Robert Maaser

Robert Maaser — Biography

More than a dozen world titles in wheel gymnastics (Rhönrad) came before acting for Robert Maaser, a German athlete and actor. He has worked in German and international productions and is best known in Germany for the 101-episode daily soap Alles was zählt.

He took up wheel gymnastics at nine through one of his older sisters. He won the junior title at the 2005 world championships and four individual titles in 2007. He finished school in 2009 and reached the semi-finals of Das Supertalent in 2010. He studied acting at the Arturo Schauspielschule in Cologne in 2011 and at Actor's Space in Berlin in 2013, the year he also won the Cyr wheel world title at his first attempt.

He had a supporting part in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation in 2015 and played the extreme-sports athlete Tim Hayer in Alles was zählt in 2017. His credits include Sense8, Tribes of Europa, Ronny & Klaid, Charlie's Angels, 1917, Uncharted, Blood & Gold and the John Wick spin-off Ballerina (2025). On television he appeared in single episodes of Alarm für Cobra 11 and SOKO Köln, in 12 episodes of Blutige Anfänger and, in 2025, in six episodes of The Black Dagger Brotherhood. In 2021 he was the first cast member announced for Alper Çağlar's İlk Göktürk. He is married and lives in Berlin.