To his well-known movies of the 20s for which he created the set belong Alfred Hitchcock's "The Pleasure Garden" (1925) as well as Hitchcock's "The Mountain Eagle" (1926).
His brother Willy Reiber was a production designer too, and his daughter became a well-known TV host.
He continued his film career successfully after the war and he took part in German feature movies and TV productions as well as US movies.
The production designer Ludwig Reiber finished an education at the art college in Munich before he entered the film business in 1923. There he first worked as an assistant of his older brother Willy Reiber before he became a production designer himself in 1925.
During World War II he was the production designer of "Wasser für Canitoga" (1939), "Tonelli" (1943), "Orient-Express" (1944) and "Wo ist Herr Belling?" (1945).
The veteran Reiber worked on film and television set design from the silent era to the early 1970s.
His creativity remained undiminished in the sound film era of the 30s and he was engaged again for numerous movies.
To his well-known postwar movies belong "Decision Before Dawn" (1951), and the serial "Tales of the Vikings" (1959-1960).
Following the Second World War he was employed on several European-made Hollywood productions such as Decision Before Dawn and Paths of Glory.