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.

Filmography

• 2025Still Alive – The Drama on Mount Kenya — Director
• 2021Nanga Parbat - Mein Schlüsselberg — Self, Director
• 2021Sul Tetto del Mondo - Walter Bonatti e Rossana Podestà
• 2020Die große Zinne - 150 Jahre Kletterkunst — Director
• Meine Achttausender – Reinhold Messner — Book
• 2019Mythos Cerro Torre: Reinhold Messner auf Spurensuche — Self, Director, Writer
• 2018Mount Everest – The Last Step — Self, Director, Writer
• 2018The Holy Mountain
• 2017Peter Habeler: ... ich will die Welt von oben sehen
• 2016Still Alive - Dramma Sul Monte Kenya
• nacht:sicht
• 2014The Dream Line — Reinhold Messner
• 2013Reinhold Messner - Il quindicesimo 8000
• Bergwelten — Self, Director
• 2012Walter Bonatti, King of the Alps — Reinhold Messner
• Bergheimat
• 2007Lissi and the Wild Emperor — Thanks
• Münchner Runde
• 1991Scream of Stone — Idea
• 1990Lhotse - l'anno nero del serpente
• Through the Homeland of Ice and Storms — Self - Expedition Member / Portrait Subject, Director of Photography
• 1985The Dark Glow of the Mountains — Self, Second Unit Director of Photography
• 1979Everest Unmasked — Self, Director of Photography
• Il Cervino. La montagna perfetta
• K2 - La grande controversia — Director
• Viktor & I: An Alexander Vesely Film — Reinhold Messner

Appearances as themselves (119)

• 2026Through Silence and Wind — Self
• 2025K2 Chasing Shadows — Self (archive footage)
• 2024The Last Expedition — Self
• 202114 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible — Self
• 2021The Alpinist — Self
• Die große Terra X-Show — Self
• 2019Fine Lines — Self
• Reinhold Messner - Heimat. Berge. Abenteuer. — Self
• 2018Eiskalte Leidenschaft - Leni Riefenstahl und Arnold Fanck zwischen Hitler und Hollywood — Self
• 2018Manaslu: Mountain of Souls — Self
• Reinhold Beckmann trifft — Self
• 2017Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey — Self
• 2016Das Erbe der Berge – Reinhold Messners Museen — Self
• 2016Denis Urubko - My Own Way — Self (archive footage)
• 2016Yeti: Myth, Man or Beast? — Himself
• 2015Kukuczka — Self
• Messners Himalaya — Self
• 2015Simone Moro, I-View — Self
• Wer weiß denn sowas? — Self
• ANIXE auf Reisen — Self
• 2014David Lama - Off Limits on Rock and Ice — Self
• Der Meisterfälscher — Self
• 2014Jurek — Self
• SPIEGEL TV Porträt — Self
• 2013Cerro Torre: A Snowball's Chance in Hell — Self
• 2013High and Hallowed: Everest 1963 — Self
• Stöckl — Self
• 2013W di Walter — Self
• 2012Messner — Self
• Privat bei … — Self
• 2011Art of Freedom — Self
• Klein gegen Groß - Das unglaubliche Duell — Self
• Was wurde aus...? — himself
• Das blaue Sofa — Self
• Erlesen — self
• Im Gespräch mit Teddy Podgorski — Self
• Landesschau Rheinland-Pfalz — Self
• Musikalische Reise — Self
• Talk im Hangar-7 — Self
• Tonspur – Der Soundtrack meines Lebens — Self
• 2009Riccardo Cassin, 100 Anni - Un secolo di alpinismo passato alla storia — Self
• Markus Lanz — Self
• Der Sonntags-Stammtisch — Self
• Inas Nacht — Self
• Messners Alpen — Self
• Nachtlinie — Self
• 2006Don Whillans - Myth and Legend — Self
• Lafer! Lichter! Lecker! — Self
• Fröhlich lesen — Self
• G&G - Gesichter und Geschichten — Self
• Thadeusz — self
• Leute am Donnerstag — himself
• Gipfeltreffen — self
• Menschen bei Maischberger — Self
• Gero von Boehm begegnet... — Self
• Im Glashaus - Das philosophische Quartett — himself
• Aeschbacher — Self
• Hart aber fair — Self
• 2001Là-Haut, Un supplément d'âme — Self
• Weimarer Salon — Self
• Abendschau — self
• Menschen der Woche — Self
• Terra X History — Self
• alpha Österreich — Self
• Beckmann — Self
• 1999Everest At Any Cost — Self (archive footage)
• Land der Berge — Self
• NZZ Standpunkte — Self
• Volle Kanne — Self
• maybrit illner — Self
• Alpha Forum — Self
• Menschen hautnah — Self
• Sabine Christiansen — Self
• The Johannes B. Kerner Show — Self
• Wohnungen der Götter — Self
• Österreich-Bild — Self
• Im Dialog — self
• Leute heute — Self
• Nachtstudio — Self
• Phoenix Runde — himself
• 1997Tempting Fate — Self
• Tietjen und Bommes — Self
• RTL-Spendenmarathon — Self
• Die Harald Schmidt Show — Self
• Sternstunden — Self
• The Himalayas — Self
• 1993Everest - Blood, Sweat and Tears — self (archive footage)
• Kein schöner Land — Self
• Reinhold Messner – Zwischen Himmel und Erde — Self
• Gaia Symphony — Self
• Morgenmagazin — Self
• Riverboat — Self
• The Climbers — Self
• DAS! — Self
• 1991Galahad of Everest — Self
• Romy Award — Self
• ZDF-Mittagsmagazin — Self
• Nachtcafé — Self
• live - die ZDF-talkshow — Self
• 1986Portrait: Werner Herzog — Self
• ZDF-Fernsehgarten — Self
• 1985Niemanns Zeit — Himself
• Leute — Self
• Wortwechsel — Self
• Wetten, dass..? — Self
• Heut' abend — Self
• Verstehen Sie Spaß? — Self
• NDR Talk Show — Self
• Okay — Self
• 1, 2 oder 3 — Self
• Club 2 — Self
• Kölner Treff — Self
• Litera-Tour — Self
• Music & Guests — Self
• 3 nach 9 — Self
• Das aktuelle Sportstudio — self
• Stars in der Manege — Self
• Bambi — Self
• Manaslu - Road to the Mountain, Road to a Friend — Himself