After getting his Abitur (school qualification) and completing an apprenticeship as a typesetter, Ebert began theatre studies at the German Theatre Institute in Weimar in 1951.
Afterwards, he worked as a senior assistant at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" (Hanns Eisler College of Music) until 1963.
With its transformation into the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1981,[1] Ebert became associate professor there and was also first prorector there from 1981 to 1988.
In 1977, Ebert was awarded a doctorate in physics from the Humboldt University of Berlin.
His dissertation was titled "Improvisation as an element of the basic methodological training of actors".