ACTOR

Volker Bruch

1980 - Today

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Volker Bruch (German: [ˈfɔlkɐ ˈbʁʊx]; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Volker Bruch has received more than 754,687 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Volker Bruch is the 7,105th most popular actor (up from 7,523rd in 2019), the 5,478th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,942nd in 2019) and the 245th most popular German Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 750k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Volker Bruches by language

Over the past year Volker Bruch has had the most page views in the with 287,834 views, followed by English (89,177), and French (23,298). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Finnish (394.15%), Swedish (321.04%), and Danish (279.13%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Volker Bruch ranks 7,105 out of 13,578. Before him are Samaire Armstrong, Álex González, Angelababy, Kerr Smith, T. J. Thyne, and Marguerite Clayton. After him are Florence Turner, Javier Botet, Paul Ritter, Lowell Sherman, Francesco Nuti, and Mary Woronov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1980, Volker Bruch ranks 189. Before him are Jeong Da-bin, Pita Limjaroenrat, Sam Heughan, Rodrigo Taddei, Samaire Armstrong, and Álex González. After him are Marcin Wasilewski, Hugo Campagnaro, Diego Pérez, Matuzalém, Lee Jung-hyun, and Maaya Sakamoto.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Volker Bruch ranks 5,478 out of 7,253. Before him are Jan Carstenszoon (null), Willi Giesemann (1937), Katrin Göring-Eckardt (1966), Georg Volkert (1945), Julia Fischer (1983), and Hedwig Kohn (1887). After him are Doris Dörrie (1955), Helmut Braselmann (1911), Karim Bellarabi (1990), Henry Maske (1964), Vera Zorina (1917), and Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller (1862).

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Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Volker Bruch ranks 245. Before him are Tom Beck (1978), Angela Schanelec (1962), Dirk Bach (1961), Matthias Brandt (1961), Herbert Knaup (1956), and Andrew Sachs (1930). After him are Vera Zorina (1917), Elyas M'Barek (1982), Arón Piper (1997), Andrea Sawatzki (1963), Maria Furtwängler (1966), and P. J. Soles (1950).

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Television and Movie Roles

Babylon Berlin
Gereon Rath
Beneath the decadence of 1929 Berlin, lies an underworld city of sin. Police investigator Gareon Rath has been transferred from Cologne to the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.
7.833 / 10
Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter
Wilhelm Winter
Five young German friends promise to meet again after WW2 ends, but soon their naive wishes of peace and happiness will become a long and tragic nightmare.
7.942 / 10
The Reader
Dieter Spenz
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
Dec 10o 20087.439 / 10