Rainer Strecker

Actor

Rainer Strecker, born on October 25, 1965, in West Berlin, is a versatile German actor, audiobook narrator, and author. He completed his acting training at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich and then worked at renowned theaters, such as the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, before appearing regularly in film and television. Strecker's film credits include the science fiction film ELYSIUM (2009, directed by Pola Beck), in which he is one of the actors. The film unfolds in a dystopian atmosphere – his role makes an atmospheric contribution to this arthouse work in the genre. Strecker gained longer-lasting fame on television primarily through the crime series Einsatz in Hamburg (2000–2013, directed by various directors), in which he played Inspector Volker Brehm alongside Aglaia Szyszkowitz for over a decade. In the series Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei (1996, later 2019), he played Chief Inspector Ingo Fischer, but left during the first episode (pilot episode), which secured his career an early, formative TV presence. In the ARD-Degeto television films Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr (since 2019), Strecker plays Rüdiger Dorn, a character with humor and heart, who recently introduced him to a wide audience. His filmography also includes cinema works such as Die Frau, die sich traut (2013), Rettet Raffi! (2015) and Wut auf Kuba (2020), as well as numerous guest appearances in popular crime series such as Tatort, Bella Block, Der Kriminalist, SOKO Stuttgart and In aller Freundschaft – Die jungen Ärzte – roles in which he always stood out for his precise acting and appealing depth of character. Rainer Strecker stands for confident, nuanced acting – whether in arthouse cinema, long-running TV crime dramas or as a striking character in family and Degeto films.

Films on Sooner

Elysium

2009

5 mins

Shorts, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

A brief vision of a capitalistic-dystopian future in which even dying is commercialized.