Clown: 23 years later, what happened to Sven Martinek, who played Max Zander?

If you watched M6 from the late 1990s to the early 2000s, you’ve seen at least one episode of the action series The Clown, but what happened to Sven Martinek, who played Max Zander the Clown? You?

At the end of The Clown, Sven Martinek remained on German television and appeared in several German series, but it was his roles in the drama and family series Tierärztin Dr. After Mertens (my mother, vet) (2006-2021). , in a more conventional genre, the cop comedy that’s been running since 2012: Morden im Norden.

In short, Martinek is still very busy.

Adventure “Clown”

In 1996, Sven Martinek got the role that changed his life: the role of Max Zander. Working for a global intelligence police agency, Zander loses his friend and colleague during a dangerous mission and becomes a policeman who acts alone in the fight against terrorism under the name of a clown and under a mask.

Presented in a TV movie soberly titled The Clown, this plot led to Martinek being asked to reprise his role as Max Zander/Clown in a series where he would be the protagonist two years later. Also returning are Claudia, Dobbs and Lubowski’s characters, once again played by Diana Frank, Volkmar Kleinert and Thomas Anzenhofer.

The series will continue for 6 seasons of 44 episodes broadcast from 1998 to 2001. In France, the series airs on the M6, and then reruns. In 2005, the feature film The Clown: The Film was released, which aired on French television in August 2006. The script dragged on for years, costing the producers dearly, and eventually had to be reworked from scratch to make it what we know it to be. today. The plot begins with the death of Claudia.