Irm Hermann
Irmgard "Irm" Hermann-Roberg (born October 4, 1942 in Munich ; † May 26, 2020 in Berlin ) was a German actress and radio play speaker . She became known in the mid-1960s through her collaboration with Rainer Werner Fassbinder .
Life
Hermann was born in Munich in 1942 as the daughter of Karl Hermann and his wife Maria Huber. After attending elementary school , she completed an apprenticeship as a publishing clerk . She first worked for the Illustrierte Quick , then as a secretary at the ADAC and briefly with Ivar Lissner in Switzerland, when she met Rainer Werner Fassbinder at a drama competition at the Munich Young Academy in 1966 .
Fassbinder used it in his short film Der Stadtstreicher that same year . Hermann's relationship with Fassbinder was not purely professional; she belonged to his inner circle. She played in Fassbinder's first production in the Munich Action Theater, Ferdinand Bruckner's Criminals, and was also Fassbinder's acting agent for a while. With him and Hanna Schygulla , among others , she founded the later Antiteater , in which she took on numerous roles until 1969.
After that she worked in over 20 Fassbinder productions until 1975, including Katzelmacher and Angst essen Seele auf . She became Fassbinder's standard cast for sullen bourgeoisie , mostly in supporting roles . She embodied this type in her only leading role in a Fassbinder film as Irmgard Epp in Dealer of the Four Seasons , for which she received wide recognition. Her role of submissive Marlene in the lesbian drama The bitter tears of Petra von Kant was equally well received . In Rosa von Praunheim's documentary Für mich there was only Fassbinder (2000), Hermann talks about her conflicting relationship with her discoverer.
In 1975 she withdrew from the relationship with Fassbinder and moved her center of life from Munich to Berlin . There she played for directors such as Percy Adlon , Werner Herzog and Hans W. Geißendörfer . From 1979 to 1980 and from 1987 to 1991 she was engaged at the Freie Volksbühne Berlin . In 2014 she appeared there again under the direction of Christoph Marthaler in the play Tessa Blomstedt does not give up . In 2001 she was seen in the title role of William Shakespeare's Hamlet at the Schauspielhaus Zürich under the direction of Christoph Schlingensief . She also played repeatedly at the Komische Oper Berlin , including in the 2010/11 season as Emperor Franz Joseph I in the Singspiel Im Weißen Rößl or in a production by Georg Büchner's Woyzeck in 2013/14 , where she played a double role as a grandmother and fool Karl acted.
In addition to her stage work, Hermann has also appeared in various film and television productions, including as Fräulein Engelhart in the Thomas Mann film Der Zauberberg (1982) by Geißendörfer and in Tankred Dorsts Eisenhans (1983) as a courageous social worker. For her role as fellow prisoner Else Gebel in Percy Adlon's film Five Last Days (1982) about the resistance fighter Sophie Scholl , she and Lena Stolze received the gold film in the category “Best Acting Achievement”. In the film drama Marie Ward - Between Galgen and Glorie (1985) about the life of the religious sister Maria Ward , she played the role of Winn Wigmore at the side of Hannelore Elsner . Under Schlingensief she shot the satirical horror film The German Chainsaw Massacre .
She also repeatedly took on comic roles, such as in Loriot's Pappa ante portas (1991), where she played the aunt Hedwig who needed harmony alongside Hans Peter Korff , or in 1996 in Hape Kerkeling's Willi and the Windzors , where she took on the role of Elisabeth II . From 1995 to 1996 she was SEK leader in several episodes in the ZDF crime series Ein starkes Team . Dieter Wedel cast her for his six-part television series Die Affäre Semmeling (2002) in a supporting role as a tax officer. In the ARD family series Die Stein , she took on a continuous role as a school secretary from 2008 to 2011. In the television film Chocolate for the Boss , she was seen as the sister of Ernst Schmitt, played by Götz George . For her role as widow in Max Färberböck's film drama Anonyma - Eine Frau in Berlin (2008) she was nominated for the German Film Prize 2009 in the category “Best Acting Achievement - Female Supporting Role”. In 2017 she played a supporting role in Fack ju Göhte 3 .
From 1986 to 2016 she took part in several films on the ARD television series Tatort . After she had already played leading roles under the Hamburg commissioners Stoever and Brockmöller in the episodes Leiche im Keller (1986) and Schmutzarbeit (1989), she was seen as a gardener in the BR-Tatort Gesang der Toten Dinge in 2009 . In 2016 she formed a vengeance trio with Hanna Schygulla and Margit Carstensen in What It Is Worth Living For , which takes control of a textile manufacturer responsible for the deaths of 1,100 people in Bangladesh . In addition, she had episode roles in the television series Liebling Kreuzberg , Our Teacher Doctor Specht , Wolffs Revier , Adelheid and Her Murderers , Stefanie For All Cases , One Bull, Always Bull and Doctor's Diary . She was last seen in 2018 as the scheming mother of a publisher in the six-part ARD television series Labaule & Erben .
In addition to her work in front of the camera, she was also a very busy radio play speaker. In 2006 she spoke, among others, Emmy Sonnemann , who later became the wife of Hermann Göring , in Werner Fritsch's radio play Enigma Emmy Göring , which was named " Radio Play of the Year 2006 ". In 2009 she also received the German Audio Book Prize for her performance there .
Her marriage to the children's book author Dietmar Roberg has two sons born in 1977 and 1981. Irm Hermann died in May 2020 at the age of 77 after a short, serious illness in Berlin.
Filmography
- 1966: Der Stadtstreicher (short film) (Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder )
- 1967: Das kleine Chaos (short film) (Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- 1969: Love is colder than death (Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- 1969: Katzelmacher (Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- 1969: The Revolt (TV) (Director: Reinhard Hauff )
- 1970: Mathias Kneißl (Director: Reinhard Hauff)
- 1970: Gods of the Plague (Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- 1970: Why is Mr. R. running amok? (Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- 1970: The American Soldier (Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- 1970: Der Pott (TV) (Director: Peter Zadek )
- 1971: Pioneers in Ingolstadt (TV, director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- 1971: Dealer of the Four Seasons (Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- 1971: Die Ahnfrau - Oratorio based on Franz Grillparzer (TV) (Director: Peer Raben )
- 1972: The bitter tears of Petra von Kant (Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- 1972/73: Eight hours are not a day (five-part family series) (Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- 1973: Company Nordkohl (Director: Sven Severin)
- 1973: Wildwechsel (Direction: Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- 1973: The tenderness of wolves (Director: Ulli Lommel )
- 1973: An incredibly strong finish (Director: Michael Verhoeven )
- 1974: Munich Stories (TV series) (Director: Helmut Dietl )
- 1974: Nora Helmer (TV) (Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- 1974: Fear eats the soul (Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- 1974: Fontane Effi Briest (Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- 1975: Fist law of freedom (Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- 1975: Mother Küsters' Journey to Heaven (Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- 1975: Fear of Fear (Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- 1975: Shadows of the Angels (Director: Daniel Schmid )
- 1976: Sternsteinhof (Director: Hans W. Geißendörfer )
- 1976: Die! (TV series Lobster ) (Director: Hans W. Geißendörfer )
- 1977: Women in New York (TV) (Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- 1979: The Ordinary Madness (TV series)
- 1979: Woyzeck (Director: Werner Herzog )
- 1980: Freedom at the end of the line (Director: Reinhard Hauff )
- 1980: Berlin Alexanderplatz (Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- 1980: Lili Marleen (Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- 1981: Kater Lamp (Director: Ulrich Heising )
- 1981: Today we play the boss - where are the films here? (Director: Peer Raben )
- 1982: The Magic Mountain (Director: Hans W. Geissendörfer )
- 1982: Bananen-Paul (Director: Richard Claus )
- 1982: Five Last Days (Director: Percy Adlon )
- 1982: The Zappler (Director: Wolfram Deutschmann)
- 1982: Eisenhans (Director: Tankred Dorst )
- 1982: The Disappearance of Harmony (TV) (Director: Ulrich Heising )
- 1983: Edith's diary (Director: Hans W. Geissendörfer )
- 1983: The Knapp Family (TV series, episodes 4–5) (Director: Stephan Meyer)
- 1983: The Swing (Director: Percy Adlon )
- 1983: Dorian Gray in the mirror of the tabloid press (Director: Ulrike Ottinger )
- 1984: Ghost Stories : The Bridge to Fenders
- 1985: Marie Ward - Between Gallows and Glory (Director: Angelika Weber)
- 1986: Das Totenreich (TV) (Director: Karin Brandauer )
- 1986: Close up (short film) (Director: René Perraudin)
- 1986: Crime scene: dead body in the cellar
- 1987: Imperial capital - private
- 1988: For example Otto Spalt (Director: René Perraudin )
- 1988: Darling Kreuzberg
- 1988: The Passenger - Welcome to Germany
- 1989: Crime scene: dirty work
- 1989: Johanna d'Arc of Mongolia
- 1989: Waller's last course
- 1989: The Spider Web (Director: Bernhard Wicki )
- 1989: Adrian and the Romans (Direction: Klaus Bueb, Thomas Mauch )
- 1990: Last from Da Da eR
- 1990: The German chainsaw massacre
- 1990: The Wild Party
- 1991: Lippel's dream
- 1991: Pappa ante portas (Director: Loriot )
- 1992: The Heinz Becker family - The vacation trip
- 1993: Hello, Comrade (TV)
- 1993: Löwenzahn (Directed by Hannes Spring)
- 1994: Der Gletscherclan (TV series) (Director: Nikolai Müllerschön )
- 1994: Hades (Direction: Herbert Achternbusch )
- 1995–1996: A Strong Team (TV series)
- 1995: Victory
- 1996: The 120 Days of Bottrop (Director: Christoph Schlingensief )
- 1996: Willi and the Windzors
- 1997: Baby tiger stripes waiting for Tarzan
- 1997: Mom is impossible
- 1997: Polizeiruf 110: Beyond Death (Director: Manfred Stelzer )
- 1998: Polizeiruf 110: Live in den Tod (Director: Manfred Stelzer)
- 1998: The knock
- 1998: Adelheid and her murderer - corpse on duty
- 1999: Men and Other Disasters
- 1999: Paradiso
- 2000: For me there was only Fassbinder (Director: Rosa von Praunheim )
- 2002: Hamlet - This is your family (Director: Peter Kern )
- 2002: The Semmeling affair
- 2003: Freak Stars 3000 (Director: Christoph Schlingensief )
- 2004: My brother is a dog (Director: Peter Timm)
- 2004: Once a cop, always a cop (TV series, episode Deadly Passion )
- 2004: Germanikus
- 2004: Franz
- 2005: The Man from the Embassy (Direction: Dito Tsintsadze )
- 2005: The final battle
- 2005: Congratulations
- 2007: TRUST.Wohltat (Director: Eicke Bettinga )
- 2007: It's a matter of taste (Director: Ingo Rasper)
- 2008: 10 seconds
- 2008: Chocolate for the boss
- 2008–2011: The stone
- 2008: Anonyma - A woman in Berlin
- 2008: Like in another life
- 2009: Krauses cure
- 2009: Tatort: Singing of Dead Things , Director: Thomas Roth
- 2009: The Rosenheim Cops - A wedding and a death
- 2010: Doctor's Diary
- 2011: Frizzy Bride
- 2012: Herzberg (short film; director: David C. Bunners )
- 2012: Lotta & the great expectations
- 2012: Murder Hunger, Director: Marcus Weiler
- 2013: The invention of love
- 2015: The bull and the country egg - gold rush
- 2016: A summer love for three (Director: Nana Neul)
- 2016: Tatort: What is worth living for
- 2017: Fack ju Göhte 3
- 2018: Two men in suits
- 2018: Labaule & Erben (TV miniseries)
Radio plays and features
- 1972: Rainer Werner Fassbinder : Nobody is bad nobody is good - Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder (radio play - BR )
- 1999: Volker Braun : The story of the four toolmakers (Frau Meier) - Director: Jörg Jannings (radio play - SFB / ORB / DLF )
- 2003: Dylan Thomas : Unter dem Milchwald (Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard) - Director: Götz Fritsch (radio play - MDR )
- 2004: Boris Vian : Das Rote Gras - adaptation and direction: Christiane Ohaus (radio play - DLR Berlin / NDR )
- 2005: Jane Bowles : Two very serious ladies - adaptation / director: Heike Tauch (radio play - DLR)
- 2009: Inge Braun / Helmut Huber : Will I become German when I sing? ; Director: Nikolai von Koslowski ( DKultur / RBB )
- 2009: Wolfgang Zander : The Black House - Director: Beatrix Ackers (Children's radio play - DKultur)
- 2009: Lorenz Schröter : Poverty is theft - Director: Nikolai von Koslowski ( Feature - WDR )
- 2010: Beate Dölling : Der Hundekönig von Kreuzberg - Director: Klaus-Michael Klingsporn (Children's radio play - DKultur)
- 2011: Marianne Zückler : Die Läuferin (mother) - Director: Andrea Getto (radio play - RBB / NDR)
- 2012: Anne Lepper : Dog, where are we going ; Director: Claudia Johanna Leist (WDR)
- 2013: EM Cioran : On the disadvantage of being born - Director: Kai Grehn (radio play - SWR )
- 2015: Wilhelm Genazino : An umbrella for this day (Mrs. Balkhausen) - Editing and direction: Lutz Oehmichen / Heike Tauch (radio play (3D artificial head ) - RBB)
- 2015: Jens Nielsen: Mrs. Higgins - Instead of Memory ; Director: Claude Pierre Salmony (SRF)
- 2019: Irmgard Maenner: Expensive swallows ; Director: Heike Tauch (radio play of the month 11/2019)
Awards
- 1970: Film tape in gold (actress - with the rest of the anti-theater ensemble ) for gods of the plague , kitty makers and love is colder than death
- 1972: Film tape in gold (actress) for The Dealer of the Four Seasons
- 1983: Filmband in Gold (actress) for Five Last Days
- 2000: Silver Bear of the Berlinale for special artistic achievement as a member of the Paradiso cast ensemble
- 2007: Radio play of the year (speaker) for Enigma Emmy Göring, in which she speaks the role of Emmy Göring
- 2009: Nomination for the German Film Award in the category “Best Supporting Actress” for Anonyma - A Woman in Berlin
- 2009: German Audio Book Prize
Web links
- Irm Hermann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Irm Hermann at filmportal.de
- Video: Chanting with the Golden Lemons
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Actress Irm Hermann died on May 28, 2020 on nordbayern.de, accessed on May 28, 2020.
- ↑ Verena Lueken: On the death of Irm Hermann: Virtuosin der Hassliebe . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed May 29, 2020]).
- ↑ Irm Hermann in conversation with Gabi Toepsch. BR-Online, December 4, 2009, accessed May 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Christine Dössel: To the death of Irm Hermann - adventurer of art. Retrieved June 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Irm Hermann is dead. In: spiegel.de . May 28, 2020, accessed May 28, 2020 .
- ↑ cf. German Film Award: An overview of the nominations at welt.de, March 13, 2009
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Hermann, Irm |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hermann, Irmgard; Hermann-Roberg, Irmgard |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress and radio play speaker |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 4, 1942 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
DATE OF DEATH | May 26, 2020 |
Place of death | Berlin |