Thomas Thieme

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Thomas Thieme, 2014

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)

Radio plays (selection)

Readings (selection)

Audio books

Awards

Quotes

"I didn't run away from repression, but from the population."

- Thomas Thieme : New Germany interview from 10./11. July 2004 with Hans-Dieter Schütt

“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! "

- Thomas Thieme : Interview with Superillu in June 2006

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuehnpaul.de
  2. ↑ 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)
  3. ↑ Excessively good - Baal in the radio play , Stefan Fischer in the Süddeutsche Zeitung of February 5, 2018, page 23
  4. ↑ Thomas Thieme reads "Huckleberry Finns Adventure". MDR Kultur, accessed on December 1, 2018 (reading October 22 to November 9, 2018).
  5. ↑ Disturbances 2017 "Triangular Relationships". In: Lake Side Laze. October 12, 2017, accessed on May 5, 2020 (German).
  6. ↑ ASKANIA AG - Film art and ASKANIA combined in the ASKANIA Award. In: My website. Accessed April 29, 2020 (German).
  7. ↑ cf. http://www.berliner-schauspielschule.de/thieme_nd.htm
  8. ↑ Thomas Thieme: Why I no longer wanted to live in the GDR
personal data
SURNAME Thieme, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar