Michael Maertens

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Michael Maertens (2016)

Michael Maertens (born October 30, 1963 in Hamburg ) is a German actor . He belongs to the ensemble of the Vienna Burgtheater .

family

Maertens comes from a theater family . His grandfather Willy Maertens was an actor and artistic director at the Thalia Theater in the post-war period; his grandmother Charlotte Kramm was also a member of the ensemble there from 1932 to 1971; his father Peter Maertens , who died in 2020, was an actor, as were his siblings Kai and Miriam Maertens .

In December 2006 he married his colleague Mavie Hörbiger in Basel after he had ended a relationship with Birgit Minichmayr . Mavie Hörbiger and Michael Maertens became parents of a daughter on April 26, 2009 and a son in August 2012. The family lives in Zurich and Vienna.

Life

Maertens in Die Affäre Rue de Lourcine , Burgtheater 2015

Maertens grew up in Hamburg-Nienstedten and attended the traditional Christianeum high school . Here he played theater as a schoolboy. He completed his acting training at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich (1984 to 1987) - together with Katja Riemann , Thomas Heinze , Sebastian Koch , Dieter Landuris and other well-known actors of his generation. Here he was engaged by Alexander Lang at the Thalia Theater after the artistic director's audition at the end of his training . Alexander Lang gave him the leading role in Clavigo , his debut as senior director in Hamburg. Maertens was awarded the Boy Gobert Prize for the role. Further stations of the actor were the Schillertheater , where he followed Alexander Lang, the Deutsche Theater Berlin , the Münchner Kammerspiele and the Berliner Ensemble .

It is characteristic of Michael Maertens' career that since the mid-1990s he has not limited himself to one stage, but always played several pieces at the same time in large German-speaking theaters. Today he commutes constantly between Zurich, Vienna and Berlin.

From 2001 Maertens took on a permanent position in the ensemble of the Schauspielhaus Bochum . Under the direction of the artistic director Matthias Hartmann , he celebrated great success with critics and audiences in Bochum, among other things in Beckett's Waiting for Godot , Turrini's The Opening or Schiller's Der Parasit .

Since the 2002/03 season Maertens has also been a regular guest at the Burgtheater Vienna. There he played, among others, under the direction of Klaus-Maria Brandauer to Hamlet . There was an agreement with Burgtheater director Klaus Bachler that Maertens would play in one piece at the Burgtheater per season. Since the pieces were usually on the program in several seasons, Maertens was regularly seen in several different pieces in the Burgtheater. For a co-production of the Burgtheater with the Salzburg Festival in 2005, he got the role of Rudolf von Habsburg in Martin Kušej's production of King Ottokar's Glück und Ende , which has been on the Burgtheater's program since October 2005. For this role and the role of Algernon in Oscar Wilde's Seriousness in Life - Bunbury , he was awarded the 2005 Nestroy Theater Prize for Best Actor (shared with Nicholas Ofczarek ). In 2006 he was also nominated for the Nestroy for his role as Mortimer Brewster in the production of Arsenic and Lace Cap. At the same time he moderated the award ceremony together with Nicholas Ofczarek. At the beginning of 2007 Maertens shone as annoyed manager Alain Reille in Yasmina Reza's play Der Gott des Gemetzels , a production by Jürgen Gosch at the Schauspielhaus Zurich, which was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen 2007, and as Marc Anton in Falk Richter's interpretation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar at the Burgtheater in Vienna .

From 2004 to 2006 he played the "wild man" from the subway in the station drama "Untertagblues" by Peter Handke (director: Claus Peymann ) in Berlin .

Michael Maertens (left) with Charly Huebner in 2015

In the 2005/2006 season Maertens moved from Bochum to the Schauspielhaus Zürich with Matthias Hartmann . For his debut as Arthur Schnitzler's Anatol (director: Luc Bondy ) at the Wiener Festwochen he was awarded the Gertrud-Eysoldt-Ring , and he was also seen as Jason in Grillparzer's Das goldene Vlies , again at the Vienna Burgtheater. He has been a permanent member of the Haus am Ring since the 2009/2010 season.

Theater (selection)

Burgtheater Vienna

Schauspielhaus Zurich

  • 2005: The Parasite by Friedrich Schiller - Selicour - Director: Matthias Hartmann (takeover of the production from the Schauspielhaus Bochum)
  • 2006: Iwanow by Anton Chekhov - Iwanow - Director: Matthias Hartmann
  • 2006: Othello by William Shakespeare - Jago - Director: Matthias Hartmann
  • 2006: Amphitryon by Heinrich von Kleist - Amphitryon - Director: Matthias Hartmann
  • 2007: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett - Wladimir - Director: Matthias Hartmann (takeover of the production from the Schauspielhaus Bochum)
  • 2007: The God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza - Alain Reille - Director: Jürgen Gosch
  • 2007: A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (co-production with the Salzburg Festival) - Zettel / Pyramus - director: Christian Weise
  • 2007: Tartuffe by Molière - Tartuffe - Director: Matthias Hartmann
  • 2009: Immanuel Kant by Thomas Bernhard - Kant - Director: Matthias Hartmann
  • 2010: What you want from William Shakespeare - Malvolio - Director: Barbara Frey
  • 2011: Platonow by Anton Chekhov - Michail Wassiljewitsch Platonow, village school teacher - director: Barbara Frey
  • 2012: Richard III. by William Shakespeare - Richard III. - Director: Barbara Frey
  • 2014: The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni - Truffaldino - Director: Barbara Frey

Theater an der Wien

Mörbisch Lake Festival

State Opera Unter den Linden, Berlin

Schauspielhaus Bochum

Berlin Ensemble

  • 1998: The Ignorant and the Insane by Thomas Bernhard - Doctor - Director: Philip Tiedemann
  • 2000: Richard II. By William Shakespeare - Richard II. - Director: Claus Peymann
  • 2001: The Deputy of Rolf Hochhuth - Kurt Gerstein - Director: Philip Tiedemann
  • 2001: Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare - Angelo - Director: Claus Peymann
  • 2004: Underground blues by Peter Handke - A wild man - directed by Claus Peymann
  • 2007: The God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza - Alain Reille - Director: Jürgen Gosch (takeover of the production from the Schauspielhaus Zurich)

Munich Kammerspiele

  • 1997: Hautnah von Patrick Marber - Dan - Director: Christof Loy
  • 1998: Cymbelin by William Shakespeare - Iachimo and head of the spirit of Posthumus' oldest brother - Director: Dieter Dorn
  • 1999: Hekabe von Euripides - Odysseus, Greek military leader - Director: Dieter Dorn
  • 1999: Amphitryon by Heinrich von Kleist - Jupiter (Zeus) - Director: Dieter Dorn

Schiller Theater Berlin

German Theater Berlin

Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin

  • 1996: Don Juan by Molière - Don Juan - Director: Katharina Thalbach

Thalia Theater

Others

  • 1993: The Balance by Botho Strauss (world premiere Salzburg Festival) Director: Luc Bondy
  • 1994: Antonius and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (Salzburg Festival) - Octavius ​​- Director: Peter Stein
  • 1996: A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (Salzburg Festival) - Peter Sequence - Director: Leander Haußmann
  • 2004: King Arthur by Henry Purcell (co-production with the Salzburg Festival) - King Arthur - director: Jürgen Flimm , musical director: Nikolaus Harnoncourt
  • 2006: Moderation of the Nestroy Awards in Vienna with Nicholas Ofczarek
  • 2008: Self-directed: Theodor Storm - Letters to a Beloved , reading with Mavie Hörbiger and Michael Maertens, stage version and direction: Christian Papke
  • 2013: Lumpazivagabundus by Johann Nestroy ; World premiere at the Salzburg Festival 2013 , co-production with the Vienna Burgtheater; Director: Matthias Hartmann

Filmography

Discography / audio books

  • 2000: Speaker The Book Names. Exodus.
  • 2000: Speaker Salvador Dali
  • 2000: Speaker The Desert Lop Nor by Raoul Schrott
  • 2002: Speaker hurt me! by Boris Vian and Vernon Sullivan
  • 2002: Spokesman Yevgeny Onegin for Alexander Sergejewitsch Pushkin
  • 2004: Speaker The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • 2004: Spokesman for correspondence between Richard Wagner and King Ludwig II of Bavaria. From the years 1864–1872

Radio plays

Honors, prizes and awards

See also

Web links

Commons : Michael Maertens  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ orf.at: Ofczarek and Maertens now chamber actors . Article dated March 15, 2017, accessed March 15, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Maertens, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg