Mark Bellinghaus

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Mark Bellinghaus with Paris Hilton during the opening of his exhibition (2006) in Los Angeles

Mark Bellinghaus (born July 20, 1963 in Koblenz ) is a German actor , artist and voice actor .

Life

Bellinghaus grew up in Koblenz and moved to Munich at the age of 18 , where he completed a three-year training course as an actor . In 1985 Bellinghaus was engaged by General Director Frank Baumbauer after an audition at the Bavarian State Theater. Bellinghaus played under Peter Löscher's direction in Bertolt Brecht's Life of Galileo ; in the following years further roles at the Residenztheater followed . He starred under Volker Hesse's direction in Tankred Dorsts Heinrich, or the pain of fantasy and under Walter Bockmayer's direction in David Mamets Edmont .

1986 saw Mark Bellinghaus in the role as Jorge's novice in the film The Name of the Rose . In 1988 he starred in an episode of the television series Traffic Court . In the following years various leading roles followed , for example in Die Spinnen and Flaming Armadillo for the Swiss radio DRS . In 1991, Bellinghaus starred in the TV drama Stranger Love Strangers at the side of Meret Becker . In 1993 he got the lead role in the series "Die Mutprobe" of the TV series SOKO 5113 . In 1994 the actor appeared in the series Die Stadtindianer .

In 1988/89 he played Pumuckl in Meister Eder and his Pumuckl at the Stadttheater Ingolstadt . In 1990, under Ute Richter's direction, Bellinghaus played the leader Volodja in Liebe Jelena Sergejewna at the Zimmertheater in Heidelberg .

He played the leading role as son Knut Sonntag in the television series Immer wieder Sonntag until he emigrated to the USA in 1995 to further his training as an actor. He moved to Los Angeles and began taking acting classes at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute .

Since arriving in Hollywood , however, he has increasingly distanced himself from acting and developed into a collector of Monroe memorabilia . In 2005 he discovered that several exhibits from an exhibition on Marilyn Monroe at The Queen Mary hotel in Long Beach could not be authentic. Bellinghaus criticized the exhibition "Marily Monroe - The Exhibit", which opened on November 11, 2005, on the grounds that the exhibits did not come from the original private property and instead of the stated $ 10 million had a maximum value of $ 25,000 to $ 30,000. Bellinghaus posted his objections to the exhibition on a blog on Blogcritics. The first blog post was entitled "Marilyn Monroe's Memory Defrauded in Long Beach The Truth Is Here". The exhibition was soon closed and a tour was canceled.

Mark Bellinghaus lived in Beverly Hills and is still working as an artist and graphic designer . Among other things , he created collages that also took up and processed the Monroe theme. After his return from the USA he moved to his mother in Münster / Westphalia, where he has lived and worked since 2010.

From 2016 to 2017 he was a member of the AfD in order, as he explained in an interview with the Westfälische Nachrichten, to publish a book about Frauke Petry with the title "Petry Unheil". After Petry's sudden exit from the AfD, Bellinghaus' project became superfluous.

On June 20, 2020, Mark Bellinghaus founded the "Saturdays for Children" movement based on Greta Thunberg's Fridays for Future movement . He organized a demonstration for a better child protection law and against child abuse, as he said he was a victim of sexual violence at the age of six.

Filmography

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Los Angeles Times: Marilyn Monroe Is Still a Draw (June 5, 2005)
  2. ↑ a b Expert: Marilyn Show Memorabilia Fake ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). The LA Independent, February 15, 2006.
  3. ^ Münstersche Zeitung: Weird excursion into the right-wing scene , March 17, 2017, accessed on July 1, 2020
  4. ↑ Münster residents demonstrate against child abuse , Westfälische Nachrichten, 20. June 2020
  5. ↑ https://filelink.wdr.de/download.php?id=6647474aa8b523d86eb08c358691c066 WDR interview from June 18, 2020
  6. ↑ Josefine ( Memento from October 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Bellinghaus, Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz