Since 2009/2010 he is part of different plays at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden, such as the title roles in Schiller's Don Carlos and Shakespeare's Hamlet.
In June 2011 Friedel and four members of the German band Polarkreis 18 formed the band Woods of Birnam.
Since May 2017 Friedel plays the role of Nathanael in a stage adaption of E. T. A. Hoffmann's The Sandman by Robert Wilson at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus.
