Stefanie Reinsperger

Stefanie Reinsperger grew up in London and Austria and completed her acting training at the Max Reinhardt Seminar, graduating with a diploma in 2011.
Following her training, she had a three-year engagement at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, where she played, among other roles, Medea in Grillparzer's play directed by Sarantos Zervoulakos, as well as Nora in „Nora3“ and Eve in „The Broken Jug“, both directed by Dušan David Pařízek. In 2013, she won the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus Audience Award for Best Newcomer. In 2015, she moved to the BURG and, in the same year, was invited to the Berliner Theatertreffen with „The Unmarried Woman“ directed by Robert Borgmann and „The Ridiculous Darkness“, directed once again by Dušan David Pařízek.
In the same year, she was simultaneously named both up-and-coming actress and actress of the year by Theater Heute magazine, and won the Vienna Nestroy Prize for best up-and-coming actress.
From 2015 to 2017 she was engaged at the Volkstheater Wien, where she once again worked with Dušan David Pařízek, as well as Anna Badora, with whom she once more developed Grillparzer’s Medea. There she played Juliet in „Romeo and Juliet“ and Karoline in „Kasimir and Karoline“, both directed by Philipp Preuss. At the Volkstheater she was awarded the Dorothea Neff Prize as best actress.
From 2017 to 2022, Stefanie Reinsperger was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Berliner Ensemble, where she worked with directors including Michael Thalheimer, Simon Stone, Ersan Mondtag, Frank Castorf and Christina Tscharyiski.
At the Salzburg Festival she played the role of the Buhlschaft in the summers of 2017 and 2018, and in 2022 she took on the role of Frosch in Die Fledermaus at the Volksoper Wien.
In 2022 she won the Romy in the category of most popular TV actress and was awarded the Helene Weigel Theatre Prize at the Berliner Ensemble.
Since 2024, she has been a member of the BURG ensemble again, where her roles include Liliom in Liliom, directed by Philipp Stölzl, as well as the solo performance „Elisabeth!“, a world premiere by Mareike Fallwickl, directed by Fritzi Wartenberg.
Away from the stage, Stefanie Reinsperger also regularly films for television and cinema.
In 2019 she played Maria Theresa in the two-part television film of the same name, directed by Robert Dornhelm, and from 2020 to 2025 she was part of the regular team as Chief Inspector Rosa Herzog in Tatort Dortmund.
In „House of Glass“, directed by Alain Gsponer, a 6-part mini-series for the ARD, she plays Eva Schwarz, one of the main roles.

Since 2017, Stefanie Reinsperger has also been a lecturer at the HSF Ernst Busch and the UdK Berlin.
In 2024, she was on the jury for the drama school festival in Frankfurt.

In 2022 she published her book entitled „Quite Frightfully Angry“. A love letter to female anger and an appeal to the beauty industry.