Ludwig Trepte

Ludwig Trepte is a German television and film actor. He is recognized internationally for his leading performance as Viktor Goldstein in the 2013 three-part television movie Generation War, which was released in Germany under the title Our Mothers, Our Fathers, as well as for his role as Alexander Edel in the 2015 German miniseries Deutschland 83.

Born on 17 May 1988 in East Berlin, Trepte is the son of Stephan Trepte, a musician who was a member of the East German rock groups Lift, Electra, and Reform. Trepte did not receive formal drama training before entering the acting profession. He started his career at twelve years old, making his screen debut in the 2001 German television mini-series Beim nächsten Coup wird alles anders.

In 2006, Trepte appeared in his second feature film, Combat 16, portraying the leader of a Nazi clique. That same year, he landed his third major feature role in Out of Hand, also known as Keller - Teenage Wasteland. For this performance, he received the award for Best Young Actor at the 27th Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize in 2006. He followed this with a lead role in the 2006 television movie Auf ewig und einen Tag.

Trepte continued to build his filmography with leading roles in the 2007 film Seven Days Sunday and the 2007 television movie Guten Morgen, Herr Grothe. For his work in Guten Morgen, Herr Grothe, he received the Grimme Prize. He also starred in director Christoph Röhl's film Ein Teil von mir, portraying a reserved young man who steals out of responsibility for his child after unexpectedly becoming a father. In the 2008 youth drama Outta Control, he played a behavioral adolescent, earning another Grimme-Preis in 2009. In 2009, he went to France to film What You Don't See, directed by Wolfgang Fischer and co-starring Frederick Lau and Alice Dwyer.

International attention arrived in 2013 through his starring role in Generation War. The project was awarded an International Emmy in 2014 in the category of TV Movie / Mini-Series. Also in 2013, Trepte appeared in the eight-part Danish television series 1864, written and directed by Ole Bornedal, which revolves around the defeat of Denmark in the German-Danish War of 1864.

During this period, Trepte took on leading roles in Christian Schwochow's television film Open the Wall and the movie Im Spinnwebhaus. He also starred in Dustin Loose's short film The Last Will, based on a short story by Swedish author Håkan Nesser, which was a Finalist for Foreign Film at the Student Academy Awards in 2015. In 2014, he played Lothar Erler in the three-part project Tannbach - fate of a village, directed by Alexander Dierbach, alongside Nadja Uhl, Martina Gedeck, and Jonas Nay.

Over the course of his acting career, Trepte has received several industry honors. In addition to the Max Ophüls Prize and his Grimme Prizes, he won the Goldene Kamera's Young Talent Award, known as the Lilli Palmer & Curd Jürgens Memorial Camera, in 2008. In 2012, he was nominated for a Jupiter Award for Best German Actor for his work in Was du nicht siehst.