Luis Lamprecht was born in 1946 in Munich. He grew up on the shore of Lake Constance. He started drama school in 1968 at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Hamburg and took private acting lessons with Margot Höpfner-Westphal. Luis was offered his first engagement in 1972 at the Städtische Bühnen Heidelberg, where he stayed till 1983.