Kai Maertens
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)
Movies
- 1997: Zero Risk and Rich
- 1998: The Innocence of the Crows
- 2000: Mister Boogie (cinema)
- 2001: kiss me, tiger!
- 2001: Jud Süß - A film as a crime?
- 2003: The Last Lude (cinema)
- 2003: Donna Leon - Venetian Final
- 2003: Donna Leon - Fine Friends
- 2004: eighty fifteen
- 2008: The moon and other lovers (cinema)
- 2008: Die Schimmelreiter (cinema)
- 2009: Krauses cure
- 2010: Luise's promise
- 2012: Man does what he can (cinema)
- 2013: The men of Emden (cinema)
- 2014: sisters
- 2017: Commissioner Heller: Hidden tracks
- 2018: Teufelsmoor
- 2020: my wife's lover
TV Shows
- 1988: Crime scene: bankrupt vultures
- 1992: A case for two (episode 12x04)
- 1994-2018: Großstadtrevier (5 episodes)
- 1994: The Commissioner (episode 1x02)
- 1996: Alarm for Cobra 11 - The Autobahn Police (episode 1x03)
- 1996-2005: A strong team (3 episodes)
- 1998, 2000: The Investigator (episodes 8x12, 10x10)
- 1999: steel network (episode 8x01)
- 1999: The men from K3 (episode 3x18)
- 2000: The Clever (episode 2x01)
- 2000: Ghostbusters John Sinclair (9 episodes)
- 2000: Tatort - Blue Blood
- 2001: Police call 110 - Seascape with girls
- 2001, 2002: Coast Guard (episodes 4x09, 5x03)
- 2002: The Duo - Death on the Beach (episode 1x02)
- 2002: Tatort - The Passenger
- 2004–2007: SOKO Wismar (55 episodes)
- 2009: Doctor Martin (episode 2x04)
- 2010: Here comes Kalle (episode 4x04)
- 2010: The Vintner King (episode 3x05)
- 2010, 2013: The peppercorns (episodes 7x06, 10x07)
- 2010–2011: The Country Doctor (9 episodes)
- 2011: In all friendship (episode 14x11)
- 2011: Animals up to the roof (episode 2x13)
- 2011, 2015: Emergency call harbor edge (episodes 5x24, 10x10)
- 2012: Murders in the North - The Last Course
- 2012: In its paces (episode 1x01)
- 2013: cheerful to deadly: between the lines (episode 1x03)
- 2013: The Rosenheim Cops (episode 12x20)
- 2013: SOKO Stuttgart (episode 5x05)
- 2014–2015: Heldt (episodes 2x11, 3x05)
- 2015: SOKO Vienna (episode 10x11)
- 2016: Hubert and Staller (episode 5x08)
- since 2018: Ostfriesland crime novels (TV series)
- 2018: East Frisian Blood
- 2019: Sin of East Frisia
- 2019: Murders in the North - Who sows hatred
- 2020: Last Trace Berlin - Alibi
Theater (selection)
- 2004–2006: The Threepenny Opera Role: Münz Mathias - Director: Ulrich Waller - St. Pauli Theater , Hamburg
- 2006: The Grönholm Method - role: Carlos Bueno - director: Folke Braband - Theater am Kurfürstendamm , Berlin
- 2007: The Piggy Bank - Director: Folke Braband - Theater am Kurfürstendamm , Berlin
- 2008: Happy End by Dorothy Lane, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill - Directors: Jérôme Savary and Ulrich Waller - St. Pauli Theater , Hamburg
- 2009: The Grönholm Method - role: Carlos Bueno - director: Folke Braband - comedy Winterhuder Fährhaus , Hamburg
Audio books
- 2005: Schott's hodgepodge - eating and drinking by Ben Schott
- 2005: Schott's hodgepodge by Ben Schott
- 2006: The audio book of the books by Olaf Irlenkäuser, Rainer Vollmar
- 2006: Schott's hodgepodge of sport, play & idleness by Ben Schott
radio play
- 2011: Matthias Wittekindt : total loss . Director: Sven Stricker ( Radio-Tatort - NDR )
- 2012: Holger Teschke : Eulenspiegel, the pirate - Director: Wolfgang Rindfleisch (children's radio play - DKultur )
Web links
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Maertens, Kai |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 2, 1958 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg , Germany |