Peter Kurth

Actor

Peter Kurth is a German actor who has established himself as a distinctive character actor in theater, auteur cinema, and television series. After training at the State Drama School in Rostock, he worked at renowned theaters while simultaneously building a steady film and television career, in which he often plays broken, ambivalent characters. In cinema, he can be seen in IM SCHATTEN (In the Shadow) from 2010, directed by Thomas Arslan, as part of a precisely drawn gangster milieu. EINER WIE BRUNO (Someone Like Bruno) from 2011 by Anja Jacobs shows him in a finely nuanced family drama about a mentally impaired father and his daughter. In DIE KLEINEN UND DIE BÖSEN (The Little Ones and the Bad Ones) from 2015, directed by Markus Sehr, Kurth combines black humor and social acuity in a story about petty crime and rehabilitation. SCHMITKE from 2014, the debut film by Stepan Altrichter, uses his presence in a mystery story that hovers between comedy and melancholy. His leading role in Thomas Stuber's 2015 boxing drama A Heavy Heart (Herbert) is particularly noteworthy, for which he received the German Film Award for Best Actor and the German Actor Award. In 2021, he appeared in Daniel Brühl's Next Door, which was screened in competition at the Berlinale. Peter Kurth is also known to a wide audience from the series Babylon Berlin, in which he plays Bruno Wolter, a central, morally ambivalent figure in the police apparatus of the Weimar Republic. The combination of award-winning cinema work, festival appearances, and striking series roles makes him one of the most prominent faces of German-language acting.

Films on Sooner

Schmitke

2014

98 mins

Independent, Comedy

What should have been a ordinary job in the Czech Ore Mountains, becomes a mysterious expedition for the aging engineer Julius Schmitke.