Biography
Rainer Reiners is a German actor. Born in 1959 in Preetz, he grew up on a small farm in northern Germany before moving to the Palatinate at age 15. He studied advertising in Berlin from 1985 and later trained as an actor at Die Etage, graduating in 1990.
Reiners has appeared in numerous theatre productions as well as international films and television. He is known for roles including Herr Mendl in The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), the Priest in The Book Thief (2013), Rainer Huber in Blood Red Sky (2021), and appearances in Bridge of Spies (2015), Never Look Away (2018) and The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008).
