Florian Martens

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Florian Martens at the Berlinale 2008

Florian Martens (born December 27, 1958 in East Berlin ) is a German actor .

Life

Origin and education

Florian Martens was born in East Berlin after Christmas 1958 as the illegitimate son of the actress Ingrid Rentsch and the actor Wolfgang Kieling , with whom Rentsch had a brief relationship. His mother later married the actor and director Hans-Joachim Martens , whose family name he has. Florian Martens' half-sister is the actress Susanne Uhlen .

Martens wanted to be a jockey as a child , because he was fascinated by racehorses from an early age . He earned his first pocket money as an employee behind the betting box office at the Berlin-Mariendorf trotting track . He also obtained an amateur racing license , but his height and weight made his wish impossible. That is why he first completed an apprenticeship as a construction machinist in Kirchmöser in Brandenburg and worked as an excavator and bulldozer driver for five years on assembly. In addition, he served his military service in the Navy . Eventually, at the age of 24, he made the decision to follow in his family's footsteps. He completed his acting training from 1983 to 1986 with a diploma at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin . In 1990 he received a firm commitment at the Volksbühne Berlin . In addition, he played repeatedly in the comedy on Kurfürstendamm .

Movie and TV

Florian Martens gave his film debut in 1986 in the GDR television in Bernd Böhlichs Literaturverfilmung The young Mr. Siegmund that on the published in 1796 narrative The two most remarkable days of Siegmund's life of Ludwig Tieck based. He took over the title role of the young, aspiring civil servant Siegmund, who applied for the position of a councilor in the residence and made the acquaintance of the enigmatic "joy girl" ( Dagmar Manzel ) in a roundabout way . In the following years he was cast in several DEFA and DFF film and television productions . He took on first roles in the series Tooth for a Tooth , popular in the GDR , The Public Prosecutor has the floor , Barefoot in bed and acting . In the last DEFA films before the fall of the Berlin Wall , such as Melanio's last love (1988; as an interrogator) or Green Wedding (1989; as a joke uncle), he was seen in supporting roles.

After the fall of the Wall , Martens was cast in leading and supporting roles in various television films and various television crime series. He has appeared in front of the camera several times for episodes of the crime series Polizeiruf 110 and Tatort .

For the Sat.1 production Natascha - Race with Death (1996) he worked again under the direction of Bernd Böhlich. Together with Julia Jäger, he played the bear parents who refused chemotherapy for their daughter Natascha . In the crime film Freier Fall (1997) he embodied, "psychologically tough", the role of Dr. Teichmann, a diabolical defender in a wheelchair . For his acting performance there, he was awarded the Gold Adolf Grimme Prize in 1998 together with his fellow actors Christian Görlitz and Josef Bierbichler . Dieter Wedel Martens cast several times in his multi-part series. He was hired by Wedel for the five-part television thriller Der Schattenmann (1996), in which he embodies the role of Commissioner Jürgen Droegel, the head of the covert investigation by the eponymous “Shadowman” Karl Caesar 'Charly' Held ( Stefan Kurt ). This was followed in 1998 with the six-part television drama The King of St. Pauli , where he plays the transsexual Karin, and with the eight-part Sat.1 television series Die Unbrechliche , in which he played lawyer Thomas Rönnfeld alongside his colleague Maja Maranow Dieter Wedel as a director and producer. In 2002 he was again under his direction in the six-part television series Die Affäre Semmeling in a supporting role as the reporter "Sudel Hans".

In the semi-documentary feature film The Officers' Hour , he was seen in 2003 in the role of Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim , a resistance fighter in the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 . In the same year he played the NSDAP politician Heinrich Himmler in the three-part German docu-drama Speer und Er . In the Sat.1 television film Kiss me, comrade! (2007) he was Hauptmann Pfefferkorn in 1974 and 2006. Under the direction of Matthias Tiefenbacher , Martens took on one of the two leading roles in the family comedy Liebling, we have inherited, alongside Sabine Postel as dentist Martin Held . (2007). Martens also took part in numerous children's and youth productions. In the fairy tale film Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten , which was first broadcast on ARD in January 2010 as part of the fairy tale series Six in One fell swoop , he was seen alongside Gesine Cukrowski as his wife Martha in the role of the farmer Georg. In the KiKA crime series Alone Against Time, told in real time , he played Johann Bauer in the first season of 2010. In the Christmas television film Beutolomäus and the false suspicion with the fictional KiKA Christmas figure Beutolomäus he took on the role of the police officer Harald.

Since March 1994 Florian Martens has played in the ZDF crime series A Strong Team , Chief Detective Otto Garber, who speaks the Berlin dialect and whose black wool hat has become Martens' trademark. Up to the 64th episode, which was broadcast in January 2016, he played burst dreams alongside Maja Maranow , from the 65th episode he can be seen alongside Stefanie Stappenbeck as an investigative commissioner duo. In 1999 he and Maja Maranow received the Golden Gong for his portrayal in the episode Brown Eye . In 2010 he received the Bavarian TV Award in the category “Best Actor in Series” for the role of Otto Garber . The jury praised Martens "fascinating intensity, almost self-evident credibility and constant acting brilliance".

Private

Florian Martens was in a relationship with his colleague Maja Maranow for two years in the 1990s . Martens has two daughters (* 1993) and (* 2006), who result from two failed relationships.

He lives in Berlin and Brandenburg on the Krüpelsee .

Filmography (selection)

theatre

literature

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Florian Martens In: Prisma.de .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Florian Martens in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely accessible)
  3. ↑ Didi Hamann sends the best horse to the racecourse. In: Welt.de . Retrieved September 4, 1999 .
  4. ↑ JUNGE HERR SIEGMUND, DER (1986) - A television play by Horst Enders based on a story by Ludwig Tieck. In: fernsehenderddr.de. Accessed May 1, 2019 .
  5. ↑ SUNDAY March 31st: Natascha - Race with Death. In: Der Spiegel 13/1996 . March 25, 1996, accessed January 4, 2020 .
  6. ↑ TV film "Freier Fall" In: Tittelbach.tv .
  7. ↑ The incorruptible at Fernsehserien.de
  8. ↑ A strong team: Interview with Maja Maranow and Florian Martens. In: rtv.de . Archived from the original on May 17, 2019 ; accessed on July 29, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Martens turns ZDF crime thriller into "really big cinema". In: morgenpost.de . Retrieved June 22, 2010 .
  10. ↑ Commissioner Ex - Interview with Maja Maranow and Florian Martens. In: bz-berlin.de . Retrieved October 15, 2011 .
  11. ↑ ZDF investigators in a double interview: How is it playing with the ex? In: Bild.de . Retrieved October 19, 2014 .
  12. ↑ Love, noise and success - Florian Martens and Maja Maranow are a strong team. In: superillu.de . Retrieved October 20, 2014 .
  13. ↑ Florian Martens: Love became real friendship. In: Bild.de . Retrieved January 9, 2016 .
  14. ↑ a b The core Berliner: theater, film and television star Florian Martens. In: berlin-visavis.de. Retrieved July 21, 2012 .
  15. ↑ Put in the light: Florian Martens. In: Iserlohner Kreisanzeiger and newspaper . Retrieved June 29, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Martens, Florian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH East Berlin