Till Wonka was born in Dresden in 1982 and studied drama at the Academy of Music and Theatre Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Leipzig. After finishing his studies, he worked at the Leipzig Theatre, the Stuttgart State Theatre and the Düsseldorf Theatre, where he played leading roles in Romeo und Julia, Hamlet, Die Macht der Finsternis, Titus Andronicus and Homer’s Iliad. Some of the directors he has collaborated with are Nuran David Calis, Armin Petras, Sebastian Baumgarten, Volker Lösch, Dušan David Pařízek and Nurkan Erpulat. Since the season 2013/2014 Till Wonka is a company member of the Gorki Theatre.