Thorben Marx

Hertha BSC

Born in Berlin, Marx started to play youth football for FC Stern Marienfelde from age 5, before joining Hertha Zehlendorf in 1994 and by age 15, was captain of the club's B team in the Landesliga. Despite interest in signing Marx from FC Bayern Munich, Hamburger SV, Borussia Dortmund and Borussia Mönchengladbach, Marx transferred to Hertha BSC in 1998. Marx suffered an cruciate ligament injury shortly after signing for the club, though Hertha paid €5,000 for Marx's operation and he began training with the first team after recovering. Marx made his Bundesliga debut on 25 November 2000 as an 88th-minute substitute in a 4–0 win over Eintracht Frankfurt. In April 2001, it was announced that Marx had agreed his first professional contract with Hertha BSC, valid from 1 July 2001 for three years. Following the appointment of Falko Götz as interim manager in February 2002, he began to have regular involvement in first team matches, making 12 appearances, in which he scored once and provided two assists between February 2002 and the end of the 2001–02 season. Marx retained his place in the Hertha team for the 2002–03 season, starting the first four Bundesliga matches of the season and making 13 appearances in total during the first half of the season. In March 2003, Marx was pulled over by police due to speeding and undertook a drug test, which initially showed positive for cocaine use, though a blood test later cleared him of it. He kept his place in the team for…

He was part of the Germany national under-16 squad for the 1997 UEFA European Under-16 Championship, having played regularly for the team since being scouted at a tournament in 1995. He later made 13 appearances for the Germany under-21 team, and three appearances for "Team 2006", a secondary German national team set up prior to the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

In April 2021, Marx was appointed as a coach at BFC Preussen.

Marx was a central midfielder. He was described as "hard working, a team player, composed and robust" (German: fleißig, mannschaftsdienlich, abgeklärt und robust) by Karsten Kellermann of Rheinische Post.