Horst Bollmann

The actor Horst Bollmann in a radio play production in the late 1980s in a recording by the Berlin photographer Werner Bethsold .

Horst Bollmann (born February 11, 1925 in Dessau , † July 7, 2014 in Berlin ) was a German actor .

Life

The son of an administrative director grew up in Siegen and graduated from high school in Am Löhrtor in 1943 . Two years of military service followed. After the Second World War , he attended the renowned Folkwang School in Essen from 1946 to 1949 , where he also made his theater debut. Engagements in Mannheim and Berlin followed. Bollmann was hired by Boleslaw Barlog in 1959 at the Staatliche Schauspielbühnen Berlin , where he was a member of the ensemble until 1988. In addition, Bollmann, who was appointed Berlin State Actor in 1970 , also played on cabaret stages. He had some of his most famous theater roles under the direction of Samuel Beckett in his plays at the Berlin Schillertheater . His special posture as a servant in Beckett's Endgame went down in theater history as the "Bollmann posture".

Since 1960 Bollmann has also worked in film and television. His first major role was the title character in Bernhard Wicki's Das Wunder des Malachias (1961). Bollmann became popular as a commissioner in the Durbridge multi-part series Wie ein Blitz (1970) as well as through the role of Felix Unger alongside Heinz Baumann in the series Felix und Oskar (1980), the German version of the American success Ein seltsames Paar ( The Odd Couple ) by Neil Simon (in the cinema by Jack Lemmon , later portrayed on television by Tony Randall ). In a total of five films in the crime series Tatort , Bollmann appeared as the lead investigator, in three episodes as Lieutenant Colonel Delius of the Military Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD) and in two episodes as Chief Inspector Brandenburg from Munich. He also embodied the figure of Lieutenant Colonel Delius in a crime scene series about Commissioner Brammer ( Knut Hinz ) from 1977.

Since 1993 Bollmann was seen in a total of four episodes Das Traumschiff . He made his last appearance in front of a camera in the ZDF series in 2002.

In addition, Bollmann was also active as a speaker in radio plays. He lent his voice to Bilbo Baggins among others in the WDR production of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit .

Bollmann was married to his colleague Hetty Jockenhöfer. Since he left the State Drama Theater in 1988, Horst Bollmann has worked as a freelance actor.

The actor died on July 7, 2014 after a long and serious illness in Berlin. Horst Bollmann was buried in the Schöneberg III cemetery in the town of Friedenau .

Filmography (selection)

• 1961: The miracle of Malachia
• 1964: Oak and Angora (TV movie)
• 1965: It happened in Berlin - Con artist Tubatzki (TV series)
• 1966: On the reading stage of the literary illustrated magazines - Günter Eich: Dreams (TV series)
• 1966: Das Millionending (TV series, two-part )
• 1967: Jacobowsky and the Colonel (TV movie)
• 1967: The Transaction (TV short film)
• 1967: Arcadia Settlement (TV movie)
• 1967: Don't you want to tend the lamb? (TV movie)
• 1967: The Filled Life of Alexander Dubronski (TV movie)
• 1968: The German Champion (TV movie)
• 1968: The Iron Henry (TV movie)
• 1968: The Story of Vasco (TV movie)
• 1969: Endgame (TV movie)
• 1969: Mister Barnett (TV movie)
• 1969: The Failure (TV Movie)
• 1969: The Run of Evil (TV movie)
• 1970: Like Lightning (detective film, Durbridge - three-part )
• 1970: Divorce in English (TV movie)
• 1971: The thing in itself - and how to shoot it (TV movie)
• 1971: The Theater Workshop (TV series)
• 1972: Fish for four (TV movie)
• 1973: Plaza Fortuna (TV movie)
• 1973: Black Coffee (crime film)
• 1973: Invitation to be beheaded (TV film)
• 1974: Stopovers - The Man on the Roof (TV series)
• 1974: Thousand Francs Reward (TV movie)
• 1974: Special Department K1 - No Fire Without Smoke (TV series)
• 1975: Everyone's Christmas Tree (TV movie)
• 1975: Lehmann's last Lenz (TV movie)
• 1975: Hundred Marks (TV series)
• 1976: Parisian Stories (TV series)
• 1976: Waiting for Godot (TV movie)
• 1977: Special Department K1 - The Mute (TV series)
• 1977: David and Goliath (TV movie)
• 1977: Heinrich Zille (TV movie)
• 1977: Tatort : The silent business
• 1978: A hat of a very special kind (TV movie)
• 1979: What would we be without us (4 episodes, miniseries )
• 1979: Felix and Oskar (6 episodes, TV series)
• 1979: crime scene: friend Gregor
• 1980: The Flea in the Ear (TV movie)
• 1981: 'Ne Scheene jejend is det here (TV movie)
• 1982: Fathers (TV movie)
• 1983: Crime scene: The Sleeper
• 1983: The crime lesson - Even tall men can die (crime series)
• 1984: How They Lived Every Day (5 episodes, TV series)
• 1984: Manfred Krug: Krumme Touren (TV film)
• 1984: Now and then (TV movie)
• 1985: Crime scene: Baranski's business
• 1985: The Followers (TV movie)
• 1985: The Crime Lesson (crime series)
• 1985: Alte Gauner - Fifty-Fifty (TV series)
• 1985: Close Up (TV Movie)
• 1986: Derrick - closed season for murderers
• 1987: who shot Boro? (Crime thriller )
• 1987: A Home for Animals - New Friends (TV series)
• 1987: Derrick - Absolute madness
• 1988: Crime Scene: Programmed for murder
• 1988: Evening hour in late autumn (crime film)
• 1988: The Black Forest Clinic - The Pensioners' Initiative
• 1989: Old Friendships (TV movie)
• 1989: crime scene: draft beer
• 1990: Heidi and Erni - packages (TV series)
• 1991: The bank is not damaged (TV film)
• 1991: Taxi to Rathenow (TV film)
• 1992: A Case for Two - Silence is Money (crime series)
• 1992: Lenz Secret Files (TV film)
• 1993: Love Is Private (TV series)
• 1993: The dream ship - Hong Kong
• 1994: Mother, I don't want to die! (TV movie, drama )
• 1995: The dream ship - Mauritius
• 1995: Escape to Paradise (3 episodes, miniseries)
• 1995: Crime scene: terminus
• 1997: Derrick - The Chaplain's Nights
• 1997: The dream ship - St. Lucia
• 1998: Edgar Wallace - Whiteface (crime film)
• 2002: Singapore Express - Secret of a Love
• 2002: The dream ship - Thailand

Radio plays (selection)

• 1965: Thierry: What a little rascal! (Antony Brown) - Director: Rolf von Goth ( SFB )
• 1973: ETA Hoffmann : Klein Zaches called Zinnober (Zinnober) - Director: Siegfried Niemann (SFB)
• 1976: Theodor Storm : Carsten Curator (Makler Jaspers) - Director: Siegfried Niemann (SFB)
• 1980: JRR Tolkien : The Hobbit (Bilbo Baggins) - Director: Heinz Dieter Köhler (radio play - WDR )
• 1982: David Wheeler: Nobility obliges - Director: Otto Düben (crime comedy radio play - SDR )
• 1991: Edgar Hilsenrath : The fairy tale of the last thought - Director: Peter Groeger (radio play - SFB / HR )
• 1992: Horst Enders: Abrechnung (Kommissar Linke) - Director: Albrecht Surkau (detective radio play - SDR)
• 1994: John B. Keane : The Field - Director: Robert Matejka (radio play - MDR )
• 1995: Adolf Schröder : The Trumpet Player. - Director: Jörg Jannings (radio play - MDR)
• 1995: Jürgen Ebertowski / Joy Markert : Esbeck and Mondrian (Ishil) - Director: Peter Groeger (detective radio play - SFB)
• 1996: Valeri Petrow : The Magic Pearl (Wrinkled Face) - Director: Werner Buhss (Children's radio play - MDR / DLR )
• 1996: Axel Hacke : The Little King December (King December) - Director: Hartmut Kirste (radio play - MDR / BR )
• 1998: Bruno Schulz : How Jakub, my father, changed away from us - adaptation, direction and music collage: Heinz von Cramer (family drama - HR)
• 1999: Joseph Roth : Hiob (Rottenberg) - Director: Robert Matejka (radio play - MDR)
• 2001: Józef Ignacy Kraszewski : Countess Cosel (court jester Fröhlich) - Director: Walter Niklaus (radio play (5 parts) - MDR)
• 2004: Heinz von Cramer: Every page is the beginning, every page is the end or states like in ancient Rome - Director: Heinz von Cramer (radio play - NDR )
• 2006: Benno Meyer-Wehlack : On the curb (The Old One) - Director: Robert Schoen ( SWR )
• 2008: Maraike Wittbrodt : Glücksbrief - Director: Beatrix Ackers (children's radio play - DKultur )
• 2008: Adolf Schröder : Mother Hamburg - Director: Heinz von Cramer (radio play - DKultur)
• 2009: Gustave Akakpo : The Aleppo Bump. - Director: Beatrix Ackers (radio play - SR )

Awards

• 1968: German Critics' Prize
• 1968: Golden Nymph as best actor at the Monte Carlo International TV Festival
• 1970: Berlin state actor
• 2010: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Web links

• Literature by and about Horst Bollmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Horst Bollmann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Horst Bollmann died at the age of 89 ( memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ life data cited after: Piet Hein Honig, Hanns-Georg Rodek : 100001. The show business encyclopedia of the 20th century. Showbiz-Data-Verlag, Villingen-Schwenningen 1992, ISBN 3-929009-01-5 , p. 111
2. ↑ Horst Bollmann at www.munzinger.de, accessed on July 8, 2014
3. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Horst Bollmann