Ludwig Trepte

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Ludwig Trepte
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Born (1988-05-17) 17 May 1988 (age 35) [1]
East Berlin, East Germany
Nationality German
OccupationActor
Spouse
Deborah
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(m. 2011)​
Children2

Ludwig Trepte (born 17 May 1988 in East Berlin) [2] is a German television and film actor best known internationally for a leading role as Viktor Goldstein in Generation War (2013) and for his role as Alexander Edel in the German miniseries Deutschland 83 (2015).

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Life and acting career

His father is Stephan Trepte who was a member of the East German rock group Lift, [3] Electra and Reform. [4] He did not receive formal drama training and began his acting career at the age of twelve when he appeared in the German television mini-series Beim nächsten Coup wird alles anders (2001).

In 2006, he played the leader of a Nazi clique in his second feature film Combat 16  [ de ]. For his third major role in the feature film Out of Hand, he received the award for best young actor at the 27th Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize 2006. [5]

Furthermore, Trepte was leading actor in the TV movie Auf ewig und einen Tag (2006), the film Seven Days Sunday  [ de ] (2007) and in the television movie Guten Morgen, Herr Grothe (Good Morning, Mr. Grothe) (2007), for which he received the Grimme Prize in 2008. [6] In director Christoph Röhl's film Ein Teil von mir ('A Part of Me') he played a reserved, amiable and out of responsibility for his child, stealing very young man who has surprisingly become a father. In the youth drama Outta Control in 2008, he played the role of a behavioral adolescent, [7] for which he again in 2009 received the Grimme-Preis. [1] In 2009, he went to France, to film What You Don't See  [ de ] directed by Wolfgang Fischer and starring Frederick Lau and Alice Dwyer. [8]

Ludwig Trepte received international attention in 2013 as 'Viktor Goldstein' in the three-part TV movie Generation War (or 'Our Mothers, Our Fathers' in Germany). The film was awarded in 2014 with the international Emmy in the category TV Movie / Mini-Series. [9] In 2013, he stood in front of the camera for the eight-part Danish television series 1864 , which revolves around the defeat of Denmark in the German-Danish War of 1864. The script and direction was the responsibility of Ole Bornedal. [10] Also Trepte turned in leading roles for the Christian Schwochow tv film Open the Wall  [ de ] [11] and movie Im Spinnwebhaus. [12] The short film The Last Will by Dustin Loose based on the eponymous short story by Swedish bestselling author Håkan Nesser, [13] It was a Finalist for Foreign Film at the Student Academy Awards in 2015. [14]

In 2014, Ludwig Trepte took over the role of 'Lothar Erler' in the three-part Tannbach - fate of a village under the direction of Alexander Dierbach, in addition to Nadja Uhl, Martina Gedeck and Jonas Nay. [15]

Awards

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2001 Emil and the Detectives Schüler
2005 Combat 16  [ de ]Thomas Thiess
Out of HandPaulalso known as Keller - Teenage Wasteland [18]
2006 Twisted Sister  [ de ]Matze
2007Evil ImagesLukas(Short)
Seven Days Sunday  [ de ]Adam
2008 1st of May: All Belongs to You 'Pelle' Pelletier
Ein Teil von mirJonasAlso known as A Piece of Me, directed by Christoph Röhl
2009 What You Don't See  [ de ]Anton [8]
Im nächsten LebenFirefighter (Feuerwehrmann) Marcel
2014The Last Will (or Erledigung einer Sache)Jakob Adler(Short),based on the eponymous short story by author Håkan Nesser
2015Allein unter IrrenAlex Schulte(Short)
Im SpinnwebhausFelix
2016NowhereDannyalso known as Nirgendwo [19]
2017TigermilchAfghanistan Veteran [20]
2018SpielmacherAnton Weil [21]

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2001Paulas SchuldJunge 1(TV movie)
Beim nächsten Coup wird alles andersPaper BoyTV mini-series, 5 episodes
Polizeiruf 110 jüngerer SchülerTV series, 1 episode
2001-2015 Tatort Christian Jareis 2001/ Baris Sahin 2008/ Lars Leroux 2011/ Erik Trimborn 2015TV series, 4 episodes
2002-2014 Küstenwache Jacob Jäger / AndrejTV series, 2 episodes
2003 Im Namen des Gesetzes Stefan BrinkmannTV series, 1 episode
2004Sabine!!SebastianTV series, 1 episode
2006The Secret of St. AmbroseJulian Cramer(TV movie)
Auf ewig und einen TagGregor Luckner - Younger(TV movie)
Der letzte Zeuge Sezen AksulTV series, 1 episode
2007VerlassenMarc(TV movie)
Schimanski Lena's brotherTV series, 1 episode
Guten Morgen, Herr Grothe Nico(TV movie)
2008 Das Duo Manuel HertzTV series, 1 episode
Outta ControlOliver Rother(TV Movie, also known as Ihr könnt euch niemals sicher sein
Commissario Laurenti Michele GiustinaTV series, 1 episode
2010Kreutzer kommtRoger(TV movie)
Aghet - Ein Völkermord Hambardzoum Sahakian(TV Movie documentary)
2011 Großstadtrevier MoritzTV series, 1 episode
Die Pfefferkörner HannoTV series, 1 episode
Ein Fall für zwei Uli CasparTV series, 1 episode
2012 Deckname Luna  [ de ]Kurt(TV movie)
Der Dicke Lothar BrücknerTV series, 1 episode
Rat mal, wer zur Hochzeit kommtHrvoje Tomasovic(TV movie)
The Last Cop Simon HertelTV series, 1 episode
2013 Afghanistan: A Murderous Decision  [ de ]Vincent(TV Movie documentary)
Generation War Viktor GoldsteinTV mini-series, 3 episodes Known in Germany as Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter. [22]
Der große SchwindelFlorian(TV movie)
2014 1864 HeinzTV mini-series, 5 episodes
Open the Wall  [ de ]Axel Hoffmann(TV movie) [10]
Letzte Spur BerlinArno SchwarzTV series, 1 episode
2015 Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei RichieTV series, 1 episode
Deutschland 83 Oberleutnant Alex EdelTV series, 8 episodes
Shades of GuiltFelixTV series, 1 episode
Tannbach Lothar ErlerTV series, 3 episodes
2016Die Kinder der Villa EmmaJosko Indig(TV movie) [10]
2017Culpa - Niemand ist ohne Schuld (TV series)JonasTV mini-series, 1 episode
Die Firma danktSandor(TV movie)
Kommissar Marthaler - Die Sterntaler-Verschwörung Daniel Fichtner(TV movie)
Luther and I  [ de ] Philip Melanchthon (TV movie) [10]
2017-2018 4 Blocks NicoTV series, 7 episodes
2018 Deutschland 86 Alex EdelTV series, 10 episodes, follows on from Deutschland 83
Tanken: mehr als Super DanievTV series, 12 episodes
Ein starkes Team Jan TarpTV series, 1 episode
2019Charlotte Link - Im Tal des FuchsesRyan(TV Movie, filming)

Personal life

Trepte is married and lives in Berlin with his wife Deborah, who works at a film PR agency, and their daughter Mathilda, born in 2011. [2] On 20 August 2018 it was announced that he and his wife are expecting their second child. [4] He has three half-brothers and a half-sister. [2]

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