Martin Klempnow

Martin Klempnow (born 28 October 1973 in Köln) is a German actor, comedian, presenter and voice actor. He became known in 2009 as Dennis aus Hürth on Switch reloaded. Klempnow did his Abitur at the Heinrich-Böll-Gesamtschule in Köln-Chorweiler. While still at school he began to ride cycle races professionally and took part among other things in the Sechstagerennen Köln. He first began to study law in Köln, and from 1997 to 2001 completed acting training at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg.

In 2004 he was part of the main cast of the Sat.1 comedy series Happy Friday. He became known through various appearances with the music group Die Ärzte, including as the lead in the music video Lasse redn. From 2009 to 2011 he played the role of the half-brother of Jürgen Vogel in the Sat.1 series Schillerstraße. From 2009 he was part of the ensemble of the ProSieben shows Granaten wie wir and Switch reloaded, in both appearing in the figure of the vocational school student Dennis aus Hürth. From 2010 to 2015 he was seen as Toni in the ZDF programme Die Bergretter.

Since March 2017 he has been part of the permanent ensemble of the heute-show. In 2020 he was one of the contestants of the 13th season of the RTL dance show Let's Dance, dancing with Marta Arndt and finishing in 7th place. He is committed, as Dennis aus Hürth, to learning to read and write, within the framework of the campaign "iChance" run by the Bundesverband Alphabetisierung und Grundbildung. His awards include the Grimme-Preis (2013) with Switch reloaded and the Deutscher Comedypreis (2017) with the heute-show.