Benjamin Piwko

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Benjamin Max Piwko (born April 11, 1980 in Hamburg ) is a German martial arts master and actor .

Life

Family and private

Benjamin Piwko's grandfather Erich Walter († 1987) was a surgeon and German champion in the shot put . Piwko lost his hearing due to a virus infection when he was eight months old. In 1982, at the age of two, he moved with his mother to Switzerland to learn to speak at a private school with the audio teacher Susann Schmid-Giovannini. At the age of seven he returned to Hamburg. From 1986 Piwko attended the Hamburg school for the hard of hearing. In 2001 an apprenticeship as a carpenter followed. Piwko learned to speak despite being deaf and also communicates via lip reading , sign language , body language as well as gestures and facial expressions. He has been married to an American since 2014 .

Martial arts career

Piwko started martial arts at the age of five. Benjamin Piwko began judo training in 1986 at the age of six . From 1990 to 2003 he trained Aikidō , Thai boxing, boxing, grappling , Escrima and Wing Chun . After training as a carpenter in 2001, he became a stunt fighter and choreographer for Show & Film and designed film recordings, fight scenes and shows. In 2005 he passed his black belt test with Grandmaster Al Dacascos in Hawaii. His black belt certificate was accepted by a total of 18 grandmasters. He was recognized as a "Real intelligent Warrior". In Hawaii he developed his own martial art style, the "Wun Boxing Thai Style" ("WBT Defense" for short), a mixture of many fighting styles, especially boxing , self-defense and Kung Fu . In December 2008 he went into business for himself and founded his own company "WBT DEFENSE" in Hamburg. He teaches children and adults in his martial arts school in Hamburg-Ottensen . He is the founder and president of the Wun Boxing Thai Style Self-Defense Institute inc. International - in short: WBT Defense. He was awarded the “International Hall of Fame Award” seven times.

Acting career

In January 2016 Piwko was seen in Tatort: ​​Totenstille, produced by Saarländischer Rundfunk (SR), alongside Devid Striesow and Franz Hartwig in one of the leading roles. He played the deaf Ben Lehner, who witnessed a fatal sex accident and subsequently tried to blackmail the perpetrator. Piwko got the role after a successful casting. Piwko was the first deaf person to be entrusted with a leading role in the Tatort television series .

Participation in Let's Dance

In 2019 he appeared as the first deaf candidate on the dance show Let's Dance . With the professional dancer Isabel Edvardsson he took 3rd place.

Filmography

Awards

  • 2005: Hawaii Black Belt, "Real intelligent warrior"
  • 2010: Munich Hall of Honor, Outstanding Achievement
  • 2011: Munich Hall of Honor, Outstanding Achievement
  • 2012: Munich Hall of Honor, Outstanding Contribution MA
  • 2013: Munich Hall of Honor, Continuance in Excellence
  • 2014: Munich Hall of Honor, Outstanding Contribution to the MA
  • 2015: Munich Hall of Honor, Outstanding Achievement to the MA
  • 2015: London International Martial Arts Hall of Fame, Instructor of the year award

Publications

  • 2019: You can only hear well with the heart: What you can learn from the deaf , Mosaik Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-442-39368-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Friederike Ott: Deaf people at work: career beyond silence ; in: DER SPIEGEL from June 20, 2010. Retrieved July 26, 2016
  2. ↑ a b c Deaf is not speechless: Benjamin Piwko is the star in the quietest “Tatort” of the year. Interview with Benjamin Piwko; in: BZ from January 24, 2016. Retrieved July 26, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Benjamin Piwko - The martial artist portrait of Benjamin Piwko, on www.die-andersmacher.org from March 21, 2016. Accessed on July 26, 2016
  4. ↑ a b c d e Benjamin Piwko (35) deaf, top fighter and “Tatort” star . Interview with Benjamin Piwko; in: Hamburger Morgenpost of January 24, 2016. Retrieved on July 26, 2016.
  5. ↑ "I don't hear anything": Benjamin Piwko: The first deaf celebrity convinces with "Let's Dance" . rtl.de from March 15, 2019. Retrieved March 16, 2019.
  6. ↑ https://www.rtl.de/cms/let-s-dance-2019-benjamin-piwko-und-isabel-edvardsson-koennen-die-jury-in-show-6-nicht-ueberzeugen-4333762.html
personal data
SURNAME Piwko, Benjamin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Piwko, Benjamin Max (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German martial arts master and actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg