André Kaczmarczyk (born 1986) is a German actor. Life Early life and theatre Kaczmarczyk is from Eisenach. He attended the musical and artistic branch at the local Elisabeth-Gymnasium, where he also did his Abitur. He started acting in theatre as a teenager and was active in various youth theater projects. He was initially a member of the youth club at the "Freien Eisenacher Burgtheater" and, after it closed, in the Landestheater Eisenach. In the summer of 2005, after graduating from high school, he played the young Martin Luther in the historical medieval spectacle Luther - the Eisenach open-air stage festival. He also appeared again later at the Luther Festival, in 2007 as Luther's famulus Georg Rörer and in 2009 as the devil. He began his professional theatre career in 2004 at the Landestheater Eisenach, even before he actually trained as an actor, and in 2005 he moved to the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam, where he was a member of the ensemble until 2007. He also completed his voluntary social year at the Hans Otto Theater. There in 2006 he took on the role of the young soldier in the premiere of David Salz, a scenic collage based on an idea by Lea Rosh about the Auschwitz survivor David Salz, directed by Uwe Eric Laufenberg. In September 2006, he also played the role of André, the new partner of the female protagonist, in the German premiere of the play Safety Distance by Franco-Canadian Frédéric Blanchette at the Hans Otto Theater. André then studied acting at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin from 2006 to 2009. Between 2007 and 2010 he appeared regularly at the bat-Studiotheater at the Ernst Busch Academy during his studies, including as a writer in Die Jagdgesellschaft and as Lenz in a stage version of the story Lenz by Georg Büchner. From 2007 he was already working as a freelance actor alongside his training. In 2008 he played Rosencrantz in Hamlet at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin directed by Tilmann Köhler. In 2010 he had an engagement at the Volkstheater Rostock and he also acted in Orfeo – Love will tear us apart, a production of the Kunstfestspiele Herrenhausen in Hanover, and in a stage version of the novel Berlin Alexanderplatz at the Berlin Schaubühne, directed by Volker Loesch. He has worked at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden since 2011, from the 2013/14 season he