Career
After finishing his acting school in Bochum, Germany in the 70s, Roland Reber worked as actor, writer and director at many German and international theatres such as Bochum, Essen, Zurich, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Kingston, Jamaica, Moscow et cetera He has written more than 20 theatre plays and scripts as well as texts and poems. In 1981 he founded the Theatre Institute and worked as a director, author and actor.
He was Head of the World Theatre Project (in the framework of the Decade for Cultural Development of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and United Nations) which he founded in 1989 and worked as director and writer in Cairo, Mexico and the Caribbean.
He was teacher for acting and directing among others in Moscow and the Caribbean. Foreign wtp international he works as director, writer and producer.
All his films have been shown in various international Film Festivals and have been distributed theatrically and on Digital Video Disc. From 2003 until 2007 Roland Reber was the official representative of the CIFF Cairo International Film Festival (A-Festival) for the German speaking countries and the official representative for Europe of the Damascus International Film Festival. In November 2009 six of his feature films have been shown as a Roland Reber Tribute at the renowned 40th International Film Festival of India in Goa, India.
Distinction/ 1976 Schweizer Kulturpreis Roland Reber: An Institution in directing.
To say that Roland Reber is an exceptional director would be describing him half-heartedly. Foreign the man is himself a lesson to the entire fraternity of world cinema (Hindustan Times, 14 November 2003) Unique in the landscape of German cinema. The German cinema-buddha:Roland Reber.
(Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Feuilleton, 2009) Masterpiece! (Deadline (magazine)) Filming against the current (Chilli Magazin, April 2008).