Martina Gedeck

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Martina Gedeck at the Berlinale 2013
Martina Gedeck in Frankfurt am Main , 2009

Martina Friederike Gedeck [ ˈɡeːdɛk ] (born September 14, 1961 in Munich ) is a German actress . She became known to a wide audience in the role of gourmet cook Martha in the movie Bella Martha . She has also read numerous audio books .

Private life

Martina Gedeck grew up as the oldest of three daughters in Landshut, Bavaria . Her childhood and youth, as well as her relationship with her parents, the wholesale merchant Karl-Heinz and the secretary Helga Gedeck, she later described as trusting and harmonious. Passive media consumption hardly played a role. Cover: “We didn't have a TV. At my grandmother's place we were sometimes allowed to watch Pan Tau and Augsburger Puppenkiste . Prefabricated items were seldom presented to us. My parents attached great importance to imagination. ”In 1971 the family moved to West Berlin . Shortly afterwards, when he was eleven, Gedeck was featured in a television program, the youth magazine Denkste .

Gedeck continued her academic career first at the Schadow High School , then in the 1977/78 school year at the Arndt High School in Berlin-Zehlendorf . From 1978 to 1979 she spent a year as an exchange student in New Jersey , USA , at Glen Rock High School . In 1981 she passed her Abitur at the Schadow High School .

After graduation Gedeck was short time at the Free University of Berlin in the subjects German and History enrolled .

From 1991 until his death in 1999 she lived with her fellow actor Ulrich Wildgruber . Since 2005 she has been in a relationship with the Swiss director Markus Imboden , with whom she has made several films and is now married.

In addition to other actors, artists and other public figures , Gedeck was set up in 2010 as the election woman for the election of the Federal President . On June 30, 2010 she was a member of the 14th Federal Assembly as a delegate of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia (parliamentary group Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). She works on a voluntary basis as the official godmother of the Bethel children's hospice and ambassador of the v. Bodelschwingh Foundation Bethel . Gedeck lives in Berlin .

Career

During her exchange year in the United States, she took an acting class at her high school and took on the role of an old Russian maid in a play by Turgenev . From 1982 to 1986 she completed an acting training at the Hochschule der Künste (HdK) in Berlin. She made her first official theater appearance in 1985 at the Frankfurt Theater am Turm as an inmate of a reformatory in the play Aschenkinder by Janusz Głowacki . In the following years further theater roles followed in Molière's play Der Geizige ( Schauspielhaus Hamburg ), as a social worker in Martin Crimp's Dasstille Kind (Malersaal des Deutschen Schauspielhauses) and guest performances, among others at the Schauspielhaus Basel , at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm Berlin and at the Kammerspiele Hamburg .

Gedeck's film career began in 1988 with appearances in two films by Dominik Graf ( Die Beute und Tiger, Löwe, Panther ). At the end of the 1980s she played various roles in television series: She was present in Eurocops , Ein Fall für Zwei , Adelheid and her Murderers , Wolff's Revier , Die Kommissarin and Faust, among others . As a client of the lawyer Robert Liebling ( Manfred Krug ), she was also seen in two seasons of the series Liebling Kreuzberg . She had her breakthrough as a film actress with the films Krücke (1992), Barmherzige Schwestern (1993), Sönke Wortmann's The Moving Man (1994) and Wolfgang Becker's Life is a Construction Site (1995). This was followed by other commercially successful productions such as the comedy city talk in 1995 , Helmut Dietl's jet-set comedy Rossini in 1996 - or the murderous question of who slept with whom , in 1998 Ms. Rettich, Czerni and I by Swiss director Markus Imboden. Gedeck also played roles in several television productions. She received the Bavarian TV Prize for portraying the hunchbacked, wealthy farmer's wife in the ZDF production Hölleisengretl from 1998 .

It was on the ZDF broadcast I said no from 1998, which addressed the topic of rape in marriage . Other roles in her career were the comedy Bella Martha by Sandra Nettelbeck (1999), Hunger auf Leben , a film biography about the life of the GDR writer Brigitte Reimann (2003), the Oscar- winning film The Lives of Others by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck on the Stasi listening mechanisms (2006), the film Elementary Particles by Oskar Roehler from the same year and the portrait of the pianist Clara Schumann by Helma Sanders-Brahms ( Beloved Clara , 2009). Gedeck also had a supporting role in the US thriller The Good Shepherd, produced by Robert De Niro . There were different reviews for two newer films from the years 2008 and 2010: The Baader Meinhof Complex , in which she played the former Konkret journalist and RAF founder Ulrike Meinhof , and Jud Süß - Film without a conscience , which was largely criticized as misdirected and superficial reappraisal of the Nazi film Jud Suss was rated. Gedeck played Anne's mother Edith Frank-Holländer in the literary adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank , which was shot in spring 2015 and was released in cinemas on March 3, 2016 .

She also made several films with her partner, director Markus Imboden . Gedeck worked with different directors, for the film among others with the actors Heinz Hoenig (Krücke) , Jürgen Vogel and Armin Rohde (Life is a construction site) , Veronica Ferres , Götz George , Heiner Lauterbach and Joachim Król (Rossini - or the murderous Ask who slept with whom) , Iris Berben (Ms. Rettich, who Czerni and I) , Ulrich Mühe , Ulrich Tukur , Sebastian Koch and Thomas Thieme ( The Lives of Others ) , Moritz Bleibtreu and Nadja Uhl (The Baader Meinhof Complex) as well Hermione Huntgeburth (Romeo) .

Martina Gedeck has been honored with numerous prizes and awards. In 2002 she received the German Film Award for the second time for both acting and best leading actress. In 2007, the German contribution The Lives of Others , in which she played the leading female role, was honored with an Oscar as best foreign film. In addition, Gedeck is a bearer of the Bavarian Order of Merit . In 2003 she was a member of the International Jury of the Berlinale .

Response in the media and the public

Job related

Cover at the premiere of Die Wand in Vienna, 2012

Gedeck regularly appears at the top of rankings for the most popular German actresses today. In 2006 a jury of film experts chose her as the best German actress. In the industry, Gedeck is regarded as a determined worker. In an article in Emma magazine, she named the comedian duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as well as Jack Lemmon as male role models in the comic genre , and Bette Davis , Marilyn Monroe and Katharine Hepburn as female role models .

In press reviews, Gedeck's ambitious portrayal of female characters is positively highlighted. The cinema web portal Kino.de characterized her with the words: “Like hardly anyone else, Martina Gedeck designs her acting as a constant alternation between precise figure analysis and artistic fantasy.” And: “Sensitive and sensual, shy and lascivious, proud and down-to-earth - Martina The place setting changes its roles between the extremes. ”The feminist magazine Emma wrote on the occasion of a portrait of the actress:“ The mirror characterizes the place setting as 'Pandora who keeps the box with the dangerous passions hidden somewhere'. Pandora? Yes, perhaps. But above all master of the nuances. And travelers in intermediate worlds. ”Some roles, such as Clara Schumann in Beloved Clara , received mixed reviews. The Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote: “You can't think of anything more than your well-known, slightly crazy When-women-too-love-look, which is no longer an expression of a real feeling. In addition to this mode, there are two more registers available to her acting: the one-woman-goes-her-way-habitus, in which patriarchal idiots are pointed out sharply at times, and the deeply overcast grandmother in which they advance especially intoxicated by their own alleged subtlety. "

Private

When it comes to disclosing details from their private life, place settings are considered reluctant. The web portal kino.de quotes her as saying: “My audience doesn't even want to know how many fried eggs I fry myself in the morning. I speak through my characters. ”The Berliner tageszeitung put the topic at the center of an article on Gedeck.

Others

On the occasion of the Federal Assembly for the election of the Federal President in the summer of 2010, for which Gedeck was set up, it involuntarily got into the headlines when the satirical magazine Titanic published a fake campaign with Twitter messages, allegedly by Martina Gedeck.

She came under fire because of her dealings with the media, which mainly concerned preliminary agreements for interviews, the conditions of which are seen as problematic from the point of view of journalistic reporting, as the Hamburg street magazine Hinz & Kunzt wrote about . The German Association of Journalists complained in September 2016 about Martina Gedeck's interview policy and called for an interview boycott against her. This was justified with press-ethically unjustifiable influence of Gedecks on the layout and heading of the articles.

Filmography (selection)

Audiobooks (selection)

Radio plays

Awards

Place Setting Star on the Boulevard of Stars (2011)

interview

  • Gero von Boehm : Martina Gedeck. September 10, 2006 . Interview in: Encounters. Images of man from three decades . Collection Rolf Heyne, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-89910-443-1 , pp. 536-544.

Web links

Commons : Martina Gedeck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Zander: Martina Gedeck shows herself to be sensual instead of brittle. Berliner Morgenpost, August 16, 2015, accessed on April 23, 2017 .
  2. ↑ On the way to oneself. Portrait in Emma , November / December 2002.
  3. ↑ You cannot divide the dog in two. Interview Spiegel Online , August 3, 2019.
  4. ↑ Martina Gedeck on the website of the Bethel Children's Hospice
  5. ↑ Martina Gedeck | Bodelschwingh Foundation Bethel. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 25, 2017 ; Retrieved May 3, 2017 .
  6. ↑ chrismon magazine from October 26, 2012.
  7. ↑ Review compilation on film-zeit.de ( Memento from March 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ These are the 100 best German actors. ( Memento from June 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Article on rp-online , May 25, 2006
  9. ↑ a b Tom Wimmer / kaz: wooden spoon, machine gun, concert grand. Portrait of the actress on kino.de from December 1, 2008
  10. ↑ On the way to yourself . Article by Cornelia Filter in Emma 6/2002.
  11. ↑ Cuddle composers in minor . Film review by Tobias Kniebe in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 4, 2008.
  12. ↑ The Incredible . Article by Waltraud Schwab in taz , November 14, 2006.
  13. ↑ Wrong Martina Gedeck fools the media with Twitter . Article by Ole Reissmann on Spiegel Online , June 30, 2010.
  14. ↑ Not with us . Report by Birgit Müller in HinzKunzt 187, September / October 2008.
  15. ^ German Association of Journalists : Gag Agreement: No cover interviews! from September 8, 2016, loaded on November 3, 2016
  16. ^ Meedia : Attack on freedom of the press of September 8, 2016, loaded on November 3, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Place setting, Martina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cover, Martina Friederike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich