Reinhold Messner, born September 17, 1944 in Bressanone/Brixen in South Tyrol, is a German-speaking Italian mountaineer, considered by many to be one of the best of the 20th century. A great defender of the alpine style and destroyer of the expedition style, he is notably known for having made the first ascent of Everest without oxygen supply with Peter Habeler, in May 1978, and was the first to have climbed the fourteen peaks more 8,000 meters in 1986.

KNOWN FOR

Volle Kanne
2001
Markus Lanz
2008
DAS!
2022
Morgenmagazin
2016
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1996
Leute heute
2020
NDR Talk Show
1994
Abendschau
2003
Kölner Treff
2009
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
2005
Wer weiß denn sowas?
2023
Alpha Forum
2006

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
143
Directing
7
Writing
4
Camera
3
Crew
1
2026
Through Silence and Wind
as Self · unreleased
2025
K2 Chasing Shadows
as Self (archive footage)
2024
The Last Expedition
as Self
2023
Inas Nacht
as Self
2023
Klein gegen Groß - Das unglaubliche Duell
as Self
2023
Wer weiß denn sowas?
as Self
2023
Stöckl
as Self
2022
DAS!
2022
Markus Lanz
2022
Riverboat
as Self
2021
Sul Tetto del Mondo - Walter Bonatti e Rossana Podestà
2021
14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible
as Self
2021
The Alpinist
as Self
2021
Nanga Parbat - Mein Schlüsselberg
as Self
2021
Die große Terra X-Show
as Self
2020
Die große Zinne - 150 Jahre Kletterkunst
2020
Leute heute
as Self
2020
Meine Achttausender – Reinhold Messner
2019
Mythos Cerro Torre: Reinhold Messner auf Spurensuche
as Self
2019
Fine Lines
as Self
2019
Reinhold Messner - Heimat. Berge. Abenteuer.
as Self
2019
Romy Award
as Self
2018
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
as Self
2018
The Holy Mountain
2018
Eiskalte Leidenschaft - Leni Riefenstahl und Arnold Fanck zwischen Hitler und Hollywood
as Self
2018
Mount Everest – The Last Step
as Self
2018
Reinhold Beckmann trifft
as Self
2017
Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey
as Self
2017
Peter Habeler: ... ich will die Welt von oben sehen
2017
SPIEGEL TV Porträt
as Self
2017
Der Meisterfälscher
as Self
2017
Sternstunden
as Self
2017
Erlesen
as self
2016
Denis Urubko - My Own Way
as Self (archive footage)
2016
Yeti: Myth, Man or Beast?
as Himself
2016
Still Alive - Dramma Sul Monte Kenya
2016
Das Erbe der Berge – Reinhold Messners Museen
as Self
2016
Bergheimat
2016
nacht:sicht
2016
Morgenmagazin
as Self
2015
Simone Moro, I-View
as Self
2015
Kukuczka
as Self
2015
Messners Himalaya
as Self
2014
The Dream Line
as Reinhold Messner
2014
Jurek
as Self
2014
David Lama - Off Limits on Rock and Ice
as Self
2014
G&G - Gesichter und Geschichten
as Self
2014
ANIXE auf Reisen
as Self
2013
Cerro Torre: A Snowball's Chance in Hell
as Self
2013
High and Hallowed: Everest 1963
as Self
2013
Reinhold Messner - Il quindicesimo 8000
2013
W di Walter
as Self
2013
Musikalische Reise
as Self
2013
Hart aber fair
as Self
2013
Talk im Hangar-7
as Self
2013
Landesschau Rheinland-Pfalz
as Self
2012
Messner
as Self
2012
Walter Bonatti, King of the Alps
as Reinhold Messner
2012
Lafer! Lichter! Lecker!
as Self
2012
Im Gespräch mit Teddy Podgorski
as Self
2012
Privat bei …
as Self
2012
ZDF-Fernsehgarten
as Self
2012
Tonspur – Der Soundtrack meines Lebens
as Self
2012
Bergwelten
as Self
2012
1, 2 oder 3
as Self
2012
Österreich-Bild
as Self
2011
Art of Freedom
as Self
2011
ZDF-Mittagsmagazin
as Self
2011
Was wurde aus...?
as himself
2011
Fröhlich lesen
as Self
2011
Land der Berge
as Self
2010
Aeschbacher
as Self
2010
Gipfeltreffen
as self
2010
NZZ Standpunkte
as Self
2010
Das blaue Sofa
as Self
2009
Riccardo Cassin, 100 Anni - Un secolo di alpinismo passato alla storia
as Self
2009
Kölner Treff
as Self
2009
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
as Self
2008
Markus Lanz
as Self
2008
Der Sonntags-Stammtisch
as Self
2008
Thadeusz
as self
2007
Nachtlinie
as Self
2007
Messners Alpen
as Self
2007
Tietjen und Bommes
as Self
2007
Nachtcafé
as Self
2007
Sabine Christiansen
as Self
2006
Don Whillans - Myth and Legend
as Self
2006
Alpha Forum
as Self
2005
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
as Self
2005
Leute am Donnerstag
as himself
2004
RTL-Spendenmarathon
as Self
2004
Menschen bei Maischberger
as Self
2003
Terra X History
as Self
2003
Münchner Runde
2003
Phoenix Runde
as himself
2003
Beckmann
as Self
2003
Weimarer Salon
as Self
2003
Kein schöner Land
as Self
2003
Abendschau
as self
2002
Wortwechsel
as Self
2002
Nachtstudio
as Self
2002
Im Glashaus - Das philosophische Quartett
as himself
2002
Im Dialog
as self
2001
Là-Haut, Un supplément d'âme
as Self
2001
Volle Kanne
as Self
2001
DAS!
as Self
2001
maybrit illner
as Self
2001
Menschen hautnah
as Self
2000
Bambi
as Self
2000
Menschen der Woche
as Self
2000
alpha Österreich
as Self
1999
Everest At Any Cost
as Self (archive footage)
1998
Wohnungen der Götter
as Self
1997
Tempting Fate
as Self
1996
Die Harald Schmidt Show
as Self
1994
NDR Talk Show
as Self
1994
The Himalayas
as Self
1993
Everest - Blood, Sweat and Tears
as self (archive footage)
1993
Reinhold Messner – Zwischen Himmel und Erde
as Self
1993
live - die ZDF-talkshow
as Self
1992
Gaia Symphony
as Self
1992
3 nach 9
as Self
1992
The Climbers
as Self
1991
Galahad of Everest
as Self
1990
Lhotse - l'anno nero del serpente
1990
Through the Homeland of Ice and Storms
as Self - Expedition Member / Portrait Subject
1988
Verstehen Sie Spaß?
as Self
1987
Stars in der Manege
as Self
1986
Portrait: Werner Herzog
as Self
1986
Club 2
as Self
1986
Das aktuelle Sportstudio
as self
1985
The Dark Glow of the Mountains
as Self
1985
Niemanns Zeit
as Himself
1984
Leute
as Self
1982
Wetten, dass..?
as Self
1982
Heut' abend
as Self
1979
Everest Unmasked
as Self
1979
Okay
as Self
1978
Music & Guests
as Self
1976
Litera-Tour
as Self
Viktor & I: An Alexander Vesely Film
as Reinhold Messner
Manaslu - Road to the Mountain, Road to a Friend
as Himself
Il Cervino. La montagna perfetta