Rudolf Waldemar Brem

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Rudolf Waldemar Brem (born November 29, 1948 in Munich ; † March 17, 2016 there ) was a German film and theater actor who also worked as a co-producer in the film sector .

Life

Rudolf Waldemar Brem attended the Rupprecht Gymnasium in Munich and graduated from high school there. He then studied German and theater studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . From 1969 to 1971 he studied acting at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich.

Action theater and antiteater

Even before studying acting, he came into contact with the Munich Action Theater in 1967 through an interview for the school newspaper . It was founded as a counter-model to the state theater and was known in school circles as revolutionary and unconventional. Most of the actors also lived in the theater. Brem saw Antigone . The theater appealed to him and he asked an actor if he could take part. That same evening he played on stage for the first time. The play was Leonce and Lena .

The actor was Rainer Werner Fassbinder . The 18-year-old Brem made friends with the 21-year-old Fassbinder. The other actors were: Peer Raben , Doris Mattes , Hanna Schygulla , Irm Hermann , Kurt Raab , Hans Hirschmüller , Ingrid Caven , Harry Baer and Jörg Schmitt. He received Brems's first major role in 1968 at the Action Theater in Fassbinder's successful play Katzelmacher , directed by Fassbinder and Peer Raben. Also under Fassbinder's direction, he played in Die Verbrecher , For example Ingolstadt , Axel Caesar Haarmann .

When the action theater dissolved, Fassbinder and Brem and other actors from the action theater founded the antiteater in May 1968 , which also worked on Fassbinder's films. Brem played Fassbinder's pieces Mockinpott , Orgie Ubuh and Ajax with the antiteater .

When Fassbinder went to the Frankfurt Theater am Turm in 1974 , Brem did not follow him. He initially stayed in Munich and married there. Then his son Alexander Brem was born, who became a voice actor and director.

Bremen theater

For a while Brem played with Kurt Huebner at the Bremen theater , which was also known for unconventional and progressive plays. There his path crossed again with Fassbinder, who staged three plays at the Bremen Schauspielhaus in 1970 and 1971.

Further theater engagements

Brem also played under Horst Zankl and Claus Peymann at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg , and briefly under Peter Zadek at the Schauspielhaus Bochum . Afterwards Brem belonged to the ensemble of the Münchner Volkstheater , in which he worked first under Ruth Drexel and then under the direction of Christian Stückl .

In 2001, Brem moved to the ensemble of the Bavarian State Theater . He took part in productions by Elmar Goerden (2001 to 2004), Thomas Langhoff (2003 and 2005) and Dieter Dorn (2001 to 2011).

In 2007 Brem was engaged for the first time at the Luisenburg Festival in Wunsiedel . He played Die Bernauerin and in The 3 Musketeers . On July 5, 2007, he was critically injured in a bicycle accident. After a break of several years he took on roles again in Tannöd (2010), Holledauer Schimmel (2011), Blues Brothers - In the Name of the Lord (2011/2012), in Romeo and Juliet and in Wast - Wohin? (2012).

In the program from May to August 2013 he had roles in The Consecration of the Flag and A Week of Saturdays .

Participation in films

Rudolf Waldemar Brem played in eleven films directed and written by Fassbinder from 1969 to 1974. He also worked in the film adaptation of Brechts Baal by Volker Schlöndorff (1970), as well as several times in feature films directed by Ulli Lommel , whom he knew from his collaboration with Fassbinder. For example in Lommel's first feature film Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe (1971), as well as later in September Song (2001, also known as Boots ), Zodiac-Killer (2005) and in Daniel the Magician (2004), in which he in a leading role and as a co-producer. He was again a co-producer in Lommel's Absolute Evil (2009).

In addition to his roles in many feature films, Brem was also an actor in numerous television films and several series, including Tatort , Lindenstrasse , Munich Stories , Alles Atze , most recently in Die Bergretter . In 1977 he co-produced thirteen episodes of the television series It Doesn't Always Have to Be Caviar .

In 2002, Brem took part in Robert Fischer's documentary Fassbinder in Hollywood , for which Fischer and Lommel wrote the script. In 2011, Brem worked in the documentary Jannat 'Ali (Ali in Paradise) by the German-Egyptian Viola Shafik , in which the life of the Maghrebian El Hedi ben Salem and his relationship with Fassbinder (1971 to 1973) are traced. Brem married his longtime partner in 2014, the costume designer Helga Marr.

In early 2015, Brem was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer while filming Trash Detective . He died of complications from his illness in March 2016 at the age of 67. Brem was buried in Munich in the Obermenzing cemetery.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Rudolf Waldemar Brem. In: deutsches-filmhaus.de. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c Rudolf Waldemar Brem: Fassbinder's mascot. In: Abendzeitung-muenchen.de. Münchener Abendzeitung , January 26, 2011, accessed on March 20, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b Description of the program, Give me my heart back , reading by Rudolf Waldemar Brem, Fassbinderage, Rationaltheater, Munich, November 21, 2009, accessed on January 29, 2013.
  4. ↑ a b c Rudolf Waldemar Brem and Hans Hirschmüller as guests - Finnisage of the RWF exhibition in the Munich Theater Museum.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: FassbinderFoundation.de. September 3, 2012, accessed January 29, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.fassbinderfoundation.de  
  5. ^ Rudolf Waldemar Brem was admitted to the clinic seriously injured after a bicycle fall. In: deutsches-filmhaus.de. Retrieved March 19, 2016.
  6. ^ Rudolf Waldemar Brem. In: luisenburg-aktuell.de. 2013, accessed March 20, 2016.
  7. ↑ a b Rudolf Waldemar Brem. In: Internet Movie Database .
  8. ^ Fassbinder in Hollywood. In: imdb.com. Internet Movie Database , accessed June 10, 2015 .
  9. ^ Jannat 'Ali / Ali in Paradise at Filmportal.de
  10. ↑ Jannat 'Ali. Internet Movie Database , accessed June 10, 2015 .
  11. ^ Final round of life: Rudolf W. Brem has lung cancer. In: tz.de. Retrieved March 19, 2016
  12. ↑ Uwe Bogen: A great mime wants to give up "able". In: stuttgarter-nachrichten.de. February 17, 2015, accessed March 19, 2016.
  13. ↑ Actor Rudolf Waldemar Brem is dead- In: focus.de. March 18, 2016, accessed March 19, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Brem, Rudolf Waldemar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich , Bavaria , Germany
DATE OF DEATH 17th March 2016
Place of death Munich , Bavaria , Germany