Christoph Röhl studied film directing and scriptwriting at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin.
Röhl returned to Berlin to direct his first feature film, A Piece of Me (German: Ein Teil von mir), in 2007.
In 2014 he directed the film The Chosen Ones (German: Die Auserwählten) with Ulrich Tukur and Julia Jentsch in the lead roles.
In 2018 Röhl directed the docudrama Kaisersturz, which was broadcast on ZDF to coincide with the centenary of the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II and the end of the First World War.
In the same year, Defender of the Faith (German: Verteidiger des Glaubens), a feature documentary about Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's influence on the Catholic Church and the events leading to his historic resignation as Pope Benedict XVI in February 2013, was released in German cinemas.