


2011 followed the nomination for the Golden Camera in the category "Best German Actor". With success: "Im Angesicht des Verbrechens" was awarded the German Television Prize as "Best Multipart" in 2010 and Max Riemelt himself was honoured twice as part of Cast and Crew: with the German Television Prize in the category "Special Performance Fiction" and the Grimme Prize in the "Fiction" competition. The next collaboration between Dominik Graf and Max Riemelt marked a decisive turning point in his career: In the crime thriller "Im Angesichts des Verbrechens" (2010) Max Riemelt played the leading role, the policeman Marek Gorsky. Style-creating directors such as Dominik Graf also worked with Max Riemelt: In 2006 he played the leading role alongside Jessica Schwarz in the love film "Der Rote Kakadu" ("The Red Cockatoo") for the first time and won the Bavarian Film Award as "Best Newcomer". In the same year he received the "Rising Star Award" at the Hamptons International Film Festival. The European Film Promotion named him a German "Shooting Star" at the 2005 Berlinale. Max Riemelt finally made his breakthrough with Dennis Gansel's drama "NaPolA - Elite für den Führer" ("Before the Fall"): in 2004 Riemelt was honoured as best male actor at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
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Roles in TV productions such as the road movie "Ein Weihnachtsmärchen - Wenn alle Herzen melmelzen" (1999, directed by Johannes Fabrick) or Friedemann Fromm's "Brennendes Schweigen" (2000) alternated the next three or four years with first leading roles in movies like Dana Vávrová's children's film "Der Bär ist los" ("Bear on the run", 1999) or Dennis Gansels' coming-of-age comedy "Mädchen, Mädchen" ("Girls on the top", 2001).
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Max Riemelt first became known to a larger audience in 1998: He took the leading role in the ZDF Christmas series "Zwei Allein" ("Two of a kind", 1998, directed by Matthias Steurer). And he is still right, because it is no coincidence that Max Riemelt can look back on a career of around two decades as a film and television actor at the age of 34 and is considered one of the most sought-after character actors in Germany.īorn on Januin Berlin-Mitte in the former GDR, Max Riemelt gained his first experiences as an actor as a child - first on his aunt's theatre stage and in the theatre club of his school, later at the age of 13 through minor supporting roles in the television productions "Eine Familie zum Küssen" and "Praxis Bülowbogen". One meter high with his tennis shoes," said Rakete about Max Riemelt in 2014. Probably the most apt characterization comes from photographer Jim Rakete: "If he has nothing to do for half a minute, he jumps. "Self-taught", " up-and-coming actor", "shooting star", "character actor", "export hit" - there is hardly a predicate that Max Riemelt has not yet been assigned.
