[3] Reinhild Solf was born in Haldensleben, a small town a short distance to the northwest of Magdeburg in Saxony.
She received her drama training at the Max Reinhardt Acting Academy in West Berlin and went on to make her stage debut at the regional theatre in Hanover.
Frost in The Vegetable, or From President to Postman (in German "Der Präsident oder das Würstchen") by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
[5] In 1989 she joined Frank Baumbauer at the Theater Basel where the same year she appeared in the first theatre production of The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek.
In 1991 she appeared at Basel in "Die Zeit und das Zimmer" by Botho Strauß, and two years later she took the title role in Victor Hugo's Lucrezia Borgia.
She has also appeared in supporting roles in three long-running television police dramas: Derrick, Der Alte and Die Männer vom K3.