Bernd Hölscher

Acting

Bernd Hölscher

Born 1971-01-01 · Münster, Germany

Bernd Hölscher studied German and history in Würzburg, Münster and Cologne before completing his acting studies at the Freiburg drama school from 1996 to 2000. In addition to engagements at renowned German theater stages, among others in Stuttgart, Mannheim, Detmold, Rostock, the Schaubühne Berlin and most recently at the Staatstheater Kassel in 2021, Hölscher debuted in 2017 in Robert Schwentke's film biography The Captain with his first important role, for which he was nominated as Best Supporting Actor in the German Acting Award in 2018. Bernd Hölscher has been a member of the ensemble of the Kassel State Theatre since the 2010–11 season.

Acting credits

A Hidden Life poster
7.2

Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.

A Hidden Life

2019

The Captain poster
7.2

Germany, 1945. Soldier Willi Herold, a deserter of the German army, stumbles into a uniform of a Nazi captain abandoned during the last and desperate weeks of the Third Reich. Newly emboldened by the allure of a suit that he has stolen only to stay warm, Willi discovers that many Germans will follow the leader, whoever he is.

The Captain

2018

Confessions of Felix Krull poster
6.5

Literary adaptation: a handsome youth of humble origins rises in society through his connections made as an elevator attendant in a luxury hotel.

Confessions of Felix Krull

2021

No Hit Wonder poster
6.8

Daniel is a singer who became famous overnight thanks to one song. But for the aspiring artist, the dream of fame was short-lived: his song turned out to be a one-hit wonder, and Daniel fell into a deep depression when his subsequent songs failed to connect with audiences. Daniel soon finds himself with few options left – he wants to end his life. However, his suicide attempt fails and he ends up in a secure psychiatric ward. He is allowed to leave on one condition: he must use his music to make a group of depressed people happy.

No Hit Wonder

2025

Blame the Game poster
5.7

Pia and Jan have just fallen in love and arranged to meet Pia's friends for a game night. Jan meets Pia's friends for the first time and is under pressure to make the perfect first impression. When Pia's ex-boyfriend shows up and even Jan's buddy's tips can't save anything, everything is at stake: the relationship, the friendship, and the definition of truth.

Blame the Game

2024

The Three Investigators and the Carpathian Dog poster
6.3

A call for help from gallery owner Mr. Prentice leads the three detectives into a new adventure: his apartment is said to be haunted. When the Carpathian dog, a valuable work of art, is also stolen, events spiral out of control because all the residents have a motive. As the suspects are eliminated one by one, the three detectives find themselves in the middle of their most exciting case yet.

The Three Investigators and the Carpathian Dog

2025

Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert poster
6.2

When Ingeborg Bachmann and Max Frisch meet for the first time in Paris in the summer of 1958, they are already international celebrities of the literary world. In the four years that follow, they dabble in great love and an open relationship between his hometown of Zurich and her adopted Rome.

Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert

2023

Christmas Crossfire poster
4.7

A man foils an attempted murder, then flees the crew of would-be killers along with their intended target as a woman he's just met tries to find him.

Christmas Crossfire

2020

If It Bleeds poster
7.0

Young journalist Agatha switches from the sports department to the investigative department of a right-wing conservative news portal. She travels to rural Hesse to investigate the disappearance of a girl. In order to prove herself, she pressures the victim's relatives into making emotional statements. Agatha underestimates the questionable methods of the tabloid media and loses control.

If It Bleeds

2025

In a Land That No Longer Exists poster
6.2

It's 1989 in East Berlin: Suzie is kicked out of school shortly before she graduates from high school and has to defend herself as a worker in the cable factory. However, a randomly taken photo leads her to the fashion world of the GDR. The editor-in-chief Elsa Wilbrodt put her on the cover of Sibylle, the fashion magazine of the GDR. In the Berlin underground scene she made the acquaintance of the gay fashion designer Rudi and the photographer Coyote. Suzie must decide if she's brave enough to leave the old strands behind forever.

In a Land That No Longer Exists

2022

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Grenzland – Der Nordsee-Krimi

No artwork available
NR

The investigation and its shortfalls in the months before the December 2016 attack at the Christmas market at Breitscheidplatz, Berlin.

Blindspot Berlin

2026

Karli & Marie poster
4.8

Karli likes to pose as a battle-hardened army veteran, but in reality he is a vending machine cracker. Marie, once the beauty queen of Mingkofen, has little to expect from life since the death of her well-to-do husband. When their paths cross, two damaged existences meet who are more alike than they initially believe. In a world full of mistrust and lies, Karli and Marie slowly grow closer - like two shy hedgehogs who first have to endure a turbulent journey to realize that they can only move forward together.

Karli & Marie

2025

Schuss in der Nacht - Die Ermordung Walter Lübckes poster
NR

On June 1st, 2019, around 11:30pm, the shoot which represents a turning point in the federal republic falls. In the hessian small town Wolfhagen-Istha, the district president of Kassel, Walter Lübcke, is murdered during this night, while, just a few meters away, the annual carnival is putting the locals into a festive mood. It is DNA-evidence on the clothes of Walter Lübcke which leads the investigators on June 15th, 2019, to his presumptive murderer: Stephan Ernst. The previously convicted right-wing extremist Ernst gets arrested by a SEK unit in Kassel. A first background check reveals: Stephan Ernst was known to the security authorities, but they did not have him on their radar for six years. Now he is back. And a person is dead. The docu-drama “Schuss in der Nacht” („Shoot in the dark“) tells emotionally, and simultaneously factually, how the deadly attack on Lübcke came to be. It tells about the first far-right motivated murder of a politician since the era of national socialism.

Schuss in der Nacht - Die Ermordung Walter Lübckes

2020

Das Versprechen poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Das Versprechen

2021