Thorsten Merten

Actor

December 1, 1963 (62 years)

Ruhla, Germany

Biography

Thorsten Merten (born December 4, 1963, in Ruhla) is a German actor. Thorsten Merten originally intended to become a journalist and initially worked as a trainee at the newspaper *Das Volk*. After completing his military service, he underwent acting training from 1986 to 1990 at the "Ernst Busch" Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin, where he attended the newly established cabaret department and graduated with a diploma in cabaret performance. This was followed by engagements at various theaters…

Filmography

6.2

Scene of the Crime

Kriminalhauptkommissar Kurt Stich

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

6.2

Polizeiruf 110

Hannes Iwanowski

Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.

6.2

SOKO Leipzig

Volker Hoss

SOKO Leipzig is a German police procedural television programme, a spin-off of the earlier German police programme SOKO 5113. It was first broadcast on 31 January 2001, on German television channel ZDF. On 12 November 2008, the first part of a two-part crossover between SOKO Leipzig and British police procedural The Bill was aired, with the same version being shown on both ZDF and British television channel ITV1.

5.3

Riverboat

Self

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7.1

SOKO Köln

Lars Beck

The SOKO Köln investigates the cathedral city with humor and often with hard work. Their cases take them into a variety of environments, from the Cologne clique to the terraced housing estates on the outskirts of the city.

7.7

Babylon Berlin

Henning

Beneath the decadence of 1929 Berlin, lies an underworld city of sin. Police investigator Gereon Rath has been transferred from Cologne to the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.

5.1

Vienna Crime Squad

Falk Link

SOKO Donau is an Austrian television series.

4.6

SOKO Kitzbühel

Stefan Schiener

SOKO Kitzbühel is an Austrian television series produced by ORF and ZDF. It is a spin-off of the German crime series SOKO 5113. It is set in the renowned Tyrolean tourist centre of Kitzbühel. The production company "beo-Film" has produced the show since 2001. The German abbreviation SOKO stands for Sonderkommission, "special commission", a task force with specific duties.

6.0

Hamburg Dockland

Bernd Wöhler

Shows the interaction between Hamburg police officers and paramedics.

7.8

Wilsberg

Rainer Wiedemann

Georg Wilsberg is an antiquarian in Münster. He used to be a lawyer but lost his license. Since then he has been working as a private detective. The always clammy Wilsberg urgently needs this income. In addition, he depends on the support of his friends, especially because of the car.

5.8

Küstenwache

Hartmut Schild

Küstenwache is a German television series that tells the fictionalized adventures of a unit of Federal Coast Guard officers off the German coast of the Baltic Sea.

3.7

Wolffs Revier

Jörg Bauer

Wolffs Revier is a German television series.

5.4

Der Staatsanwalt

Robert Stein

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5.5

Ein starkes Team

Maik Lehmann

The unlikely police pair Verena Berthold and Otto Garber are part of a special task force investigating organized crime in Berlin. He comes from the east, she from the west of Berlin. He's a redneck, she's from a better background. This causes conflict. Over time, things start to sizzle between the two. Their team includes the agile German-Turkish Yücsel and the sluggish Georg, who, like Verena and Otto, are constantly bickering. The department manager is Lothar Reddemann. Sputnik is a former colleague of Otto's from the People's Police and is constantly coming up with new business ideas for stores and pubs where the team meets.

4.5

Der Kriminalist

Lutz Ebeling

Der Kriminalist is a German television series produced by Monaco Film Hamburg, subsidiary of Odeon Film. Directors during the first season were Sherry Hormann and Torsten C. Fischer, during the second: Thomas Jahn, Jobst Oetzmann and Torsten C. Fischer.

7.2

Im Namen des Gesetzes

Bodo Seitz

No description available

6.2

Letzte Spur Berlin

Jürgen Beck

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6.4

Die Chefin

Harald Steiner

First Police Chief Inspector Vera Lanz, a Munich police detective, attempts to balance her professional and private life.

4.6

Bella Block

Peter Liersch

Bella Block is a long-running German detective television series starring Hannelore Hoger, first broadcast in 1994 on ZDF. In 2010 the 30th series was produced.

3.3

Die Kanzlei

Otto Suhlke

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