Christian Redl (born 20 April 1948, Schleswig, Germany) is a German actor and musician. Redl was born in Schleswig. His father was a teacher. He grew up in Kassel, and studied from 1967 to 1970 at the Drama School in Bochum. He then began to act at theaters in Wuppertal, Frankfurt, Bremen and Hamburg, where he worked worked with Claus Peymann, Luc Bondy and Peter Zadek. In 1986 he played his first major role in a movie production: Sierra Leone, by Uwe Schrader. He gained fame in the late 1980s and early 1990s with films by Bernd Schadewald, especially through the main role in the television production Der Hammermörder (The murder hammer), for which he was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize and Angst (Anxiety), for which he received a tele-Star nomination. Apart from theater, her also appeared