Personal Info
Birth date
1961-11-25 (63 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Plauen, Germany
Also known as
-Matthias Freihof
Biography
Matthias Freihof (born 25 November 1961) is a German television actor and director. He has performed in many TV films and series including police drama Siska for 5 years. but also works on live stage performing as an actor and a singer. He is most known former the GDR-film Coming Out in 1989. He and the film won prizes in several festivals as best actor and best film as well as 'The Silver Bear' in the Berlin Film Festival 1990.
Filmography
Scene of the Crime
6.1
Overview:
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.Der Alte
6
Overview:
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.SOKO Leipzig
6.2
Overview:
SOKO Leipzig is a German police procedural television programme, a spin-off of the earlier German police programme SOKO 5113. It was first broadcast on 31 January 2001, on German television channel ZDF. On 12 November 2008, the first part of a two-part crossover between SOKO Leipzig and British police procedural The Bill was aired, with the same version being shown on both ZDF and British television channel ITV1.Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
6.521
Overview:
A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.A Case For Two
5.2
Overview:
Ein Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF. The series, located in Frankfurt am Main, features two main characters who solve crimes: a defense attorney and a private investigator. Josef Matula, a former German police officer, has gone into private business. His method of investigation is very effective and direct, and he sometimes even resorts to dirty tricks. Claus Theo Gärtner has portrayed the role since the start of the series.Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall
4.8
Overview:
Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall is a German crime detective television series starring Wolfgang Stumph as detective Stubbe. It is being broadcast on ZDF, the second German public television channel since 1995.Inga Lindström
4.9
Overview:
Series written by Christiane Sadlo about writer and journalist under the pseudonym "Inga Lindström" and her family. Characterized by impressive landscapes, all of which are shot on location in Sweden. Series has no continuous storyline, and each episode is filled with new characters.Valkyrie
6.948
Overview:
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.In aller Freundschaft - Die jungen Ärzte
7.118
Overview:
The spin-off to the original series 'In aller Freundschaft' focuses on the young doctors in a fictional clinic in Erfurt. In this emotional drama series, hospital staffers and patients navigate life's challenges.Siska
7.5
Overview:
Siska is a German television series created by Herbert Reinecker and Helmut Ringelmann and broadcast since October 30, 1998 on the network ZDF. In France, the series was broadcast on France 3 and rebroadcast on 13th Street. It is a police drama and follows the adventures of Peter Siska and later Victor Siska. Anyway it wasn't the best surname for a policeman because in some languages word "Siska" has extremely close meaning to "Boob" or "Tit". So you'll never see this series on, for example, Russian television. Croatian Radiotelevision has however shown the series, despite 'Siska' having the same meaning in the Croatian languageSOKO Stuttgart
6.625
Overview:
The SOKO Stuttgart team investigates analytically and with sensitivity in the likeable state capital. The exciting cases of the series lead them to bizarre crime scenes and to different milieus.Coast Guard
5.4
Overview:
Küstenwache is a German television series that tells the fictionalized adventures of a unit of Federal Coast Guard officers off the German coast of the Baltic Sea.Dead Pool
1
Overview:
Docudrama in two parts, based on the abduction of the president of the employer's association of Germany, Hanns Martin Schleyer, by the Baader-Meinhof gang in the Autumn of '77.Coming Out
6.5
Overview:
Philipp, a closeted teacher, is dating a female colleague to keep up appearances. One night he stumbles into a gay bar and falls for a man. Transformed by this love, he is no longer afraid to face up to who he is.Wolfsjagd
7.2
Overview:
Wildlife ranger Sara Jahnke prefers to live in the solitude of Canada's forests rather than among people. In her home in Brandenburg, with her father Robert Jahnke and her grown-up daughter Julia, she can only manage for a limited time. Shortly before her return to Canada, Sara is commissioned to track down and remove a wolf that has become conspicuous. When she finds the body of a Romanian seasonal worker, an outrageous suspicion arises. Is Silvana the first victim of a fatal wolf attack in several hundred years?The Hairdresser
6.069
Overview:
When a salon refuses to hire her because of her plump figure, irrepressible hair stylist Kathi plots revenge by opening her own beauty parlor next door. But when she faces a cash-flow problem, Kathi resorts to some creative means of raising capital.Führer Ex
6.35
Overview:
Ingo Hasselbach, whose parents were Communist Party members in East Germany during his childhood, has lived at both ends of the political seesaw. The question of how people reach a change of heart is a profound one; Hasselbach describes the external forces that led to his founding Germany's first neo-Nazi political party and the internal ones that led him away from it five years later.Ernst Thälmann
NYR
Overview:
This elaborate two-part television film features a section from the life of communist worker leader Ernst Thälmann. It begins with the bloody riots on May 1, 1929 in Berlin, in which police officers shot at demonstrating workers, and ends with February 7, 1933, when Thälmann appeared as a speaker at the illegal meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Germany in goat neck. This period was marked by the struggle of the Communists against the ever stronger National Socialists and the rise of Adolf Hitler.The Crows
3.45
Overview:
After a truck accident, Lab crows escape, and provoke a panic in the neighborhood. Alexandra, a young pregnant lady will go to every length to escape the mayhem and raise her neighbors' awareness about the danger.Gloria, die schönste Kuh meiner Schwester
4
Overview:
Apart from a loose affair with the traveling feed salesman Gerd, the life of Brandenburg farmer Jutta consists only of work - and her cow Gloria. Gloria is a magnificent cow, the most beautiful in the whole of Brandenburg. Now Jutta plans to make her Miss Germany. For Jutta, Gloria is the center of her little world, but for her brother Thomas, who comes to visit unexpectedly after the death of their father, this devotion is highly irritating. Admittedly, Gloria is a gem, but she is still just a cow!Der Fall Marianne Voss
6.714
Overview:
Griesenow, 2013: The hairdresser Marianne Voss is found dead in the forest by her daughter Heike. Shortly afterwards, her husband Karsten comes under suspicion of murder. But he protests his innocence.Return to Go
3
Overview:
After Sam, a penniless Afro-German singer, discovers he's HIV positive, he gets utterly drunk, spends a few miserable days, but promptly falls (back) in love. Amidst a crumbling former East Berlin (its bulidings, cars, people & culture), Sam develops a "family" for the new millenium, for the new generation of post-drug cocktail AIDS victims. The fragile "family" he forms includes his on-again-off-again boyfriend Rainer, and his best friend Bastl with his latest fling, Mike. Like the old, schmaltzy East German songs which Sam is recording, the sweet innocence of the characters struggle to prevail, the misfortunes of the characters nothwithstanding.Acting
2024Der Fall Marianne Voss as Ulrich
2023Wolfsjagd as Unknown
2023Am Ende das Licht as Abholer
2021La casa de las mil estrellas as Unknown
2019Erzgebirgskrimi (1 Episode) as Heiner Schüppel
2018Gloria, die schönste Kuh meiner Schwester as Unknown
2018Ihr seid natürlich eingeladen as Standesbeamter
2017Weiber! Schwestern teilen. Alles. as Markus, der Polizist
2015How Safe Are Our Planes? as Unknown
2015In aller Freundschaft - Die jungen Ärzte (1 Episode) as Paul Strese
2014Sprung ins Leben as Hopenberg
2014Der Tropfen - Ein Roadmovie as Priest Brühl
2012Letzte Spur Berlin (1 Episode) as Dr. Kirsten
2010The Hairdresser as Micha
2009SOKO Stuttgart (1, 1 Episode) as Philip Stark, Jürgen Schierle
2008Valkyrie as Heinrich Himmler
2007Hamburg Dockland (1, 1 Episode) as Dr. Bauer, Siegfried Höpfner
2006The Crows as Jasper
2004SOKO Wismar (1 Episode) as Jan Sitten
2004Inga Lindström (1 Episode) as Jakob
2002Führer Ex as Prison Officer
2001Courts mais Gay : Tome 2 as Unknown
2001Return to Go as Bastl
2001SOKO Leipzig (1, 1 Episode) as Dr. Grohe, Anwalt Harald Kordes
2000Three Wishes as Unknown
1998Siska (51 Episodes) as Lorenz Wiegand
1997Not a Love Song as Karl
1997Dead Pool (1 Episode) as Chefpilot Schumann
1997Coast Guard (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Bruno Fredersen, Daniel Hege, Christian Voss
1996SK-Babies (1 Episode) as Marc König
1996Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police (2, 1 Episode) as Jochen Seyfert, Polizeimeister Jochen Seyfert
1996Mona M. - Mit den Waffen einer Frau (1 Episode) as Frank
1996Liane as Jounalist Ziemer
1995Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall (1 Episode) as Gottfried Wilfert
1994Im Namen des Gesetzes (1 Episode) as Christoph Baum
1989Coming Out as Philipp Klarmann
1987Die erste Reihe as Unknown
1987Käthe Kollwitz – Pictures of a Life as Peter Kollwitz
1986Ernst Thälmann as Unknown
1981A Case For Two (1 Episode) as Rüdiger Kleinert
1977Der Alte (1, 1 Episode) as Manfred Kiessling, Ingo Orlak
1970Scene of the Crime (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Ernst Heck, Röckmann, Hendrik Wilkens