Ulli Lommel

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Ulli Lommel (2007)

Ulrich Manfred "Ulli" Lommel (born December 21, 1944 in Zielenzig ; † December 2, 2017 in Stuttgart ) was a German actor , director , screenwriter and film producer . His siblings are the actress Ruth Lommel and the cameraman Manuel Lommel .

Life

The grave of Ulli Lommel

With his father, the actor and entertainer Ludwig Manfred Lommel , and his mother, the actress Karla von Cleef, Ulli Lommel was already on stage at the age of four. Since his parents were often on tour and moved every three years, he attended 12 schools up to Obersekunda . In 1960 he received a scholarship from the UFA junior school in Berlin. There he made his debut at the Renaissance theater in 1961 .

Lommel soon received television roles and in 1962 played a small role alongside Maria Schell and Paul Hubschmid in Alfred Weidenmann's comedy in I am also just a woman . He embodied the role of a young lover in the literary adaptation of The Great Love Game (1963) with Hildegard Knef and Walter Giller in the leading roles, again directed by Weidenmann, a romantic youth alongside Miriam Hopkins in Russ Meyer's Hollywood erotic comedy Fanny Hill (1964) and a young criminal in the crime film Maigret and his biggest case (1966) with Heinz Rühmann , on which he worked again with Weidenmann.

In 1967 Lommel went to Munich and played in the Kleine Komödie . He got to know directors of the New German Film, which was in its early stages at the time, such as Peter Schamoni , Rudolf Thome and Robert van Ackeren . He played the leading roles in Thome's film drama Detective (1968) with Iris Berben and Schamoni's literary adaptation, Deine Zärtätze, at the side of Doris Kunstmann and Bernhard Wicki . Then he met Rainer Werner Fassbinder , with whom he worked on 21 productions between 1969 and 1977.

Fassbinder gave him the lead role of the elegant and ice-cold gangster angel Bruno Straub in his first full-length feature film Love is Colder than Death (1969). Hanna Schygulla and Fassbinder took on the other two main roles. In the same year Lommel founded his production company Atlantis-Film in Munich, with which he participated in Fassbinder's Eurowestern Whity . A year earlier, during the filming of Peter Schamoni's Your Tenderness , Lommel met the cameraman Michael Ballhaus and suggested Fassbinder hire Ballhaus as cameraman. From that day on, Ballhaus and Fassbinder were almost inseparable and made 16 films together until Ballhaus went to Hollywood in 1981 and made a world career. Lommel now decided to work as a writer and director as well. But it was not until the crime film Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe (1973), in which Kurt Raab played the boy murderer Fritz Haarmann , that he was able to show a much-discussed cinema success that brought him to Paris two years later, where the film was in the cinema for over a year ran.

Before Lommel moved to America in 1977, he shot the film drama Wachtmeister Rahn (1974) about a police officer as a killer, the film comedy Jodeln is ka Sünd (1974), a rather atypical lederhosen film, and the erotic film The Second Spring (1975) with Curd Jürgens and Eddie Constantine . The film comedy Adolf and Marlene (1977) speculated about the relationship between Hitler and Marlene Dietrich and could only be performed after an objection by Dietrich's lawyers.

Lommel (left) with Andy Warhol on the set of the 1979 film Cocaine Cowboys

In 1977 Lommel met Andy Warhol in the USA, who had guest appearances in the musical drama Blank Generation (1978, with Richard Hell and Carole Bouquet ) and in the crime drama Cocaine Cowboys (1979, with Jack Palance ). With Warhol he created various Polaroid collages, which were exhibited in January 2010 in the gallery of the Aurora-Bar on Beethovenplatz in Munich. After the success of his horror film The Boogey Man (1980), he stayed in America and has lived in the Hollywood Hills ever since . He made 43 films, mostly horror thrillers, adventure and war films. With his action film Warbirds (1988) he copied the blockbuster Top Gun . Lommel also filmed in the US with John Carradine ( The Boogey Man , 1980), Tony Curtis , Vera Miles and Keir Dullea ( BrainWaves , 1982), Donald Pleasence ( The Devonsville Terror , 1983) and David Carradine ( Absolute Evil , 2008). The collaboration with Klaus Kinski in the fantasy film Diamant des Grauens (1984) turned out to be difficult. With Robert Fischer (* 1954) he produced the documentary Fassbinder in Hollywood (2002).

In 2004, the semi-documentary music film Daniel the Magician , produced by Peter Schamoni , was released , for which he - surprisingly for many - wrote and directed the screenplay and for which he also slipped into the role of the magician. In December 2009, the Werkstattkino and the City of Munich organized a 14-day retrospective of his films. In January 2010, Belleville Verlag published Lommel's memoir, Tenderness of the Wolves - Encounters . In the summer of 2013 Lommel went to Brazil for nine months to work on various projects. He finished filming his bio-epic Mondo Americana , wrote a book and also made a film about Campo Bahia , the official camp of the German national soccer team in Brazil. In 2016 he began working on the Boogeyman Chronicles series .

In the summer of 2015, Lommel's book about his time with Andy Warhol was published under the title "Factory Made". As part of the film festival, the restored film versions of Blank Generation and Cocaine Cowboys , which Lommel had produced together with Warhol in New York at the end of the 1970s, were shown. Lommel most recently worked on a film adaptation of his three years with Warhol under the title The Factory: Working with Warhol .

Ulli Lommel was married to the actress Katrin Schaake for the first time . In the 1970s, he met Anna Karina know, the ex-wife of Jean-Luc Godard , with whom he lived for three years and turning three films: the comedy Going Bananas and Once Upon a Time and Fassbinder's drama Chinese Roulette . In 1979 he married the Mobil Oil heiress Suzanna Love , who played the leading role in most of his American films until the separation in 1984 (divorce in 1987). Since 2016 he was married to the German actress Tatjana Paige Müller , who starred in his films from 2015.

Lommel died on December 2, 2017 at the age of 72 from complications from a heart attack . He found his final resting place in the Berlin cemetery Zehlendorf (grave location 001-495).

Filmography

actor

Director

  • 1971: Eddie goes on (Haytabo)
  • 1973: The tenderness of wolves
  • 1974: Wachtmeister Rahn (also screenplay)
  • 1974: Yodelling is not a sin (also screenplay)
  • 1975: The Second Spring (also screenplay)
  • 1977: Adolf and Marlene (also script and performance)
  • 1977: Bananas of all things (also script and performance)
  • 1978: Blank Generation (also screenplay)
  • 1979: Cocaine Cowboys
  • 1980: The Boogey Man (also screenplay and production)
  • 1983: Olivia - In the bloodlust of madness
  • 1983: Boogeyman II (also actor and production)
  • 1983: Brain Check - The other me (Brainwaves)
  • 1983: Dance of the Witches (The Devonsville Terror)
  • 1984: Strangers in Paradise
  • 1985: Diamant des Grauens (Revenge of the Stolen Stars) (also screenplay and performance)
  • 1985: IFO - Air Racing (IFO)
  • 1986: Overkill
  • 1987: Heaven and Earth
  • 1989: War Birds (also involved in the script)
  • 1989: Cold Heat
  • 1991: Thunder Drive - Vanishing Point Los Angeles (The Big Sweat)
  • 1991: A Smile in the Dark
  • 1992: Mid season (also actor)
  • 1994: Marilyn, My Love
  • 1994: Return Of The Boogeyman
  • 1995: Star Witness
  • 1996: Every Minute Is Goodbye
  • 1996: Eva Braun - Hitler's lover
  • 1996: Lethal Orbit
  • 1997: Alien X Factor
  • 1998: Bloodsuckers
  • 2000: Danny and Max
  • 2002: September Song
  • 2004: Daniel the magician
  • 2005: Zodiac Killer
  • 2005: Zombie Nation
  • 2005: BTK Killer
  • 2005: Green River Killer
  • 2005: Killer Pickton
  • 2006: Diary of a Cannibal
  • 2006: Ulli Lommel's Black Dahlia
  • 2006: The Raven
  • 2007: Curse of the Zodiac (also: Zodiac Executioner)
  • 2007: The Tomb
  • 2007: Borderline Cult
  • 2008: Dungeon Girl (also: Blood Dungeon)
  • 2008: Killer Nurse
  • 2008: Baseline Killer
  • 2008: Son of Sam
  • 2009: The Valley Intruder (Nightstalker)
  • 2009: Absolute Evil
  • 2010: DC Sniper
  • 2012: Manson Family Cult
  • 2012: Sunset Blvd.

Radio plays

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulli Lommel and Peter Schamoni on "Daniel". In: mediabiz.de. Mediabiz.de , May 27, 2004, accessed December 11, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Ulli Lommel. Tenderness of wolves. Encounters and stories. In: froelichundkaufmann.de. Retrieved December 11, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Ulli Lommel: "Campo Bahia - Vision or Madness". In: jpc.de. Retrieved December 11, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Ulli Lommel ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ RIP "The Boogey Man" director Ulli Lommel; comments from a collaborator ( Memento from January 5, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Klaus Nerger: The grave of Ulli Lommel. In: knerger.de. Retrieved December 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lommel, Ulli
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lommel, Ullrich; Bessinger, Damin; Bolt, Max; Sondberg, Steven; Van Cleef, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, film director and producer
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Zielenzig , Neumark
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 2017
Place of death Stuttgart