Overview
- Eitner died on November 8 in Memmingen, with the announcement shared on November 17 by ZAV to the Deutsche Presse-Agentur on the family's behalf.
- The family did not disclose a cause of death and requested privacy.
- He was widely recognized for portraying Markus Tellheim in Polizeiruf 110 from 2006 to 2009 and Paul Kleinert in Alles Klara from 2012 to 2017.
- His career spanned more than 75 screen roles, including six appearances in Tatort as well as parts in Der Alte and several SOKO series.
- He began acting as a teenager, trained at the Folkwang University of the Arts, won the Max Ophüls Prize in 1996, and earned a Bambi for the biopic Margarete Steiff in 2005.