Felix Kramer
Felix Kramer was born in Berlin-Mahlsdorf on 23 March 1973. After an apprenticeship as a decorative carpenter, he trained at the acting school 'Ernst Busch' in Berlin from 2000 to 2003. He made his cinema debut in 2003 in the horror thriller "Anatomie 2" ("Anatomy 2", director: Stefan Ruzowitzky), in the role of a young orthopaedist. It remained his last work in front of the camera for a couple of years as he focused on theatre work instead. In 2003 he became an ensemble member at the Staatstheater Stuttgart (until 2005) and then transferred to the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg (until 2009). He has also performed at the Munich Volkstheater (2011), the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin (2011) and the Schauspiel Leipzig (2014/15).
Kramer started to work for film and television again in 2008. Mostly he played guest roles in TV series. He impersonated a journalist in the "Bella Block" double episode "Das Schweigen der Kommissarin" (2009) and a lawyer in the first episode of the series "Der Hafenpastor" (2012). He made an appearance on the big screen as a German soldier in Afghanistan in Feo Aladags award-winning drama "Zwischen Welten" ("Inbetween Worlds", 2014). Since 2016 he has been playing Police Captain Furrer alongside Christian Kohlund in the series "Der Zürich Krimi". He also played an investigator in Urs Egger's award-winning TV film "Ein Kind wird gesucht" (2017) and in Christian Alvart's Netflix series "Dogs of Berlin" (2018). Alvart also cast Kramer in the lead role of his feature film "Freies Land" ("Free Country", 2019): Together with Trystan Pütter, he was part of an investigative team tasked with investigating the disappearance of two sisters in the East German province of 1992. In the same year, he made his sixth and last appearance in the series "Der Zürich-Krimi".
Alongside Ronald Zehrfeld, Kramer played one of the two main roles in the comedy series "Warten auf'n Bus" (2020-2021), nominated for a prestigious Grimme Award, about two unemployed people in their late forties who kill time at the terminus of a bus line in Brandenburg while philosophising about life. On the big screen, Kramer had a leading role in Emily Atef's "Irgendwann werden wir uns alles erzählen" ("Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything", 2023) about the tragic love between an 18-year-old farmer's daughter and a solitary neighbour in the GDR of the summer of 1990. The film premiered in competition at the Berlinale 2023 and was released in cinemas shortly thereafter.