Traugott Buhre

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Traugott Buhre (born June 21, 1929 in Insterburg , East Prussia , † July 26, 2009 in Dortmund ) was a German actor . Buhre was one of the great character actors in German-speaking theater.

life and work

Grave cross for Traugott Buhre at the Lichterfelde cemetery

Buhre was the son of a pastor . His parents divorced when he was a child. After the Second World War he and his mother fled to Lower Saxony in the Lüneburg Heath . There he worked as a servant on a farm. For the entrance exam for actor training, he learned his texts on the tractor while he was working the field. It was then accepted from 120 applicants at the Hanover University of Music and Theater .

Buhre began his theater career at the Franconian Theater , which at that time was still located in Wetzhausen . He was an ensemble member at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe , the Staatstheater Stuttgart , the Schauspielhaus Bochum , the Thalia Theater and the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg , at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz in Berlin , at the Vienna Burgtheater and at the Berliner Ensemble .

He celebrated his great theatrical successes mainly with the directors Claus Peymann and Andrea Breth . The world premiere of Thomas Bernhard's play Der Theatermacher , directed by Peymann, at the Salzburg Festival , where Buhre shone in the parade role of “angry, growling, loving, cursing for hours, thoroughly megalomaniac stage enthusiast” Bruscon shone. The production was then taken over to the Schauspielhaus Bochum and later also to the Burgtheater. The 151st and final performance took place in January 2005 at the Berliner Ensemble.

In Bochum Buhre played the Newtonian in Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Die Physiker . Under Breth's direction, he embodied the leading role in Maxim Gorki's The Last . With this piece he was also invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen . In 2009 he played the Admiral in Thomas Bernhard's play Immanuel Kant in the staging of Matthias Hartmann at the Zurich Schauspielhaus .

He is known to the television audience for his guest appearances in the crime series Derrick and the series Tatort . In 1977 , in the crime scene case Drei Schlingen , he played Hans-Jörg Felmy's opponent, the money transport driver and Hamburg ex-police officer Schiesser. For the main role in Gütt - a journalist he was awarded a special prize by the German Academy of Performing Arts at the Baden-Baden Days of the Television Game in 1992 . In his last film role he played alongside Heino Ferch and Nadja Uhl in 2009 the editor and myth connoisseur Grünwald in the television thriller Die Toten vom Schwarzwald .

Traugott Buhre was considered a very familiar person and was the father of seven children. In 1971, when his first wife tried to kill himself and their three children, one of his daughters was killed. From 1971 Buhre was married to the actress Brigitte Buhre (née Graf) for the second time.

Buhre died on July 26th, 2009 at the age of 80 in Dortmund . He was buried in the Lichterfelde cemetery in Berlin-Steglitz .

Filmography (selection)

Audiobooks (selection)

Radio plays

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Theater: Actor Traugott Buhre died. In: Focus . July 27, 2009.
  2. ↑ a b c Christine Dössel: tender heavyweight. ( Memento of the original from July 31, 2009 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: Süddeutsche Zeitung . July 28, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sueddeutsche.de
  3. ↑ a b Character actor Traugott Buhre is dead. In: Die Presse . July 27, 2009.
  4. ↑ Traugott Buhre - a delicate power pack. In: The world . July 28, 2009, accessed May 23, 2015.
  5. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Traugott Buhre .
personal data
SURNAME Buhre, Traugott
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Insterburg
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 2009
Place of death Dortmund