Thorsten Merten

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Thorsten Merten, 2015

Thorsten Merten (born December 1963 in Ruhla ) is a German actor .

Life

Education and theater

Thorsten Merten originally wanted to become a journalist and worked as a volunteer in the Eisenach local editorial team of the newspaper “Das Volk”, the predecessor of the Thuringian General . After serving in the army , he received his acting training from 1986 to 1990 at the "Ernst Busch" Academy of Dramatic Art in Berlin , where he attended the newly established cabaret department and graduated with an acting diploma (including as a "diploma cabaret artist").

Engagements at theater stages in Germany and abroad followed. Merten played at the Théâtre Vidy in Lausanne, among others . He had two permanent engagements at the Schwerin State Theater (1992–1994 and again 1999–2003). Since 2004 Merten has played regularly at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin. He entered there in the bank piece of Lutz Hübner (directed by Volker Hesse , 2004), The miracle story of Berlin from Hanns Heinz Ewers (directed by Alexander Lang , Premiere: 2004/05 season when Freiherr von Thüngen), The Vast (directed : Volker Hesse, 2005) and Before Sunset (director: Volker Hesse, premiere: 2004/05 season, as son-in-law Erich Klamroth).

In 2006 he played the cutter Schürzinger in Kasimir and Karoline at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin . In 2007 he had great success as McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Dale Wasserman at the Mecklenburg State Theater in Schwerin. In 2008/09 Merten was part of the Volksbühne Berlin ensemble . There he appeared as Count Schabelski in Iwanow (director: Dimiter Gotscheff , 2008), in the production Dogs by Frank Castorf (2008), in Prometheus by Aischylos (director: Dimiter Gotscheff, 2009) and also in 2009 in Castorf's production of Nord based on motifs from the novel of the same name by Louis-Ferdinand Céline . In the 2009/10 season Merten appeared at the Mecklenburg State Theater in Schwerin as a ghost in William Shakespeare's Hamlet .

In 2010 he took over at the Komische Oper Berlin , the role of Professor Dr. Hinzelmann in Sebastian Baumgarten's staging of the operetta Im Weißen Rößl . 2014–2015 he played the Volkspolizist Horkefeld in the musical Sonnenallee (film) at the Mecklenburg State Theater in Schwerin . In February / March 2016 he was a guest at the Mecklenburg State Theater Schwerin as Mr. Myers in the musical Fame .

Movie and TV

First experiences on camera made Merten in 1992 in the movie Silent Country by Andreas Dresen . Merten had his breakthrough as a film and television actor in 2001, also under the direction of Andreas Dresen, in his tragicomedy Half Stairs , in which Merten impressed as radio host Chris. Since then, Merten has appeared regularly in German-language cinema and television productions. He was often used on German television in crime series and crime films . In 2005 he played the role of husband Rainer Wiedemann, who was suspected of murder , in the ZDF television series Wilsberg . In 2006 Merten played the role of the unemployed father in the film drama Four Windows by Christian Moris Müller . In 2007 he took on the role of the opaque businessman Arne Larson at the side of Iris Berben in the historical ZDF multi-part Africa, mon amour .

Since 2010, Merten has embodied in the ZDF crime series Spreewaldkrimi , alongside Christian Redl, the chief inspector and later police commissioner Martin Fichte.

He worked again with Andreas Dresen in the film drama Halt auf Freie Strasse (2011). Merten embodied the brain tumor of the male main character Frank Lange ( Milan Peschel ), to which he gave a human form. In the tragic comedy Silvi (2013) he played the main male role, husband Michael, who separated from the female main character Silvi ( Lina Wendel ) after many years of marriage . In the feature film Fremdkörper (2015), in which Merten took on the male lead alongside Janina Elkin , he played the freight forwarder Wolfgang, who is illegally donated a kidney . The film was awarded the audience award at the 2015 Max Ophüls Prize film festival . He also acted in several fairy tale films . Merten also had important main and supporting roles. a. in the television series Tatort , Bella Block (2008), Helen Dorn (2016) and Donna Leon (2016, as a suspect library employee Piero Sartor). In Tatort he has been the head of the police department Stich in the cases of the Weimar team Lessing and Dorn since 2013 .

In the SOKO Vienna / SOKO Leipzig series special The fourth man (first broadcast: November 2019), Merten played the caretaker of the Leipzig Gewandhaus in a dramatic leading role , who seeks revenge in Vienna for the death of his former fiancée.

Private

Thorsten Merten has two sons and a daughter and lives in Berlin.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Web links

Commons : Thorsten Merten  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d actor Thorsten Merten: "I don't like to see myself on screen" . In: Thüringer Allgemeine from October 1, 2012. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
  2. ↑ MAXIM GORKI THEATER 2001 - 2006 . Premieres. Artistic director Bernd Wilms (from 1994 to 2001). Retrieved November 25, 2017.
  3. ↑ An Indian knows pain . Performance review in: Die Welt from April 1, 2007
  4. ↑ Thorsten Merten ( Memento from February 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). Artistic staff: Entry at the Volksbühne Berlin
  5. ↑ Ivanov . Archive Berliner Theatertreffen / Berliner Festspiele. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
  6. ↑ Hamlet . Cast and background information
  7. ↑ Thorsten Merten . Vita. Official website of the Komische Oper Berlin . Retrieved November 25, 2017.
  8. ↑ "Sonnenallee" with live music: That should crack in the booth . In: Ostsee-Zeitung of January 23, 2014. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
  9. ↑ Retro-Comedy: Sonnenallee - The Musical. When the GDR was still immured ... . Production details and cast at Musicalzentrale.de. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
  10. ↑ Drama: Fame. Stony path to fulfilling big dreams . Production details and cast at Musicalzentrale.de. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
  11. ↑ Half the stairs . Information about the film on the homepage of the Hessischer Rundfunk
  12. ↑ Four Windows (PDF; 3.8 MB) Press kit with a brief portrait of Thorsten Merten
  13. ↑ "I wanted to be strong, I didn't succeed" . Movie review. On Diesseits.de. The humanist magazine of December 5, 2011. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
  14. ↑ "Fremdkörper", ZDF: Organ trade thematized. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , June 22, 2015. Accessed October 29, 2018.
  15. ↑ TV film "Fremdkörper". In: Tittelbach.tv , June 22, 2015. Accessed October 29, 2018.
  16. ↑ SOKO crossover "The fourth man": "SOKO Vienna" meets "SOKO Leipzig" . GoldeneKamera.de. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Merten, Thorsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Ruhla , GDR