Daniel Benetka

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Daniel Benetka (born November 17, 1974 in Zwickau ) is a former German American football player and amateur actor. He played seven years for the Frankfurt Galaxy in the NFL Europe and won the World Bowl twice with them . He achieved greater fame in Germany through his role as "Kalle" in the RTL II series Berlin - Day & Night .

life and career

Daniel Benetka was born in Zwickau in 1974 and attended a grammar school there with a language profile (English, Russian, Latin, ancient Greek). In 1993 he graduated from high school there and then moved to Leipzig to study there. From 1983 to 1992 he worked successfully in judo for ten years . From 1992 to 1997 he devoted himself to discus throwing and was a multiple national champion in discus throwing and shot put and a member of the junior national team. 1997 to 2000 he then received a scholarship for athletics at the University of Idaho . Due to his sporting activity as a football player in the college team of the University of Idaho, this performance area was converted into the performance area football and Daniel made it to the National Football League (NFL) after only one year , where he made the jump to the squad failed for the season. For five years in a row he was in the training camp of an NFL team, but never made it into the squad for the regular season .

From 2001 to 2007 he was active as a player in NFL Europe for the Frankfurt Galaxy . There he played four times in the World Bowl and was able to win it twice with his team (2003 and 2006).

In September 2013 Daniel Benetka became known as the bad boy "Karl-Heinz 'Kalle' Reinert" and Lutz Schweigel's best friend "Joe Möller" in the reality soap opera Berlin - Day & Night . He played this role in 147 episodes until he left in June 2014.

In the same year Daniel Benetka devoted himself to his great passion, music and produced electronic music. In collaboration with The Galaxy Kingz, Daniel Benetka released his first single The Big Man on Destruktor .

Filmography

Discography

  • Daniel Benetka - The Big Man

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leonhard Kazda: At the end of a great football dream. In: faz.net. FAZ, March 31, 2006, accessed on July 23, 2014 (German): "Before Benetka started playing football, he was judoka and sixteen times Saxon champion in the shot put and discus throw."
  2. ^ Leonhard Kazda: At the end of a great football dream. In: faz.net. FAZ, March 31, 2006, accessed on July 23, 2014 (German): "Benetka was invited to training camps at American NFL clubs five times, followed by an early departure."
  3. ↑ Daniel Benetka moves to the NFL. In: morgenpost.de. Berliner Morgenpost, July 4, 2002, accessed on July 23, 2014 (German): “The defensive tackle, who had also been courted by the Baltimore Ravens, the Jaguars and the Chicago Bears, had already attended training camps for the past two years San Francisco 49ers and Indianapolis Colts participated, but had to pack his bags again before the start of the season "
  4. ^ MEB: Frankfurt Galaxy National Daniel Benetka joins the New England Patriots. (No longer available online.) In: football101.de. Football101, July 5, 2002, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; retrieved on July 23, 2014 (German): "Now the native of Zwickau has decided on the Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots and he has a good chance of making the jump into the active squad." Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.football101.de
personal data
SURNAME Benetka, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German American football player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th November 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau , German Democratic Republic