Erwin Berner
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! "
Berner lives in Berlin.
Filmography
- 1973: Police call 110: Faces in Twilight (TV series)
- 1973: Wolz - Life and Transfiguration of a German Anarchist
- 1974: Greta Dogrose
- 1975: The Survivor (TV movie)
- 1977: Zur See (TV series): 8th episode: The negotiation
- 1977: Police call 110: Alibi for one night (TV series)
- 1977: Haydn in London (TV movie)
- 1977: The Seducible (TV movie)
- 1978: Achilles heel
- 1978: Asking an Old Man (TV Movie)
- 1979: Between Two Summers (TV movie)
- 1981: Nobility in Downfall (TV movie)
- 1981: Famous doctors of the Charité: The man from Jena (TV movie)
- 1981: Katharina in der Klemme (TV movie)
- 1981: The Iceberg Girl (TV movie)
- 1982: Sonja's report
- 1983: Long Farewell (TV movie)
- 1983: Bruno H. Bürgel - Berliner Firmament (TV movie)
- 1984: The Lude
- 1985: New about the garden fence
- 1986: Police call 110: Greed (TV series)
- 1987: Old Heart goes on a journey (TV movie)
- 1987: Entry into Paradise (TV series)
- 1988: Prairie Hunter in Mexico
- 1989: Rita von Falkenhain (TV series)
- 1989: We remain loyal
- 1992: good times, bad times
- 1994: Wolffs Revier (TV series), one episode
- 1996: The Guard (TV series)
- 1997/98: Just in Case Stefanie (TV series)
Autobiography
- Memories of Schulzenhof . Structure, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-351-03615-7 .
literature
- Ulrich Baron: Farewell to my parents . Review, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 24, 2016, p. 12
Web links
- Erwin Berner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Erwin Berner in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Christian Eger: The Schulzenhof system . Review, in: Frankfurter Rundschau , May 14, 2016, p. 34
- ↑ a b Boris Tomic: Secret revealed: Strittmatter's son also writes ; Berliner Kurier , August 3, 1999.
- ^ 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 | |
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SURNAME | Berner, Erwin |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Strittmatter, Erwin (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author and actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1953 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | East Berlin |