Thomas Thieme
Thomas Thieme (born October 29, 1948 in Weimar ) is a German actor .
life and work
Thieme completed his acting training at the State Drama School in East Berlin . This was followed by engagements at the Magdeburg Theater and the Theater in Halle . In 1981, Thieme submitted an application to leave Germany for West Germany , which, despite a lot of harassment, enabled him to leave the GDR in 1984 with “legal departure”.
From 1984 to 1990 he worked at the Schauspiel Frankfurt , where he played in plays such as Die Mutter , Edward II. By Christopher Marlowe and König Lear , followed by a three-year engagement at the Burgtheater in Vienna , where he worked in various productions such as Brechts Baal participated. From 1993 to 1997 he was part of the Schaubühne ensemble on Lehniner Platz in Berlin. In 1998 he moved back to Vienna and played Edward II in the "Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz " under the direction of Claus Peymann . In that year he also played Götz von Berlichingen at the Jagsthausen Castle Festival . A year later he went to the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, where he played Richard III. in the play battles! was named Actor of the Year in 2000 . He played the title role in Faust I at the German National Theater in Weimar . In the 2002/03 season he directed Brechts Baal with Ben Becker as the main actor and in 2004/05 Margaretha.Eddy.Dirty Rich by Tom Lanoye and Luk Perceval with Jimmy Hartwig and Hans-Peter Minetti . In 2006 he played the character of Minister Bruno Hempf in Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's The Lives of Others . The film won, among other things, the Oscar for best foreign language film .
Thieme played in numerous television productions and films. He also appeared in various series, including in Tatort , Wolffs Revier and Balko . In the ZDF film The Man from the Palatinate , he played Helmut Kohl during the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 .
From 2009 to 2011 the painter Harald Reiner Gratz portrayed Thomas Thieme over 70 times as part of a long-term observation. The Klassik Stiftung Weimar showed a selection of these portraits in an exhibition at the Neues Museum Weimar in spring 2012.
In 2012 he worked as a narrator in the radio play Ulysses based on James Joyce , the longest radio play by Südwestrundfunk with a running time of over 22 hours and one of the most elaborate radio play productions by ARD .
Since its premiere at the Augsburg Brecht Festival 2013 Thomas Thieme is a solo version of Bertolt Brecht Baal on tour. In a version edited and staged by Julia von Sell, Thieme performs all the parts of the piece in addition to the chants and is accompanied on the bass guitar by his son Arthur Thieme. For Bertolt Brecht's 120th birthday, this production was produced in a radio play version by MDR Kultur in 2018 .
Filmography (selection)
- 1973: Education before Verdun (TV film)
- 1974: Polizeiruf 110 - Night Taxi (TV series)
- 1975: Lotte in Weimar
- 1976: Allow me, Johannes Conrad!
- 1977: The Two Night Walkers or The Necessary and the Superfluous
- 1977: The famous comedy by the beau Castrucho
- 1978: The powdered man in the colorful skirt or Musjöh lives dangerously
- 1978: The Necromancer or The Forced Innocence
- 1980: January (theater recording)
- 1980: Mother is not allowed to work (TV play)
- 1980: Tricked twice
- 1982: my father is a thief
- 1988-2015: A Case for Two (TV series, various roles, 13 episodes)
- 1994: Lemgo
- 1994: The Phantom - The Hunt for Dagobert
- 1996: The Gate of Fire
- 1997: Tatort - Welcome to Cologne (TV series)
- 1999: Fat world
- 1999: waiting is death
- 2000: Tatort - According to its own laws
- 2001: Taking Sides - The Furtwängler Case
- 2002: crime scene - treason
- 2003: egg thieves
- 2004: The downfall
- 2005: My Sister's Father (TV Movie)
- 2005: Tatort - Requiem
- 2006: The Lives of Others
- 2007: The Mysterious Treasure of Troy (TV movie)
- 2007: Duel in the Night (TV movie)
- 2008: The Baader Meinhof complex
- 2009: Effi Briest
- 2009: Krupp - A German Family (three-part television series)
- 2009: The man from the Palatinate (TV movie)
- 2009: the door
- 2009: Dear Wall
- 2009: Darling, wake the chickens (TV movie)
- 2009: men's business
- 2009: Berlin 36
- 2009: A village sees murder
- 2009: Murderer on Amrum (TV movie)
- 2009–2013: Rosa Roth (TV series) → see episode list
- 2010: last moment
- 2010: Tatort - Forgotten Memory
- 2010: Aghet - A Genocide
- 2011: The really big dream
- 2011: Who if not us
- 2011: Hotel Lux
- 2011: bastard
- 2011: Tatort - The Village
- 2011-2014: Finn Zehender (TV series)
- 2011: Murderous wasp nest
- 2012: Death of a carrier pigeon
- 2012: Murderous Hunt
- 2014: Murder in Aschberg
- 2012: Yesterday we were strangers
- 2012: Rommel
- 2012: A Strong Team - One Dead Too Many (TV series)
- 2013: The Adlon. A family saga (three-part television series)
- 2013: Robin Hood
- 2013: A big heart - fateful years for a German family
- 2013: The Dead in the Watt (TV movie)
- 2013: the last word
- 2013: In a Wild Land (TV movie)
- 2014: Glückskind (TV movie)
- 2014: We were kings
- 2014: Particular Severity of Guilt (TV movie)
- 2014: The cold heart
- 2015: Tatort - The Indian
- 2015: The ice skater
- 2015: Uli Hoeneß - The Patriarch (TV movie)
- 2015: he's back
- 2015: The White Ethiopian (TV movie)
- 2016: The City and Power (six-part television series)
- 2016: Fritz Lang - The other in us
- 2016: Temple (6-part television series)
- 2016: Scouts of Peace
- 2017: Welcome to the Honeckers (TV movie)
- 2017: Babylon Berlin (TV series)
- 2017: The Nameless Day (TV movie)
- 2017: North North Murder - Clüver and the King of Sylt (TV series)
- 2018: The Borgward Affair (TV movie)
- 2018: Perfume (TV series)
- 2019: Freedom Prize (three-part television series)
- 2020: Unterleuten - The torn village
Radio plays (selection)
- 1994: Peter Mohr : To the last instance (Arbogast) - Director: Holger Rink (radio play - ORB )
- 1996: Andres Nyman : The Mushroom Pickers ( MDR )
- 1997: Alexandre Dumas the Elder : The Count of Monte Cristo (MDR)
- 1998: Michail Bulgakow : The Master and Margarita (Master) - Director: Petra Meyenburg (radio play, 30 parts - MDR)
- 2000: Damon Runyon : Butch takes care of the baby (Butch) - Director: Regine Ahrem (radio play series: Schwere Jungs und Licht Mädchen , Nr .: 1 - SFB / ORB )
- 2000: Damon Runyon: Blood Pressure (Earthquake) - Director: Regine Ahrem (radio play series: Schwere Jungs und Leicht Mädchen, No .: 3 - SFB / ORB)
- 2001: Józef Ignacy Kraszewski : Countess Cosel (August the Strong) - Director: Walter Niklaus (radio play, 5 parts - MDR)
- 2003: Jean-Claude Izzo : Chourmo - Director: Ulrich Gerhardt (detective radio play - DLR Berlin)
- 2003: Albert Wendt : The tenderly winged steamroller (children's radio play - MDR)
- 2009: Torsten Enders: Bach's Reiche ( MDR Figaro )
- 2010: Hugo Rendler : Finkbeiner's birthday . ( Radio-Tatort - SWR )
- 2013: Mario Göpfert : Never Wake Up a Schrat (based on the book of the same name by Wieland Freund ) - Director: Klaus-Michael Klingsporn (children's radio play - DKultur )
- 2014: Steffen Thiemann : Sandbag - Director: Thomas Wolfertz (radio play - MDR)
- 2014: Ingo Schulze : The "Germany Device" - Director: Stefan Kanis (MDR Figaro)
- 2015: Petros Markaris : Sokrates sends greetings - Director: Christoph Dietrich (crime radio play - DKultur)
- 2015: Walter Niklaus : Dead Safe - Director: Walter Niklaus (detective radio play - MDR Figaro; online )
- 2015: John Burnside : Der Baucan - Director: Klaus Buhlert (SWR2 radio play studio)
- 2018: Bertolt Brecht : Baal - Editing: Julia von Sell, Music: Arthur Thieme, Direction: Matthias Thalheim (MDR KULTUR)
Readings (selection)
- 1998: Johann Gottfried Seume : Walk to Syracuse in 1802 - MDR culture
- 1999: Volker Braun : The unfinished story (together with Volker Braun) - MDR culture
- 2009: Gertrud and Einar Schleef : Correspondence I (together with Jutta Hoffmann ) - MDR Figaro
- 2011: Gertrud and Einar Schleef : Briefwechsel II (together with Jutta Hoffmann ) - MDR Figaro
- 2013: Erich Loest : Monument to the Battle of the Nations - MDR Figaro
- 2015: Winston S. Churchill : The Second World War - MDR Figaro
- 2015: Klaus Renft : Arming the Nightingale - Diaries 1968–1997 - MDR Figaro
- 2017: Wolfgang Hilbig : The provisional - MDR culture
- 2018: Mark Twain : The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - MDR Culture
Audio books
- A walk to Syracuse in 1802 by Johann Gottfried Seume , unabridged reading, director: Veronika Hübner, 429 min., MDR 1998 / Der Audio Verlag 2015, ISBN 9783862315727 .
- Arming the Nightingale - Diaries 1968–1997 by Klaus Renft , director: Matthias Thalheim, 132 min., MDR KULTUR / Buschfunk-Verlag 2016, ISBN 9783944058702
Awards
- 1965: Gold medal for outstanding folk art
- 2000: Actor of the Year for Richard III. in battles! at the Hamburger Schauspielhaus under the direction of Luk Perceval
- 2007: Order of the Faust of the Craftsmen Carnevalsverein Weimar
- 2013: Hessian TV Award as Best Actor for his role in The Last Word
- 2014: Golden Camera for Best Actor
- 2017: 1st Goldegger Chamber Actor
- 2020: Askania Award for life's work
Quotes
"I didn't run away from repression, but from the population."
“What made life in the GDR unbearable for me was not so much Honecker and Mielke as the general conditions. It was musty, greasy, cowardly in the GDR. Pure self-censorship! And whoever wanted out was shot! "
literature
- Frank Quilitzsch: Thomas Thieme - I Faust: Conversations . Verlag Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-940737-15-1 .
- Iris Berben, Bernd Kauffmann, Rolf Luhn, Frank Quilitzsch: Player. Harald Reiner Gratz observes Thomas Thieme . Kerber Verlag, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-866786-71-4
- Thomas Thieme, Frank Quilitzsch: I Hoeneß Kohl: Conversations with Frank Quilitzsch. With an extension by Günter Netzer , Klartext Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3837519594
Web links
- Thomas Thieme in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Agency entry
Individual evidence
- ↑ Performance dates Margaretha.Eddy.Dirty Rich ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Player . Harald Reiner Gratz observes Thomas Thieme. Flyer of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar for the exhibition in the Neues Museum Weimar, accessed on February 9, 2012 (PDF; 752 kB)
- ↑ Excessively good - Baal in the radio play , Stefan Fischer in the Süddeutsche Zeitung of February 5, 2018, page 23
- ↑ Thomas Thieme reads "Huckleberry Finns Adventure". MDR Kultur, accessed on December 1, 2018 (reading October 22 to November 9, 2018).
- ↑ Disturbances 2017 "Triangular Relationships". In: Lake Side Laze. October 12, 2017, accessed on May 5, 2020 (German).
- ↑ ASKANIA AG - Film art and ASKANIA combined in the ASKANIA Award. In: My website. Accessed April 29, 2020 (German).
- ↑ cf. http://www.berliner-schauspielschule.de/thieme_nd.htm
- ↑ Thomas Thieme: Why I no longer wanted to live in the GDR
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Thieme, Thomas |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater and film actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 29, 1948 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Weimar |