Name	Devid Striesow
Height
Naionality	German
Date of Birth	1-October-1973
Place of Birth	Bergen auf Rugen, Germany
Famous for	Acting

Devid Striesow is a German actor. He starred as "Sturmbannführer Herzog" (Bernhard Kruger) in Stefan Ruzowitzky's 2007 film The Counterfeiters, which was awarded the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for that year. Striesow is the son of an electrician and an infant and pediatric nurse. He grew up in Rostock. After finishing school, he moved to Berlin to begin a goldsmith apprenticeship. But the Berlin Wall in 1989 changed his life plans, and he went back to school to do A-levels.

He first studied music. After the civil service, he applied at the Academy of Dramatic Arts "Ernst Busch" Berlin. His fellow graduates in the year 1999, among others. Fritzi Haberlandt and Nina Hoss Since 1999 he has worked among other things as a stage actor at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg and at the Schauspielhaus. In Dusseldorf, began working with the director Jurgen Gosch. Striesow played in whose productions Cathy of Heilbronn, Prince of Homburg or the Battle of Fehrbellin, Hamlet and Vlas in Maxim Gorky's summer guests. For the role of Vlas, he was winner of the 2004 Alfred Kerr Prize and received by the magazine Theater heute the Best Young Actor award of the year. In 2005 he played in Gosch's Macbeth production, which was chosen for production of the year, the Lady Macbeth.