Volker Bruch

Volker Bruch (; born 9 March 1980) is a German television and film actor. He is best known internationally for his leading roles as Wilhelm Winter in the television drama ''Generation War'' (2013) and as Inspector Gereon Rath in the neo-noir series ''Babylon Berlin'' (2017–present); for the latter, he was awarded the 2018 Grimme-Preis, Germany's most prestigious television award. In film, he was part of the ensemble cast of two films nominated for Academy Awards in 2009: ''The Reader'' (Best Picture) and ''The Baader Meinhof Complex'' (Best Foreign Language Film); more recently, he appeared in the thriller ''The Girl in the Spider's Web'' (2018) and ''Race for Glory: Audi vs. Lancia'' (2024). Provided by Wikipedia