Kurt Böwe
Kurt Böwe (born April 28, 1929 in Reetz , Westprignitz district ; † June 14, 2000 in Berlin ) was a German actor who was very successful in the GDR in film and theater and also to the pan-German audience as Commissioner Groth in the television series Polizeiruf 110 became known.
biography
Böwe was born as one of six children to a farming family in Reetz. Even in his youth he was interested in literature and the theater, so that after he finished his Abitur in 1949, he took an entrance examination at the drama school of the German Theater in Berlin. Although he was admitted, he studied German and theater studies from 1950 to 1954 at the Institute for Theater Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin , in order to start an academic career. After completing his studies, he worked for another six years as an assistant at the university, where he gave lectures on the history of theater and dramaturgy. Parallel to his assistant, he also played at the student theater, where the then director Horst Schönemann persuaded him to pursue acting.
After turning to acting, his first engagement took him to the Maxim Gorki Theater in 1961 . This was followed by a short time at the Volksbühne Berlin , then an engagement at the Landestheater Halle , before he moved back to the stage of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 1973. From 1973 to 1997 he was part of the ensemble there and became one of the most famous and popular performers during this time.
His film and television activities also began in Berlin in 1961, initially in small roles, such as in Konrad Wolf's DEFA strip I Was Nineteen , and later also in leading roles, such as Wolf's 1973 feature film The Naked Man on the Sports Field. His portrayal The sculptor Kemmel brought him his breakthrough as a film actor and made him known nationally and internationally. This was followed by countless other film and television activities.
With his distinctive voice he was also active as a dubbing actor and speaker in around 150 radio plays - often for children.
Böwe was awarded the Handel Prize of the Halle district in 1968 and the GDR Art Prize in 1969. In 1971 he received the National Prize of the GDR III. Class for art and literature and 1989 1st class. In 1977 Böwe was honored for his portrayal of the mayor in Uwe Saeger's visit to the dear God with the special critics' award at the GDR radio play award and in 1990 with the Great Hersfeld Prize . In 1998 he acted as the narrator of the seven-part ORB documentary series "The Brandenburger - Chronicle of a Country".
Kurt Böwe was in his second marriage to the radio play dramaturge Heidemarie Böwe , geb. Schönknecht, married. He is the father of four children. His daughters Susanne (* 1964) and Winnie Böwe (* 1973) are also actresses, and Winnie is also an opera singer.
He found his final resting place in the forest cemetery in Krumbeck ( Prignitz district ).
Works
Important theater roles
- “ The Robbers ” by Friedrich Schiller , production: Maxim Vallentin and Hans Dieter Mäde, 1960
- "Fairground" by Ewan MacColl
- "On the day of the wedding" by Victor Rosow
- "The Hostage" by Brendan Behan
- “Marat” , production: Fritz Bornemann
- “ Amphitryon ” (Sosias) by Armin Stolper
- “ Die Kleinbürger ” by Maxim Gorki , production: Horst Schönemann
- " Mr. Puntila and his servant Matti " by Bertolt Brecht , staging: Christoph Schroth
- "Landshut stories" by Martin Sperr
- “ The Aula ” based on the novel by Hermann Kant
- " Night Asylum " by Maxim Gorki
- "Faust" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- " Michael Kohlhaas " by Heinrich von Kleist , 1977
- " Dantons Tod " by Georg Büchner , 1981
- “The sad story of Frederick the Great” based on Heinrich Mann , 1982
- " Ghosts " by Henrik Ibsen , 1983
- " Iphigenie auf Tauris " by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , 1984
- " The Blue Boll " by Ernst Barlach , 1985
- "The storm journeyman Socrates" by Hermann Sudermann , 1986
- "Kikeriki" by Seán O'Casey , 1986
- "Berliner Lieder" , 1987
- “The real Sedemunds” by Ernst Barlach , 1988
- "The Hostage" by Brendan Behan , 1989
- “ Der Theatermacher ” by Thomas Bernhard , 1989
- " The broken jug " by Heinrich von Kleist, Bad Hersfeld Festival , 1990
- “ The Winter Tale ” by William Shakespeare, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz , 1990, director: Luc Bondy
- " Käthchen von Heilbronn " by Heinrich von Kleist, 1991 directed by Thomas Langhoff
- "The Tower" by Hugo von Hofmannsthal , 1992 directed by Thomas Langhoff
- " The beaver fur " by Gerhart Hauptmann , 1993
- "The Cid" by Pierre Corneille , 1993
- " Herr Paul " by Tankred Dorst , 1994 directed by Michael Gruner
- " Heinrich IV. " By William Shakespeare , 1996 directed by Thomas Langhoff
- “Far away from Hagedingen” by Jean Paul Wenzel, 1997
- “ The Old Lady's Visit ” by Friedrich Dürrenmatt , 1999 directed by Thomas Langhoff
Films (selection)
- 1963: Sunday driver
- 1964: Pension Boulanka
- 1965: Berlin around the corner - Director: Gerhard Klein
- 1966: Blaulicht - Episode 26: Masked Ball - Director: Manfred Mosblech , Marga Hanke
- 1968: The dead stay young - Director: Joachim Kunert
- 1968–1970: Me - Axel Cäsar Springer (TV, parts 4 and 5) - Director: Achim Hübner
- 1968: Blaulicht - Episode 29: Dead body found in Jagen 14 - Director: Manfred Mosblech
- 1968: I was nineteen - Director: Konrad Wolf
- 1972: Zernik corpse matter - Director: Helmut Nitzschke
- 1973: A little closer to the clouds (TV, 2 parts) - Director: Christian Steinke
- 1974: The Naked Man on the Sports Field - Director: Konrad Wolf
- 1974: Johannes Kepler - Director: Frank Vogel
- 1975: Between Night and Day - Director: Horst E. Brandt
- 1975: Broddi (TV, 3 parts) - director: Ulrich Thein
- 1975: Today is Friday (TV)
- 1975: He couldn't be silent today (speaker)
- 1975: A fig leaf for Kuhle Wampe or who does the world belong to? (TV) - Director: Werner Hecht & Christa Mühl
- 1976: Police call 110: Prejudice? (TV series)
- 1976: The Special Day: Drop Dreams (Speaker)
- 1976: an old model (TV)
- 1977: Tambari - Director: Ulrich Weiß
- 1977: Ottokar the World Improver - Director: Hans Kratzert
- 1979: Ignition, the fire brigade is coming - Director: Rainer Simon
- 1979: Blauvogel - Director: Ulrich Weiß
- 1979: The End of the Song (TV, 2 parts) - Director: Jurij Kramer
- 1979: Brush Heinrich (TV film) - Director: Hans Knötzsch
- 1979: Police call 110: Deadly Illusion
- 1979: The Revenge of Captain Mitchell (TV)
- 1980: Levins Mühle - Director: Horst Seemann
- 1981/1988: Jadup and Boel - Director: Rainer Simon
- 1981: Asta, my little angel - Director: Roland Oehme
- 1981: The great adventure of Kaspar Schmeck (TV, 3 parts) - Director: Gunter Friedrich
- 1981: Pugowitza - Director: Jürgen Brauer
- 1982: Märkische Forschungen - Director: Roland Gräf
- 1982: Melanie van der Straaten (TV film) - Director: Thomas Langhoff
- 1982: Die Gerechten von Kummerow (narrator's voice) - Director: Wolfgang Luderer
- 1983: The sad story of Frederick the Great (theater recording)
- 1983: Car Tales - Director: Erwin Stranka
- 1983: Somebody Goes to the Dogs (TV Movie)
- 1983: The airship
- 1983: A student from Mansfeld - Martin Luther's youth - speaker
- 1983: Citizen Luther - Wittenberg 1508–1546 - speaker
- 1983/84: Entry into Paradise (TV, 6 parts) - directed by Achim Hübner & Wolfgang Hübner
- 1984: The swapped queen - Director: Dieter Scharfenberg
- 1985: Grown up today
- 1985: Visiting van Gogh - Director: Horst Seemann
- 1985: Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns (speaker) - Director: Jürgen Brauer
- 1986: The boy with the big black dog - Director: Hannelore Unterberg
- 1986: Das Buschgespenst (TV) - Director: Vera Loebner
- 1986: Christmas Stories (TV)
- 1988: The Blue Boll (theater recording)
- 1989: a useful man
- 1989: Darned misfortune!
- 1989: Late arrival
- 1990: Break for Wanzka (TV film) - Director: Vera Loebner
- 1991: Vaněk trilogy (studio recording)
- 1991: The Language of Birds - Director: Fred Noczynski
- 1992: The Trace of the Amber Room - Director: Roland Gräf
- 1992: Stilles Land - Director: Andreas Dresen
- 1994: Polizeiruf 110: Bullerjahn - Director: Manfred Stelzer
- 1994: Polizeiruf 110: Kiwi und Ratte - Director: Manfred Stelzer
- 1995: Polizeiruf 110: Über Gang - Directed by Manfred Stelzer
- 1995: Polizeiruf 110: Taxi to the bank - Director: Manfred Stelzer
- 1995: Polizeiruf 110: Alte Freunde - Director: Markus Imboden
- 1996: Police Call 110: Dangerous Kisses - Director: Manfred Stelzer
- 1996: Polizeiruf 110: Die Gazelle - Director: Bodo Fürneisen
- 1997: Polizeiruf 110: Der Fremde - Director: Manfred Stelzer
- 1997: Polizeiruf 110: Beyond Death - Director: Manfred Stelzer
- 1998: Polizeiruf 110: Live in den Tod - Director: Manfred Stelzer
- 1998: Polizeiruf 110: Katz und Kater - Director: Manfred Stelzer
- 1998: Spuk aus der Gruft (TV four-part series) - Director: Günter Meyer
- 1998: The Brandenburger - Chronicle of a Country (7-part documentary series, narrator)
- 1999: Polizeiruf 110: Rasputin - Director: Hans-Erich Viet
- 1999: Police call 110: Above the roofs of Schwerin - Director: Hans-Erich Viet
- 2000: Polizeiruf 110: Your greatest case - Director: Hans-Erich Viet
Radio plays
- 1964: William Shakespeare : Macbeth (Banquo) - Director: Fritz Göhler (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR )
- 1965: Gisela Horn : The Great Case (Mr. Rowley) - Director: Manfred Täubert (Children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1967: Siegfried Pfaff : Regina B. - A day in her life (Schubert) - Director: Fritz-Ernst Fechner (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR )
- 1967: James Fenimore Cooper : The Last of the Mohicans (Falcon's Eye) - Director: Dieter Scharfenberg
- 1968: Gerhard Rentzsch : At the fountain in front of the gate (summer) - Director: Hans Knötzsch (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1968: Eberhard Fensch : The dreams of Dr. Reinschmidt - Director: Horst Schönemann (Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1968: Erich Schlossarek : Risk - Director: Fritz Göhler (Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1968: Day Keene / Warren Brand : Naked Fury (Dan Malloy) - Director: Helmut Hellstorff (crime radio play - Rundfunk der DDR)
- 1968: Rolf Schneider : Voices afterwards (manufacturer) - Director: Walter Niklaus (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1968: Arne Leonhardt : It 's closing time (Georg Prödler) - Director: Walter Niklaus (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1968: Zvonimir Bajsic: Betrüger (Co) - Director: Wolfgang Brunecker (Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1969: Wolfgang Kohlhaase : Questions to a Photo - Director: Helmut Hellstorff (Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1970: Gerhard Bengsch : Krupp and Krause - Director: Walter Niklaus (radio play (3 parts) - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1971: Günther Rücker : Portrait of a fat woman (sculptor) - Director: Günther Rücker (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1972: Ben Jonson : Volpone or the Fox - Director: Werner Grunow (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1972: Karl Hermann Roehricht : Private Gallery (Herbert) - co-author and director: Günther Rücker (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1973: Bertolt Brecht : Life of Galilei (Galilei) - Director: Fritz Göhler (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1973: Arne Leonhardt : Chess of the Checkers or How I Should Get a Man (Passek) - Director: Werner Grunow (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1974: Hans-Jürgen Bloch : Not only millennial oaks (Alfredo) - Director: Joachim Staritz (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1974: Lia Pirskawetz : Vox Humana (party secretary) - Director: Fritz Göhler (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1974: Joachim Nowotny : An old model - Director: Walter Niklaus (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1974: Joachim Walther : Randbewohner - Director: Werner Grunow (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1975: Gabriel García Márquez : Time to Die - Director: Wolfgang Schonendorf (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1976: Günter Kunert : Another K. - Director: Horst Liepach (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1976: Wolfgang Kohlhaase: The Green Stone Variant (Lodek) - Director: Günther Rücker (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1976: Mark Twain : The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Doctor) - Director: Theodor Popp (Children's radio play - Litera )
- 1977: Peter Goslicki / Peter Troche : Glass splitter (main) - Director: Joachim Staritz (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1977: Yuri Trifonow : The Exchange (Dmitrijev's father) - Director: Joachim Staritz (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1978: Karel Čapek : Pocket games (Commissioner Havlicek) - Director: Joachim Staritz (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1978: Isaak Babel : Maria (Dymschitz) - Director: Joachim Staritz (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1978: PT Barnum : Alles Humbug (Barnum) - Director: Joachim Staritz (radio play - Rundfunk der DDR)
- 1980: Ernst Barlach : The Blue Boll (Boll) - Director: Peter Groeger (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1981: Samuil Marschak : Das Tierhäuschen (bear, fox) - Director: Maritta Hübner (children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1981: Theodor Storm : Pole Poppenspäler - Director: Norbert Speer (children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1982: Peter Hacks : The Tower Dungeon - Stories Henriette and Uncle Titus (Uncle Titus) - Director: Fritz Göhler (Children's radio play - Litera )
- 1983: Don Haworth : One day in summer in a garden , directed by Albrecht Surkau (radio play Kunstkopf - Rundfunk der DDR)
- 1983: Henrik Ibsen : John Gabriel Borkman (Borkman) - Director: Albrecht Surkau (radio play - Rundfunk der DDR)
- 1984: Albert Wendt : Vogelkopp (Vogelkopp) - Director: Norbert Speer (children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1985: Hans Lucke : Stadelmann (Stadelmann) - Director: Werner Grunow (radio play, artificial head - radio of the GDR)
- 1985: Kurt Tucholsky : Rheinsberg (narrator) - Director: Barbara Plensat (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1985: Gerhard Rentzsch : May I go to Napoleon again? - Afternoon chats on Sankt Helena (Napoleon) Director: Joachim Staritz (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1986: Dieter Scharfenberg: Petrea and the Flower Empress - Director: Dieter Scharfenberg (children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1987: Reinhard Griebner : I belong to a different direction (Lichtenberg) - Director: Fritz Göhler (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1991: Lothar Trolle : A morning in freedom or you allow, Lehmann, in front with L for Lenin - Director: Karlheinz Liefers (radio play - Funkhaus Berlin )
- 1991: Alexander Wolkow : Urfin und seine Holzsoldaten (Charlie Black) - Director: Dieter Scharfenberg (radio play - Litera)
- 1991: Gerhard Rentzsch: Scenes from Germany, introduced and provided with interim reports on the journey of a man with a cardboard box - Director: Walter Niklaus (radio play series: Moments No. 4 - DS Kultur / BR )
- 1997: Monika Lätzsch : Matjessaison - Director: Günter Bommert (radio play - MDR )
- 1998: Anton Chekhov : A Boring Story - Director: Günter Bommert (radio play - MDR)
- 1989: Karl May : Hadschi Halef Omar (Scheikh Malek) - Director: Jürgen Schmidt ( Litera )
Sound carrier (selection)
- James Fenimore Cooper : The Last of the Mohicans (Hawk's Eye), 1970, LITERA - 8 60 139.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Faust. Scenes from Part I and II of the tragedy (Faust), German - Literature Class 10, 1972, SCHOLA - 8 70 052/8 70 053.
- There was fifty years ago - cheerful chansons and couplets (The Wind on the Warschauer Brücke), 1972, Nova - 8 85 030.
- Brothers Grimm : The Hare and the Hedgehog (Hedgehog), 1973, LITERA - 5 65 107.
- Ehm Welk : Die Gerechte von Kummerow (Pastor), 1973, LITERA - 8 60 114.
- Brothers Grimm : The clever farmer's daughter (father), 1974, LITERA - 8 65 205.
- Brothers Grimm: Puss in Boots / The Drummer (King / Giant), 1975, LITERA - 8 65 208.
- Peasants' War 1525 - documents (speakers), 1975, LITERA.
- Robert Louis Stevenson : Der Flaschenteufel (Narrator), 1975, LITERA - 8 65 178.
- Mark Twain : Huckleberry Finn (The Doctor), 1976, LITERA - 8 60 09.
- Alexander Sergejewitsch Pushkin : Tales of Tsar Saltan, of his son, the famous and powerful warrior Prince Gwidon Saltanowitsch and of the beautiful swan princess , 1978, LITERA - 8 65 251.
- Leonid Soloviev: Nasreddin in Bukhara (Emir of Bukhara), 1979, LITERA - 8 65 270.
- Brothers Grimm: The fisherman and his wife (fisherman), 1980, LITERA.
- Pablo Neruda : I answer the door to receive thorns (speaker), 1981, LITERA - 8 65 378.
- Peter Hacks : The tower dungeon (Uncle Titus), 1982, LITERA - 8 65 329.
- Albert Wendt : The driver and the cook (driver), 1982, LITERA 8 60 313.
- Gottfried August Bürger : Wonderful journeys on land, on water and through the air of Freiherr von Münchhausen, as he used to tell the same about the bottle in the circle of his friends (Münchhausen), 1984, LITERA 8 65 330.
- Eugen Eschner, Gerhard Rosenfeld : Till Eulenspiegel's mostly cozy night / In the Herberg zu Kneiteln , (baker) 1985, LITERA - 8 65 373/374.
- Petrea and The Flower Empress (And other folk tales from all over the world) (Narrator), 1986, LITERA - 8 65 384.
- Wilhelm Hauff : Das Kalte Herz (Peter's father), 1986, LITERA - 8 65 385.
- Hans Christian Andersen : The emperor's new clothes (Kunz), 1987, LITERA - 8 65 397.
- Berlin songs from then and yesterday (speaker and vocals), 1987, Litera 8 65 419.
- Red Chapel - Documents (Speaker), 1987, LITERA - 8 65 395-396.
- Maxie Wander : Guten Morgen, Du Schöne (opening song), 1988, LITERA - 8 65 371/372.
- Andrej Platonow : The shoemaker's wife as Tsarina / Wanja, the bear and the fish (shoemaker / farmer), LITERA - 8 65 215.
- Karl May : Hadschi Halef Omar (Sheikh Malek), 1989, LITERA - 8 65 444.
- Alexander Volkov : Urfin and his wooden soldiers (Charlie Black), 1990, Litera Junior - 0452 003.
- Kurt Böwe reads Theodor Fontane : Meine Kinderjahre, From twenty to thirty , ORB 1992/1993, 11 CDs, Verlag Das Neue Berlin, ISBN 3-360-01010-8 .
- Kurt Böwe reads from his memories “The Long Short Breath” , recording of the book premiere that took place on October 15, 1995 in the Kammerspiele of the Deutsches Theater Berlin, MC, Eule-Media 1996, ISBN 3-359-01002-7 ; CD re-edition: Verlag Das Neue Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-360-01007-8 .
- Kurt Böwe reads Theodor Fontane: Letters of Aging , directed by Jürgen Schmidt, MC, Verlag Das Neue Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-360-01009-4 .
- Kurt Böwe in: One day in summer in a garden by Don Haworth, artificial head radio play, director: Albrecht Surkau, Rundfunk der DDR 1983 / HörZeichen Gerichshain 2000, ISBN 3-934492-01-0 .
- Kurt Böwe in: Rheinsberg - an audio book for lovers after Kurt Tucholsky (narrator), directed by Barbara Plensat , Rundfunk der DDR 1985 / Der Audio Verlag 2001, ISBN 3-89813-158-0 , reprint 2012: ISBN 978-3-86231- 157-6 .
- Kurt Böwe in: Die Grünstein -variant , radio play by Wolfgang Kohlhaase , directed by Günther Rücker and Barbara Plensat , Rundfunk der DDR 1976 / Der Audio Verlag 2002, ISBN 3-89813-176-9 .
- Kurt Böwe reads Theodor Fontane: Grete Minde , director: Veronika Hübner, 240 min., Mp3-CD, MDR 1995 / Der Audio Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-86231-558-1 .
- Kurt Böwe reads Erich Loest : A crack through the earth - A curriculum vitae , director: Matthias Thalheim, unabridged reading, 2 mp3 CDs, SachsenRadio 1990 / Der Audio Verlag 2020, ISBN 978-3-7424-1455-7 .
literature
- Hans-Dieter Schütt : Kurt Böwe. The long short breath. 1st edition Verlag Das Neue Berlin 1995, 380 pages, ISBN 3-359-00786-7 , reprint: Aufbau Taschenbuch Verlag, Berlin 1999, 420 pages, ISBN 3-7466-1540-2 .
- Böwes Fontane , the actor Kurt Böwe and Theodor Fontane. A reading book, collaboration: Hans-Dieter Schütt , 360 pages, Verlag Das Neue Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-360-00919-3
- Günter Gaus : On Person - Vol. 3 , Interviews with Kurt Böwe, Albert Hetterle , Dieter Hildebrandt , Thomas Langhoff , Kurt Maetzig , Wolfgang Mattheuer , Claus Peymann , Willi Sitte , Katharina Thalbach , 184 pages, Edition Ost, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3 -932180-60-7
- The mischief shop or finally the end of the theater? - Ideas and personal details with a conversation by Günter Gaus , co-author: Hans-Dieter Schütt , 189 pages, Verlag Das Neue Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-360-00890-1
- Short biography for: Böwe, Kurt . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Kurt Böwe in the catalog of the German National Library
- Kurt Böwe biography at the DEFA Foundation
- Kurt Böwe in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kurt Boewe at Discogs
- Kurt Böwe Archive in the Archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
Individual evidence
- ^ Neues Deutschland, October 6, 1989, p. 4
- ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Kurt Böwe
- ↑ from the schedule of the Schaubühne
- ↑ The Language of the Birds , BJF-Clubfilmothek . Query date: March 25, 2018.
- ↑ This radio play was awarded the PIX ITALIA for radio drama in Venice in 1977.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Böwe, Kurt |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1929 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Reetz |
DATE OF DEATH | June 14, 2000 |
Place of death | Berlin |