Max Volkert Martens

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Max Volkert Martens (2010)

Max Volkert Martens (* 1948 in Itzehoe ) is a German actor .

Life

After graduating from high school, Max Volkert Martens completed an acting training at the State University for the Performing Arts in Stuttgart . After completing his training, he received his first engagement at the Stadttheater Heidelberg , where he appeared in Danton's death by Georg Büchner under the direction of Hans Neuenfels . Further engagements at the State Theater in Stuttgart and at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus followed . Since 1982 Max Volkert Martens has been working as a freelancer for the Freie Volksbühne and the Schiller Theater in Berlin and at the Residenztheater in Munich .

Martens played the classic theater repertoire of the adolescent lover at the beginning of his theater career. In recent years Martens has also increasingly turned to the boulevard theater . In 2003 he played at the Fritz-Remond-Theater in Frankfurt am Main , in 2005 at the Komödie am Kurfürstendamm in Berlin and in 2007 at the Stadttheater Bern .

His career on German television began in the early 1980s. Martens took on several continuous series roles, recurring episode roles and guest roles. Martens had continuous series roles in the SAT1 - television series Ein Bayer auf Rügen and Der Pfundskerl , in the ZDF series Lisa Falk - a woman for all cases and in the ARD television series Die Schule am See .

In two episodes of the TV series Tatort, Martens investigated alongside Günter Lamprecht as Berlin Commissioner Gerber . In other productions in the series, he played in leading episode roles.

Martens was initially often used on German television in the role of the attractive handsome boy and gigolos . Later he took over the villains in crime series and developed into a sensitive and differentiated character actor . He is often used in the role of the artist.

Martens also acted in several theater productions with, among others in 1989 in the US manufacturing Judgment in Berlin under the direction of Leo Penn and most recently in 2008 in The Baader Meinhof Complex by Uli Edel and Bernd Eichinger .

In addition to his acting activities , Max Volkert Martens works extensively for radio as a speaker in numerous radio plays . He recorded several audio books , including works by Thomas Mann , Joseph Roth , Arno Surminski , Philip Roth , Nagib Mahfus , Maarten 't Hart , Uwe Johnson and Erich Fromm . He also works as a reciter and gives numerous readings. For years he was an off-speaker for the Arte documentary series 360 ° - Die GEO -Reportage .

Martens was married to the director Marianne Lüdcke until her death in 1999 .

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

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personal data
SURNAME Martens, Max Volkert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martens, Max-Volkert; Martens Max V.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Itzehoe