Markus Boysen (born 3 September 1954) is a German

actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), l ...

. Born in

Hannover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...

, Markus Boysen is the son of stage actor Rolf Boysen and the brother of director and

scenic design Scenic design (also known as scenography, stage design, or set design) is the creation of theatrical, as well as film or television scenery. Scenic designers come from a variety of artistic backgrounds, but in recent years, are mostly train ...

er Peer Boysen. He received his acting education from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...

. He got his first television part in 1977 in

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's legendary ''

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'' TV movie ''

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'', where he played the victim who was murdered by

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. Boysen has mostly worked on the stage, playing, among other places at:

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, Opern- und Schauspielhaus Frankfurt,

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, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg,

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, Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel München,

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, Thalia Theater Hamburg and Münchner Kammerspiele. He has also had recurring appearances in television dramas such as ''

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'', '' Der Alte'', '' Kanzleramt'' and ''

'', as well as feature films, including:

Filmography (selection)

* 1977: ''

'' * 1978: ''

'', Season 5, Episode 5: "Steins Tochter" * 1981: ''

'', Season 8, Episode 3: "Kein Garten Eden" * 1986: '' Die Reise'' * 1990: ''Wilhelm Tell'' * 2003: ' (as

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) * 2004: ''Die Heilerin'' * 2005: ''Mord am Meer'' * 2005: ''

Speer und Er ''Speer und Er'' (literally "Speer and He", released as ''Speer and Hitler: The Devil's Architect'') is a three-part German docudrama starring Sebastian Koch as Albert Speer and Tobias Moretti as Adolf Hitler. It mixes historical film material wi ...

'' * 2009: ''Operation Guardian Angel'' * 2010: ''

: Weil sie böse sind'' * 2010: ' * 2012: ''Lena Fauch und die Tochter des Amokläufers''

Radio drama roles

* 1986 - Berengar von Arundel in '' Der Name der Rose'' (BR/SWR/NDR) * 1981 - Ford Prefect in '' Per Anhalter ins All'' (''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'') (BR/SWF/WDR)

Honors

*2008 Rolf-Mares-Preis for his acting in ''Blackbird'' at the

Hamburg Kammerspiele The Hamburg Kammerspiele (German: ''Hamburger Kammerspiele'') is a private theatre in Rotherbaum, Hamburg, Germany, in the borough of Eimsbüttel Eimsbüttel () is one of the seven boroughs (Bezirke) of Hamburg, Germany. In 2020 the population ...

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Boysen, Markus 1954 births Living people Actors from Hanover German male stage actors German male film actors German male television actors 20th-century German male actors 21st-century German male actors