Ludwig Trepte (born 17 May 1988 in

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) is a

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television and film actor best known internationally for a leading role as Viktor Goldstein in ''

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'' (2013) and for his role as Alexander Edel in the German miniseries ' (2015).

Life and acting career

His father is Stephan Trepte who was a member of the

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, ''Electra'' and ''Reform''. 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 ' (2001). In 2006, he played the leader of a Nazi clique in his second feature film ''Kombat Sixteen''. For his third major role in the feature film Keller, he received the award for best young actor at the 27th Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize 2006. Furthermore, Trepte was leading actor in the TV movie ''Auf ewig und einen Tag'' (2006), the film ''Seven Days Sunday'' (2007) and in the television movie ''Guten Morgen, Herr Grothe'' (''Good Morning, Mr. Grothe'') (2007), for which he received the Grimme Prize in 2008. In director

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'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, for which he again in 2009 received the Grimme-Preis. In 2009, he went to France, to film ''What You Do not See'' directed by Wolfgang Fischer and starring

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and

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. Ludwig Trepte received international attention in 2013 as 'Viktor Goldstein' in the three-part TV movie ''

'' (or 'Our Mothers, Our Fathers' in Germany). The film was awarded in 2014 with the international

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in the category TV Movie / Mini-Series. In 2013, he stood in front of the camera for the eight-part Danish television series ''

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'', which revolves around the defeat of Denmark in the German-Danish War of 1864. The script and direction was the responsibility of

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. Also Trepte turned in leading roles for the

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tv film ' and movie ''Im Spinnwebhaus''. The short film ''The Last Will'' by Dustin Loose based on the eponymous short story by Swedish bestselling author

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, It was a Finalist for Foreign Film at the

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in 2015. 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

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and

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Awards

* 2006: Won - Best Young Actor at the 27th Film Festival

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Prize for ''Keller - Teenage Wasteland'' * 2008:the

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's Young Talent Award - "Lilli Palmer & Curd Jürgens Memorial Camera" * 2009: the Grimme Prize for ''Guten Morgen, Herr Grothe'' * 2012: Nomination – Jupiter Award for Best German Actor for ''Was du nicht siehst''

Filmography

Film

Television

Personal life

Trepte is married and lives in

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

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Trepte, Ludwig Living people 1988 births German male film actors German male television actors Male actors from Berlin People from East Berlin