Ken Duken

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Ken Duken (2012)

Ken Duken (born April 17, 1979 in Heidelberg ) is a German actor .

life and work

Duken with his wife Marisa Leonie Bach at the presentation of the Studio Hamburg Young Talent Award 2012

Ken Duken was born as the third child of the film and theater actress Christina Loeb and a doctor on April 17, 1979 in Heidelberg. Duken, whose sister Annalena Duken is also an actress, took acting courses with James Reynold, among others. The actor first appeared in various roles at the theater, including plays such as The Visit of the Old Lady , The House in Montevideo and various Shakespeare dramas. He made his debut as a film actor in 1997 in a small role in the television crime thriller Blutiger Ernst at the side of Nadja Uhl and Daniel Brühl .

Duken played his first big role on a big screen in 1999 alongside Franka Potente and Heiner Lauterbach in Friedemann Fromms Schlaraffenland . In the same year he worked in Miguel Alexandre's drama Gran Paradiso . For this film, in which he plays a suicidal wheelchair user, he completed three months of wheelchair training. He also played another leading role in 2003 in Deadly Detour by Curt Faudon . He continued his career in cinema in 2005 in the award-winning tragic comedy Another League by Buket Alakus.

Duken was as a junior Commissioner Teddy Schrader member of the core cast in the ZDF produced since 2002 police drama series Night Shift by Lars Becker . After five episodes, he dropped out of the series in 2008. Internationally he has appeared in The Children of Nonantola (La Fuga degli Innocenti) , In the Visor of Evil (Daddy) , Störtebeker , Ali Baba and the 40 Robbers and other productions. Also known is his portrayal of a communist informer in the film Karol - A Man Who Became Pope . In autumn 2006, Duken directed Robert Dornhelm in Russia and Lithuania to shoot Tolstoy's War and Peace , in which he played the role of Anatol Kuragin. The SWR television game Welcome Home , in which Ken Duken plays the war veteran Ben Winter, was shot in mid-December 2007.

In 2003 Duken founded the production company Grand Hôtel Pictures together with Bernd Katzmarczyk and Norbert Kneißl, among others. In their first work, From Another Point of View , Duken plays alongside his wife Marisa Leonie Bach and Dominique Pinon and also directed. In 2009 he continued his own production series with the psychological thriller Distance . In addition to his work as an actor, Duken can increasingly be found behind the camera, for example as a director of music videos for Oomph! and rapper Curse . He has been married to fellow actor Marisa Leonie Bach since 2000, with whom he has a son who was born in 2009.

In 2008 Duken played the role of SS-Hauptsturmführer Siegfried Fehmer , who was head of the Gestapo in Oslo in 1945 in the film Max Manus about the Norwegian resistance fighter of the same name . The role of the woman hero Fehmer, who could become a brutal torturer from one second to the next, was a good preparation for Duken's next appearance in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds , where he played a German soldier. In 2009 Duken played the former lover of Anna Gotzlowski in Til Schweiger's film Zweiohrküken . In the German-British TV co-production Laconia , Duken played a leading role as German submarine captain Werner Hartenstein . In 2011 he was seen as Carl Benz in the ARD television film Carl & Bertha , and also in the feature film Never more without you at the side of Nicole Beharie . In the television production Das Wunder von Kärnten , which won an International Emmy Award in 2013, he played the leading role of cardiologist Dr. Markus Höchstmann.

In 2013 he played in Frei , a production by Bayerischer Rundfunk, the main role of Viktor Voss, who as a former SS-Sturmbannführer is on the run to Argentina after the end of the war in 1945, but is gradually confronted with the past.

Duken made his directorial debut with Berlin Falling . The film celebrated its world premiere at the 2017 Shanghai International Film Festival .

Filmography

cinemamovies

Duken in 2009

Television productions


Short films

  • 2001: Benny X (9 minutes, director: Florian Baxmeyer )
  • 2001: Feindesland (20 minutes, director: Thomas Kretschmer)
  • 2002: Hit and Run (13 minutes, director: Thomas Sieben)
  • 2003: To hell with you (23 minutes, director: Adnan Köse)
  • 2003: From another point of view (15 minutes, directors: Ken Duken and Bernd Katzmarczyk; also co-author and co-producer)
  • 2009: The Application (7 minutes, Director: Benjamin Gutsche)
  • 2010: The observation (19 minutes, director: Roman Gonther)
  • 2011: Sotto il cielo di Roma (Script: Fabrizio Bettelli, Francesco Arlanch. Director: Christian Duguay)

Music videos / directing

  • 2003: And what's now - Curse
  • 2005: Struggle - Curse
  • 2005: Gangsta Rap - Curse
  • 2006: How far - Nosliw
  • 2006: The Last Match - Oomph!
  • 2006: The Noose - Oomph
  • 2008: Freedom - Curse
  • 2009: If I could make the world out of you - Curse
  • 2009: Too long alone - Marius Müller-Westernhagen

Awards

Web links

Commons : Ken Duken  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Krei and Uwe Mantel: The Fiction Nominations for the TV Prize 2017 In: dwdl.de, December 19, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Duken, Ken
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 17th 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg