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Roland Reber has worked as a director and actor in theaters around the world after finishing his Acting studies in Bochum in the 1970s. He has written more than 20 plays and scripts as well as texts and lyrics. In 1981 he founded the Theatre Institute and worked with this institute from 1981 - 1989 in Hamburg, Hattingen and Luenen. In 1989, he founded the Welt Theater Projekt (within the framework of the World Decade for Cultural Development of the United Nations and UNESCO) and worked as a director, writer and head of WTP in India, Moscow, Cairo, Mexico City and in the Caribbean. He also has been a cultural advisor to different countries and institutes and taught Acting and Directing in Moscow and the Caribbean. He received the Cultural Prize of Switzerland (1976) and the Caribbean award Season of Excellence (1991 and 1993) as a director and writer.
For his direction of the feature "Das Zimmer" ("The Room", 2001) he was awarded the Emerging Filmmaker Award 2001 in Hollywood and the President’s Award 2000 in Ajijic/Mexico, among others. WTP was named Producer of the Year 2000 by the Bavarian Film Center. His other films include: "Ihr habt meine Seele gebogen wie einen schoenen Taenzer" (1979), "Manuel" (short, 1998), "Der Fernsehauftritt" (short, 1998), "Der Koffer" (short, 1999), "Zwang" (short, 2000), "Sind Mädchen Werwölfe?" (short, 2002), "Pentamagica" (2003), "The Dark Side of Our Inner Space" (2003), and "24/7 The Passion of Life" (2005).
Since 2003, he was the official German representative of the Cairo Film Festival and since 2005 the official European representative of the Damascus Film Festival. He has also served as a jury member at festivals in Alexandria, Cairo and Dhaka.
Roland Reber died September 11, 2022 in Unterdießen in Bavaria.
Source: German Films Service & Marketing GmbH