TV channel RTL. It is a police detective story with comical twists featuring two inspectors of the Dortmund police, Balko and his colleague Klaus Krapp...
  
  
• 2002: Lottoschein ins Glück
• 2002: Sextasy
• 2002: Wolffs Revier "Au Pair"
• 2003: In aller Freundschaft
  In aller Freundschaft
  In aller Freundschaft is the title of a German television soap opera which has been on TV since 1998...
  
  
• 2003: Die Sonne anschreien
• 2003: Mädchen, Mädchen 2 – Loft oder Liebe
• 2003: Appassionata
• 2003: Napola – Elite für den Führer
  Before the Fall
  Before the Fall is a 2004 German drama film written and directed by Dennis Gansel.-Plot:...
  
  
• 2004: Neuland "Kurzfilm"
• 2004: Todfeinde "Kurzfilm"
• 2004: Der Rote Kakadu
• 2005: Das Alphateam "Respekt"
• 2005: Hallesche Kometen
• 2005: Nachtasyl
• 2005: Der Untergang der Pamir
• 2006: Grundgesetz §19 – Stehplatz
• 2006: An die Grenze
• 2006: Mörderischer Frieden
• 2006: Der Kriminalist
• 2007: Ironman
• 2007: Up! Up! To the sky
• 2007: Tausend Ozeane
• 2008: Die Welle
  The Wave (2008 film)
  The Wave is a 2008 German film directed by Dennis Gansel and starring Jürgen Vogel, Max Riemelt, Jennifer Ulrich, Jacob Matschenz and Frederick Lau. It is based on the book The Wave which was inspired by the social experiment The Third Wave. The film was produced by Christian Becker for Rat Pack...
  
  
• 2008: 13 Semester
• 2008: Im Angesicht des Verbrechens
• 2009: Der Staatsanwalt – Kameradenschwein
• 2009: Urban Explorer
• 2010: Cloudcluster (Arbeitstitel)
• 2010: We Are the Night
  We Are the Night (film)
  We Are the Night is a 2010 German vampire thriller film directed by Dennis Gansel, starring Karoline Herfurth and Nina Hoss. The film deals with a young woman who gets bitten by a female vampire and drawn into her world. She falls in love with a young police officer who investigates a murder case...
  
  
• 2011: Playoff

Awards

• 2004: Best Actor for Napola (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
• 2006: Best Young Actor for Der Rote Kakadu (Bavarian Film Awards)

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