List of former child actors from Germany

This is a list of former child actors from Germany. These actors were age 17 or younger at the time they began their professional acting careers and are currently age 18 or older. The list also includes deceased child actors.

Movies and/or television series the subject appeared in are listed only if the subject was under the age of 18 at the time of principal photography.

A

• Michael Ande (born 1944)
  • Marianne, meine Jugendliebe (1955)
  • Das Hirtenlied vom Kaisertal (1956)
  • Die Trapp-Familie (1956)
  • Skandal in Ischl (1957)
  • Die Prinzessin von St. Wolfgang (1957)
  • Der Arzt von Stalingrad (1958)

B

• Patrick Bach (born 1968)
  • Silas (1981)
  • Jack Holborn (1982)
• Hermann Braun (1918–1945)
  • Der Jäger aus Kurpfalz (1933)
  • Ferien vom Ich (1934)
  • Achte mir auf Gakeki (1935)
  • Punks Arrives from America (1935)
  • The Dreamer (1936)

K

• Nastassja Kinski (born 1961)
  • The Wrong Move (1975)
  • To the Devil a Daughter (1976)

L

• Inge Landgut (1922-1986)
  • Angst (1928)
  • Indizienbeweis (1929)
  • M (1931)
  • Emil and the Detectives (1931)

N

• Loni Nest (born 1916)
  • The Golem: How He Came into the World (1920)
  • The Haunted Castle (1921)
  • The Blackguard (1925)
  • Joyless Street (1925)
  • The Sparrowhawk (1933)

O

• Jürgen Ohlsen (1917–1994)
  • Hitlerjunge Quex
• Tommi Ohrner (born 1965)
  • Der Kommissar (1969, 1974)
  • Das Haus der Krokodile (1975)
  • Timm Thaler (aka: The Legend of Tim Tyler) (1979)
  • Merlin (1980)
  • Manni, der Libero (1981)

P

• Josefine Preuß (born 1986)
  • Schloss Einstein (1999-2001)

R

• Paula Riemann (born 1993)
  • Bergkristall (2004)
  • Die Wilden Hühner (2006)

S

• Hans Joachim Schaufuß (1918-1941)
  • Emil and the Detectives (1931)
  • The Burning Secret (1933)
  • Game on Board (1936)
  • The Beggar Student (1936)
  • The Dreamer (1936)

T

• Theo Trebs (born 1994)
  • Lilly the Witch: The Dragon and the Magic Book (2009)
  • Das weiße Band, Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (The White Ribbon) (2009)
  • Der ganz große Traum (The Ultimate Big Dream) (2011)

W

• Rolf Wenkhaus (1917-1942)
  • Emil and the Detectives (1931)
  • S.A.-Mann Brand (1933)
• Philip Wiegratz (born 1993)
  • Es ist ein Elch entsprungen (2005)
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
  • Die Wilden Hühner (2006)
  • Ki.Ka Live (2007)
  • Die Wilden Hühner und die Liebe (2007)

See also

• List of current child actors from Germany
• List of Germans