Vanessa Loibl

Biography

Vanessa Loibl was born on February 4, 1992, in Vero Beach, USA, and grew up in Germany. At the age of ten, she began acting in school theater and successfully auditioned for a role in the daily soap "Marienhof," where she played Nicole Deile in 37 episodes over two years. After this, she did not pursue a career as a child actor but continued to participate in school theater, joining the youth group of the Munich Volkstheater in 2009.

After high school, Loibl resumed her professional acting career. From 2012 to 2016, she studied acting at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 2015, she won the Marina-Busse-Preis for an individual acting performance at the Meeting of German-speaking Drama Schools. 

Before completing her studies, Loibl joined the ensemble of the Staatsschauspiel Hannover for the 2015/16 season, making her debut as Viola in Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night." Her performance as wheelchair user Lisa, who is briefly engaged to main character Alexei Fyodorovich in a stage adaptation of Dostoyevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov," earned her a nomination for Best Young Actress in the Theater heute magazine's 2016 critics' survey. 

During her time in Hannover, she also collaborated with director Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson. When Arnarsson became the new artistic director at the Berliner Volksbühne at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in 2019, he brought several ensemble members from Hannover to Berlin, including Loibl. At the Volksbühne, she took on roles such as the lead in "Iphigenie. Traurig und geil im Taurerland." Her engagement with the Volksbühne ended with René Pollesch becoming the new artistic director for the 2021/22 season.

Alongside her stage work, Vanessa Loibl increasingly appeared on screen from 2018 onward. She played lead roles such as a peepshow worker in Xaver Böhm’s nocturnal Berlin film "O Beautiful Night" (2019) and a shy yet ambitious post-war industrialist's daughter in the two-season miniseries "Unsere wunderbaren Jahre" (DE/CZ 2020 and 2023). For the latter role, she received a nomination for Best Actress at the Hessian Television Awards in 2020. 

Loibl also appeared in supporting roles in three six-part miniseries: in the social and zeitgeist satire "Ich und die Anderen" ("Me and the Others", 2021), she played a colleague of Tom Schilling's main character; in the political crime series "ZERV – Zeit der Abrechnung" (Divided We Stand", 2022), she portrayed the daughter of Nadja Uhl’s chief investigator; and in "Disko 76" (2024), she played a spirited aspiring flight attendant. 

Vanessa Loibl took on another leading role in a feature film with "Münter & Kandinsky" (DE/CH 2024), which explores the love affair between painter Gabriele Münter and Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky.