Pavlos Kourtidis (1971 – 20 June 2026) was a Greek actor known for 'Rembetis die Geisterjäger ZDF, 'Alt Ledig Findet' ARD Degeto, 'Klara' Warner Bros discovery - TVN, the film Kapodistrias, and 'Die Cooking Academy' ITV / Pro7. He was born and raised in Wuppertal, Germany and based in between Athens, Berlin, and Liverpool. Kourtidis spoke Greek, German and English.
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Career
In October 2025, Kourtidis finished shooting the romantic comedy "Alt Ledig Findet", on Crete, directed by Peter Stauch for ARD Degeto.
Also his collaboration with ZDF/ZDFneo on the comedy mystery series "Die Geisterjäger Rembetis" in one of the leading roles as Marcos Rembetis created by Jasin Challah, directed by Sophie Averkamp, was nominated for best national series, Jupiter Award 2025. The Premiere happened at Seriencamp Festival 2025. Shortly after, Pavlos Kourtidis collaborated with the television series 'Die Cooking Academy'.
In May 2025, Kourtidis completed his role for 'Klara s2' in Warsaw Poland. He appeared also in 2023 in 'Klara s1' a limited TV series, streaming at TVN, Player Original and Warner Bros discovery, directed by Lukasz Javorski.
Kourtidis was seen in the role of Konstantinos Mavromichalis for the feature film "KAPODISTRIAS", directed by Yannis Smaragdis. The film tells the story of the first Governor in Greece, Ioannis Kapodistrias.
He appeared on Greek television on various series 2023–24 last seen in the Telenovela 'HLEKTRA', channel ERT (Hellenic Broadcasting channel GR) following previously, The Witch, Red River, IQ160, Guardian of the Quarantined ships, Wild bees and others.
Kourtidis was also a voice actor ADR and Audio. He narrated audio books of Nikos Kazantzakis, Arne Dahl, Josephine Hurt and others.
He was also trained as a dancer in a three year course. For more than 15 years, from 2005 to 2020, Pavlos worked as actor, dancer and choreographer. In order to deepen his knowledge in acting, he was involved in martial arts, boxing and stage fighting.
Death
Kourtidis died on 21 June 2026, at the age of 53.
Film and television
'Alt ledig findet'
feature film / ARD Degeto
Director: Peter Stauch
Production: Polyphon film , Avriofilms
Role: Costas
(DE 2025)
Rembetis die Geisterjäger
Role: Marcos Rembetis
Creator: Jasin Challah
Director: Sophie Averkamp
TV series
Channel: ZDF / ZDFneo
Production: eitelsonnenschein GmbH
(DE 2025)
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The Cooking Academy
Role: Priest Nikolaos
Director: Birte Robberts
TV series
Channel: ITV Germany / Pro7
Production: ITV Studios Germany GmbH
(DE 2025)
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KAPODISTRIAS
Role: Konstantinos Mavromichalis
Director: Yannis Smaragdis
Dancetheater ergography
GENOCIDE
GENOCIDE Theater Director, Actor & Choreographer for 15th Nationwide Festival POE at PAOK Sports Arena Thessaloniki - October 2019
GENOCIDE Aesxylia Festival - September 2019 inspired by the city of Elefsina.
GENOCIDE PK Theater Athens - October 2018 - February 2019
A performance based on the true historical facts of the Pontian Greek genocide.
"STYX, the goddess of water"
Inspired the mythological Greek goddess Styx which was presented in 4 tons of water.
Labyrinth based on Minotaur's maze that combined for the first time Cretan traditional dance with contemporary dance based on a realistic maze that represents the union of the ancient with the renovation.
MADHOUSE
"Madhouse" that was based on the true story of a man suffering from mental illness in order to communicate against the fear and social exclusion.
Theatre
2025: "INSIDE" Theater performance Theater Alkmini
2021: "Don Camilo" Theater play. Role: Fluratos - Theater Broadway
2020: Theatre play "The Clothes" Actor at "PK Theater" Athens Greece. Director Emmanuel Manios
2019: Actor & Choreographer for 15th Nationwide Dance Festival POE at PAOK Sports Arena Thessaloniki
2019: Genocide – Festival Aisxylia Elefsina
2018–19: Genocide – PK Theater Athens
2017: Styx, the goddess of water – PK Theater, open stone theater at Platania Trifilias (Peloponnese)
2016: Labyrinth, from darkness to light – Pallas Theater
2015–16: House of Bridges – PK Theater
2014–15: Madhouse – PK Theater
2012–13: Dead-end – PK Theater
2010–11: Frankenstein – PK Theater
2009–10: Society Says – PK Theater, 11th International Modern Dance Festival in Egypt (Gomhouria Theatre, Cairo and Sayed Darwish Theatre, Alexandria).
2008: MONOS – "Polychoros" Theatre of municipality of Athens, Akis Davis Theater
2007: The Step First Step – "Polychoros" Theatre of municipality of Athens, "Goulandris" natural history museum at Oikopolis awards