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Eva Löbau, born April 26, 1972, studied at Max-Reinhardt-Seminar in Vienna in the department of acting and directing at Filmakademie in Ludwigsburg. Besides numerous theatre roles, Löbau started to appear in film productions from 1999 on.
In "Ich werde dich auf Händen tragen" ("I’ll Wait On You Hand and Foot"), directed by Iain Dilthey, she played a young single mother and won the award as best actress at the 2001 Festival International de Cine de Gijon, among other awards, for her performance. Löbau was also highly praised for her performance as a the stranded young teacher in Maren Ade's film "Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen" ("The Forest for the Trees", 2003).
During the following years, Löbau proved her versatility with a couple of highly different characters: She played a psychotic junkie in Detlev Buck's film "Knallhart" (Tough Enough", 2006), a vamp in Iain Dilthey's film "Gefangene" ("Prisoners", 2006), or a tourist who travels Asia on the search for meaning in "Hotel Very Welcome" (2007). Furthermore, Löbau made several TV appearances, for instance, in both of Angelina Maccarone's "Tatort" episodes, "Wem Ehre gebührt" (2007) and "Erntedank e.V." (2008), as well as in the TV comedy series "Hilfe! Hochzeit! – Die schlimmste Woche meines Lebens" (2007) alongside Christoph Maria Herbst.
After a small role in Quentin Tarantino's film "Inglourious Basterds", Eva Löbau played her next leading role on the movie screen in 2009 in Jovan Arsenic's ensemble film "Helden aus der Nachbarschaft" ("Heroes from the Neighbourhood").
Following a supporting role in "Mein Leben im Off" (2009), she played the fiancé of the protagonist in the award-winning drama "Der Albaner ("The Albanian", 2010). Following her turns in "Im Alter von Ellen" ("At Ellen's Age", 2010) and the international thriller "Unknown Identity" (2011), Löbau appeared in a string of TV productions, including a part in the made-for-TV comedy "Blitzblank" and the female leading role in the acclaimed sitcom "Lerchenberg" (2013). She played the crucial role of Eva Wagner in the miniseries "Der Wagner-Clan. Eine Familiengeschichte" (2013) and displayed her knack for comedy in "Die Mütter-Mafia" (2014).
After roles in the 2014 releases "Coming In" and "Ein Geschenk der Götter", Löbau starred in the low-budget-comedy "Worst Case Scenario", which premiered at the 2014 Munich Film Festival, and was released in 2015. The same year, she had leading roles in the made-for-TV comedies "Der Kotzbrocken" and "Die Müttermafia-Patin", the latter being a sequel to "Die Mütter-Mafia".
She had supporting roles in the TV comedies "Es kommt noch besser" (2015), starring Andrea Sawatzki and August Zirner, and "Tief durchatmen, die Familie kommt" (2016) with Andrea Sawatzki and Axel Milberg.
On the big screen, Löbau starred in two highly acclaimed films: the coming-of-age story "Morris aus Amerika" ("Morris from America", DE/US 2016) featured her as the mother of the young protagonist's girlfriend, and in the tragicomedy "Die Blumen von gestern" ("Bloom of Yesterday", DE/AT 2016) she was a colleague of the main character, an over-eager Holocaust researcher. At the 2017 German Film Awards, Eva Löbau was nominated for Best Actress for her role in the comedy "Einsamkeit und Sex und Mitleid" ("Sex, Pity and Loneliness"), as a lonely doctor who decides to hire a callboy for one night.
In the same year, she belonged to the ensemble of the TV comedy "Von Erholung war nie die Rede", a sequel to "Es kommt noch besser" (2015) and "Tief durchatmen, die Familie kommt" (2016), followed in 2018 by the fourth part "Ihr seid natürlich eingeladen" (2018). In 2017, she also took on the role of the new detective Franziska Tobler in the crime series "Tatort", alongside Hans-Jochen Wagner.
In cinema, Löbau played smaller supporting roles in Tom Lass' idiosyncratic love story "Blind & Hässlich" ("Blind & Ugly", 2017) and in Ute Wieland's bitter coming-of-age drama "Tigermilch" ("Tiger Milk", 2017). She had a leading role in the lauded drama "Reise nach Jerusalem" ("The Chairs Game", 2018), as an unemployed woman who escapes the humiliating measures at the job centre. For this performance she was awarded the Best Actress Award at the film festival Achtung Berlin.
Eva Löbau was a member of the ensemble at the Münchner Kammerspiele in the 2018/19 and 2019/20 seasons. However, it was not until 2023 before she appeared on the big screen again. In İlker Çatak's "Das Lehrerzimmer" ("The Teacher's Lounge") she plays a school secretary suspected of theft, a role and setting that vaguely recalls her breakout role in the film "Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen".
Eva Löbau also continues to be a regular in the TV series "Familie Bundschuh", launched in 2015, and co-stars with Jochen Wagner as an investigator in the crime series "Tatort".