Edgar Selge

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Edgar Selge
Selge at Berlinale in 2019
Born	(1948-03-27) 27 March 1948 (age 76) Brilon, Germany
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1984–present

Edgar Selge (born 27 March 1948) is a German actor and writer.^[1][2][3] Selge was born in Brilon in 1948, the son of a prison warden, grew up in Herford.^[2] He studied philosophy and German in Munich and Dublin as well as classical piano in Vienna.^[2] He graduated in 1975 from the Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts in Munich.^[2]

Launched in October 2021, his first book, the autobiographical "Hast du uns endlich gefunden" became a bestseller on the German language book market.^[4]