Christian Doermer

Christian Doermer (born July 5, 1935 in Rostock ) is a German actor , filmmaker , director , producer and screenwriter .

biography

The son of the doctor Hartmut Doermer and the actress Ruth von Zerboni grew up in various European cities after their parents separated and attended the castle boarding school in Neubeuen. After graduating from high school, he studied sociology and economics in Frankfurt and Marburg. Through the mediation of his mother, who ran the Zerboni drama school in Munich , he received his first, initially small, film roles from 1954. In 1956 he made his debut at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg as a theater actor. Doermer first caught on in the film in 1956 through the classic Die Halbstarken , where he is drawn into Horst Buchholz's criminal machinations as the good younger brother of Horst Buchholz . This was followed by leading roles for Doermer in other youth films such as The Early Ripe (1957) and All Roads Lead Home (1958). In Flucht nach Berlin (1960) he played a disappointed young SED functionary who left for West Berlin. For this he received the German Film Award as best young actor . In 1961 he took part in the most successful six-part crime thriller, Das Halstuch, based on a model by Francis Durbridge . At his side, top-class colleagues such as Heinz Drache , Albert Lieven , Horst Tappert , Margot Trooger , Erwin Linder , Dieter Borsche , Hellmut Lange and Erica Beer played in this street sweeper .

In 1962 Doermer was one of the 26 signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto (as the only actor) . This manifesto wanted to make German film more modern and thus founded the New German Film . Together with other comrades-in-arms, he was honored twenty years later with another gold film for “many years of outstanding work in German film”. In the 1960s, Doermer regularly took on roles in such “modern” German films, for example in 1962 the leading role in Herbert Vesely's classic Das Bread of the Early Years, based on the story of the same name by Heinrich Böll . In it he played an electrician who breaks out of his average life and dares to start over. After participating in various television films and an important role in Peter Schamoni's socially critical work Schonzeit für Füchse (1965), he found access to several international productions at the end of the 1960s. In 1969 he took on a supporting role in Richard Attenborough's directorial debut, the British film musical Oh! What a lovely war .

In 1963, Doermer founded his own film company, Cine Document Film. In the style of the filmmaker , he made several films himself, in which he was at the same time author, producer, director and actor. He specialized in feature films and documentaries on distant regions such as India , Africa and Asia . Again and again he addressed intercultural problems, for example in the television film Du (1975), which focused on the relationship between a German living in Thailand and his local domestic worker. In 1979, Doermer, who repeatedly deals with philosophy, shot a two-part television series about the life and theories of Friedrich Nietzsche . After his lavish movie about General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck flopped in 1984, Doermer increasingly turned back to acting. He played in popular television series such as Tatort , Ein Fall für Zwei , Abel, and most recently in 2011 in Commissioner Lucas . He also played historical roles such as the Bavarian Prime Minister Ludwig von der Pfordten in the TV series Bismarck (1990), General Hans Oster in Bonhoeffer - The Last Level (2000) and OKW boss Wilhelm Keitel in Stauffenberg (2004).

In 1989, Doermer founded the Ensemble am Chiemsee production company with Hans Clarin and the actress Mona Freiberg , which primarily provided program contributions for private television and regional media. At the radio station Charivari Rosenheim he also moderates the cultural program radio tower every two weeks . Christian Doermer was married to the writer Lore (Laura) Schmidt-Polex (1935–2010) from 1961 until her death and is the father of three children.

Doermer is a member of the German Film Academy .

Filmography

• 1954: Love letters from Mittenwald / Beloved Miss Doctor
• 1955: The forester's house in Tyrol
• 1956: Many came by
• 1956: The Last Patrol (TV)
• 1956: Juno and the Peacock (TV)
• 1956: The youngsters
• 1957: The Star of Africa
• 1957: Father, our best piece
• 1957: The early maturity
• 1957: All roads lead home
• 1957: Everyone lives alone (TV)
• 1958: Paul and Julia (TV)
• 1958: It doesn't work without a mother
• 1959: The Nobel Prize (TV)
• 1959: Charming Arabella
• 1960: A thimble full of courage (TV)
• 1960: Made up youth / Night at the lake (first performance 1987)
• 1960: Escape to Berlin
• 1961: The ferris wheel
• 1961: The Little Miracle (TV)
• 1962: The bread of the early years
• 1962: love at twenty . Episode: Munich
• 1962: The scarf ( TV six-part after Francis Durbridge )
• 1962: The revolution dismisses its children (three-part TV series)
• 1962: The Crown Attorney (TV movie)
• 1962: 90 minutes after midnight
• 1962: The great role model (TV)
• 1963: The Tape (TV)
• 1964: Stopover in Düsseldorf
• 1964: The Criminal (TV)
• 1964: Death around the corner (TV)
• 1964: The First Legion (TV)
• 1965: Romulus the Great (TV)
• 1965: Case closed (TV)
• 1966: Closed season for foxes
• 1966: The cello (TV)
• 1966: The fifth column : An order for ... (TV)
• 1966: The Foresthouse Enigma
• 1966: Playgirl
• 1966: The bill - served ice cold
• 1967: I had imagined it differently (TV documentary; direction, production)
• 1967: The assassination attempt - Walter Rathenau (TV)
• 1967: A Strange Lady (TV)
• 1968: Indians in Kenya (TV documentary; direction, production)
• 1968: The Syndicate
• 1968: Joanna
• 1968: Examination of a teacher (TV)
• 1969: Oh! What a lovely war
• 1969: The rats sleep at night (TV series work examples )
• 1969: Schußfahrt (Downhill Racer)
• 1970: Sleep in Soho's Eyes (TV movie; director, writer, actor, producer)
• 1970: Buddha's birthday (TV film; director, book, actor, production)
• 1971: Hoste heisse (documentary; director, script, production)
• 1974: Pimai (documentary; direction, script, production)
• 1975: You (director, script, actor, production)
• 1976: Middle East hot spot (TV series, 4 episodes; direction, book, production)
• 1976: Peki (documentary; director, script, production)
• 1976: The Report (TV)
• 1977: An Enemy of the People (TV)
• 1978: Beef Belt (documentary; director, script, production)
• 1979: Sils Maria (2 parts; direction, production)
• 1984: Lettow-Vorbeck. The German-East African imperative (direction, script, actor, production)
• 1986: Fathers and Sons (TV four-part series)
• 1987: The greenhouse
• 1988: Heimatmuseum (three-part TV series)
• 1988: A Case for Two : Deadly Reconciliation (TV)
• 1989: The Bodyguard (TV two-part)
• 1989: A Bewitched Summer (TV)
• 1989: do we need a new preamble? (TV film; direction, production)
• 1989: The Witness (TV)
• 1990: Hopping Meat (TV)
• 1990: Bismarck (TV three-part series)
• 1990: Travels inland (direction, production)
• 1990: Project Aphrodite (TV series)
• 1991: End of Innocence (TV)
• 1993: Morlock - children's stuff (TV)
• 1994: Tadesse - why?
• 1995: The morning after (TV)
• 1996: Peter Strohm : The Iron Man (TV)
• 1996: Code name Dennis
• 1997: Dirty Truth (TV)
• 1997: Portrait of a judge (TV)
• 1998: love in the shadow of the dragon
• 1998: Super single (TV)
• 1999: Else - Story of a Passionate Woman (TV)
• 1999: a single murder
• 2000: Our Life, Our Happiness (Director, Actor; TV Movie)
• 2000: Bonhoeffer - The last stage
• 2000–2001: Lawyer Abel (TV, two episodes)
• 2001: Tatort - Berlin Bear (TV)
• 2001: Wambo (TV)
• 2002: I Didn't Want It - Anatomy of a Murder Case (TV)
• 2003: Out of love for Germany - A donation affair (TV)
• 2004: Stauffenberg (TV)
• 2011: Commissioner Lucas - Greedy (TV)

Awards

• 1961: Film tape in gold (young actors) for escape to Berlin
• 1982: Filmband in gold for many years of excellent work in German film as a signatory of the Oberhausen Manifesto

Web links

• Christian Doermer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Christian Doermer at filmportal.de (with photo gallery)
• Christian Doermer website and blog ( Memento from August 8, 2018 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ film portal
2. ↑ Christian Doermer at Steffi-Line
3. ↑ Christian Doermer at Steffi-Line
4. ↑ Christian Doermer at Steffi-Line
5. ^ Christian Doermer. In: deutsche-filmakademie.de. German Film Academy , accessed November 30, 2019 .