Jürgen Prochnow

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Jürgen Prochnow at the Berlinale 2010

Jürgen Prochnow (born June 10, 1941 in Berlin ) is a German actor and voice actor .

Education and theater

Jürgen Prochnow was born the son of a telecommunications engineer and grew up in Düsseldorf in 1952 after the family moved . He attended Jacobi-Gymnasium and already worked in amateur play groups during his school days. At the request of the parents, Prochnow began training as a banker. In addition, he worked as an extra and lighting technician at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus .

After completing his apprenticeship, he studied acting at the Folkwang University from 1963 to 1966 and received his first engagement at the Osnabrück Municipal Theaters . Further engagements took him to the Theater Aachen , where he worked from 1968 to 1970, and in 1971 to the Theater der Stadt Heidelberg . From 1971 to 1976 he was a member of the ensemble at the Schauspielhaus Bochum under director Peter Zadek . In the following years he worked as a freelance artist and took on guest engagements at various stages, including the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg and the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus. In 1979 he also took part in an acting seminar by Lee Strasberg .

Prochnow only returned to the theater stage in October 2004. As part of a guest appearance at the Komödie am Kurfürstendamm, he took part in the play Brisante Memories by Ben Elton .

Jürgen Prochnow as Huns King Etzel in the play Siegfrieds Erben at the Nibelungen Festival in Worms
Jürgen Prochnow in 2018 as King Etzel of the Huns at the Nibelungen Festival in Worms

In 2018 Jürgen Prochnow played the Hun king Etzel in the play Siegfrieds Erben at the Nibelungen Festival in Worms .

Movie and TV

First steps

Since the 1970s, Prochnow has increasingly appeared on television. He made his television debut in 1970 in Der Unternehmer . Prochnow made his film debut in 1971 in Zoff by Eberhard Pieper . Directed by Wolfgang Petersen , he appeared in the crime scene episode Jagdrevier in 1973 and in the same year played in his first movie One of Us Two . He then played the title role in 1974 under the direction of Reinhard Hauff in the film Die Verrohung des Franz Blum , in 1975 he was seen in Volker Schlöndorff's film Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum . Another collaboration with Petersen came in 1977 on the scandalous film Die Konsequenz , in which Prochnow played a homosexual.

Hollywood

Jürgen Prochnow during the opening of the Berlinale 2009

Prochnow made his international breakthrough in 1981 with the lead role of the submarine commander in Petersen's Das Boot , a fictional person based on Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock , the commander of U-96 in World War II. This was followed by other roles in Hollywood productions. He took on the role of Duke Leto Atreides in David Lynch's Der Wüstenplanet in 1984 , played the villain Maxwell Dent in Beverly Hills Cop II in 1987 , played Charlie Dowd in Hurricane Smith in 1990 , and acted alongside Madonna in the 1993 erotic thriller Body of Evidence and starred in 1995 science fiction film Judge Dredd with Sylvester Stallone . In 1996 Prochnow took over the role of Major Müller in The English Patient and in 1997, again under Petersen's direction, played the Russian rebel general Ivan Radek in Air Force One .

Others

Prochnow mostly synchronizes his own roles himself. In addition, since Thomas Danneberg's retirement in 2018 , he has been speaking again to Sylvester Stallone , whom he dubbed in the 1970s. You can hear him in Rocky , Rocky II , FIST - A man goes his way , Vorhof zum Paradies , Creed II - Rocky's Legacy and Rambo: Last Blood .

For the film sequences of the SF computer game Privateer 2 - The Darkening , Prochnow slipped into the role of the client in 1996.

Prochnow is a contributor to the Rilke project .

In the eighth season of the television series 24 , he embodies Bazhaev , the leader of an Eastern European criminal gang and opponent of Jack Bauer.

On April 11, 2013 Prochnow was inspected during the Jupiter Awards for lifetime achievement with the honor of Jupiter in 2013 by award presenter and Cinema editor in chief Artur Jung in Berlin honored.

In June 2015 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka at the International Film Festival in Zlín, Czech Republic .

Private

Prochnow was in a relationship with the Austrian actress Antonia Reininghaus in the early 1980s . From this relationship came a daughter, Johanna, who was poisoned by her mother in 1987 before she tried to take her own life. From 1982 to 1997 Prochnow was married to Isabel Goslar, daughter of the director Jürgen Goslar . The marriage has two children, the daughter Mona and the son Roman. From 2004 to 2014 he was married to the actress and director Birgit Stein , with whom he lived a total of 18 years. Prochnow has been married to actress Verena Wengler since March 19, 2015 .

Jürgen Prochnow lived in Los Angeles and Munich. He has also been a US citizen since 2003 . In April 2017, he and his family moved back to Berlin from the USA.

The actor Dieter Prochnow is his brother.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Audiobooks (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Jürgen Prochnow  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ nibelungenfestspiele.de: Renowned theater and film actor complete the ensemble to Jürgen Prochnow
  2. ↑ https://www.synchronkartei.de/darsteller/5426 , accessed on March 11, 2020
  3. ↑ https://www.synchronkartei.de/sprecher/525/2 , accessed on March 11, 2020
  4. ^ Zeit Online : Medien: Jürgen Prochnow honored with Honorary Jupiter for life's work on April 11, 2013
  5. ↑ vlada.cz: Czech Prime Minister Sobotka presented Jurgen Prochnow with the Award For Lifetime Achievement at Zlín Film Festival on June 4, 2015
  6. ↑ Jürgen Prochnow at Moviepilot.de
  7. ↑ His ex lay dead in her apartment for days. In: bild.de , November 8, 2006.
  8. ↑ The poor millionaire daughter. In: oe24.at , November 7, 2006.
  9. ^ Christiane Hoffmann: Jürgen Prochnow and Birgit Stein: Separation after 18 years. May 7, 2013, accessed December 1, 2013 .
  10. ↑ Jürgen Prochnow - Divorce through! Colorful, accessed October 3, 2015 .
  11. ↑ N24.de Jürgen Prochnow married for the third time , accessed on January 12, 2016
  12. ↑ Thomas Abeltshauser: Late homecoming: Jürgen Prochnow is back in Berlin . ( Morgenpost.de [accessed on October 3, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Prochnow, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater, film and television actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin