Stefan Merki

Stefan Merki (* 1963 in Baden AG ) is a Swiss actor . He is active in cinema and television as well as in the theater.

Life

Merki completed an acting degree at the University of the Arts in Berlin . He played his first theater role in 1989 in the Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz . From 1990 to 1994 he was seen in various roles in the Schillertheater . This was followed by guest engagements at the Theater Aachen , where Merki played the title role in Bertolt Brecht's Arturo Ui , and at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg with a role in Mother Courage . From 1996 to 2001 Merki was employed by the Deutsches Schauspielhaus . Since 2001 he has been part of the ensemble of the Münchner Kammerspiele .

In addition to his work at the theater, Merki is also active as an actor in film and television. He had his first roles from 1989 to 1991, a. a. in the films Daedalus and dodger by Oscar winner Pepe Danquart . From 1994 he worked in various television series, including a. at the crime scene , Adelheid and her murderers and Siebenstein . In 1998 he played a role in Didi Danquart's movie Viehjud Levi . From 2000 to 2002 Merki u. a. Involved in the crime series Tatort and Großstadtrevier . In the following years he also had roles in TV films for ARD . In the cinema he was seen in Hans Steinbichler's drama Winterreise , Carolin Otto's Aphrodite's Night and Maggie Peren's change of position . In 2006 Merki appeared for the first time on Police Call 110 , and he was also still active in Tatort and other television films. In 2012 the films Kaddisch for a friend of Leo Khasin and Ludwig II followed , a historical film by Peter Sehr . In 2016 Merki can be seen again in two cinema productions. In the production Colonia Dignidad - There is no turning back over the commune of the same name in Chile , he plays a character named Rudi. Merki plays Victor Kugler , one of the helpers of the Jews hidden in the Amsterdam Secret Annex , in the literary film adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank , which was filmed in spring 2015 and released in cinemas on March 3, 2016 .