Enno Trebs • Actor
"The movies I want to act in have to feel very true, like a good observation of humanity"
by Ana Stanic
BERLINALE 2026: We caught up with the German actor to talk about starting young, growing up in the countryside outside Berlin, and shaping his craft through repeated work with Christian Petzold
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As Germany’s European Shooting Star, Enno Trebs may still be labelled an emerging talent, but he made his screen debut with Michael Haneke in the Palme d’Or winner The White Ribbon [+see also:
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film profile] (2009) and later found a recurring creative partner in Christian Petzold, appearing in Undine [+see also:
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interview: Christian Petzold
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film profile] (2025). He will next take the lead in Nicolas Ehret’s Echo of Tomorrow’s War (2026). We caught up with Trebs during the Shooting Stars press day to talk about starting young, growing up in the countryside outside Berlin, and shaping his craft through repeated work with Petzold.
