Son of Swiss actor Robert Freitag and German actress Maria Becker.
Brother of actor Oliver Tobias. Another brother, Christopher, committed suicide at age 20.
Lived with singer/actress Nena , a popular German-born singing sensation internationally for many years and had three children by her: Christopher Daniel (born on 2 February 1988 and died on 19 January 1989 in Berlin ) and twins Sakias Manuel and Larissa Maria (born on 7 April 1990 in Berlin ). The broke up in the early 1990s.
