Irm Hermann

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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

Radio plays and features

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

Individual evidence

  1. 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.
  2. Verena Lueken: On the death of Irm Hermann: Virtuosin der Hassliebe . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed May 29, 2020]).
  3. Irm Hermann in conversation with Gabi Toepsch. BR-Online, December 4, 2009, accessed May 30, 2020 .
  4. Christine Dössel: To the death of Irm Hermann - adventurer of art. Retrieved June 3, 2020 .
  5. Irm Hermann is dead. In: spiegel.de . May 28, 2020, accessed May 28, 2020 .
  6. cf. German Film Award: An overview of the nominations at welt.de, March 13, 2009