He says that he needed kickboxing as therapy and to feel himself. This was also when Max’ uncle (I’m guessing his mother’s brother here, Max pretty much never mentions his father) took Max to kickboxing, which became Max’ One True Love. When he was 17 years old, Max decided that he didn’t want to live with his mother and younger brother Lukas anymore and moved out and into his own flat. Max loves football/soccer and used to play in a local youth team. Max abandoned his high school three years before he would have graduated to do full time acting (he would’ve been 16 years old). His school was the Charles Darwin School in Berlin Mitte (Mitte being a neighborhood, think “Notting Hill”, “Brooklyn”), which doesn’t exist anymore and the building has been demolished. Max is otherwise uncomfortable with fandom and has stated several times that he wants people to pretend that they do not know him when they first meet him in a club or at a party etc. Max refuses to start any public social media accounts and says that he never will. As a “thank you” and recognition for their effort, Max meets them once a year for dinner. These two still today run Max’ official facebook page (he has no involvement) and his website. After seeing Max in one of his first roles in 1998 (“Zwei allein”), two boys who were the same age as Max started a fanclub. He said that he was arrogant during this time and that his saving grace was the psychologist that had to assess him daily on set (a legal requirement for child actors in Germany). He hated returning to school in between film projects. He felt as if he’d found all these amazing people who then suddenly abandoned him - a certain superficiality of connections within the film industry where everyone is superclose during filming and the next day people can have no contact to one another anymore when filming is over. He said that he fell into a black hole after it was over. Max shot for 70 days straight for his very first role. (My guess is that this was a former partner of his father – his father is currently married to a woman named Birgit and they don’t appear to have kids.) He wasn’t chosen, but the child talent agency decided to sign him up and he was invited to further castings. When he was 13 years old, a woman who is in various interviews either described as “an acquaintance” or as “stepmother” or as his “mother”, took him and his stepsister to a casting. Lukas is Max’ half-brother by his mother, but he still goes by “Lukas Riemelt”. Lukas played Max’ character as a child in “In the face of crime”. When he was 11 his younger brother Lukas was born (in 1995). Max first acted in a stage play at his elementary school and then in a children’s play in a children’s acting group lead by “a family friend” at age 11. ![]() He can still recall the weird excitement when a certain type of supermarket made it to his neighborhood. He said that the biggest difference were the shops. Max has never afaik described where he was or what he did or how his family reacted when the Wall came down. He does feel “different” from West Germans sometimes and says that they e.g. Max argues that most people who were not political felt free or “just normal” and did not feel like “victims all the time”. Max grew up around Gendarmenmarkt with his mother.Ībout his first childhood years in the still communist GDR (Max was 5 years old when the Berlin Wall came down), Max said that it was “just my childhood” and that people have misconceptions about what it was like. Max has said that he still had a very sheltered childhood. Max’ mother and father divorced shortly after Max’ birth, before he was one year old. Both Gunnar and Judith are graphic designers. Max’ parents are Gunnar Riemelt (*1955) and Judith (*1957) (I don’t know what his mother’s maiden name is – she still goes by “Judith Riemelt”).
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