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Lucas Reiber
Reiber, 2016
Born	Lucas Reiber (1993-10-04) October 4, 1993 (age 31) Lichterfelde (Berlin), Germany
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2006–present

Lucas Reiber (born October 4, 1993) is a German actor. He is best known for his roles in the films Suck Me Shakespeer 2, The Red Band Society and Die Mutter des Mörders, and for portraying Niklas in the television series Binny and the Ghost.

Biography

He was born and raised in Lichterfelde before moving to Kreuzberg when he was 14. His mother is Claudia Reiber and he has a sister, Lisa Reiber. His father became a vegan.

Reiber first appeared on stage in 2003 at the age of ten; he impersonated the young Gavroche in the musical Les Misérables at the Theater des Westens. From 2008, he was a member of the "junge Ensemble" (jE) of the Friedrichstadt-Palast, where he studied singing, acting and dance from 2008 to 2011. He took part in several productions there. From 2011 onwards, further acting coachings and singing lessons followed.

In 2009, under the direction of Peter Keglevic, he played his first film role in the two-part television film Ken Follett's Ice Fever [de] (based on Whiteout). He impersonated the teenager Craig alongside Heiner Lauterbach (as Craig's grandfather 'Stanley Oxenford') and Sophie von Kessel (as Craig's mother 'Olga'). In his first feature film, the youth film Rock It! (2010), he played the role of Marc, the keyboarder of the rock band, alongside Maria Ehrich and Emilia Schüle. Before the film, he had keyboard lessons for six years and then got guitar lessons for the film. In 2011, he starred alongside Christian Ulmen in the feature film Einer wie Bruno; he played the young musician Benny Schmidtbauer.

In the film comedy Fack ju Göhte 2 (2015), Reiber played the role of Etienne ("Ploppi"). a boy with Asperger's Syndrome. In the opinion of Christoph Schröder, Reiber formed "the only ray of hope" in Fack ju Göhte 2 in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit. In 2016, he received together with Anna Lena Klenke, Max von der Groeben and Jella Haase, the Bavarian Film Award.

Reiber then participated in several television films in major and minor roles. In the ZDF channel three-part Hotel Adlon: A Family Saga [de], he had in the 3rd part of the small role of bellboy Raphael. In the ZDF television comedy Friendship on Hold [de], he played Henry, the friend of the drug-consuming 17-year-old son of the mayor Bea Westkamp (Johanna Gastdorf).

In the ARD TV movie Sprung ins Leben, he appeared in March 2014, alongside Simone Thomalla, in his first major role on television. He played the talented football player Sebastian, who uses a wheelchair after a car accident. He excelled in his role a "sensitive portrait of a traumatized young people". In the TV two-parter After the Fall (Die Himmelsleiter) in 2015, he played Bruno Zettler, the son of Cologne based black market dealer and former NS - Ortsgruppenleiter Armin Zettler. In the ZDF thriller Die Mutter des Mörders (The mother of the murderer), he had the lead role, on the side of Natalia Wörner. He played Matis, the 20-year-old, mentally handicapped son of the supermarket saleswoman Maria, who comes under suspicion of murder after a violent crime. For his acting performance, he was awarded the 2016 New Faces Award.

Reiber also took over roles in television series. In the third season of the RTL series Doctor's Diary, he played in the scenes with the childhood memories the role of the young Marc Meier, played by Florian David Fitz. In the multi-award-winning Disney series Binny and the Ghost, he was in both seasons as Niklas Neudecker in front of the camera. Two episodes in which he starred as episodes were awarded the 'Goldener Spatz' in 2015. He had further episodes of main roles in the television series Heldt (2013, as paraplegic accident victim Manuel Unterberg) and in Leipzig Homicide (2013, the best friend of a young man who died of an overdose of crystal meth). In January 2017, Reiber was in the ZDF crime series SOKO 5113 (or SOKO Munich) in an episode main role to see; he played Matti Fauser, the ex-boyfriend of a dead youngster tennis player.

In addition to his film career, Reiber occasionally performs in the theater. In March / April 2013, he appeared in the theater on the Kurfürstendamm in Berlin in the role of teenage and half-orphan Jay in the tragicomedy A normal family by Neil Simon. His stage partners were Peggy Lukac (as grandmother) and Chiara Schoras (as Aunt Bella).

Reiber is a member of the Deutsche Filmakademie (German Film Academy).

Awards

• 2016: Bavarian Film Award for Best Young Actor for film Fack Ju Göhte 2
• 2016: Bunte's 'New Faces Award' for Best Newcomer for TV Movie The Mother of the Murderer (or Die Mutter des Mörders)

Filmography

Film

Television

Personal life

He likes jogging, cycling and playing a lot of volleyball. In 2015, he was living in a shared flat, in Moabit. He believes in sustainability and wears fair trade clothes. In 2018, he was driving an Opel Insignia GS car.

References

1. "LUCAS REIBER Schauspieler, Nachwuchsschauspieler, Synchronschauspieler, Musicaldarsteller". Retrieved 20 November 2018.
2. ^ Schulze, Rita (28 October 2017). "Lucas Reiber: "Der Körper macht es immer richtig"". www.morgenpost.de (in German). Retrieved 9 March 2019.
3. ^ "Lucas Reiber with his mother Claudia Reiber and his sister Lisa..." Getty Images. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
4. ^ Scherff, Victoria (23 October 2017). ""Es sind die kleinen Sachen, über die man sich bewusst werden kann und die man easy ändern kann"". Utopia.de (in German). Retrieved 9 March 2019.
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8. ^ "Rock It! - Filmkritik - Film - TV SPIELFILM". TV Spielfilm Online (in German). Retrieved 8 March 2019.
9. ^ Koch, Florian (17 June 2015). "Lucas Reiber: Fürs Fernsehen in den Rollstuhl". BUNTE.de (in German). Retrieved 8 March 2019.
10. Feld, Ulrich (5 August 2015). ""Einer wie Bruno": nicht perfekt, aber berührend". www.fnp.de (in German). Retrieved 8 March 2019.
11. "Gewinnen Sie 5x einen signierten Handschuh von Fack Ju Göhte 2-Star Lucas Reiber". GOLF MAGAZIN (in German). 19 March 2018. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
12. Schröder, Christoph (9 September 2015). ""Fack ju Göhte 2": Chantalismen in Strandkulisse". Die Zeit (in German). Retrieved 8 March 2019.
13. "Sprung ins Leben". Retrieved 8 March 2019.
14. "Lucas Reiber - Die Himmelsleiter - Sehnsucht nach Morgen - ARD, Das Erste". www.daserste.de (in German). Retrieved 9 March 2019.
15. "SOKO Munich (E: 16 S: 42) (Victory in the genes) (50 min)" (in German). tv.krone.at. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
16. "Eine ganz normale Familie". Komödie Berlin (in German). Retrieved 9 March 2019.
17. "Mitglied anzeigen". Deutsche Filmakademie (in German). Retrieved 9 March 2019.
18. "Einer wie Bruno". www.oberon-film.de. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
19. "Für Elise - farbfilm verleih". farbfilm-verleih.de. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
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21. "Verrückt nach Fixi im TV - Sendung - TV SPIELFILM". TV Spielfilm Online (in German). Retrieved 9 March 2019.
22. "Becks letzter Sommer, Film 2015 - Kritik - Trailer - News". Moviejones.de (in German). Retrieved 10 March 2019.
23. "Hanni & Nanni - Mehr als beste Freunde : Bild Lucas Reiber, Rosa Meinecke". FILMSTARTS.de (in German). Retrieved 9 March 2019.
24. "Lucas Reiber, Kriminalakte" (in German). Retrieved 9 March 2019.
25. O'Malley, Sheila (25 January 2019). "The Invisibles Movie Review & Film Summary (2019), Roger Ebert". www.rogerebert.com. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
26. Kappei, Lena (15 October 2018). ""Am Ende Legenden": Zwischen Fame und Freundschaft". www.morgenpost.de (in German). Retrieved 9 March 2019.
27. "SOKO München - Sommer '94". www.zdf.de (in German). Retrieved 9 March 2019.
28. "Katie Fforde – Bruderherz – Kritik zum Film bei Tittelbach.tv". tittelbach.tv - der fernsehfilm beobachter (in German). Retrieved 8 March 2019.
29. Dettner, Anja (9 March 2018). "Lucas Reiber: "Let's Dance würde ich nicht machen. Einen Tanzfilm schon eher"". Promipool.de (in German). Retrieved 9 March 2019.

External links

• Lucas Reiber at IMDb

• 1993 births
• Living people
• People from Steglitz-Zehlendorf
• German male film actors
• German male voice actors
• 21st-century German male actors
• Male actors from Berlin