Lisa Martinek

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Lisa Martinek, 2019

Lisa Martinek (born Lisa Wittich in Stuttgart on February 11, 1972 , bourgeois Lisa Ricciarelli after marriage; † June 28, 2019 in Grosseto , Italy ) was a German actress .

Life

Lisa Martinek was the daughter of the architect Roland Wittich and the older sister of the director and screenwriter Frieder Wittich . Already during her school days she played in the school theater and developed an interest in acting. At the age of 16 she made her acting debut as Pia as Lisa Wittich in the ARD early evening series Fest im Sattel . In 1991 she was seen in the second film in the Schulz & Schulz film series with Götz George in a supporting role as a classmate of Dorothee ( Sybille Waury ), one of the leading series there. During the filming, she met her future husband Krystian Martinek , who played a continuous role as Jochen. For the television comedy A Man for My Wife , she stood next to Robert Atzorn and Iris Berben as Alexa in front of the camera in 1992 .

After graduating from high school, she opted for professional acting training, which she completed from 1993 to 1997 at the University of Music and Theater in Hamburg . During this time she played at the Hamburg Thalia Theater and continued to work in both television and cinema productions. In a total of 20 episodes she was seen in 1994 as Tina Neddelbeck in the television series Blankenese . In 1996 she cast Krystian Martinek for the main role of Tatiana Dodin in the film Kaviar Connection in the ZDF crime series Ein starkes Team . From 1997 to 2001 she worked at the Schauspielhaus Leipzig . Then she was engaged as a guest at the Schauspiel Frankfurt and at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin .

In 1998 she was nominated for the German Film Prize for her role as bike courier Lena in the endurance test . For Uwe Janson's film Jagd auf den Flammenmann , in which she played the role of the young policewoman Susanna Beckert in 2003, she was also nominated for the German TV Prize in the main role category. In 2007 she starred in a new television adaptation of Helmut Käutner's Die Zürcher Verlobung as the dental assistant Juliane, who had originally been played by Liselotte Pulver 50 years earlier . In 2008 she played the role of single parent marine biologist Anna Bender in the German-Austrian fantasy film The Miracle of Loch Ness alongside Lukas Schust . From 2006 to 2012 she was Ann-Kathrin Kramer's successor at the side of Charlotte Schwab in the ZDF crime series Das Duo as Commissioner Clara Hertz.

Lisa Martinek, 2018
Lisa Martinek's grave in Dahlem Forest Cemetery

From 2010 to 2013, she played alongside Andrea Sawatzki as Eva Ackermann, one of the leading roles in four films in the Bella series . In Neelesha Barthel's ZDF film comedy A Terribly Rich Couple , she played the millionaire wife Eva Klüber at the side of Thomas Heinze , who was deprived of her fortune after the divorce. In the summer of 2017, she played alongside Marc Benjamin Puch and Laura Berlin in the ZDFneo series Blaumacher Lisa Sporbert, who confesses an affair to her husband Frank, who is in a midlife crisis . In 2018 she took on the title role of the blind lawyer Romy Heiland in the six-part ARD television series Die Heiland - Wir sind Anwalt . She had her last film role as murder commission chief Petra Steinle in the pilot episode of the ZDF series Schwartz & Schwartz with Devid Striesow and Golo Euler .

engagement

Lisa Martinek supported the "Respiratory Foundation" as an ambassador, which has set itself the task of educating people about lung diseases. Since 2017 she has also been an ambassador for “ Mother Hood eV ”, a federal parents' initiative that advocates the protection of mother and child. She was also one of the founding members of the German Film Academy .

Private

She lived with the actor Giulio Ricciarelli since 2002 . Since their marriage in June 2009, she had his family name, but kept the name Martinek from her marriage to Krystian Martinek (1992 to 1995) as a stage name. The couple lived in Munich and Berlin and have three children.

Lisa Martinek suffered the end of June 2019 during a boat trip near Sant'Andrea on the Italian island of Elba , where she and her family vacation, when diving a cardiac arrest . She died in Grosseto Hospital . She was buried in the Berlin Forest Cemetery Dahlem in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district .

Filmography (selection)

Theatrography

Web links

Commons : Lisa Martinek  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Hanfeld: Actress Lisa Martinek died unexpectedly. In: faz.net . June 30, 2019, accessed June 30, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Breath Ambassador. AtemWeg Foundation, archived from the original on January 27, 2015 ; accessed on June 30, 2019 .
  3. ^ Ambassadors Mother Hood. In: mother-hood.de. May 14, 2018, accessed September 9, 2018 .
  4. ↑ The German Film Academy mourns Lisa Martinek. German Film Academy , June 30, 2019, accessed on July 3, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Lisa Martinek: German actress dies unexpectedly while staying in Italy. Retrieved June 30, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Lisa Martinek: Declaration of love to her husband. In: Bunte.de. December 6, 2009, accessed June 30, 2019 .
  7. ↑ a b FOCUS Online: Actress dies at the age of 47: Lisa Martinek passed out while swimming. Retrieved July 1, 2019 .
  8. ↑ tz: Lisa Martinek: autopsy result there - doctor talks about cause of death. July 3, 2019, accessed July 3, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Martinek, Lisa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wittich, Lisa (maiden name); Ricciarelli, Lisa (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 2019
Place of death Grosseto , Italy