Albrecht Abraham Schuch was born on August 25 1985. From 2006 till 2010, he studied acting in Leipzig; subsequently, he joined the ensemble of the Maxim Gorki theatre in Berlin. Following minor TV roles, he was cast in the acclaimed 2010 TV adaptation of Sven Regener's best-selling novel "Neue Vahr Süd". The next year, he played the uptight supervisor of two East-German athletes – who fall in love with two women from West-Germany while training in Hungary – in Robert Thalheim's "Westwind".

In 2012, Schuch starred as famed explorer Alexander von Humboldt in Detlev Buck's lavish screen adaptation of the best-selling novel "Die Vermessung der Welt". Subsequently, he returned to work in television: In "Allmächtig", a 2013 episode of the Munich "Tatort" installment, he featured as a reverend devoted to a bizarre fight against worldly evils; in Züli Aladag's crime film "Die Fahnderin" (2014) he played alongside Katja Riemann as a state attorney. Aladag also directed a "Tatort" episode called "Schwerelos" (2015) which featured Schuch as a murder suspect. At the time, the actor was also nominated for the 2014 Nestroy-Preis as Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance as "Sekretär" in "Maria Magdalena" at the Viennese Burgtheater.

In 2016, Schuch was cast in three films by Christian Schwochow: The period drama "Die Pfeiler der Macht" (TV) featured him as a rich banker's son; in "Die Täter – Heute ist nicht alle Tage" (TV) from the three-part series "Mitten in Deutschland: NSU" he embodied the neo-Nazi Uwe Mundlos, and in the theatrical production "Paula", a biopic of the painter Paula Modersohn-Becker, he starred as her husband and fellow painter Otto Modersohn.

Schuch then appeared in a number of ambitious television productions: In the crime drama "Verräter - Tod am Meer" (2017) he was a policeman in the GDR who gets caught between the Stasi and the Federal Intelligence Service of West Germany; in the much-praised series "Bad Banks" (2018) he played a cornered investment banker; and in the two-parter "Gladbeck" ("54 Hours", 2018) he impersonated the real-life photo reporter Peter Meyer, who made himself the mediator of the Gladbeck hostage-takers.  

Thomas Stuber's drama "Kruso" and Rainer Kaufmann's "Der Polizist und das Mädchen" ("One Man's Happiness") premiered at the Munich Film Festival 2018 in the New German Television series, both starring Schuch in the lead role. At the same time he stood in front of the camera for his next feature film: In Burhan Qurbani's modern adaptation of Döblin's "Berlin Alexanderplatz" Schuch was cast in a leading role as vicious Reinhold. 

The unusual social drama "Systemsprenger" ("System Crasher", 2019), which premiered in the competition of the Berlinale 2019, drew a lot of attention and received much critical praise. In the film, Schuch played a leading role as an anti-violence trainer who takes care of a young girl with behavioral problems. Also in 2019, he won the German Television Award as Best Actor for his performances in "Gladbeck", "Der Polizist und das Mädchen" and "Kruso". At the German Film Awards 2020, Schuch was able to celebrate a special success, as he received two awards: for Best Male Lead in "Systemsprenger" and for Best Supporting Male in "Berlin Alexanderplatz".

Schuch remained true to his preference for serious roles and demanding subjects also in his next roles: Andreas Kleinert's biopic of Thomas Brasch "Lieber Thomas", Philipp Stölzl's adaptation of Stefan Zweig’s "Schachnovelle" ("Royal Game") and Dominik Graf's adaptation of the Kästner novel "Fabian" (all 2020/2021). For these performances, he was named Best Actor at the Bavarian Film Awards in May 2022. For his lead role in "Lieber Thomas," he received his third Lola at the 2022 German Film Awards.   

In the same year, he appeared in the miniseries "Funeral for a Dog" as a journalist drawn into the life of a mysterious writer (Friedrich Mücke), as a soldier in the anti-war film "Im Westen nichts Neues" ("All Quiet on the Western Front") and in the ensemble of Thomas Stuber's short story adaptation "Die stillen Trabanten".