Beppo Brem

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Josef Beppo Brem , also erroneously spelled Brehm , (born March 11, 1906 in Munich ; † September 5, 1990, ibid.) Was a German actor who was best known for his presence as a Bavarian folk actor . Although he was cast for a long time as the “Bavarian Urviech” and model village idiot in countless slapstick films, over the decades he was able to earn the reputation of a serious actor.

Life

Residence of the actor Beppo Brem from 1941 to 1951 at Hofbrunnstraße 53 in Munich-Solln (2012)
Grave of Beppo Brem in the Munich North Cemetery (2014)

Beppo Brem was the son of the bricklayer and brewer Josef Brem and his wife Maria. He grew up in the Munich district of Schwabing , where he also attended school. Brem completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter and discovered his penchant for the theater as a stage carpenter at the Münchner Kammerspiele . After his first extra roles , he began taking acting lessons in 1925 and got his first engagement at the Farmer's Stage in Bad Reichenhall in 1927 . This was followed by guest appearances in Regensburg , Ulm , Berlin and Munich , where he appeared in plays such as Don Karlos and Carl Zuckmayers Schinderhannes .

In 1932 he married the former soubrette Marga Wening (* 1902, † 2002), with whom he was married until his death. The marriage produced a daughter.

Career

Cinema actor

At the age of 24 he received his first offers in the still young sound film . There he was quickly pushed into the role of the coarse peasant lout. The films in which he participated were often of a comedic nature and questionable claim. The best-known films in which he was seen until 1944 are Das sündige Dorf (1940), Quax, der Bruchpilot (1941), Kohlhiesels Töchter (1943) and The False Bride (1944). He also took part in Nazi propaganda films , e.g. B. Company Michael (1937), Shock Troop 1917 (1934), Stukas (1941) or Venus in court (1941). He was named on Joseph Goebbels ' Gottbegnadeten list as an important German actor.

In the 1950s, Brem expanded its film work. He played with stars like Heinz Rühmann , Hans Moser , Johannes Heesters , Hans Albers , Heinz Erhardt , Peter Alexander and Theo Lingen , and was seen in homeland films, mixed-up comedies and music and military clothing. He often appeared in the films of his friend Joe Stöckel . Both the genre and the type he embodied barely changed. He rarely played a serious character, exceptions are the strips Fanfares of Love (1951) and Des Teufels General (1955) by Helmut Käutner with Curd Jürgens .

In the 1960s there were several episodes of Ludwig Thomas' successful filmed rascal stories that showed him again as a comedian. When the importance of homeland and music films waned, the actor also appeared in some German sex films of the 1970s, which did not detract from his reputation.

Television actor

On television he had great success from 1965 to 1970 and 1978 to 1982 with the 112-part series The Strange Methods of Franz Josef Wanninger at the side of Maxl Graf and Fritz Straßner . Here he played a cunning criminal inspector who solves his cases unconventionally by breaking into opaque milieus under a false identity and exposing the criminal machinations there.

Together with Liesl Karlstadt , he played in the first television commercial in 1956 , which the ARD broadcast on November 3, 1956.

Stage actor

Beppo Brem was also repeatedly seen on the Munich theater stages, among others in the Small Comedy at Max II , at the Bavarian State Theater and in the Theater on Brienner Straße . There he also played more serious roles in folk plays, repeatedly in works by Ludwig Thoma and in Der Brandner Kaspar looks into paradise by Joseph Maria Lutz . At times he was also a member of the ensemble of the Chiemgauer Volkstheater .

Late years

A highlight in the actor's late work was the impersonation of the caretaker in the 1987 comedy Lumbago with Helmut Fischer . He had his last appearances in the play The Bartered Grandfather , in the television series Heidi and Erni and as a disused tram driver in the melancholy drama Auf dem Abstellgleis (1989) with Erni Singerl and Toni Berger , a gift from Bavarian Radio to one of his most important mimes. Shortly after the end of the shooting, Beppo Brem died of lung cancer in a Munich hospital and was buried in the Nordfriedhof in Munich.

Awards

Filmography

movie theater

watch TV

TV films (selection)

  • 1970: The Komödienstadel - everything for the cat
  • 1971: Olympia - Olympia
  • 1974: Josef Filser
  • 1978: The comedy nobility - the single court
  • 1985: When the rooster crows
  • 1987: The knowledge worm
  • 1987: Lumbago
  • 1988: simple life
  • 1988: The sold grandfather
  • 1989: On the siding

TV series (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Beppo Brem  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klee, Ernst .: Cultural encyclopedia for the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945 . 1st edition Fischer, S, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 , pp. 70 .
  2. ^ Premiere in the tavern . focus.de. October 31, 2006. Retrieved December 4, 2013.
  3. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Beppo Brem
personal data
SURNAME Brem, Beppo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brem, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 5th September 1990
Place of death Munich