--- name: "Enno Trebs" canonical: "https://film.one/person/enno-trebs" fi1m_id: "enno-trebs" imdb_id: "nm2852870" tmdb_id: 1597840 wikidata_id: "Q27499996" roles: ["Actor"] born: "5 October 1995" reviewed_on_fi1m: 3 average_fi1m_score: 82 average_as: "actor" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-09-21T01:17:13.794082+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Enno Trebs ## Identity Enno Trebs - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/enno-trebs - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** enno-trebs - **IMDb ID:** nm2852870 - **TMDB ID:** 1597840 - **Wikidata ID:** Q27499996 - **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27499996, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2852870/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1597840 Actor. Born 5 October 1995 in Berlin, Germany. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 5 October 1995, Berlin, Germany - **Active:** 2009–present - **Also known as:** Енно Требс - **Average Fi1m score:** 82, as actor, over 3 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 86 (1), 2020s 80 (2) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 82 to 78 across 3 titles - **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 0 of 2 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Drama 3, Comedy 1, History 1, Mystery 1, Romance 1 - **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $14m across 2 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27499996, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2852870/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1597840 ## Fi1m on Enno Trebs > Enno Trebs plays men the other characters have written off, and lets us write them off too before the film corrects us. It is a quiet, patient trick, best seen in Christian Petzold's *Afire*, and the parts have been smaller than the talent. Devid, the lifeguard in *Afire* (2023), arrives at the summer house as a man the film's novelist has already decided about. Leon looks at him and files him under fool, and Trebs goes along with the filing for exactly as long as the film needs him to. Then the film turns him round, and he is nothing of the kind. We felt slightly caught out, because we had been agreeing with Leon, and the performance had let us; that is the whole of the trick, and it is done without a raised voice. He has been at this since he was a boy. His first part was Georg in Michael Haneke's *The White Ribbon* (2009), with his siblings in the same cast, and two more followed in his teens: Philipp in *We Are Young. We Are Strong.* (2014), about the Rostock-Lichtenhagen riots of 1992, and Bernd in *Sanctuary* (2015), set in a Christian reformatory. Then he went away to train and to the stage, joining the Deutsches Theater Berlin ensemble for the 2020/21 season. The film career that came out of it belongs largely to Christian Petzold, who has used him in three films from *Undine* (2020) onwards, *Afire* among them and *Miroirs No. 3* (2025) the most recent. What he brings is restraint. He is an actor who would rather not explain, on screen or off; he has said he is "all in favour of taking the audience seriously", and Petzold is the director who takes him at his word. In *Fatherland* (2026), Paweł Pawlikowski casts him and his brother Theo as Wieland and Wolfgang Wagner, and the pairing is a good idea the film has no time for; like most of that picture's gallery of people who stayed and managed, they are on and off before they can become a relationship. That is the recurring limit of the career so far. The performances are precise and unshowy, and they have mostly been asked to be brief. The reservation is not ours alone; it is the only one anybody seems to have. Nobody writes that he is mannered or miscast. They write that he was a child actor and then a supporting player for a long time. That is changing, with leading roles in 2025 and 2026, *Miroirs No. 3* and the Cologne music film *Köln 75* (2025) among them, alongside theatre work he has not given up. We would like to see what he does when a film hands him the first hour rather than a scene in the third act, and whether the stillness holds when there is nobody else on screen to be underestimated by. ## Biography Enno Trebs is a German actor. Born on 5 October 1995 in Berlin, he began acting after being spotted at an audition for a children's film in 2007 and made his screen debut that year in the television film *Krauses Fest*. He gained notice for his role as Georg in Michael Haneke's *The White Ribbon* (2009), which also featured his siblings Theo and Lilli Trebs. Trebs trained at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin from 2016 to 2020 and has appeared in films including *Undine* (2020), *Afire* (2023) and *Mirrors No. 3* (2025), several directed by Christian Petzold. He has also worked in theatre as a member of the ensemble at the Deutsches Theater Berlin and was named a European Shooting Star at the 2026 Berlinale. *Sources: filmportal.de, imdb.com, de.wikipedia.org, germanfilmsquarterly.de.* ## On Fi1m (3) - *Fatherland* (2026), Fi1m 80, as Wieland Wagner — [page](https://film.one/film/fatherland.md) - *Afire* (2023), Fi1m 79, as Devid — [page](https://film.one/film/afire.md) - *The White Ribbon* (2009), Fi1m 86, as Georg — [page](https://film.one/film/the-white-ribbon.md) ## Complete filmography (31) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Echo of Tomorrow's War* (2026), as Jonas - *Fatherland* (2026), as Wieland Wagner — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/fatherland.md) - *Mirrors No. 3* (2025), as Max - *No Beast. So Fierce.* (2025), as Franz Müller - *Köln 75* (2025), as Jan - *Die Polizistin und die Sprache des Todes* (2024), as Kevin Schippers - *Afire* (2023), as Devid — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/afire.md) - *We Are Next of Kin* (2022), as Nickel - *Das Begräbnis* (2022), series, as Kevin Krolmann-Meurer - *No One's with the Calves* (2022), as Torsten - *Vollendet* (2021), Actor - *Maria Stuart* (2021), as Baron von Burleigh - *Undine* (2020), as Server - *Darling.Sister* (2019), as Lippe - *Raus* (2019), as Paule - *Lost Ones* (2018), as Valentin - *Tiger Girl* (2017), as Theo - *Sanctuary* (2015), as Bernd - *Young Doctors* (2015), series, as Dennis Lürssen - *We Are Young. We Are Strong.* (2014), as Philipp - *Friesland* (2014), series, as Marlow - *Heiter bis tödlich - Alles Klara* (2012), series, as Marius Thorwaldt - *House in the Lake* (2011), Actor - *Lindburgs Fall* (2011), as Boy - *Ausgleich* (2011), as Mario - *The Poll Diaries* (2010), as Paul von Siering - *The White Ribbon* (2009), as Georg — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/the-white-ribbon.md) - *Krauses Fest* (2007), as Fabian Dost - *Polizeiruf 110* (1971), series, as Friedrich Piatkowski - *Scene of the Crime* (1970), series, as Tobias Engel - *Paula Modersohn-Becker - No Compromises*, as Otto Modersohn --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/enno-trebs