Claude-Oliver Rudolph

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Claude-Oliver Rudolph at the Lambertz Monday Night 2018.

Claude-Oliver Rudolph (born November 30, 1956 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German actor , producer , screenwriter and film director .

Life

Claude-Oliver Rudolph comes from Bochum. Until he started school he lived with his grandmother in France. He met Herbert Grönemeyer during his school days at the Bochum grammar school on the Ostring and began his acting career with him at the Schauspielhaus Bochum . At the age of 15 Rudolph was discovered by theater director Werner Schroeter and at the age of 18 he played under the direction of Peter Zadek in Bochum and Berlin.

After graduating from the State Humanistic Gymnasium, Rudolph studied philosophy , psychology and Romance studies at the Ruhr University in Bochum , as well as film and directing at its Music Center and theater studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He completed an internship as a director with the Czech director Jiří Menzel . He also attended a seminar with drama teacher Lee Strasberg in Bochum. Rudolph worked as a lecturer at the Westphalian Drama School in Bochum .

Artistic creation

Claude-Oliver Rudolph was hired by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and played the leading role with Volker Spengler in the theater scandal under supervision . He became internationally known in the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough alongside Pierce Brosnan . Rudolph is known to German-speaking audiences through the film Das Boot and in the TV series Rote Erde . In the multi-part TV series The King of St. Pauli , he played the nefarious thug Chinesen-Fiete .

The press described Rudolph as “The best villain in the world” ( BAMS ), “Germany's number 1 film villain ” (BILD), “One of the country's greatest character actors” (SPIEGEL) and “Europe's baddest baddie” (VARIETY).

Claude-Oliver Rudolph dubbed Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler - Fame, Love, Pain .

In 2011 Rudolph acquired the name protection rights to the biography of Hans Albers . Together with Frank Otto , Rudolph said he wanted to publish a film and a musical called Hans Albers - the blonde rebel . An implementation has not yet taken place (as of January 2020).

watch TV

Rudolph has been working for the Russian broadcaster RT Deutsch (formerly “Russia Today”) since April 2016 , which is financed by the Russian state and is considered a propaganda broadcaster. There he worked under the editor-in-chief Ivan Rodionow as "Head of Art and Culture" with his own program Clash . From September 18, 2016 to June 16, 2019, he hosted a total of 26 episodes of the talk show .

Private

Rudolph was married to the actress Sabine von Maydell since October 9, 1984 , with her he has a son and the daughter Oona von Maydell, who also works as an actress . The couple had been separated since 2004 and divorced in 2014. Rudolph has another son from another relationship.

Claude-Oliver Rudolph lived in France and Luxembourg. Rudolph is currently in a relationship with Bettina Wilts. The theater director followed Rudolph to Celle in 2012 and to Bad Hersfeld in 2015 . Rudolph's own theater management with the help of Wilts in Hagen was rejected by the culture committee in 2016. In episode 11 of Rudolph's show Clash on January 13, 2018, Bettina Wills made a guest appearance as a psychologist.

A coercion case against Rudolph was dropped in 2012.

Trivia

According to his own information, Claude-Oliver Rudolph was once German champion in judo and once in all-style .

With Til Schweiger , Rudolph engaged in a verbal plagiarism dispute in the media due to the similarity in content between the Schweiger film Honey in the Head and the 1998 Rudolph film Love Me to Death .

In October 2002, Claude-Oliver Rudolph fought in Promiboxen against Pierre Geisensetter and lost in the fourth round by KO

Since 2013 Rudolph has been on the jury of the annual honorary actor award of the Eat My Shorts - Hagen short film festival .

In 2014 Rudolph announced his own clothing collection under the name Piraten & Rebellen . The products are marketed via an online clothing printing shop.

Filmography

actor

Director

  • 1977: Humor - Grüß Gott
  • 1981: Meat is meat - women murderer Fritz Honka
  • 1986: Büchner
  • 1986: The Big Rebel
  • 1987: Lost Horizons
  • 1991: The Wonderbeats - Kings of Beat
  • 1993: Ebbie's Bluff
  • 1993: Weeping Ruhr
  • 2003: Dirty Sky
  • 2004: Big girls don't cry
  • 2004: Life's a bitch
  • 2006: Fight Club Sabotact
  • 2013: Musical "Judy"
  • 2014: Trailer Murder in the Spotlight
  • 2017: The love crime

producer

  • 1977: Humor - Grüß Gott
  • 1984: Büchner
  • 1986: The Big Rebel
  • 1991: The Wonderbeats - Kings of Beat
  • 1993: Ebbie's Bluff
  • 2003: Dirty Sky
  • 2006: Fight Club Sabotact
  • 2006: 75 years of Hockenheim
  • 2007: Chaostage
  • 2012: St. Pauli - back straight
  • 2012: shut up cowboy!
  • 2013: Judy Garland
  • 2017: The love crime

author

  • 1977: Humor - Grüß Gott
  • 1984: Büchner
  • 1986: The Big Rebel
  • 1990: The Wonderbeats
  • 1993: Ebbie's Bluff
  • 1998: love me to death
  • 2003: Dirty Sky
  • 2010: Ebbyland

Moderator

  • 2016–2018: Clash

Books

Audio books

  • with Ralf Richter : Wilhelm Busch , unabridged reading, ISBN 3-7857-3044-6 .
  • with different speakers: Grimms Märchen , Version 1864, audio book - SPV.
  • with different speakers: Bad Night Stories - Audiobook - Universal.
  • with Christine Neubauer: The most beautiful love poems in world literature - audio book - Delta.
  • with Bina Trooger: The greatest rogue monologues in world literature - audio book - Delta.
  • John le Carre: A Kind of Hero , The Night Manager , Secret Melody - Audiobook - Delta.
  • Jacques Mesrine: The Death Drive - Audiobook - Delta & Nautilus.
  • Metallica: The truth about Metallica - Audiobook - Nuclear Blast.
  • Arnaldur Indriðason - Frost Night.
  • Sergej Lukianenko - Globetrotter - Heyne / Random House.
  • Night of the Rebels - after disputes with the band, he banned the publication.
  • Gustav Sack - Memories of a Rebel - Westphalian Museum of Literature.
  • Stories of love & longing - Maison Blanche Berlin.
  • The love crime with Mona Mur

Radio plays

Awards

Video

Web links

Commons : Claude-Oliver Rudolph  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Claude Oliver Rudolph wants to shoot Hans Albers , filmecho, April 8, 2011
  2. ↑ Ben Becker could play Hans Albers Hamburger Abendblatt, February 15, 2012
  3. ↑ Ingenious rebel and all-rounder, Düsseldorf society magazine, November 15, 2016
  4. ↑ Rudolph becomes head of department at Putin's broadcaster , welt.de, April 13, 2016
  5. ↑ List of the Clash episodes , website of the station RT Deutsch , accessed on January 16, 2020
  6. ↑ I'm a bit like Putin myself , spiegel.de, April 13, 2016
  7. ↑ Cooperation with Russia Today? I'm a mercenary , stern.de, May 15, 2016.
  8. ↑ Claude-Oliver Rudolph got a divorce. t-online from July 3, 2014, accessed on February 10, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Always on the run. Focus Online April 26, 1999, accessed February 10, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Rudolph: Unprofessional Decision , Cellesche Zeitung, March 26, 2013
  11. ^ Bad Hersfeld Festival
  12. ↑ Rudolph wants to become artistic director at the theater , Westfalenpost, May 14, 2016
  13. ↑ Clash # 11 , January 13, 2018
  14. ^ Acquittal for Rudolph Cellesche Zeitung, February 3, 2015
  15. ↑ Sven Schuster: "I am Carlo the cat" . In: Focus . No. 30 , 1996, pp. 126 ff . ( focus.de [accessed on September 23, 2016]).
  16. ↑ Rudolph has legal steps against Til Schweiger examined , filmstarts.de, April 22, 2015
  17. ↑ Plagiarism controversy continues , Focus, April 24, 2015
  18. ↑ villain conviction 5einhalb.de 9 October 2014
personal data
SURNAME Rudolph, Claude-Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, producer, screenwriter and film director
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main