Bodo Primus

Bodo Primus (born November 30, 1938 in Berlin ) is a German actor , radio play speaker and literary reciter .

Life

Bodo Primus, born in Berlin, grew up in various regions of Germany as a result of the war. He attended the Petrinum grammar school in Recklinghausen and studied acting at the Folkwanghochschule in Essen. Permanent engagements followed in Münster, Essen, Krefeld, Gelsenkirchen, at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus under Karl-Heinz Stroux and at the Cologne City Theaters .

Since 1962, radio and television activities have been added: radio play, recitation, feature, literature, live performances, television games and documentaries as well as tasks as a voice actor for feature films. Bodo Primus has been working as a freelance actor since 1970. From 2004 to 2008 he held a teaching position at the Robert Schumann Musikhochschule Düsseldorf as a lecturer in speech training and role design .

Probably his best-known radio play role is the detective Jonas in the radio play series The Last Detective of Bayerischer Rundfunk , which has achieved cult status as the pocket computer Sam in 42 episodes with Joachim Wichmann and Peer Augustinski . Further productions were We Got Away Again (Thornton Wilder, radio play), The honorable whore by Jean Paul Sartre (radio play), Die Flies (radio play), The Cold War (TV documentary), The Civil War ( The Civil War , TV documentary), The lost letter (TV play), Dubrowski by Alexander Puschkin (title role in the 5-part TV film, WDR 1968), Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist (TV play), blood opera by Christine Lehmann ( Radio-Tatort , SWR 2011) and others. v. a.

Furthermore, Bodo Primus was involved in numerous audio book projects. His voice can often be heard on WDR radio and television .

Filmography

• 1962: The Scarf by Francis Durbridge (2nd part) - Directed by Hans Quest (six-part TV movie)
• 1963: In the Shadow of War - Director: Edward Rothe (TV movie)
• 2007: Die Germanen - Director: Schoko Okroy , Judith Voelker and others (four-part television film)

Documentation (as speaker):

• 1989: A German Fate: Kurt Gustav Wilckens - From Angel of Peace to Angel of Death
• 2001: Tintin, le voyageur du siècle
• 2002: The Monster Island

Radio plays

• 1975: Raymond Ragan Butler : Laughter is good for the soul - Director: Peter Michel Ladiges (SWF)
• 1984–2001, 2008: Jonas - The Last Detective : Episode 1–42
• 2017–2018: Horror Cabinet : episodes 120–122, 128, 130–132, 134–137, 140, 143 - Director: Marc Gruppe (Titania Medien)
• 2017-2018: Sherlock Holmes - The Secret Cases of the Master Detective : Episode 30 and 35 - Director: Marc Gruppe (Titania Medien)

Radio features / documentation

• 2002: The earth is turning left! - Science fiction in the GDR - Author: Thomas Gaevert - SWR2 jungle , 30 min.
• 2004: In the foreign homeland - history and visions of Hermann Blumenau - author: Thomas Gaevert - SWR jungle, 26 min.

Prizes and awards

• German audio book award 2006 in the category “Best Entertainment” for Der Nazi & der Friseur

Web links

• Bodo Primus in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Bodo Primus in the catalog of the German National Library
• The earth turns counter-clockwise ...
• In the foreign homeland - history and visions of Hermann Blumenau
• Biography audio file
• Audiobook making-of: "The way to unity" by Richard von Weizsäcker
• Audiobooks with Bodo Primus
• Children's radio plays with Bodo-primus
• Radio plays with Bodo Primus
• Bodo Primus in the German dubbing index (previous version)
• Bodo Primus in the German dubbing index (new version)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Short review of the radio play Horror Cabinet 140: Runenzauber , accessed on April 9, 2019
2. ↑ Overview of all radio plays with Bodo Primus at titania-medien.de , accessed on April 9, 2019