Season 1 •
Alicia von Rittberg as Ida Lenze, a fictitious patient and recipient of a life-saving operation who becomes an indentured medical assistant for the hospital. • as Georg Tischendorf, a medical student who wishes to be a photographer •
Justus von Dohnányi as
Robert Koch, a revolutionary bacteriologist, who has recently returned from India •
Matthias Koeberlin as
Emil Behring, an ambitious doctor with an opium addiction •
Christoph Bach as
Paul Ehrlich, a Jewish doctor with tuberculosis •
Ernst Stötzner as
Rudolf Virchow, a professor and head of pathology •
Matthias Brenner as
Ernst von Bergmann, a surgeon • as •
Emilia Schüle as Hedwig Freiberg, an actress with an almost obsessive interest in bacteriology and particularly Robert Koch • Ramona Kunze-Libnow as Matron Martha, the devout matron of the nurses at Charité • Klara Deutschmann as Sister Therese, a recently promoted nurse and friend of Ida • Tanja Schleiff as Nurse Edith, a nurse with unionization aspirations • Monika Oschek as Nurse Stine, a nurse who contracts diphtheria • Daniel Sträßer as Heinrich von Minckwitz, a reporter for the
Berlin Daily • Greta Bohacek as Mariechen • Stella Hilb as Hedda Ehrlich •
Lucas Prisor as
Kaiser Wilhelm II • Runa Greiner as Else Spinola • Rosa Enskat as Emmi Koch • Yusuke Yamasaki as
Kitasato Shibasaburō, a Japanese bacteriologist working with Robert Koch • Michael Pitthan as
Arthur Conan Doyle • Thomas Zielinski as
Carl Hagenbeck Season 2 •
Mala Emde as Anni Waldhausen, a medical student, studying eugenics under De Crinis and writing a dissertation on self-mutilation; an expectant mother •
Ulrich Noethen as
Ferdinand Sauerbruch, a pioneering surgeon and the head of surgery at Charité •
Jannik Schümann as Otto Marquardt, a medical student, to be sent to the
Eastern Front, closely-aligned with Ferdinand • Luise Wolfram as Margot Sauerbruch, Ferdinand's wife •
Artjom Gilz as Artur Waldhausen, Anni's husband, working for De Crinis, euthanising "unwanted children" •
Jacob Matschenz as Martin Schelling, a male nurse with a prosthetic leg, works for Ferdinand and is especially close to Otto. • Frida-Lovisa Hamann as Nurse Christel, a nurse who still believes in Germany's "ultimate victory" • Susanne Böwe as Nurse Käthe, a matron nurse • Lukas Miko as
Max de Crinis, a surgeon general high-ranking in the
NSDAP; a staunch proponent of eugenics and heading up
Aktion T4 • as Adolphe Jung (
de), an immigrant doctor who hides his dislike of the NSDAP • Sarah Bauerett as Maria Fritsch (
de), an American spy along Fritz Kolbe •
Marek Harloff as
Fritz Kolbe, an American spy with Maria Fritsch •
Peter Kremer as Georg Bessau (
de), a professor who softly champions the involuntary euthanasia program • Katharina Heyer as
Magda Goebbels,
Joseph Goebbels's wife • Maximilian Klas as
Peter Sauerbruch, Ferdinand and Margot's son • Pierre Kiwitt as
Claus von Stauffenberg, a soldier who served alongside Peter • as
Hans von Dohnányi, a severely-ill patient of Ferdinand's • as
Christine von Dohnanyi, Hans's wife •
Thomas Neumann as
Karl Bonhoeffer, De Crinis's predecessor •
Ludwig Simon as Paul Lohmann, a patient at Charité suspected of having self-inflicted his gunshot wound
Season 3 • Nina Gummich as Ella Wendt •
Nina Kunzendorf as
Ingeborg Rapoport •
Philipp Hochmair as
Otto Prokop •
Uwe Ochsenknecht as Helmut Kraatz • Max Wagner as Alexander Nowack •
Franz Hartwig as Curt Bruncken • Patricia Meeden as nurse Ariana • Amber Bongard as nurse Petra • Hildegard Schroedter as head nurse Gerda • Uwe Preuss as janitor Fritz Krug •
Timo Meitner as assistant Wittenberg •
Anatole Taubmann as
Mitja Rapoport • Nicholas Reinke as party secretary Lehmann • Peter Miklusz as Hajo Brennscheidt • Christian Beermann as captain Hertweck == Episodes ==