Florian Rainers studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar Vienna and at the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy University of Music and Performing Arts in Leipzig.

His theatre engagements have taken him to the Schauspielhaus Leipzig, Stadttheater Augsburg, Hersfelder Festspiele, Schlossparktheater Berlin and the Cologne Opera.

He played in various classics such as Amphitryon (Kleist), Tellheim (Lessing), Macbeth and Lysander (Shakespeare), in comedies and interpreted musical roles such as Clifford Bradshaw in »Cabaret«, Yves Montand in »Piaf« and Dr. Otto Siedler in »Im weißen Rössl«.

Collaborations followed with Konstanze Lauterbach, Michael Sturminger and Carlus Padrissa/ La Fura del Baus, among others.

His work as a speaker includes staged readings and text performances, among others with Per Olov Enquist and Juli Zeh, as well as the premiere of the music theater project »Osiris – talking to the dead« at the Munich Music Biennale.

In addition, film and television work.

He taught speech and speech design at the Folkwang University in Essen and has been a professor of speech design at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna since 2016. For many years, he has taught artists of all disciplines at theaters, seminars, and festivals throughout the German-speaking world.