Dennis Mojen

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Dennis Mojen (2015)

Dennis Mojen (* 1993 in Hamburg ) is a German actor .

Life

Origin and education

Mojen grew up in Hamburg. His parents are also in the film business. Mojen has wanted to be an actor since childhood and was in front of the camera as a teenager. In 2010 he completed a Meisner workshop at the “Film Characters” drama school in Hamburg, which was organized by Hendrik Martz and Jim Walker in collaboration with the “Martz & Walker” drama studio .

First television roles

He was first seen on television in July 2009 in the children's and youth series Die Pfefferkörner . In the episode Kirchenklau he played the role of Hannes Brehmer, who is suspected of having stolen the collection in the church . Mojen had a supporting role in the coming-of-age film Summertime Blues , which was released in German cinemas in August 2009, with François Goeske in the lead role. In the short film Der Ausflug by Stefan Najib , a graduation film from the Stuttgart Media University , which was shot in Stuttgart in 2011 and is based on the rampage in Winnenden , he played his first leading role as a 17-year-old gunman at the side of Dominic Raacke Tom.

From 2011, Mojen was regularly featured in larger and smaller episode roles in TV series such as Notruf Hafenkante (2011, as a 16-year-old, school-overwhelmed tutoring student who was suspected of being an arsonist), Großstadtrevier (2011, as a 16-year-old teenager, who was suspected of being is likely to have robbed a kiosk ), Der Dicke (2012, as a student who bullies a teacher with private videos that he posts on the Internet ), Der Bergdoktor (2014, as a mountain climber and best friend, at Laurence Rupp's side ) and In all friendship (2014, as a friend of a transplant patient suffering from chronic bronchitis ).

He also played smaller roles in television films such as Anna's Erbe (2011) alongside Jutta Speidel and Anna Hausburg or Arnes Nachlass (2013), a literary film adaptation of a subject by Siegfried Lenz , where he was Hans's eldest son alongside Jan Fedder .

Breakthrough as a crime scene perpetrator

In early 2015 he was seen in a leading role in the series Unter Gaunern , in which he played "Chef Coolio", the leader of a street gang. This was followed in February 2015 by a leading role in the series Großstadtrevier , this time as a Hamburg police student who got into neo-Nazi circles. In April 2015 Mojen was in the first "Franconian crime scene" Heaven is a place on earth to be seen. He played the student and babysitter Tommy Buchwaldt, who unexpectedly turns out to be the perpetrator. For his role in "Franken-Tatort" Mojen received the New Faces Award for "Best Young Actor."

Further career

In the TV film Die Neue (2015) Mojen was next to Iris Berben (as a teacher Eva Arendt) and Ava Celik (as a Turkish student Sevda), the classmate Karl. In the ARD crime series Nord bei Nordwest (2018) he played the role of 19-year-old Lukas Benedikt, a young man who tries to protect his two younger sisters from the sexual assaults of his father in the film Waidmannsheil . In Polizeiruf 110: Crash (2018), Mojen played one of the main roles as Tommy Otto, a parcel delivery man who makes a living by stealing cars and drug trafficking and drives illegal car races as a member of a group of rascals called “Le Magdeburg”. In the ZDF ensemble film Extra Class (2018) he was Mike, a “petty criminal youth” of the no-go generation .

It was also Mojen repeatedly committed for various TV series like SOKO Leipzig (2017, as stuttering son of a murdered Leipziger Football -Trainers), SOKO Munich (2018, than at hebephrenic schizophrenia suffering young man who as a child victim of a kidnapping was ) and last trace Berlin (first broadcast: March 2018) as macho professional firefighter Enrico Wolf, who bullies his new colleague. In the 7th film in the Lotta film series by ZDF, Lotta & der Schöne Schein (2019), Mojen played the young Berlin medical student Danny, who is in love with the medical daughter of Lotta's boss ( Kirsten Block ). In the TV series Der Usedom-Krimi , he embodied the young Michi Sievers, the suspected “failure son” and the “black sheep” of the family of a successful Usedom building contractor in the 10th film entitled Dreams (2019).

In the movie Traumfabrik (2019) he played one of the leading roles as Emil. In 2020 the film Isi & Ossi was released on Netflix with him as a co-leading actor.

In 2013 he also appeared in the music video for the song Aschenflug by German pop singer Adel Tawil . Mojen lives in Berlin .

Filmography (selection)

cinemamovies

Short films

  • 2013: Light at the end
  • 2014: The excursion

Television films

TV Shows

Music videos

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b The most frequently asked questions about the Franconian crime scene. Accessed on April 15, 2015
  2. Dennis Mojen is shooting at “Großstadtrevier” , schauspielernews.de, accessed on April 15, 2015
  3. a b Dennis Mojen ( memento from April 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), profile and vita at Schauspielervideos.de, accessed on April 15, 2015
  4. a b c Dennis Mojen completes the team . Brief portrait, schauspielernews.de, August 2011, accessed on April 15, 2015
  5. Graduation film “The excursion”: Insight into the soul of a gunman in: Stuttgarter Zeitung of August 17, 2011. Retrieved on April 15, 2015
  6. ^ First Franconian “crime scene”: Much is half-baked . In: Münchner Merkur from April 12, 2015. Retrieved April 15, 2015
  7. Dennis Mojen wins New Faces Award . Retrieved October 19, 2015.
  8. North near northwest - Waidmannsheil . Plot and cast on Das Erste . Retrieved January 21, 2018.
  9. ^ "Polizeiruf 110" Magdeburg: Le Magdeburg met at the zoo . TV review. In: DIE ZEIT of September 23, 2018. Retrieved September 24, 2018.
  10. Top class . Official ZDF website - Accessed December 16, 2018.
  11. Last trace Berlin . Retrieved March 23, 2018.
  12. Series "Lotta & the beautiful appearance / & the center of the world" . TV review at tittelbach.tv . Retrieved April 19, 2019.
  13. Series “Strandgut / Dreams. The Usedom Crime " . TV review at Tittelbach.tv . Retrieved November 15, 2019.
  14. TV tip: "Dreams - The Usedom Crime" (ARD) . TV review by Tilmann P. Gangloff at evangelisch.de. Retrieved November 15, 2019.