Charles Brewer

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Charles Brauer (born July 3, 1935 in Berlin ; born Charles Knetschke ) is a German theater and film actor , audio book speaker and former voice actor whose acting career spans over 70 years. He played one of his most famous roles between 1986 and 2001 as Hamburg Tatort commissioner Peter Brockmöller .

Career

Charles Brauer, who took his mother's maiden name in 1952, played his first film role at the age of 11 in the post-war drama Irgendwo in Berlin (1946). He later took acting lessons at the Max Reinhardt School for Drama in Berlin. From 1954 his time at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg under Gustaf Gründgens was formative ; after that he was part of the ensemble for 20 years . As a young man of 25, he wrote television history in the first German family television series Familie Schölermann with his role as Heinz Schölermann, son of the family boss Matthias Schölermann ( Willy Krüger ) . 1964 was Brauer beside Joseph Offenbach as Hajji Halef Omar and also young Uwe Friedrichsen as Der Schut main speaker as Kara Ben Nemsi in one of the first radio play settings of the Karl May -Romans The Schut .

From 1984 to 1987 the actor was seen at the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart as Bassa Selim in Mozart's Singspiel Die Entführung aus dem Serail . Brauer had minor roles in two Schimanski - crime scene -Follow: cross-border workers (1981) and a tooth for a tooth (1987). In the 1985 mini-series Beyond the Dawn , which takes place shortly after the Thirty Years' War , he was seen as Jesuit Father Pereira. The series is part of the DVD series Great Stories published by ARD . In 1990 he slipped into the skin of the customs inspector Bronnen in several episodes in the television series Adventure Airport .

In the ZDF series Our Teacher Doctor Specht he played the school director Julius Hartlaub in 29 episodes from 1992 to 1995 . Brauer achieved particular fame alongside Manfred Krug as the singing ("Swinging Cops") Hamburg crime scene commissioner Peter Brockmöller in 38 episodes of the series broadcast from 1986 to 2001. In addition, from 1997 to 2000 he played the role of Henry Higgins in the musical My Fair Lady at the Theater & Philharmonie Essen and from 1998 to 2004 the title role in the play Der Fall Furtwängler .

From 2000 to 2005 he acted in 113 episodes in the family series Velvet and Silk as Wilhelm Althofer, director of an Augsburg textile company. From 2005 he was seen in numerous roles on television, including in films in the series Rosamunde Pilcher , Utta Danella and Katie Fforde , in the Großstadtrevier and in the crime series Morden im Norden , SOKO Cologne , Stubbe - Von Fall zu Fall and Der Bulle and the country egg .

In October 2004 Brauer was in Hamburg and Berlin with readings from the novels And Piccadilly Circus Isn't in Kumla and His Last Case by the Swedish author Håkan Nesser on the road. In 2005 he was Willie in the play Sonny Boys at the Düsseldorf Comedy . In 2007/2008 he played Big Daddy in Tennessee Williams ' play The Cat on the Hot Tin Roof at the Schauspielhaus Bochum and then, until 2009, Ezra in Eugene O'Neill's drama Mourning Elektra . In 2010 he was seen as Wladimir in Samuel Beckett's play Warten auf Godot at the Ernst-Deutsch-Theater in Hamburg . In Molière's comedy Tartuffe he played the orgone in 2012/2013, again at the Ernst-Deutsch-Theater. At the 2016 Salzburg Festival , he appeared as Gonsalo in Shakespeare's play The Tempest , an old councilor who treats the king honestly. In April / May 2018, Brauer slipped into the role of Alex Priest in Simon Stephens ' stage play Heisenberg at the Ernst-Deutsch-Theater , which only has something to do with the famous physicist in that it alludes to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle , according to which the observed object is itself inevitably changed by closer inspection, which also applies to people.

Brauer also worked as a voice actor and lent his voice a. a. Adolphe Menjou in Morocco (1930), Basil Rathbone in Frankenstein's Son (1939), Todd Karns in Isn't Life Beautiful? (1946), David McCallum in The Cursed Farm (1957), Stephen Brooks in the crime series FBI (1965–1974), Sal Mineo in Krakatoa - The Greatest Adventure of the Last Century (1969), Donald Sutherland in The Great Train Heist (1979 ) and Roy Scheider in In the Silence of the Night (1982). Charles Brauer is also the regular speaker of the German audio books by the American writer John Grisham .

In 1993 and 1994, Brauer moderated the RTL missing person magazine Spurlos , which was recorded in Hamburg and was very successful with over 5 million viewers.

On the occasion of the 80th birthday of his colleague Manfred Krug in February 2017, the CD Manfred Krug - His songs ; then Charles Brauer can be heard in a duet with Bill Ramsey with the title The Song with One Sound .

Private life

Brauer was married to actress Witta Pohl from 1966 to 1976 . This marriage resulted in two children. Brauer was in a relationship with Lisi Mangold for many years . Today he lives with his second wife, the set designer Lilot Hegi, and their son in Switzerland near Basel .

Filmography (selection)

Awards (selection)

  • 2001: Golden Camera together with Manfred Krug for Tatort
  • 2001: Gold record for the songs of the NDR - Tatort
  • 2004: Audiobook award “Der Osterwold” from the Hamburger Hörverlag

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personal data
SURNAME Brewer, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knetschke, Charles (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and singer
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin