Jens Scholkmann

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Jens Scholkmann (born February 10, 1939 in Berlin ; † June 28, 2015 ) was a German actor and director.

Life

He completed an acting training at the state Max Reinhardt Drama School in Berlin.

theatre

1958/1959 he was engaged at the Schauspielhaus Bochum , from 1959 to 1960 at the Landestheater Schleswig under Horst Gnekow , 1960-1965 at the Stadttheater Luzern (Switzerland) again under Gnekow. Jens Scholkmann played in more than 50 productions in Lucerne. From 1965–1968 he was engaged at the theater of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and played there under the direction of Kurt Hübner and Peter Zadek, among others . This was followed by an engagement at the Münster City Theater from 1968–1973 . There he also directed numerous productions.

From 1973 to 1997 he was the artistic director of the Werkbühne Bayer Leverkusen (cultural department) and produced there regularly. At this time, Serkan Kaya and Katharina Lorenz took their first steps in their later acting / musical careers under his guidance.

watch TV

Scholkmann appeared on television on NDR, WDR, Hessischer Rundfunk and Saarländischer Rundfunk. 1974-1990 he was the presenter of the ZDF long-term advertising show Schaufenster on Thursday . He had guest appearances in the television series Großstadtrevier , Der Landarzt and Aktenzeichen XY as well as TV films such as “With Eighteen”.

Wireless

For more than 25 years , he worked as a speaker for Radio Bremen in numerous radio plays , artistic features , entertainment programs, school radio and literature programs . This included award-winning productions such as B. the six-part radio play Der Wind in den Weiden by Kenneth Grahame (RB 1976, director: Charlotte Niemann ), which was released on LP and MC. He also had a leading role in 1979 alongside Benno Sterzenbach in the detective radio play Wie das Blühende Leben by Rolf Bohn . Günter Siebert directed the film . In 1980, again directed by Charlotte Niemann, he could be heard in four episodes of the nine-part children's radio play series Pooh the Bear (title role Horst Breiter ) based on Alan Alexander Milne . The series was released on CD by Hörverlag in 2013 .

Engagements

Theater roles

(Selection)

Schauspielhaus Bochum, 1958–1959
  • Train driver in "10 minutes to Buffalo" by Günter Grass
Schleswig State Theater, 1959–1960
  • Möbius in "A Better Lord" by Hasenclever
  • Mulay Hassan in “Fiesco” by Schiller
  • Role as BoyFriend in the musical "BoyFriend"
  • No. 8 in "12 Jurors"
City Theater Lucerne (Switzerland), 1960–1965
  • Marat in “The persecution and murder of Marat under the guidance of the Marquis de Sade” by Peter Weiß
  • Jerry in "Zoogeschichte" by E. Albee
  • Domingo in "Don Carlos" by Schiller
  • "Woyzeck" from Büchner
  • Fool in Shakespeare's "What You Will"
  • Wang in “The Good Man of Seznan” by Brecht
  • Möbius in “Physiker” by Dürrenmatt
  • Thersites in Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida"
  • One-person piece "Diary of a madman" based on the novella by Nicolai Gogol
  • In-house production "Jazz und Lyrik" with Lucerne actors and jazz musicians
Theater of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, 1965–1968
  • as Julien in "Die Kaktusblüte"
  • King Claudius in "Hamlet" (Director: Kurt Hübner)
  • Mortimer in "Arsenic and Lace Cap"
  • Dr. Rank in "Nora" by Ibsen (Director: Peter Zadek)
  • Sergeant in "Events while Guarding the Bofors Cannon"
Stadttheater Münster, 1968–1973
  • Karl Moor in "The Robbers" by Schiller
  • Runner in "Hofmeister" by Lenz / Brecht
  • Richard III in "Richard III." by Shakespeare
  • Matti in “Puntila and his servant Matti” by Brecht
  • Gangster in the musical "Kiss me Kate"
  • Julien in "The Cactus Blossom"
  • Title role in the one-person play "Diary of a Madman" by Gogol
Free engagements
  • Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen: Rosse in "Macbeth" by Shakespeare (Director: Heyme)
  • Luisenburg Festival in Wunsiedel

Director

(Selection)

Stadttheater Münster, 1968–1973
  • "Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy" (Gombrowicz)
  • " Magic Afternoon " (farmer)
  • "Play Strindberg" (Dürrenmatt)
  • "The ward wants to be a guardian" (Handke)
  • "The Cactus Blossom" (Barillet)
  • "Montserrat" (Robles)
  • "Everything in the garden" (Albee)
  • "The enemy of the people" (Ibsen)
  • "America Hurray" (van Itallie)
  • "... and what comes after?" (Saunders)
Guest productions (selection)
  • "The Enchanted Brothers" (Schwarz) - Städtische Bühnen Bonn
  • "Don Carlos" (Schiller) - Theater Krefeld / Mönchengladbach
  • "A better gentleman" (Hasenclever) -Theater Krefeld / Mönchengladbach
  • "Fear and misery of the 3rd Reich" (Brecht) - Theater Krefeld / Mönchengladbach
  • "The new sorrows of young W." (Plenzdorf) - Zimmertheater Münster
  • "The salary increase" (Perec) - Zimmertheater Münster
Artistic director of the Werkbühne Bayer Leverkusen (cultural department), 1973–1997
  • 73/74 Message from the Province (Ziem)
  • 73/74 Hans and Grete move (Hachfeld / Jensen)
  • 73/74 The Katus Flower (Barillet / Gredy)
  • 74/75 Stokkerlok and Millipilli (Hachfeld / Ludwig)
  • 75/76 Pünktchen and Anton (Kästner)
  • 75/76 The suicide (Erdmann)
  • 76/77 Erika (Krechel)
  • 76/77 Fazz and Zwoo (Campbell / Vienna)
  • 77/78 The Fox Hunt (Christie)
  • 77/78 Bremer Freiheit (Fassbinder)
  • 78/79 The Enchanted Brothers (Black)
  • 79/80 A better gentleman (Hasenclever)
  • 80/81 The petty bourgeois wedding
  • 80/81 scenes from the fair purchase (Brecht)
  • 81/82 Don Gil from the green pants (Molina)
  • 82/83 The hostage (Behan)
  • 83/84 The Riddle Princess (Liebenfels)
  • 83/84 The raise (Perec)
  • 84/85 You are right here (Camoletti)
  • 85/86 The man can be helped - world premiere ( Herbert Rosendorfer )
  • 86/87 The naked man and the man in tails / The thief who was not harmed ( Dario Fo )
  • 87/88 The citizen as a nobleman (Moliere)
  • 88/89 Everything in the garden (Albee)
  • 89/90 Victor or the children in power (Vitrac)
  • 90/91 Ivanov (Chekhov)
  • 91/92 His doppelganger (Hennequin / Duval)
  • 92/93 Oh you beloved of my 27 senses - world premiere (Dada collage by Jens Scholkmann)
  • 93/94 The Night of the Iguana (Williams)
  • 94/95 Oh dear, oh dear, there's someone hanging there (Tardieu)
  • 95/96 Mandragola / world premiere (Rosendorfer)
  • 96/97 The Auditor (Gogol)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice. Retrieved October 21, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Thomas Blubacher: Jens Scholkmann . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1629.
  3. ↑ ksta.de , accessed on April 9, 2013
  4. ↑ hoerdat.in-berlin.de , accessed April 9, 2013
  5. ^ Bayer cultural department program booklet The Auditor by Nikolai Gogol. Leverkusen version by Jens Scholkmann . 1997.
personal data
SURNAME Scholkmann, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 2015