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name: "Martin Behnke"
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roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1978"
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average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T13:46:37.213484+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Martin Behnke

Writer. Born 1 January 1978 in Berlin, Germany.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1978, Berlin, Germany
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q86467216, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2935195/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/49375

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Dark*](https://film.one/tv/dark.md) (80)

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## Biography

Martin Behnke is a German screenwriter. He studied theatre studies and English at the University of Leipzig, followed by screenwriting at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg until 2008.

Behnke wrote five episodes of the Netflix series *Dark* (2017–2019). He has collaborated with director Burhan Qurbani on the features *We Are Young. We Are Strong.* (2014), for which he received the Bavarian Film Award for best screenplay, and *Berlin Alexanderplatz* (2020), which earned nominations for the German Film Award and European Film Award. Other credits include *Latte and the Magic Waterstone* (2019), *Christmas Crossfire* (2020) and the series *Munich Games* (2022).

*Sources: imdb.com, de.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Dark* (2017), Fi1m 80, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/dark.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Munich Games* (2022), series, Writer
- *Christmas Crossfire* (2020), Writer
- *Berlin Alexanderplatz* (2020), Writer
- *Latte and the Magic Waterstone* (2019), Screenplay
- *Der Prag-Krimi* (2018), series, Screenplay
- *Dark* (2017), series, Writer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/dark.md)
- *We Are Young. We Are Strong.* (2014), Writer
- *Rounds* (2007), Screenplay
- *Schäfchen im Trockenen*, Writer
- *Sind so kleine Hände*, Writer

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won, 4 nominated

- European Film Award for Best Film 2020: European Film Award for Best Film (nominated), for *Berlin Alexanderplatz*
- European Film Award for Best Screenwriter 2020: European Film Award for Best Screenwriter (nominated), for *Berlin Alexanderplatz*
- European University Film Award 2020: European University Film Award (nominated), for *Berlin Alexanderplatz*
- Bavarian Film Awards 2016: Bavarian Film Awards (won), for *We Are Young. We Are Strong.*
- German Film Award 2011: German Film Award (nominated), for *The Day I Was Not Born*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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