In 2003, Matthias Schweighöfer was honored as the best young talent, receiving the Lili Palmer and Curd Jürgens Memorial Camera. “Matthias Schweighöfer has proven that he is one of the actors to be taken seriously. With his acting in “Marcel Reich-Ranicki: Mein Leben” (Marcel Reich-Ranicki: My Life), he also makes it clear that it isn’t a problem for him to meet the demands of major roles,” so the jury about the 29-year-old.

Foto: Matthias Schweighöfer as Dietbert in "Küss mich, Frosch", © ZDF/Joachim Bischoff