He lives with the actress Jasmin Tabatabai in Berlin and has with her a daughter who was born in July 2009, and a son, born on 13 August 2013.

[1 January 2015] If someone asks me on New Year's Eve: 'So, what is your resolution?', then maybe I'll glance at the sky briefly and mention whichever thought comes to mind first. Two days later, I'll struggle with the resolution anyway and I will realize that keeping it is completely utopian.