Otto Sander
Otto Sander (born June 30, 1941 in Hanover ; † September 12, 2013 in Berlin ) was a German actor , dubbing and radio play speaker .
Life
Training and work at the theater
Otto Sander was born in Hanover as the son of a naval officer (flotilla engineer) and grew up in Peine and Kassel . Sander's father held a leading position in the old staple fiber , which later became the Enka company in the Kassel district of Bettenhausen . Otto Sander passed his Abitur at the Friedrichsgymnasium in Kassel in 1961 and then completed his military service in the German Navy in 1961/62 , which he left as an ensign at sea in the reserve . With the original goal of becoming a director , Sander studied theater studies , German literature , literature , art history and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1962 to 1967 . In 1964 he switched to the Otto Falckenberg School to take acting lessons. In 1965, however, he was expelled from school and completed his training there with an external final examination.
Sander received his first engagement at the Kammerspiele in Düsseldorf , where he made his debut in 1965. In 1967/68 he was engaged at the theater of the city of Heidelberg before he was appointed to the Freie Volksbühne Berlin in 1968 by Claus Peymann . Then Peter Stein brought him to the Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer , founded in 1970 , where he worked with Klaus Michael Grüber , Wilfried Minks and Luc Bondy , among others . From 1980 Sander appeared on various stages in Berlin, including 1981 at the Schillertheater , 1985 at the Freie Volksbühne and 1989 at the Komödie am Kurfürstendamm . In 2000 and 2001 Otto Sander played Death in Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival . After that, Sander could be seen in 2004 as Captain von Köpenick at the Schauspielhaus Bochum .
In addition to his work as an actor, Sander also worked as a director and produced his productions, some of which were created in cooperation with other directors such as Wolf Redl and Peter Fitz , at the Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer (1975, 1977, 1982 and 1983) and on Schauspielhaus Zürich (1984/85).
In 2006, Sander fell ill with cancer for the first time . After overcoming this, Sander returned to the theater stage in October 2007. He played the last volume by Samuel Beckett in the Renaissance Theater in Berlin and appeared in Bochum in the play Der Ignorant und der Wahnsinnige by Thomas Bernhard .
Movie and TV
Sander made his film debut in the role of a farmer's son in Roland Klick's short film Ludwig in 1964 . This was followed by other productions for film and television, for example Sander can be seen in Éric Rohmer's Die Marquise von O. in 1976 and in Die Blechtrommel by Volker Schlöndorff in 1979 . His best-known film roles include that of Angel Cassiel in Der Himmel über Berlin by Wim Wenders (where he played alongside his former stage colleague Bruno Ganz ) and that of U-boat commander Kapitänleutnant Philipp Thomsen in Das Boot by Wolfgang Petersen .
Thanks to his warm, powerful voice, which earned him the nickname The Voice , Sander was used very often as a speaker for television documentaries, audio books and radio plays, as well as a voice actor . He voiced Dustin Hoffman (Death of a Salesman) and Ian McKellen (Richard III) , spoke the commentary in the Oscar-winning Arthur Cohn production A Day in September and was the narrator in the films Perfume - The story of a murderer , Krabat and some Werner films. His readings of the essays by Michel de Montaigne are impressive .
In the film Der Einstein des Sex (1999) by Rosa von Praunheim he plays with his wife Monika Hansen and his stepchildren Meret Becker and Ben Becker .
Private
Sander had been married to actress Monika Hansen since 1971 and was the stepfather of Ben and Meret Becker . He had two brothers and a sister. In 2007, Sander's esophageal cancer became known. In 2011 (or in autumn 2012) he was initially considered recovered, but died on September 12, 2013 in Berlin. On September 28th he was buried in the Dorotheenstadt cemetery . His voice can still be heard every evening as a greeting in the bar every reason in Berlin.
social commitment
In 2004 he became involved as an ambassador (called " Bootschafter" ) for the German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People (DGzRS). During his term of office, the ambassador, who changes annually, makes himself available on a voluntary basis for advertising measures for the DGzRS, which is mainly financed by donations.
Sander was a member of the Else Lasker Student Society until his death .
Filmography (selection)
- 1964: Ludwig - Director: Roland Klick (short film)
- 1970: Don't fumble, darling
- 1974: One of us both
- 1974: I would like to have my worries - Director: Wolf Gremm
- 1975: Lehmann's stories - Director: Wolfgang Staudte
- 1976: summer guests
- 1976: The marquise of O.
- 1976: Four against the bank
- 1979: Phantom - Director: René Perraudin , Uwe Schrader (short film)
- 1979: The tin drum
- 1979: crime scene - midnight, or shortly after
- 1980: Palermo or Wolfsburg
- 1980: The Cause - Director: Michael Verhoeven (TV)
- 1981: In the land of plenty. A novel among fine people - Director: Fritz Umgelter (TV)
- 1981: A case for Otto Spalt - Director: René Perraudin, Uwe Schrader (short film)
- 1981: The boat
- 1981: The man in the pajamas
- 1981: Cold as Ice - Director: Carl Schenkel
- 1982: Who's crazy there, Doctor?
- 1983: A love in Germany
- 1986: Rosa Luxemburg
- 1986: Miko - From the gutter to the stars - Director: Frank Ripploh
- 1986: Caspar David Friedrich - The Limits of Time
- 1987: The sky over Berlin
- 1987: Wahnfried - Director: Peter Patzak
- 1987: For example Otto Spalt - Director: René Perraudin
- 1988: The investigator : part-time job
- 1989: The break
- 1993: Far away, so close!
- 1994: The Hole
- 1994: Police call 110: dead track
- 1994: The dream ship : Mauritius
- 1995: The Promise
- 1995: Nikolaikirche (TV)
- 1995: Matulla and Busch (TV)
- 1996: Condom of horror
- 1996: Conversation with the Beast
- 1996: Wolffs Revier (Season 6 Episode 3) - Ice Cold
- 1996: Dinner - Director: Sören Voigt
- 1997: Comedian Harmonists
- 1998: Police call 110: The miracle of Wustermark
- 1998: am I beautiful?
- 1998: Investigation on girls
- 1999: The Einstein of Sex
- 2000: Les Misérables - Prisoners of Fate
- 2000: Marlene
- 2001: Sass
- 2002: Deadly Trust
- 2003: Donau, Duna, Dunaj, Dunav, Dunarea - Director: Goran Rebić
- 2005: Little Spoon - Director: Régine Provvedi
- 2005: The Captain of Köpenick - Director: Matthias Hartmann
- 2005: Polizeiruf 110: Dettmanns wide world - Director: Bernd Böhlich
- 2005: Tatort - The Players
- 2012: The Guilt of the Heirs - Director: Uwe Janson
- 2012: To the horizon, then left!
- 2013: SOKO Vienna : Family ties
- 2013: Police call 110: In front of everyone
As a narrator
- 1980: One Love in Germany - Director: Andrzej Wajda
- 1990: Werner - tough! - Direction: Niki List , Gerhard Hahn , Michael Schaack
- 1993: The Olympic Summer - Director: Gordian Maugg
- 1998: The Shop - Director: Jo Baier (TV)
- 1999: Majesty need sun (voice Wilhelm II. ) - Director: Peter Schamoni
- 2000: The Grinch - Director: Ron Howard
- 2000: Prussia - Chronicle of a German State (six-part, narrator's voice) - Director: Ute Bönnen , Gerald Endres
- 2001: 100 Pro - Director: Simon Verhoeven
- 2003: Werner - puke later! - Director: Michael Schaack , Hayo Freitag
- 2006: Perfume - The Story of a Murderer - Director: Tom Tykwer
- 2008: Krabat - Director: Marco Kreuzpaintner
- 2009: Kampf um Germanien (two-parter, narrator's voice) - Director: Christian Twente
Radio plays
- 1978: George Tabori : The 25th Hour - Director: George Tabori ( RIAS Berlin)
- 1981: George Orwell : Animal Farm ; RIAS Berlin, 1981; 58 min .; Director: Manfred Marchfelder
- 1984: Alfred Behrens : The begging nut in the head - Director: Alfred Behrens (radio play - HR / NDR / SDR )
- 1985: Ingomar von Kieseritzky : The Excursion - Director: Manfred Marchfelder (radio play - SFB)
- 1986: George Tabori / Jörg Jannings : First Night Last Night - Director: Jörg Jannings (RIAS Berlin / NDR)
- 1991: Edgar Hilsenrath : The fairy tale of the last thought (Meddah, the storyteller) - Director: Peter Groeger (radio play - SFB / HR)
- 1991: Adolf Schröder : Berger and Levin (Werner Berger) - Director: Bernd Lau (detective radio play in six parts - NDR)
- 1992: Friedrich Gorenstein : Dispute about Dostojewski - Director: Walter Niklaus (radio play - SFB / DS Kultur )
- 1993: Dashiell Hammett : Two sharp knives - Director: Hartmut Kirste (detective radio play - SDR)
- 1993: Tankred Dorst : Merlin or the desert land (Der Teufel) - Director: Walter Adler (radio play - MDR )
- 1996: The Foucault Pendulum ( Umberto Eco ) radio play on 3 MCs, 217 min; WDR / BR 2
- 1998: The rage around the world by and with Maarten 't Hart ; 162 min .; BR / RB , speakers: Christian Brückner , Vadim Glowna , Otto Sander, u. a .; Director: Holger Rink
- 1999: Joseph Roth : Hiob (Rabbi) - Director: Robert Matejka (radio play - MDR)
- 1999: Rolf Gozell : Princess Maria vom Meere - Director: Wolfgang Rindfleisch (children's radio play - DLR Berlin)
- 2011: Ulrike Janssen : Vogelherdrecherche - Director: Ulrike Janssen (radio play - DLF / HR)
- 2012: Hermann Bohlen : Alfred C. - From the life of a grain dealer - Director: Judith Lorentz / Hermann Bohlen (radio play - DKultur / HR)
Audio books
- with Bruno Ganz : Gustave Flaubert , Iwan S. Turgenjew : A friendship in letters. MC cassette , audiobook. No and no, Zurich 1999 ISBN 3-906547-19-1
- The prophet . Song from the album Weltreise by the German electronica band Schiller , Zeitgeist (Universal), 2001.
- Snow on Kilimanjaro, by Ernest Hemingway , MDR Figaro 2004, ISBN 3-89964-069-1 .
- Otto Sander reads Fontane . live. Brandenburgisches Literaturbüro, Potsdam 2004, ISBN 978-3-930752-31-7 .
- WORLD LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN: Wilhelm Tell. After Friedrich Schiller. Newly told by Barbara Kindermann. Hörcompany GmbH, Hamburg, 2005. ISBN 978-3-935036-74-0 .
- Otto Sander reads Montaigne . Essais and diary of the trip. Eichborn Verlag , 2005, ISBN 3-8218-5395-6 .
- Otto Sander reads Bukowski . Sander Kaputt reads in Hollywood for a series of radio plays by the SZ (Library of Narrators) . Süddeutsche Zeitung 2006 ISBN 978-3-86615-360-8 .
- Knights and ravens. (Ballads). Otto Sander and the Oakmusic Ensemble. Patmos Publishing House , 2007.
- Barclay and Felipe. Radio play by Peter Eckhart Reichel with Otto Sander and Manfred Steffen . hoerbuchedition words & music, 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811778-0-0 . (Nomination: German Audio Book Award 2008 in the category: Best Fiction).
- The 10 commandments (musical) as the voice of God. CD 2009.
- The centenarian who climbed out the window and disappeared. The Hörverlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-86717-956-0 .
- Otto Sander reads Oscar Wilde : The Canterville Ghost . Eichborn-Verlag, ISBN 3-906547-34-5 , EFA Media No. 22766-2
- Threat by Moonlight by Patrick Hamilton , detective radio play with Eberhard Esche , Jürgen Hentsch and Gudrun Ritter , director: Klaus Zippel , 57 min CD, MDR 1992 / ZYX Music 2018, ISBN 978-3-95995-202-6
Awards
- 1979: German Critics' Prize
- 1980 and 1989: German Actor Award
- 1982: Ernst Lubitsch Prize for The Man in Pajamas
- 1995: Adolf Grimme Prize with gold for Polizeiruf 110: Totes Gleis (together with Bernd Böhlich , Leo P. Ard , Michael Illner and Ben Becker )
- 1997: Berlin Bear (BZ Culture Prize)
- 1999: Actor of the year in the critics' poll of Theater heute magazine
- 2008: Berlinale Camera (life's work)
- 2009: Internship at the Deutsche Akademie Rome Villa Massimo
- 2010: German Reading Prize (Lesewerk Prize)
- 2012: Golden Ox Honorary Award at the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Film Festival
- 2012: Prize for acting at the Festival of German Film
- 2014: Stern on the Boulevard der Stars in Berlin
literature
- Gero von Boehm : Otto Sander. October 25, 2004 . Interview in: Encounters. Images of man from three decades . Collection Rolf Heyne, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-89910-443-1 , pp. 451–458
- Klaus Dermutz , Karin Messlinger: Otto Sander. A touch of anarchy can be included…. Henschel, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89487-381-7 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Otto Sander in the catalog of the German National Library
- Otto Sander in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Otto Sander at filmportal.de
- Otto Sander in the German dubbing index
Interviews
- Otto Sander. Berlin acting legend. In: ARD Radiofestival , July 15, 2013, audio file, 25:18 min.
- Interview with Otto Sander , June 20, 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frank Thonicke: Even as a schoolboy the star: Kassel people remember Otto Sander. In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine from September 13, 2013
- ↑ DDP / felt: After cancer. Otto Sander is turning again. ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Rheinische Post , April 8, 2011
- ↑ a b Peter Michalzik: An angel with wit and a big voice - Otto Sander is dead. In: Berliner Zeitung , September 12, 2013
- ^ Matthias Matussek : To the death of Otto Sander: The large, dark grater. In: Spiegel online , September 12, 2013
- ↑ vks / dpa : Actor Otto Sander is dead. In: Spiegel online, September 12, 2013
- ↑ Stefan Kirschner: Berlin says goodbye to the great Otto Sander. In: Berliner Morgenpost from September 28, 2013.
- ↑ More "Bootschafter". In: seenotretter.de. DGzRS, accessed on November 15, 2017 .
- ↑ »Bootschafter« since 2004: Otto Sander ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: seenotretter.de, accessed on October 19, 2013.
- ↑ Hörcompany.de. Retrieved July 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Awards of the Berlinale 2008 , accessed April 29, 2017
- ↑ Villa Massimo | Otto Sander. Retrieved August 21, 2019 .
- ↑ Prize for Acting Art 2012: Laudation for Otto Sander ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Festival director Michael Kötz , June 20, 2012, PDF file, 5 pages.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Sander, Otto |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor, voice actor and radio play speaker |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 30, 1941 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
DATE OF DEATH | September 12th, 2013 |
Place of death | Berlin |