René Steinke
In 1963 René Steinke was born. When he was 14
he wanted to become an actor. But the road to this goal was long: an education as a technicus,
a while in the army at the NVA (Nationale Volks Armee) and a year as an ambulance-driver at the
Red Cross. After that he finally went to the drama school Ernst Busch in Berlin. There he has
studied and he finished this study with succes. At the begin of the 1990s René became famous
as an actor after he played several parts in the theatre. Now René has played in different
television-series.
From the fourth season he playes the part of Tom Kranich in "Cobra 11". There he is the
replacement of Mark Keller. As colleague of Semir Gerkhan he gets to deal with car-thiefs,
pimps, black-mailers and murderers in the succesfull action-serie. For the actor the role of
an highway-detective is a big exercise: "I have worked a lot for television, but a serie with
weekly six million viewers (in Germany) is something very different." This means for René
that he has to get up every morning at seven o'clock, because the shootings often start
at nine o'clock.
After three years as Cobra 11-detective Tom Kranich René thinks it's time for some new challenges in his life.
He decides to stop with Cobra 11. Episode 93 is the last episode in which you can see him as a employee of Cobra 11.