Martin Benrath

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Martin Benrath (right) in 1957 during a guest appearance by the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus in the Stadttheater Bad Godesberg in the play One long day's journey into the night by Eugene O'Neill alongside (from left) Paul Hartmann , Elisabeth Bergner and Heinz Drache .

Martin Benrath (born November 9, 1926 in Berlin-Lankwitz ; † January 31, 2000 in Herrsching am Ammersee ; actually Helmut Kurt August Hermann Krüger ) was a German actor .

Life

Helmut Kurt August Hermann Krüger, son of a senior executive, attended high school up to the upper sixth and served in World War II as a flak helper . After the war he came to the stage. He took acting lessons from Maria Loya and received his first engagement at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in 1947 . His career began at the Berlin theater . Engagements at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm and the Hebbel Theater followed. However, the greatest success came in Düsseldorf . Since the name Krüger was already "occupied" by his colleague Hardy Krüger , the chief dispatcher advised him to use an artist name. Kruger couldn't think of anything suitable. The dispatcher then asked him: “Where do you live at the moment?” - “In Benrath .” An engagement in Munich followed in 1961. Martin Benrath was considered to be a prominent character actor - if only because of his facial scar from an accident. An overhanging steel I-beam pierced the windshield of a VW Beetle on the Neusser Bridge in which Benrath was sitting.

Martin Benrath has also appeared in numerous movies and television plays such as Morituri (1965, directed by Bernhard Wicki ), The White Rose (1982, directed by Michael Verhoeven ), Stalingrad (1993), The Shadow Man (1996), The Campus (1998) and Beresina (1999). In 1975 in Berlinger he played the title role of an unadjusted and individualist. In 1980, he took on the role of narrator in the radio play production Der kleine Hobbit by Westdeutscher Rundfunk . He also became known to a wide audience as a performer in the crime series Derrick .

The roles he embodies are often dignified personalities with sympathetic features. So he changed his text as Death in Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival to “I am your death” (instead of “I am death”).

He was married to the actress Marianne Klein († 1988) since 1953 . His second marriage was to Frauke Benrath. His grave is in the Salzburg - Aigen cemetery .

Awards

Filmography

theatre

Radio plays (selection)

  • 1992: Claude Ollier: The Death of the Hero (new production) (Voice B) - Director: Otto Düben ( SDR )
  • 1994: Javier Tomeo : Dialogue in D major (A) - Director: Otto Düben (SDR)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Gründgens pupil died at the age of 73 in his house in Upper Bavaria Lauterbach mourns the loss of Martin Benrath , mopo.de from February 2, 2000 (accessed February 15, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Benrath, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krüger, Helmut Kurt August Hermann (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Lankwitz
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 2000
Place of death Herrsching am Ammersee