Eva Löbau

Acting

Eva Löbau

Born 1972-04-26 · Waiblingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Eva Löbau is an Austrian actress. She is perhaps best known for her playing the protagonist in acclaimed director's Maren Ade's feature film debut, 'The Forest for the Trees', for which Löbau won the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema 2005 prize for best main actor. Since 2017, she also plays one of the commissars in Germany's longest running crime series, 'The Scene of the Crime'.

Acting credits

Inglourious Basterds poster
8.2

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.

Inglourious Basterds

2009

Unknown poster
6.7

A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.

Unknown

2011

The Teachers' Lounge poster
7.2

When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her.

The Teachers' Lounge

2023

Requiem poster
6.6

Michaela, an epileptic, enrolls in college to study education. She goes off her medication and soon begins hearing voices and seeing apparitions that tell her to avoid religious objects, although she is devoutly Roman Catholic. One priest scoffs at the idea that Michaela could be possessed by demons, but a younger pastor arranges an exorcism for the young woman.

Requiem

2006

Die Mütter-Mafia poster
5.5

A mother is good. Several mothers at once are hell! Conny is 37 years old and has so far let her life being arranged by others - especially by her husband Lawrence. Lorenz has made the previous gray mouse, a trophy wife and offers her a carefree life. And so Conny falls from the clouds, when her husband announced her at dinner that he wants a divorce. Of necessity Conny pulls together the two children in the ancient house of Lorenz deceased mother and realized with horror that from now on everything will be different. Since it holds its own for non-viable, she clings to a clique of high-society mothers...

Die Mütter-Mafia

2014

A Woman in Berlin poster
6.6

A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.

A Woman in Berlin

2008

Die Geschlechtskriegerinnen poster
1.9

The ensemble film THE GENITAL WARRIORS takes a look at the common past of the three main characters as their memories meet and overlap. The 70-year-old Frank sits in a geronto-psychiatric ward and types a screenplay about his relationship with Lena and Barbara. These two embittered women come together with a magic wand and a shotgun to travel to the past and commit an act of revenge on him.

Die Geschlechtskriegerinnen

2015

Freaks - You're One of Us poster
5.7

After having a chance encounter with a mysterious character, Wendy, a young working class mother, discovers that she has super powers.

Freaks - You're One of Us

2020

Berlin Hero poster
6.6

Micha unwittingly becomes a German hero when a journalist portrays him as the mastermind behind the mass exodus from East Germany.

Berlin Hero

2025

Home Stories poster
6.3

As a contestant in a singing casting show, Lea is asked by the TV team who she is and what makes her special. She doesn't know and begins to slip into different roles in her search for what makes her special, developing an unexpected fascination for her aunt Kati. Kati's return home as head architect for the renovation of the Residenzschloss after many years abroad reunites the family in one place. This reunion raises the hopes of grandparents Friedrich and Christel that they can join forces to give their pension, which has few visitors, a new lease of life.

Home Stories

2026

Greetings from Mars poster
6.6

A young autistic boy and his two siblings have to stay with their grandparents while their mother is away. Because of his unique abilities and interest in space missions, he considers his grandparents land an isolated planet.

Greetings from Mars

2024

Little Dove poster
NR

December 24th. After a fight with her mother, 14-year-old Mila runs around searching for her sister, who works as a bicycle courier and hasn't come home. During her search, Mila meets courier Andre, 26, and accompanies him, speeding through Berlin on his bicycle rack, in his demanding job. They briefly form a surrogate family. Will any of them spend Christmas Eve at home?

Little Dove

2026

Tough Enough poster
6.8

From the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that is a realistic portrait of life in the section of Berlin called Neukölln. It’s about power and weakness, delinquents and victims, and the difficulties a 15-year-old faces in a poor and criminal environment.

Tough Enough

2006

No artwork available
2.0

A single woman lives with a lifelike newborn doll. Her feelings of motherhood appear to be as real as the baby is lifeless while the anonymous public sets the stage for this act of deception.

OXYTOCIN

2016

Fashion Victims poster
6.0

At 52, traveling salesman Wolfgang Zenker (Edgar Selge) is in old school territory: he peddles the company's classic clothing line to boutiques that cater to women over 35. When Wolfi loses his drivers license in his brand-new Mercedes but can't afford to lose the season's sales because his frustrated wife (Franziska Walser) desperately wants a new bathroom, their son's vacation plans take a back seat as Karsten (Florian Bartholomäi) is forced to making sales rounds with his father instead of celebrating his high school graduation in Spain. Also making the rounds in small town southern Germany is successful and attractive sales rival Steven Brookmüller (Roman Knizka), 33. As the men's paths cross, long-hidden secrets are revealed and things come to a hilarious head.

Fashion Victims

2007

Der Reini poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Der Reini

2025

My Words, My Lies - My Love poster
6.0

David, a waiter, finds an unpublished manuscript in a dresser drawer. To impress a girl, he claims to be the author. When the novel becomes a best-seller, the real author introduces himself and begins to take over David's life.

My Words, My Lies - My Love

2009

The Bloom of Yesterday poster
7.0

An almost romantic comedy on the edge: Holocaust researcher Toto is having a major life crisis. Just when things at home and work could not get worse, he unwantedly gets a new assistent assigned to himself. Zazie is french, jewish, slightly germanophobe and supposed to help Toto to prepare a major congress. As the star of the congress suddenly wants to pull out, the problems are piling up and the two have to fix it.

The Bloom of Yesterday

2017

Blind & Ugly poster
4.6

Ferdi thinks he's ugly – but likes the fact Jona is interested in him. Maybe because she's blind. What Ferdi doesn't suspect: She's just pretending to be blind to be able to live cheaply in subsidized housing. How long can she maintain her charade? Can love, which is supposed to make you blind, even work out that way? Director Tom Lass takes a closer look, shooting with blind actors and old Berlin buddies, acting the lead himself – paying tribute to a way of life beyond our way of seeing the world.

Blind & Ugly

2017

No artwork available
NR

Katharina plays the hospital clown Fredda Meyer. While working at the children's hospital, she has grown fond of Moritz, a 12-year-old boy suffering from cancer. Moritz will soon die. Fredda stays and is there for the parents, the nurses, the cleaning staff, and Moritz. She jokes when no one can laugh anymore. She cries clown tears when everyone is frozen. She sings when everyone falls silent. Fredda breaks the taboos and conventions of how we deal with death.

Fredda Meyer

2021

Sex, Pity and Loneliness poster
6.1

A shoe theft in the ICE is the prelude to a wild kaleidoscope of relationships and dependencies between different urban people who relish as in a cobweb fidget.

Sex, Pity and Loneliness

2017

Coming In poster
6.6

Notoriously hip Berlin based hairdresser Tom Herzner falls in love with beauty parlor owner Heidi, turning both of their worlds upside down. So far so good. Only one problem: Tom is gay.

Coming In

2014

Morris from America poster
6.2

13-year-old Morris Gentry has just relocated with his single father, Curtis to Heidelberg, Germany. Morris, who fancies himself the next Notorious B.I.G., is a complete fish-out-of-water—a budding hip-hop star in an EDM world. To complicate matters further, Morris quickly falls hard for his cool, rebellious, 15-year-old classmate Katrin. Morris sets out against all odds to take the hip-hop world by storm and win the girl of his dreams.

Morris from America

2016

Reise nach Jerusalem poster
4.2

39 years old Alice get's into a lot of absurd situations, while trying to keep up appearences as a successful freelancer...

Reise nach Jerusalem

2018