Christoph Schlemmer

Christoph Schlemmer is a German actor, director, and playwright. He is best known for his comedic stage roles as Robert in Boeing-Boeing, Tom in Perfect Wedding, and Sydney Hopcroft in Absurd Person Singular. He won the Critics Choice NRW Award 2007 for Best Actor in Absurd Person Singular. His stage work includes the German premieres of Raised in Captivity and Clocks and Whistles. He starred as the lawyer Biegler in Germany´s most successful and acclaimed contemporary court drama, Terror, touring Germany, Austria, and Switzerland from 2016 to 2019. The company of Terror won the Inthega Theatre Award 2017 for Best Stage Production On Tour. His film and TV credits feature international movies such as Catalina (PL/BA 2017) and My German Boyfriend (CAN/D 2004). He has also guest starred in many popular German TV movies and crime series such as SOKO and Tatort. He is the author of the one-man comedy shows My Mother and Barbra Streisand and After 3 beers I feel straight. In 2012 he wrote and directed the acclaimed comedy Happy Reincarnation at Theaterforum Kreuzberg in Berlin. He won the Italian Playwright Award 2022 Il Premio Carlo Annoni  for Best International Play  for Happy Reincarnation. In June 2023 he made his debut at Deutsche Oper Berlin playing Paulo in the world premiere of Il Teorema di Pasolini by Giorgio Battistelli directed by Dead Centre. In cooperation with the German office for foreign affairs and Goethe Institute he prepared the Italian version of Happy Reincarnation in Milan and directed the first Italian reading at Elfo Puccini Teatro Milan.Teaming up with composer Jonas Pieper he develops the German musical version of Happy Reincarnation. He will direct the upcoming Italian premiere of Happy Reincarnation at Drama Teatro Modena on March 20, 2026. His new comedy Closed on Mondays is in preparation to premiere in 2026/27. He is the founder and leader of inclusive theatre workshops for adolescents with mental stress disorder.