He is the first actor who has won the German Film Award for both acting categories in the same year (2020) - as Best Actor for System Crasher (2019) and as Best Supporting Actor for Berlin Alexanderplatz (2020).

[on having been a smoker since his teens before quitting for All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)] I really love to smoke, but it was the right moment. It was necessary to withstand the physical demands of the shoot.