Dirk Martens

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Dirk Martens (2017)

Dirk Martens (born July 2, 1964 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) is a German actor .

Life

Dirk Martens has a twin brother. His parents got divorced and the father took care of the two boys afterwards. Due to his job as a mechanical engineer or managing director for various companies, the family moved frequently. In the third grade he was an actor in school performances.

He completed an acting training with Richard Süssenguth in Berlin , with Michael Mendl and with Walter Spiske in Düsseldorf . He then received theater engagements in Düsseldorf, Zurich , Munich , Hamburg and Bonn . For example, he played in the 1989/1990 season in Egmont by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe at the Ernst-Deutsch-Theater in Hamburg. In 1991 he appeared in Goethe's Faust I at the Small Theater in Bonn .

However, Martens achieved fame mainly through his numerous television roles. From the beginning of the 1990s, Martens took on several continuous series roles, recurring episodes and guest roles in productions such as Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei , Tatort or Polizeiruf 110 .

Martens had continuous series roles as laboratory doctor Dr. Robert Minor in the RTL - TV Series OP calls Dr. Bruckner , as senior public prosecutor Riese in the Sat.1 television series Edel & Starck , as senior doctor Dr. Marcel Plenzdorff in Klinikum Berlin Mitte and as judge Reinersdorfer in the lawyer series Suddenly Papa - appeal rejected! . From 2002 to 2005, in the role of chief detective Falk von Schermbeck, he and Uwe Fellensiek formed the investigator duo in the crime series SK Kölsch .

Martens was regularly used in crime series and crime films on German television, in which he often played the role of the contradicting villain or the psychopathic perpetrator. Martens played several times in the series Der Alte , SOKO 5113 and Tatort . In recent years Martens has increasingly been seen in comedic roles.

Martens has also appeared in numerous television films. The ARD occupied Martens 2006 in the romantic TV movie A seal and the great good fortune . In 2008 he also played Hofrat Klaus in the film adaptation of The Brave Little Tailor in the ARD fairy tale filming in the Christmas program .

In cinema productions Martens was among others in 2002 in a supporting role in the US manufacturing Equilibrium under the direction of Kurt Wimmer and 2005. The Hitler Cantata by Jutta Brückner to see.

Martens has played in film and TV productions for Russian television and cinema since 2010. Most recently he was seen in the cinema productions Match (2012; directed by Andrej Malyukov) and White Tiger - The Great Tank Battle (2012; directed by Karen Shakhnazarov). In 2013, he shot the four-part Sniper directed by Arman Gevorgyan for Russian television .

Dirk Martens has made guest appearances in Berlin and other cities with his own stage program .

Dirk Martens lives in Berlin .

Freddy leak

Martens runs a laundromat in Berlin under the pseudonym "Freddy Leck" and also sells laundry detergents through its own internet shop. In film reports about the exceptionally furnished laundromat, which z. Some of them are posted on the company's website, Martens also appears himself. Before that he had already run a laundromat in Cologne under the name “Cleanicum”. As the owner of this laundromat, he was also featured in the documentary Dynastien in NRW: The Miele men of WDR in front of the camera and reported on his collaboration with the Miele company .

book

  • Freddy Leck: Not every stain has to go. From the life of a laundromat owner . Patmos, Ostfildern 2014, ISBN 978-3-8436-0408-6 .

Filmography (selection)

Movies

TV Shows

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The film database www.imdb.com, the entry at www.vollfilm.de and Dirk Martens' agency all give 1964 as the year of birth.
  2. ↑ An oasis of cleanliness on deutschlandfunkkultur.de
  3. ↑ see agency website
  4. ↑ Dirk Martens appears as Freddy Leck. on YouTube (report by the ZDF turntable about the laundromat, uploaded on May 30, 2010)
  5. ↑ Petra Holler: Berlin-Moabit: The Freddy Leak his laundromat. In: Black Forest Messenger . December 2, 2012, accessed December 18, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Imprint of "Freddy Leak, his laundry" , accessed on December 18, 2015.
  7. ↑ Query of Freddy Leck, his Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH, named in the imprint of the detergent internet shop, at www.unternehmensregister.de. The entry in the commercial register there from October 9, 2009 shows Dirk Martens' date of birth as July 2, 1964 and should be quite reliable as a quasi-official information.
  8. ↑ Christopher Schwarz: The wonderful laundromat. Wirtschaftswoche , February 9, 2004, accessed December 18, 2015 .
  9. ↑ The film ran on the night of August 4th to 5th, 2010 in a rerun on HR television. Martens performed there under his real name.
personal data
SURNAME Martens, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd July 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr