Martina Gedeck

To me, Martina Gedeck embodies the quiet prestige of German cinema. Trained at the Berlin University of the Arts, she has built a career on restraint, and her work in Mostly Martha and The Lives of Others left me genuinely shaken. Multiple Deutscher Filmpreis wins and the Bavarian Order of Merit only confirm what the screen already tells you. What I respect is her refusal to overplay: she packs enormous interior life into a held expression rather than an outburst. That precision, paired with her range across writing, singing and acting, makes her stand apart for me among European actresses of her generation.

Name (English)

Martina Gedeck

Name (Japanese)

マルティナ・ゲデック

Reading

まるてぃな・げでっく

Born

September 14, 1961 (age 64)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Ox

Origin

Munich, Upper Bavaria, Germany

Occupation

screenwriter / film actor / musician / spokesperson / singer

University

Berlin University of the Arts

Awards & achievements

• Bavarian Order of Merit
• 1995 Bavarian TV Awards
• 2000 Bavarian TV Awards
• 2008 Berliner Bär
• 2013 Eckart Witzigmann Prize
• Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
• German Film Award

• Official sitehttps://martina-gedeck.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/martina.gedeck/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martina%20Gedeck
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AB%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B2%E3%83%87%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65111

Tags

• Upper Bavaria
• screenwriter
• film actor
• musician

Last updated

2026-06-23

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