Renate Blume

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Renate Blume (left) in conversation with fellow actors Anastasia Wertinskaja (right) and Frank Beyer at the Karlovy Vary film festival in 1964

Renate Blume , also Renate Blume-Reed (born May 3, 1944 in Bad Wildungen ), is a German actress .

Life

Renate Blume grew up in Dresden and was initially supposed to become a doctor, but studied at the State Drama School in Berlin-Schöneweide . In 1964, while still a student, she played a leading role alongside Eberhard Esche in the internationally successful DEFA film The Divided Sky, based on the book of the same name by Christa Wolf . After graduating in 1965, she was almost exclusively on stage as a member of the Dresden State Theater until 1970. From 1970 until the fall of the Berlin Wall she was a member of the actors' ensemble of the television of the GDR and starred in numerous television films, movies and television series, including in barefoot in bed .

When there were no commissions after the German reunification in 1990 , she worked as an acting teacher. From 1992 she received engagements again on stages in Berlin , Munich , Düsseldorf , Oybin and other places, in cinema and television films and in television series. In 2001 she was on stage at the Störtebeker Festival in Ralswiek on Rügen together with Alexander Reed , her son . Since 2003 she can be seen in several roles at the Berlin Criminal Theater .

From 1969 to 1974 Renate Blume was married to the director Frank Beyer . From 1974 to 1976 she lived with the actor Gojko Mitić . From 1981 until his death in 1986 she was married to the American actor and singer Dean Reed, who had moved to the GDR . Blume and Beyer's son, Alexander, was adopted by Dean Reed.

From the 1990s onwards, the theater became increasingly important again in Renate Blume's life: she was on tour with the plays The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller , guested at the State Theaters of Saxony in The Death and the Girl and at the Theaterkahn Dresden , played at the Theater am Dom in Cologne, in the small comedy at Max II in Munich, at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm , at the Winterhuder Fährhaus in Hamburg, at the Störtebeker Festival in Ralswiek on the island of Rügen and at the Theater an der Kö in Düsseldorf.

At the Berlin Kriminal Theater she played under the direction of Kaspar Eichel in the crime play Mord um Mord by Wolfgang Binder and in murder games as well as in the thriller " Two Strangers on a Train " by Patricia Highsmith (director: Wolfgang Rumpf ). In 2009, she starred in Joseph Kesselring's crime comedy “ Arsenic and lace cap ” alongside Vera Müller in one of the two leading roles.

From 2005 to 2008 Renate Blume was part of the ensemble of the ZDF television series Five Stars in 24 episodes . In 2011 she played together with Wolfgang Winkler as Alfred Ill "The Lady" in Dürrenmatt's "The Visit of the Old Lady" with the theater ensemble Klassik am Meer.

Blume lives in Berlin.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Awards

  • 1982: Lenin Prize for Literature, Art and Architecture for the television film "Karl Marx - The Young Years"

literature

Web links

Commons : Renate Blume  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see http://www.berliner-schauspielschule.de/blume_plathe.htm
  2. ^ Frank-Burkhard Habel , Volker Wachter : The great lexicon of the GDR stars. The actors from film and television. Extended new edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89602-391-8 .
  3. ↑ http://www.defa-sternstunden.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=200&Itemid=4
personal data
SURNAME Blume, Renate
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blume-Reed, Renate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Wildungen , German Empire