Mark Bellinghaus was born as Hans Siegfried Otto Schmidt Koenig, on July 20, 1963, in Koblenz, and he officially changed his maiden name, because it constantly reminds him of the terrible physical and sexualized tortures he experienced as a little boy for 2 1/2 years had to endure 6 years in an evangelical alumni, remembered.
Back in Koblenz, Bellinghaus was aiming for a career as a high-performance athlete, and became a single and pair skater in ice and roller art skating at Post-SV Koblenz. He made it in pair skating, after all, to the state champion of Rhineland-Palatinate. In the men's individual run, he was 3rd in roller art skating.
This artistic sport became the foundation for his later, very successful career as an actor. In addition to his school education, Bellinghaus began to gain experience as an extra at the Koblenz City Theater at the age of 16.
Due to a severe inflammation of the nerves in his back, a brain tumor was initially suspected, as Bellinghaus was paralyzed on one side for many months, he had to stop his sport. That was the first step into acting for Bellinghaus.
At the age of 17 he moved to Munich alone to make his dream come true.
During his acting training in Munich, he was hired by Frank Baumbauer, the then director of the Bavarian State Theater, the Residenztheater Munich, and thus one of the most renowned theaters in Germany, after an audition, away from the drama school. A short time later, the Constantin Film (Bernd Eichinger) film offer followed, as "Jorge's Novize", in the literature adaptation of Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose," alongside film stars such as Sir Sean Connery, F. Murray Abraham, Christian Slater and others prominent actors to gain their first real experience in the film business. The then young actor immediately used this popularity to change his name to Mark Bellinghaus. Now reminded less of the torments than "Sigi", which determined his life as a boy who was exposed to the most severe physical and sexualised violence. And luck was always by the side of the active artist and actor. Unfortunately, however, there was also misfortune in the form of super powerful producers such as Bernd Eichinger, television casting professional Horst D. Scheel, and not least the general manager of the Bavarian State Theater, who followed Peter Baumbauer to the Munich theater after Peter Baumbauer left. Rape and sexual assault followed, which Bellinghaus immediately tried to report to the artistic management office and to the Munich police on the following day, but he was probably not believed at the time, since Günther Beelitz was married and had a young daughter. The massive abuse trauma was swallowed for decades and only "reappeared" through intensive and professional processing in the USA through psychotherapy. In 2019, Bellinghaus had already reported cases of abuse of his childhood to the Protestant Church 3 years earlier, Bellinghaus saw a theater performance, a guest performance, of the Theater Wuppertal, which was about sexual abuse. Thomas Melle's "Pictures of Us." This performance finally gave Bellinghaus the courage to come out as a victim of severe physical and sexual violence against children. There was no turning back. And that is why Bellinghaus used his personal pain and experience to create the world's first "memorial for the victims of physical and sexual violence against children, in the church and elsewhere" as a performing artist. It was exhibited and presented in the theater of the city of Münster in 2019.
A year later, when Münster shocked the world through the perfidious abuse complex of Münster, where boys were abused and filmed in a creepy gazebo in Münster's children's house, Mark Bellinghaus founded the initiative movement 'Saturdays for Children.'
www.saturdaysforchildren.com
After emigrating to the USA in 1995, Mark Bellinghaus left acting and devoted himself to other artistic and journalistic projects. He became the world's most respected expert on Marilyn Monroe and, by 2009, owned the largest collection of her artifacts. In 2006 Bellinghaus published his first blog because the renowned Los Angeles Times refused to believe what Bellinghaus had found out and was able to prove. Biggest exhibition fraud in history. A scam worth $ 100 million. The scammers fought back with an official lawsuit against the actor, who was defending himself in court as his own lawyer, and won. A David versus Goliath-like fight. Because Bellinghaus' opponent was the famous "lawyer for the dead," Mark Roesler, who lost his best "horse in the stable", namely Marilyn Monroe, forever after his defeat by Mark Bellinghaus