Bruno S.

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Bruno S. (born June 2, 1932 as Bruno Schleinstein in Berlin-Friedrichshain ; † August 11, 2010 in Berlin ) was a German street musician and actor . In Werner Herzog's film Everyone for himself and God against all , he gained great fame in the lead role as Kaspar Hauser . S. kept his last name - "the unknown soldier of German film", according to Herzog's dictum - a secret in order to preserve his anonymity.

Life

The illegitimate son of a prostitute came to a home for the first time at the age of three and spent the next 23 years in various homes and reformatory institutions. At eight, in 1941, he came to the Wittenauer Heilstätten (today Karl Bonhoeffer Nervenklinik , Municipal Psychiatric Clinic for Children and Adolescents Wiesengrund ), where doctors experimented with vaccines on supposedly mentally weak children. In 1956 Bruno was released into society as cured. Bruno was an outsider throughout his life and was considered to be mentally retarded. He earned his living as an unskilled worker in factories and as a street musician. Werner Herzog discovered him in Bruno, the Black, a documentary about Berlin outsiders, and in 1974 cast him straight away in the leading role of Kaspar Hauser in his film Everyone for himself and God against all , where Bruno S. came up with his very own presence made a big impression on the canvas.

Later, Herzog also planned to give S. the lead role in his film adaptation of Woyzeck (published 1979) by Georg Büchner , but decided at short notice that Klaus Kinski was the more suitable choice for this role; To make amends for this reshuffle, Herzog wrote the film Stroszek in less than a week , in which Bruno was tailor-made for the title role: alongside Eva Mattes , in 1976 he played the street musician Bruno Stroszek, who was released from prison with his cannot cope with a new life and immigrates to the USA. The film received a lot of national and international recognition.

In 2003 Bruno S. - Die Stranger is Death was completed. This documentary by Miron Zownir illuminates Bruno's eventful past and his current struggle for existence. In the feature film Phantomanie (Germany, 2009, director: Miron Zownir, music: Alec Empire ), Bruno S. returns to the screen alongside Hans-Michael Rehberg , Geno Lechner , Natalia Avelon and Vivien Bullert after decades of oblivion . In the role of Bruno he reflects ice-cold loneliness and despair in the midst of an absurd, inhuman world. Also in the documentary "work-shy-abnormal-antisocial" - the history of the Berlin workhouses (Germany 2010, Director: Andrea Behrendt) Bruno S. "occurs as street musicians and artists as part of commemorative events on the so-called. Asocial " link.

The American singer / songwriter Elliott Smith mentioned Bruno S. in his song “Color Bars” (Album: Figure 8), there it says: “Bruno S. is a man to me, you're just some dude with a stilted attitude that you learned from tv. ”The band Ratatat also refers to Bruno S. by speaking the intro in their song Drugs (through a sample from the film Stroszek) .

Bruno Schleinstein died of heart failure on August 11, 2010 at the age of 78 in Berlin .

Filmography

  • 1970: Bruno the Black, a hunter probably blew his horn - Director: Lutz Eisholz
  • 1974: Everyone for himself and God against all - Director: Werner Herzog
  • 1976: Stroszek - Director: Werner Herzog
  • 1977: Love life, live love - Director: Lutz Eisholz
  • 2003: Bruno S. - The Stranger is Death - Director: Miron Zownir
  • 2009: Phantomania - Director: Miron Zownir
  • 2010: "work-shy-abnormal-anti-social" on the history of the Berlin workhouses - director: Andrea Behrendt
  • 2011: Avé - Director: Konstantin Bojanov (Bulgaria)

literature

  • Deike Diening: The drama of his life. ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: Der Tagesspiegel . dated June 1, 2007 (report on the 75th birthday).
  • Matthias Reichelt: Bruno S., traveling musician, painter and actor. In: "The everyday. The sensation of the ordinary", No. 74, December 1996, pp. 179 ff. ISBN 3-88520-674-9
  • Waltraud Schwab: Bruno S. Bruno was never visited. In: Kreuzberger Chronik. Issue 91, October 2007.
  • Miron Zownir (Ed.): Bruno S. - And the stranger is death. Maas Media Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-9812127-4-7 .
  • Annett Krause and Matthias Hilke (Krausedoku) : Bruno S. - "When I became a person, I had to die" , radio feature, co-production: SWR / RBB, broadcast on July 8, 2014, production 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Obituary
  2. He was Werner Herzog's Kasper Hauser: Bruno S. is dead. August 11, 2010, accessed on August 12, 2010 .
  3. Bruno Schleinstein (born 1932). In: Der Tagesspiegel . Issued August 13, 2010.
  4. ^ Actor Bruno Schleinstein has died. at focus.de, accessed on August 12, 2010.
  5. Annett Krause and Matthias Hilke: Bruno S. - "When I became a person, I had to die", co-production: SWR / RBB, in: SWR website, June 9, 2013
  6. Bruno S. - "When I became human, I had to die". Feature by Annett Krause and Matthias Hilke, script, broadcast on July 8, 2014, production 2013