Ludwig Trepte

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]

• 2006: Won - Best Young Actor at the 27th Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize for Keller - Teenage Wasteland^[5]
• 2008:the Goldene Kamera's Young Talent Award - "Lilli Palmer & Curd Jürgens Memorial Camera" ^[1][16]
• 2009: the Grimme Prize for Guten Morgen, Herr Grothe^[1][17]
• 2012: Nomination – Jupiter Award for Best German Actor for Was du nicht siehst

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]

• Ludwig Trepte at IMDb