Jochen Brockmann

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Jochen Brockmann (born September 14, 1919 in Sternberg ; † June 27, 1990 in Horn ) was a German actor .

Life

Brockmann attended the drama school of the Prussian State Theater from 1938 to 1939 and made his debut as Haimon in the drama Antigone at the Vienna Burgtheater in 1940 , where he was part of the ensemble until 1949 .

In 1949/1950 he played on the stages of the city of Bonn, in 1958 he received an engagement at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, where he was employed until 1958. He also gave appearances at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm , Theater am Schiffbauerdamm and at the Volksbühne in Berlin. From 1958 he worked at the Theater in der Josefstadt and also gave guest appearances on other stages, including 1964 to 1968 at the Salzburg Festival , where he embodied "Mammon". Brockmann mainly acted in roles of classical theater. One of his parade roles was the village judge Adam in The Broken Jug .

Brockmann first drew attention to himself in film in 1955 when he played the Bulgarian communist Georgi Michajlow Dimitrov in the DEFA film The Vicious Circle during the Reichstag fire trial. The bulky actor then embodied mostly shady, power-hungry characters like Prince Padhu in Fritz Lang's two-part play Der Tiger von Eschnapur / The Indian Tomb from 1958. In the first Edgar Wallace film The Frog with the Mask , he turned out to be a villain and this role Jochen Brockmann kept him throughout his film career. In his last feature film, Müller's Office , he was the devious gang boss Kant, who in the end dies of natural causes after eliminating all his opponents.

Brockmann, who was also seen in many television roles, was awarded the Golden Decoration of Honor for services to the Republic of Austria . He was married with one child and rests in the cemetery in St. Marein , Lower Austria

Filmography

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ other information: Schwerin
  2. ↑ other information: Vienna
personal data
SURNAME Brockmann, Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Sternberg
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1990
Place of death horn