Andreas Marquardt

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Andreas Marquardt (2015)

Andreas "Karate Andy" Marquardt (* 1956 in Berlin-Neukölln ) is a German martial artist and former pimp .

Life

Marquardt practiced martial arts as a child from 1962. In Judo , he was Berlin Master claims to and received his second Dan . In karate he was, according to his own statements, 15 times European champion in an unspecified association, in 1981 and 1983, according to his statements, he was Asian champion in an unspecified sports competition.

Marquardt was a pimp in Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt am Main and Essen for over two decades. During his time as a pimp, he worked as a corpse driver for five years in order to deceive the tax office. After he beat up one of his prostitutes , the woman confided in the police and ended up in a witness protection program . Marquardt was sentenced to four and a half years in prison. He came into the open prison in his early 40s for a cash payment. After he became suspicious of assault again, his term was extended. In total, Marquardt was imprisoned for eight and a half years for aggravated pimping, human trafficking and possession of weapons. He was sitting in the correctional facilities of Moabit and Tegel . In prison, Marquardt confided to a therapist that his father was violent and that his mother had sexually abused him for years . In 2003 he was released from prison.

Marquardt has been running a karate sports school in Berlin-Neukölln since 1985, which he had already run during his time as a pimp. During his imprisonment and also today, he runs the karate school together with his partner, who is one of his former prostitutes. Today mainly children are taught karate there. Marquardt teaches the Tae-Ka-Do-Kan-Karate style he developed himself, which is made up of Taekwondo , Karate and Judo and is practiced as a full contact sport.

In 2010, Andreas Marquardt was nominated for the Laureus World Sports Award in the category “The social sports project” with the project “Helping makes you strong”. The project works for disadvantaged children. He is also committed to child in the center and neuland e. V. a. At an AIDS benefit gala in 2003, Marquardt set a world record by smashing five baseball bats.

On December 11, 2006 the Ullstein Taschenbuch Verlag published his book Hardness - My way out of the vicious circle of violence , which he had written together with his therapist Jürgen Lemke. The film of the same name by Rosa von Praunheim , based on the autobiography, premiered on February 6, 2015 at the Berlinale and was released in cinemas on April 23. Marquardt is played by Hanno Koffler .

book

  • Hardness: My way out of the vicious circle of violence (with Jürgen Lemke), Ullstein, 2015, ISBN 978-3-548-37572-4 .

Web links

Commons : Andreas Marquardt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Times : The man who hated women
  2. ↑ Celebrities and normal people celebrated at Potsdamer Platz. The proceeds went to HIV-infected children. First gala of the Berliner Aids-Hilfe , Berliner Kurier, October 12, 2003
  3. ↑ Caroline von Eichhorn and Joseph Röhmel: Sexual Abuse by Women: Inverted Lust , Spiegel Online, September 28, 2011
  4. ↑ Struck too often , Berliner Morgenpost, December 17, 2006
  5. ↑ Korbach: Escaped from the "hate program" , November 1, 2010
  6. ↑ hardness. Berlin International Film Festival , accessed on February 2, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Marquardt, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marquardt, Karate Andy (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German martial artist, former pimp and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Neukölln