Felix Kammerer
Felix Kammerer is an actor, born 1995.
A debut in a lead role is usually a warning sign. This one was not. Out of the Berlin theatre, Kammerer was handed one of the largest first jobs a film actor can get: Paul Baeumer, the German schoolboy at the center of Edward Berger's 2022 All Quiet on the Western Front. He plays him as a boy who is enthusiastic for roughly ten minutes and then spends two hours being emptied out, and almost none of that is carried by dialogue.
He has stayed in the same historical territory since. All the Light We Cannot See put him back in uniform as Schmidt for a Netflix miniseries. Eden cast him as Rudolph Lorenz in a survival story with a cast considerably bigger than his part. Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein gave him William, brother to Victor, which is a supporting part in a very different key.
It is a short career so far, and the honest summary is that all of it rests on one performance. That performance happens to be a very good one.
Movies (4)
TV (1)
Where to start with Felix Kammerer
There is one place to start and it is All Quiet on the Western Front. Berger's film is punishing and beautifully made, and Kammerer's face carries the argument the script mostly leaves unspoken. Give it your full attention rather than a second screen.
Afterwards, All the Light We Cannot See is the softer companion piece, a Netflix miniseries that keeps him in uniform but places the emotional weight elsewhere. Frankenstein is del Toro at full romantic pitch, with Kammerer in a supporting part that only works if you believe the family. Eden is the odd one out, a survival drama where he is one name among many.
Frankenstein: The Anatomy Lesson is for completists: a making-of in which he appears as himself.