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He was teacher of acting and directing among others in Moscow and the Caribbean.

After finishing his studies at the Schauspielschule Bochum, Germany, in the 1970s, Reber worked as actor, writer and director at many German and international theatres such as Bochum, Essen, Zürich, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Kingston, Jamaica, Moscow etc.

He has written more than 20 theatre plays and scripts as well as texts and poems.

Reber was a German director, author and producer.

In 1981 he founded the Theatre Institute and worked as a director, author and actor.

For wtp international he worked as director, writer and producer. All his films have been shown in various international Film Festivals and have been distributed theatrically and on DVD.

For his directing of the feature film The Room (2000/2001) he received, amongst others the Emerging Filmmaker Award 2001 in Hollywood, the Jury Choice for Foreign Film 2001 in Chicago and the President's Award 2000 in Ajijic/Mexico and the Best Film 2001 at the Third Panorama of International Film in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Roland Reber is almost considered a "Hof veteran" as six of is films have already celebrated its German premiere at the International Hof Film Festival in Germany (24/7 The Passion of Life, Angels with dirty wings, Illusion, The truth of lie, Taste of life, Roland Rebers Cabaret of Death).

All his films have been shown in various international Film Festivals and have been distributed theatrically and on DVD / BluRay and VoD.

For his theatre work he received the Schweizer Kulturpreis (1976) and received as first European the cultural prize of the Caribbean Season of Excellence (1991 and 1993).

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.

From 2003 until 2007 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.

He was member of the jury at the Fantasporto International Film Festival 2008 in Portugal, at the Festival Internacional de cinema de Catalunya 2007 in Spain, at the Alexandria International Film Festival in Egypt 2003, the Dhaka International Film Festival in Bangladesh 2004 and at the 13th Cairo International Film Festival for Children 2003.

He was Head of the World Theatre Project (in the framework of the Decade for Cultural Development of the UNESCO and UN) which he founded in 1989 and worked as director and writer in Cairo, Mexico and the Caribbean.

Three of his films were shown in a "Roland Reber Films" section at the Kolkata International Film Festival in November 2003.