Kai Maertens

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Kai Maertens (2006)

Kai Maertens (born November 2, 1958 in Hamburg ) is a German actor .

Career

Kai Maertens comes from a theater family . His grandfather Willy Maertens was an actor and director at the Thalia Theater ; his grandmother Charlotte Kramm was also a member of the ensemble there from 1932 to 1935 and from 1945 to 1971. During the Nazi era , she was banned from performing because of her Jewish descent. His father, Peter Maertens , who died in 2020 , was an actor, as were his siblings Michael Maertens and Miriam Maertens .

After graduating from high school, the man from Hamburg was initially drawn out into the world for five years. This was followed by permanent engagements in Cologne and at the Hamburg Thalia Theater. Kai Maertens has been working as a freelancer since 1993. He got his first television role in 1984 in the television play "Typical Actor" directed by Wolfgang Staudte. He became known to an audience of millions through series such as Sterne des Südens , Ghostbusters John Sinclair and as Hamburg's unique Olav Hinzmann in the ZDF series SOKO Wismar . He works as an actor and director at the theater. In 2006 and 2007 he played in theater and comedy on Kurfürstendamm in Berlin in Folke Braband's productions The Grönholm Method and The Piggy Bank . In 2006 he played Münz Matthias in the Threepenny Opera with Ulrich Tukur as Mackie Messer at the St. Pauli Theater in Hamburg and in 2008 in the Chicago gangster play Happy End .

In the summer of 2013, Kai Maertens took over the direction of the Störtebeker Festival on the island of Rügen.

Filmography (selection)

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Theater (selection)

Kai Maertens, painting by Manfred W. Jürgens (2006)

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personal data
SURNAME Maertens, Kai
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg , Germany