Rainer Reiners
Personal Data
Languages: German (mother tongue), English (fluent), French (basic)
Residence: Berlin
Nationality: German
Height: 1.84m (6' 0.4“)
Hair: dark blonde
Eyes: blue
Training: Die Etage, Berlin
Dialects: Pfälzisch, Norddeutsch, Plattdeutsch
Musical instruments: Guitar
Driving licence: car (B)
Feature | Television
2021 | Strafe - „Ein hellblauer Tag“ | Moovie | TV Now | TV series | Director: David Wnendt, Ulrike Müller,
2021 | Greenlight - German Genius | Wiedemann & Berg Film | Turner TNT | TV series | Director: Detlev Buck, Cüneyt Kaya,
2021 | Torstrasse | X Filme Creative Pool | TV Now, Vox | TV series | Director: Sherry Hormann, Umut Dağ
2021 | Subtext | Bandenfilm | short film | Director: Sophie Linnenbaum | Diploma Film Filmuniversität Babelsberg
2021 | Kleo | Zeitsprung Pictures | Netflix | TV series | Director: Viviane Andereggen, Jano Ben Chaabane
2021 | Ella Schön | Dreamtool Entertainment | ZDF | TV series | Director: Holger Haase
2021 | Oh Hell | Good Friends Filmproduktion, Warner Media, Deutsche Telekom | MagentaTV, Warner TV Comedy | TV series | Director: Regie: Simon Ostermann, Lisa Miller (Showrunner: Johannes Boss)
2021 | Mord mit Aussicht | Claussen & Putz Filmproduktion | ARD | TV series | Director: Markus Sehr
2021 | Tatort - "Teufelskind" | Schiwago Film | RBB, ARD Degeto | TV series | Director: Thorsten C. Fischer
2021 | Inventing Anna | Shondaland | Netflix | TV series | Director: Tom Verica
2020 | Hoffmann | Schiwago Film | ARD Degeto/rbb | TV movie | Director: Max Zähle
2020 | Mirella Schulze rettet die Welt | MadeFor Film GmbH | TV Now | TV series | Director: Jonas Grosch, Sinan Akkuş | author + showrunner: Ralf Husmann
2020 | Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - "Ist das Kunst oder kann das weg?" | Bavaria Fiction | ARD/Degeto | TV series | Director: Hagen Bogdanski
2020 | Kroymann | btf | ARD | TV series | Director: Nicolas Berse
2020-2017 | Ella Schön | Dreamtool Entertainment | ZDF | TV series | Director: diverse | recurring
2020 | Blood Red Sky | Rat Pack Filmproduktion | Netflix | TV movie | Director: Peter Thorwarth
2020 | Nicht tot zu kriegen | MOOVIE GmbH | ZDF | TV movie | Director: Nina Grosse
2019 | Ebbe und Flut | Sevenpeaks Filmmakers Collective | short film | Director: Janis Westphal | lead
2019 | Tatort Dresden - "Parasomnia" | W&B Television | MDR/ARD | TV series | Director: Sebastian Marka
2019 | Soko Wismar - "Unterm Sand" | Cinecentrum Berlin Film- und Fernsehproduktion | ZDF | TV series | Director: Steffi Doehlemann | extended episode
2019 | Das Institut - Oase des Scheiterns (2nd Season) | Nova Film GmbH Berlin | ARD | TV series | Director: Markus Sehr | ensemble lead
2019 | Eichwald, MdB (2nd Season) | Kundschafter Filmproduktion | ZDF | TV series | Director: Fabian Möhrke | ensemble lead
2018 | Der Bulle und das Biest | Bantry Bay Productions Köln | Sat.1 | TV series | Director: Hanno Olderdissen, Thomas Sieben | recurring
2018 | Ostfriesenblut | Schiwago Film | ZDF | TV series | Director: Rick Ostermann
2018 | Tatort - "Der gute Weg" | Real Film Berlin | ZDF | TV series | Director: Christian von Castelberg
2018 | The Mauthausen Photographer | Rondar y Rondar | Netflix | feature film | Director: Mar Targarona
2017 | 1918 Aufstand der Matrosen | Rivafilm | arte | TV movie | Director: Jens Becker
2017 | Operation Finale | MGM | Netflix | feature film | Director: Chris Weitz
2017 | Counterpart | MRC | Starz | TV series | Director: Jennifer Getzinger
2017 | Weißensee - "Der erste Stein" | Ziegler Film | TV series | Director: Friedemann Fromm
2017 | Sense8 - "Limbic Resonance" | Anarchos Productions | Netflix | TV series | Director: Lana Wachowski
2017 | Siebenpunkt | HFF Potsdam Babelsberg | feature film | Director: Jonas Walter
2017 | SOKO Stuttgart - "Das eiskalte Händchen" | Bavaria Fernsehproduktion | ZDF | TV series | Director: Daniel Helfer
2017 | Familienzuwachs | Mäksmy | short | Director: Teresa Hoerl | won: Hessian Filmaward 2017
2016 | Alone in Berlin | X-Filme | feature film | Director: Vincent Perez
2015 | Homeland - "All About Allison" | Teakwood Lane Productions | Showtime | TV series | Director: Daniel Attias
2015 | Bridge of Spies | Amblin Entertainment | feature film | Director: Steven Spielberg
2015 | Weak Heart Drop | Alex Ross Production | feature film | Director: Alex Ross
2014 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Scott Rudin Productions | feature film | Director: Wes Anderson | Mr. Mendl
2013 | The Book Thief | Fox 2000 Pictures | feature film | Director: Brian Percival
Stage
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Rainer Reiners was born in 1960, the youngest of five children on a small farm in a tiny village in Northern Germany, where he lived a childhood of unimaginable freedom.
At 15 he was forced to move to the Palatinate. There was a new father and he had to attend the high school. He became a left-wing radical, grew his hair long, learned to play the guitar, dropped out of school and sought his happiness in such unpretentious occupations as construction worker, miner and lumberjack.
He didn’t find it, either professionally or otherwise. He wrote love songs full of weltschmerz and just missed becoming the German answer to Leonard Cohen. Then he became a lighting technician, which enabled him to witness the wonderful one-man play, “The Double Bass”, by Patrick Süskind.
In 1985, he attempted to become a film director by studying advertising in Berlin, hoping to somehow become the German answer to Woody Allen. He also performed “The Double Bass” on stage and afterwards switched his field of study to acting at Die Etage, Berlin, a program from which he graduated in 1990.
Since then, Rainer has worked in many theatre productions as well as in international films, TV movies and series.
Contact
Spielkind GmbH
Kastanienalle 79
10435 Berlin
T: +49 (0) 30-25 93 88-0 F: +49 (0) 30-25 93 88-77