Erwin Berner

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Erwin Berner , actually Erwin Strittmatter , (* 1953 in East Berlin ) is a German author and actor .

life and work

Erwin Berner is the oldest of three sons of the writer couple Eva and Erwin Strittmatter . At the age of 18, he dropped out of the advanced secondary school in Rheinsberg against his father's will . He left his home at Schulzenhof in Brandenburg , where the family had lived since 1954, next to the city apartment in Berlin's Stalinallee , "his father played the farmer and family patriarch and his mother pursued her lifelong dreams".

He went to the Rostock State Drama School . At this time he took the stage name Erwin Berner - based on the maiden name of his great-grandmother - in order to be able to live and work unencumbered. During his acting studies in 1972, he played a leading role in Faces in Twilight , a film from the Polizeiruf 110 series , alongside Horst Drinda , before he worked on theaters in Freiberg, Weimar, Rudolstadt and Neustrelitz, especially in television productions of the German television station (DFF ) played along.

Today, Berner is mainly active as a poet and author, but occasionally also works as an actor for film and television productions. After his father's death in 1994, he publicly acknowledged his origins, which he had kept a secret for almost 30 years.

“ I am Erwin Strittmatter's son and my name is Erwin Strittmatter! "

- Erwin Berner : Statement after the death of his father

Berner lives in Berlin.

Filmography

Autobiography

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Eger: The Schulzenhof system . Review, in: Frankfurter Rundschau , May 14, 2016, p. 34
  2. ↑ a b Boris Tomic: Secret revealed: Strittmatter's son also writes ; Berliner Kurier , August 3, 1999.
  3. ^ Frank-Burkhard Habel , Volker Wachter : The great lexicon of the GDR stars. The actors from film and television. Extended new edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89602-391-8 .
personal data
SURNAME Berner, Erwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strittmatter, Erwin (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH East Berlin