About Dietmar Bär
Dietmar Bär, born in 1961, is a stage, film and television actor. He studied at the Westfälische Schauspielschule in Bochum. Bär became well-known as the Cologne “Tatort” police inspector Freddy Schenk, a role for which he received the German Television Award in the year 2000. In 2012, he received the Golden Camera as Best Actor for “Kehrtwende” and in 2017 he won the Bernhard Minetti Prize. Dietmar Bär is also well-known to audiobook fans as the narrator of books by authors Håkan Nesser and Stieg Larsson. In 2015, together with Klaus J. Behrendt, Dietmar Bär was honored with the Order of Merit of North-Rhein Westphalia for his volunteer work with the non-profit children’s rights organization Tatort-Straßen der Welt e.V. In 2022, he celebrated his 25th year of starring in the “Tatort” series set in Cologne.
