Birthplace: Neustrelitz, East Germany [now Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany]
Charly Hübner was born on 4 December 1972 in Neustrelitz, East Germany [now Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany]. He is an actor and writer, known for Police Call 110 (1971), The Lives of Others (2006) and Magical Mystery or: The Return of Karl Schmidt (2017). He is married to Lina Beckmann. They have one child.
Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" toward the events in war torn Europe, and his search for a new home.
In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.