Christoph M. Ohrt

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Christoph Marius Ohrt (born March 30, 1960 in Hamburg ) is a German actor .

life and work

Ohrt, who, following the family tradition, was supposed to become a shipping merchant, attended the Eppendorf grammar school in Hamburg , but left it a few years before graduating from high school to begin an acting training, which he completed from 1977 to 1979 in Hamburg with Hedi Höpfner at the stage studio drama school . He played his first role at the age of 16 as a "drunk mosquito" in the animal opera The clever little fox at the Hamburg State Opera . He got this role by chance. For confirmation he founded an amateur drama group, the director of which happened to be assistant director at the State Opera. He then played in a few small roles and from 1979 stayed for some time in the USA, where he continued his acting training at the "Center for the Acting Process" in New York . There he worked after class a. a. in the secretariat. During this time, he often had no more than $ 800 a month, which he used to pay for rent, drama school and admission and drinks in the legendary Studio 54 . In New York he lived near the drama school in the Hell's Kitchen district in a hotel in Times Square , which, according to his own statement, also included drug dealers and petty criminals, which he initially naively regarded as a "super-milieu study".

In 1979 the director Ilse Hofmann discovered him for the role of a Hitler Youth at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin in the film Die Welt in That Sommer . Hofmann also cast him in 1983 for the role of assistant Klose to crime scene commissioner Hanne Wiegand alias Karin Anselm . His cinema debut in Germany followed in 1984 with the film Kassensturz . Orth also starred in various episodes of the adventure series On Axis, also directed by Ilse Hofmann . In 1987 he shot The Rattennest by John Herzfeld for the American television station ABC in Berlin . In 1989, Ohrt played the main role as pub owner Theo Augustin in the 52-part television series Das Nest , where he benefited from his own experience as a waiter in the summer of 1982 in a Berlin classy disco.

In 1991/92 he received another offer from John Herzfeld in Los Angeles: Ohrt worked alongside James Coburn in the NBC series The Fifth Corner . In 1992 he was hired as the villain for the series Highlander by one of the leading casting agents in the USA, Lynn Stalmaster . The roles as noble macho Fred in 1995 in the movie Nur über mein Leiche by Rainer Matsutani and as chief inspector Christoph Schwenk in 1996 in the movie Echte Kerle gave him a foothold in the German film scene.

He became known to the general public with the lead role in the action series HeliCops , in which he played the helicopter pilot Karl "Charly" von Schumann from 1998 to 2000. From 2002 to 2005 he played the lawyer Felix Edel in the television series Edel & Starck and received the German Television Award in 2002 in the category “Best Actor Series” for this role . From February to May 2007 he played the mayor Johannes Waller in the series Alone among farmers .

From December 2010 he was in Munich together with Heiner Lauterbach in the play double room on the theater stage in the comedy in the Bayerischer Hof .

After living in New York for a few years , Ohrt moved to Paris and in 1988 to Los Angeles . Until a few years ago he lived there in Sherman Oaks, a district of Los Angeles, where he met his future wife in 1992. From there he later moved with his family to Kleinmachnow near Potsdam . He has been living in Berlin again since 2012 .

Christoph M. Ohrt was married to the American Stevee DeNike (* 1972) from 2002 to 2012 and is the father of a daughter (* 1998) and a son (* 2001). His wife moved back to California with the children in 2011. From 2012 Orth was in a relationship with actress Dana Golombek . In February 2020, the couple announced their split.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Christoph M. Ohrt. prisma-Verlag, accessed on May 16, 2019 .
  2. ↑ "When stars get personal - Ina Müller and Christoph M. Ohrt" , LINEA FUTURA magazine . Retrieved May 16, 2019.
  3. ↑ Christoph M. Ohrt , In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , accessed on May 16, 2019.
  4. ↑ Christoph M. Ohrt - as a lover noble and strong , Der Westen , accessed on May 16, 2019.
  5. ↑ The crisis on stage, love in real life , Rheinische Post , February 6, 2016, accessed on May 16, 2019.
  6. ↑ Christoph M. Ohrt and Dana Golombek: separated after ten years of relationship . In: STERN of February 24, 2020. Retrieved March 25, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Ohrt, Christoph M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ohrt, Christoph Marius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg