Marcel, the only child of a farrier, was born in the Demmin district of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, East Germany, but spent most of his youth in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia after the German reunification in 1989. Raised on a stud farm with about sixhundred horses, he became infatuated with equestrian sports at an early age of four, winning several prizes. Following his O-level graduation, he moved to Münster where he started first training as a qualified horse groom.

Marcel moved to Düsseldorf, Germany. As the lucky winner of the 1998 "so dam tuff" and "Adel Rootstein" model contest in Germany, he left two days later for London, successfully working as a male model.

This among his other talents paved way to "Beate Uhse TV " and "Hauptstadt Production" where he represented Germany's first monthly gay TV-Show for two very triumphant years. In addtion, he accepted another job at "Backstage -The Magazine" on Germany's largest adult TV-Channel.

In 2003, he was offered the main cast in a movie "Gefangen" (Locked up). It was a blockbuster at the gay film festivals in the US, Australia and many more countries. This movie is one of the best sold gay productions via the internet of 2004/2005. Marcel also appeared on a number of internet pay site videos and worked as an escort.

Another extremely successful project are his short stories "Max in the city" in the gay magazine "Du+Ich". All stories developing around a young guy from Berlin who "lives life to the max". In the meantime he also worked as a photo model for Berlin's fashion agency M4, and also appeared in the Russian Vogue magazine.

Currently living in Berlin, Marcel is also into photography since 2005 with first successful publications in the gay magazine "DU+Ich" and the book "Skate!" and he has more photography projects to come. His stage names are Marcel, Dennis, Ben Rogers, Ben Rodgers.

In 2007, he announced hits retirement from porn business, resulting in a final appearance in Bruce LaBruce's softcore film Otto: or, Up with Dead People, playing one of the three leading parts, a zombie named Fritz. However, he recently announced on his MySpace that he would soon start shooting a Wurstfilm-produced film version of his Max in the City column, which is said to involve pornographic content.