Christian Goldbeck studied production design at the HFF Konrad Wolf Potsdam Babelsberg, and graduated from the University of East London with a B.A. in architecture.
His production design credits include the German films Heidi, The Perfect Secret, The Edukators and Exil. Goldbeck designed all of Karoline Herfurth's feature films, including the hit comedy Wunderschön. Another long-term collaboration with director Hans-Christian Schmid resulted in the films Distant Lights, Requiem, and the Berlinale contributions Storm, and Home for the Weekend.
He was nominated for six German Film Prizes, including for his production designs for Go For Zucker, Requiem, Lovelife, and Me and Kaminski.
In 2021, his recreation of the battlefields and trenches of Verdun for the adaptation of Erich-Maria Remarque's novel All Quiet on the Western Front, directed by Edward Berger, won him an Academy Award.
