Wolfram Koch

Wolfram Koch was born in Paris in 1962 and trained at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. His first engagements took him to the Freie Volksbühne, the Schiller Theater Berlin and the Schauspiel Frankfurt. From 1995 to 2000 he was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Schauspielhaus Bochum, since then he has worked freelance at the Schauspiel Frankfurt, the Thalia Theater Hamburg, the Schauspielhaus Zürich and the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, among others. Wolfram Koch has performed regularly for Dimiter Gotscheff and, since his role as the servant Mosca in Volpone, has formed “a new dream couple of the stage” with Samuel Finzi (Frankfurter Rundschau). The artistic quartet Koch, Finzi, Gotscheff and Almut Zilcher received the Berlin Theater Prize in 2011 for their “epoch-making performances in which great acting is combined with extraordinary, intelligent approaches to the material”. Samuel Finzi and Wolfram Koch were awarded the 2015 Gertrud Eysoldt Ring for their roles in Waiting for Godot (directed by Ivan Panteleev, invited to the 2015 Theatertreffen).

Koch made his cinema debut as a 13-year-old in Voytech Jasny's adaptation of the novel Views of a Clown (1975). His films include Draußen ist Sommer (2011, directed by Frederik Jehn), Ein großes Versprechen (2019, directed by Wendla Nölle) and Seneca (2021, directed by Robert Schwentke). Koch is also active as an audio book narrator and has played numerous roles in film and television. In October 2013, Hessischer Rundfunk presented him as the new Tatort commissioner for his home town of Frankfurt am Main, which he played until 2024.