Markus Knüfken

Markus Knüfken ( born August 18, 1965 in Essen) is a German actor.

Life and career

Markus Knüfken grew up in food. Knüfken made ​​in 1985 in Essen- Kettwig graduated from high school and then moved to Munich in order to start his community service. In 1987, he worked for six months in the parcel post office in Munich, in order to finance a six-month trip to Australia.

In April 1988, he came back from Australia. He made the taxi license and worked as an extra period at the Bavaria Film for ARD series " Red Earth". In the summer of 1990, he began his training as an actor at the Drama School Theatre in Munich.

After three years he completed the training. He had his rookie commitment in February 1994 at the City Theatre Herford. Previously, he turned but already his first television productions. His first major role Knüfken in November / December 1993 as a right-wing skinhead in a police call 110 ( " Saturdays when war is " ), directed by Roland Suso Richter. It went on to star in crime series such as crime scene and Hamburg Dockland.

1995 Markus Knüfken established with the lead role of Eddie Velten in the series on axis. Since then he has in many television movies, series but also played theater productions. When his personal pet projects called Knüfken Bang Boom Bang and double. Other well-known productions in which Knüfken participated, were, among others, the strange behavior of mature urbanites during the mating season and Knockin 'on Heaven 's Door.

Markus Knüfken was married to Dutch actress Ellen ten Damme. He has been living in Hamburg in 2003 and is married to Andrea Lion, with whom he has a child and a stepdaughter.

Filmography

  • 2004: Pastor Brown - A bewitched case
  • 2004: Pfarrer Braun - The Curse of the Provost
  • 2005: The Lives of Philosophers
  • 2005: a snail's pace (Short Film )
  • 2006: Two million are looking for a father
  • 2006: Here Comes Kalle, episodes 1-12
  • 2007: Manatu - Only the truth saves you
  • 2008-2009: Hamburg Dockland as Police Chief Commissioner Kai North
  • 2009: Storms in Africa
  • 2010: Police 110 - Shadow
  • 2010: Men do not lie
  • 2011: Coast Guard - episode Dangerous Trade
  • 2011: On Air
  • 2011: The Country Doctor
  • 2011: Happiness on Brazilian
  • 2011: The Country Doctor - fate ways
  • 2012: The bride in snow
  • 2012: Großstadtrevier
  • 2012: SOKO 5113
  • 2012: In hot weather, it is not cold at least
  • 2012: Goodbye Papa ( short film )
  • 2012: Antelope (Short Film )
  • 2012: Radio Silence (theatrical feature film )
  • 2013: The Country Doctor - Decision of the heart
  • 2013: The Country Doctor - Forget -me-not
  • 2013-2014: The peppercorns
  • 2013: pancake
  • 2013: The driglichsten aspirations of Eleanor Black
  • 2013: The prosecutor
  • 2013: SOKO Stuttgart, episode: Tattoo
  • 2014: For Heaven's Sake
  • 2014: Fair to fatal: Koslowski & Haferkamp, ​​2 episodes
  • 2014: The audit
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