Klaus Wennemann

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Klaus Wennemann (born December 18, 1940 in Oer-Erkenschwick , Westphalia , † January 7, 2000 in Bad Aibling , Bavaria ) was a German actor .

Life

The son of a miner from the Ruhr area did a commercial apprenticeship after attending business school and took private acting lessons until he was called up for military service. From 1964 to 1966 he completed an acting training at the Folkwang University in Essen . He made his stage debut in 1965 at the Grenzlandtheater Aachen in the role of Lee Harvey Oswald in the world premiere of the play Dallas, November 22nd . His first engagement took him to the Stadttheater Landshut in 1966 , where he was a member of the ensemble until 1969. Wennemann was awarded the Great Hersfeld Prize in 1968 for his performance in Peter Weiss ' Marat . He then moved to the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart . From 1972 to 1980 he worked at the Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt , where he could be seen in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker , Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening and Carl Sternheim's Bürger Schippel . Guest performances also took him to the Theater Aachen and the Städtische Bühnen Bonn. In 1979/80 he was on stage at the Ruhr Festival in Recklinghausen . Since 1980 the actor worked as a freelance.

Wennemann's breakthrough as a film actor came in 1981 in Das Boot . In Wolfgang Petersen's film adaptation of Lothar-Günther Buchheim's bestseller , he was the chief engineer , or LI for short , as the commandant's right-hand man. Wennemann had already attended the acting class in Essen with Jürgen Prochnow . He was also on the big screen in Alexander Kluge's The Power of Emotions (1983), directed by Carl Schenkel in the thriller Downward (1984) and as the leading actor with Barbara Rudnik and Nena in the comedy The Invisible (1987) by Ulf Miehe zu see. In 1983 he took on the role of operator in the first season of the miners saga Rote Erde . Wennemann achieved great popularity in the role of investigator Faber , whom he played from 1983 to 1993 in 91 episodes of the crime series Der Fahnder , for which he was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize in 1989. As an "idiosyncratic and unmistakable police officer of a completely new type" he achieved record ratings in the first evening program . In the 1990s, he played the title role in the Sat.1 series Schwarz intervenes as the patent pastor Henning Schwarz . He also appeared in guest roles in Hinter Gittern (after Der Fahnder again at Barbara Freier's side ) and in On Axis at Manfred Krug's side .

Klaus Wennemann was married to his wife Hedi since 1963. The father of two sons died of lung cancer shortly after his 59th birthday . The actor lived in Herrsching am Ammersee until his death .

Klaus Wennemann was buried in the forest cemetery in Oer-Erkenschwick next to his parents.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Klaus Wennemann in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  2. ↑ Klaus Wennemann is dead , Der Spiegel from January 10, 2000
  3. ↑ Actor Klaus Wennemann lost the fight against cancer , Tagesspiegel from January 2000
  4. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Klaus Wennemann
personal data
SURNAME Wennemann, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Oer-Erkenschwick
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 2000
Place of death Bad Aibling , Bavaria