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Mareike Beykirch was born in 1986 in Quedlinburg (former East Germany). After gaining experience as an assistant director at the Theater Osnabrück, she studied acting at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater 'Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy' in Leipzig from 2008 to 2012. Parallel to her studies, she was a member of the Studio am Leipziger Centraltheater from 2010 to 2012.
After completing her studies, Beykirch received her first engagement at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus. She then moved to the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, where she was a member of the ensemble from 2013 to 2019. Since 2013 she has also been a guest lecturer for acting at the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding in Munich and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.
In the critics' poll of the theater magazine Theater heute, she was nominated for the category "Emerging Actress of the Year" in 2013 and 2018. During the 2019 Berlin Theatertreffen she was a fellow of the International Forum. For the 2019/2020 season, Beykirch was a member of the ensemble at the Munich Residenztheater.
Beykirch had her first small roles in front of the camera in 2013 in a music video directed by Schorsch Kamerun and in 2015 in a promotional film for the Berlin Gemäldegalerie (directed by Isabell Šuba). Her first film role came in 2019 in Julian Radlmaier's vampire comedy "Blutsauger" ("Bloodsuckers"), which premiered at the 2021 Berlinale in the Encounters section. In the meantime, Beykirch appeared in episodes of the TV series "SOKO Stuttgart", "In aller Freundschaft" and "Kommissarin Lucas".
In February 2021, Mareike Beykirch was one of 185 lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, non-binary and trans signatories of #ActOut in the Süddeutsche Zeitung magazine. The initiative aimed to combat discrimination and promote greater visibility and diversity in the theater, film, and television industries.
Her first leading role in a film was in Sylke Enders' tragicomedy "Schlamassel" (2023), where she played a newspaper intern who tracks down a former concentration camp guard and causes unexpected chaos.
Beykirch, who is still a member of the Residenztheater ensemble, then joined the cast of the film "Jenseits der blauen Grenze" (2023).