Hark Bohm

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Hark Bohm (born May 18, 1939 in Hamburg-Othmarschen ) is a German actor , screenwriter , film director , producer and professor emeritus for film at the Institute for Theater, Music Theater and Film at the University of Hamburg .

Life

He grew up on the North Sea island of Amrum . After graduating from high school in Hamburg in 1959, he studied law . Hark Bohm broke off his legal clerkship in Munich in 1969 and since then has been working full-time in various functions with film. He was an actor in several Fassbinder films. He preferred to use him for pedantic and authoritarian roles.

In 1971, Hark Bohm founded the film publishing house of the authors with other auteur filmmakers of the New German Cinema . In the following years he was the director and writer of several short films before he shot an award-winning feature film with Tschetan, the Indian boy . His greatest success was North Sea is Mordsee . Various films followed, which should be understood primarily in a socially critical way. Bernd Eichinger hired him in 2000 as a screenwriter and director for the two-part TV series Vera Brühne .

In 2015/16 Bohm wrote the scripts for the RTL television series Adolf Hitler together with Niki Stein , based on Thomas Weber's biography Hitler's First War .

Together with Fatih Akin and Lars Hubrich , he wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of the novel Tschick by Wolfgang Herrndorf . Akin and Bohm were awarded the German Film Prize in 2018 for the screenplay for Out of Nowhere (2017) . At the award ceremony, Bohm was also presented with the honorary award for “outstanding services to German film” .

Hark Bohm is a co-founder of the Hamburg Film Office (1979). In the same year he also initiates the Hamburg Film Festival together with Werner Herzog , Volker Schlöndorff and Wim Wenders with the so-called Hamburg Declaration . In 1993 he founded the Filmstudium Hamburg at the University of Hamburg - where he also held a professorship from 1992 - which was integrated into the Hamburg Media School in 2004. Hark Bohm is a member of the Free Academy of the Arts Hamburg . In 2003 he was one of the founding members of the German Film Academy .

family

Hark Bohm is the brother of the actor Marquard Bohm and the adoptive father of the actor Uwe Bohm , who played leading roles in some of his films as a teenager - mostly under his real name Uwe Enkelmann. Bohm and his wife Natalia adopted four children and looked after two more foster children.

Filmography (selection)

As an actor

As a director and screenwriter

Awards

  • 1973: Prize of the AG der Filmjournalisten (best feature film of the year) for Tschetan, the Indian boy
  • 1988: IFF Chicago: Award (Best Screenplay) for Yasemin
  • 1989: Filmband in Gold (director) for Yasemin
  • 2018: Two German Film Awards (Honorary Award and Screenplay Award for Out of Nowhere )

literature

  • Director and screenwriter Hark Bohm . In: Susanne Wiedmann: Amrum. Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-455-50231-2 , pp. 33-46.

Web links

Interviews

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jörg Thomann: Series about Hitler: "Why not?" In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . February 2, 2016, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed June 5, 2016]).
  2. ^ Hitler (AT). In: www.ufa-fiction.de. Retrieved June 5, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Fatih Akin: Tschick. January 1, 2000, accessed June 5, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Director Hark Bohm on the "natural greed to be an adoptive father" , interview with Till Stoldt in Die Welt , online version from August 22, 2004
personal data
SURNAME Bohm, Hark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg