Born in 1959, Stefan Kurt received his training at the Conservatory for Music and Theatre in his home town Bern. In the mid-1980s, Kurt started his engagement at Hamburg’s Thalia Theatre, quickly becoming one of Germany’s most versatile theatre celebrities. He played leading parts under directors such as Jürgen Flimm, Robert Wilson and Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger, receiving numerous awards like the Boy-Gobert-Award for Goldoni’s “The Servant of Two Masters”. After relocating to Berlin in the mid-1990s, Stefan Kurt started appearing in TV- and feature films. In 1997, he received the Telestar as well as the Adolf-Grimme-Award for his leading role as an undercover agent in Dieter Wedel’s “Der Schattenmann – The Shadow Man”. In 1999, he was honoured with another Grimme-Award for his portrayal of Jewish-American army investigator Gladbaker in “Gegen Ende der Nacht – Daybreak” (directed by Oliver Storz).

Following his comedic part as warden Meyerbeer in Chris Kraus’s “FOUR MINUTES”, Stefan Kurt is set to star in Dani Levy’s controversial Hitler comedy “Mein Führer”, which is currently in production.