# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/volker-bruch
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:55:50.271Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/volker-bruch"
name: "Volker Bruch"
slug: "volker-bruch"
description: "Volker Bruch 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 and The Baader Meinhof Complex ; more recently, he appeared in the thriller The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018) and Race for Glory: Audi vs. Lancia (2024)."
tagline: "German actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Volker_Bruch%2C_Hin_und_weg_Kinotour_(cropped).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1980-03-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           58.19
  momentum:             5.444827586206896
  historical:           21.33955333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1432815/"
    handle:    "nm1432815"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump