Background
His father was the German actor Will Quadflieg.
His father was the German actor Will Quadflieg.
Christian Quadflieg attended school in Hamburg. After he finished his education with the Abitur (A-levels) he began a three year lasting education at the Westfälischen Schauspielschule (Actors school of Westphalia) in Bochum.
He has lived in Hamburg since 1991. These were followed by work in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Vienna and Zürich. He was also engaged at the Salzburg Festival.
He had roles in a great number of television series and movies, among them e.g. in Der Alte, Derrick, Das Traumschiff, Siska and Tatort.
In the 40 episodes of Der Landarzt, he portrayed the title role of Doctor Karsten Matthiesen and in 16 of these episodes he also worked as director He regularly tours Germany with programmes of reading the work of various poets.
In recent years he has been seen less on television, which he explains with "his search for a better quality of his roles". He also is the German voice of, among others, Dean Stockwell in Paris, Texas and of Henry Wilcoxon.
During his time in Oberhausen he worked under the name Christian Urs as he did not want to profit from the fame of his father Will Quadflieg, who was born and raised in Oberhausen.
Between 1969 and 1973 he was a member of the theater companies in Oberhausen, Wuppertal and Basel.