Miriam Maertens

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Miriam Maertens (* 1970 in Hamburg ) is a German actress .

origin

Miriam Maertens comes from a well-known Hamburg family of actors . She is the granddaughter of Willy Maertens and Charlotte Kramm and the daughter of Peter Maertens . Her older brothers Kai and Michael are also actors. The family's name is closely linked to the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, where Willy Maertens was artistic director and all of the children began their acting careers.

Life

Miriam Maertens studied acting at the Hedi Höpfner School . At the age of 18 she played for the first time at the Thalia Theater in the play Tartuffe . She later performed at the Renaissance Theater in Berlin , the Bremen Theater , the Freiburg Theater , the Bern City Theater , the Schaubühne Berlin and the Bonn Theater . Between 2005 and 2019 she was a member of the ensemble at the Schauspielhaus Zürich . There she appeared, for example, in the plays Platonow (directed by Barbara Frey ), Volksvernichtung or Meine Leber ist sinnlos ( Heike M. Goetze ), The ideal man ( Tina Lanik ) and Faust 1–3 ( Dušan David Pařízek ). For the 2019/20 season she engaged Sonja Anders as a permanent member of the ensemble at the Hanover Theater .

She also had a few minor roles in film and television, such as a novice in the German-Swiss satire Test Drive to Paradise .

Maertens announced in 2017 that she had cystic fibrosis and therefore had a new lung transplanted in 2012 .

Filmography

Radio plays

  • 2005: The Lovers (2 parts) (NDR)

Publications

  • 2018: Let's postpone it until tomorrow: How I cheated death , Ullstein Leben, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-96366-002-3

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The Maertens: A family plays theater
  2. ↑ Vita Miriam Maertens
  3. ↑ Schauspiel Hannover, Miriam Maetens Vita. Retrieved June 30, 2019 .
  4. ↑ sueddeutsche.de
personal data
SURNAME Maertens, Miriam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg