Ulrich Wesselmann

Ulrich Wesselmann (* 1960 ; † November 1993 ) was a German theater and film actor.

life and career

As a 20-year-old student at the Bochum drama school , Wesselmann was cast in 1980/81 by Thomas Brasch for the leading role Werner Gladow in his black and white film Engel aus Eisen for ZDF , which was awarded the Bavarian Film Prize . He was recognized in the reviews of the film in Spiegel und Theater heute .

Engagements at the Schauspielhaus Bochum and the Burgtheater Vienna - under the management of Claus Peymann - as well as at the Berlin Schaubühne , resulted in the collaboration with the directors Alfred Kirchner , Manfred Karge , Matthias Langhoff , Andrea Breth , Jürgen Gosch u. a.

Wesselmann played a. a. in The robbers of Schiller , Robert Guiscard ( Kleist ), The Winter's Tale ( Shakespeare ), Weekend in Paradise ( Arnold and Bach ), Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and The Mother ( Brecht ), John Lennon , Class Enemy by Nigel Williams , Still Ronny by Heinrich Henkel , The Art of Comedy by Eduardo De Filippo , Ödypus, Tyrann von Hölderlin / Heiner Müller , The resilient rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht , A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare and Elvis & John by Uwe Jens Jensen / Hansgeorg Koch (music: Thomas Rabitsch ) and Trio in E flat major by Éric Rohmer . He has also given readings and directed.

Since the late 1980s, Wesselmann was also often cast in television productions and series. His last appearances were in the role of Felix in September 1993 in Arthur Schnitzler's Der einsame Weg . He committed suicide in November 1993.

Roles in film, television and theatrical recordings

Engel aus Eisen (written and directed by Thomas Brasch, 1981) as Gladow
The Hermann Battleafter Heinrich von Kleist (director: Claus Peymann, 1984) as Luitgar
Bang! You are dead! (1987) as a young hotel doorman
The Train (with Ben Kingsley , directed by Damiano Damiani , 1988)
Vera and Babs (Director: Peter Adam , 1989) as Jürgen
The lonely path (film based on Arthur Schnitzler's drama, based on the production by Andrea Breth at the Berlin Schaubühne, 1991) as Felix
A special couple (with Gila von Weitershausen and Susanne Evers , director: Helmut Förnbacher , 1992) as Ingo Friedrichsen
Darn Passion (with Iris Berben , Director: Carlo Rola , 1992) as Felix
Happy Birthday, Turk! (Director: Doris Dörrie , 1991) as assistant Harry Eiler
Wolffs Revier (TV series, director: Christine Wiegand , 1993) as Martin Lübke
Last thoughts before buying a lemon (based on a story by Robert Wolfgang Schnell ), director: Ulrich Wesselmann, 7 min, 16mm, b / w (1991)

Web links

Ulrich Wesselmann in the Internet Movie Database (English)

literature

Hermann Beil , Uwe Jens Jensen, Claus Peymann (eds.): The Bochumer Ensemble. A German city theater 1979-1986 . Königstein: Athenaeum 1986. (Various images in all Bochum roles).
Claus Peymann, Hermann Beil a. a. (Ed.): World Comedy Austria 13 Years Burgtheater . Volume I (pictures), Volume II (chronicle). Vienna 1999. (5 illustrations and list of roles Vienna).

Individual evidence

↑ Only the following information can be used for the life data: "Ulrich Wesselmann, a highly talented Berlin actor, committed suicide at the age of 33 according to a press release from November 1993. [… He] was brought to the Schaubühne, where he last played Felix in the Schnitzler drama Der einsame Weg in September 1993. “In: Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch , 1995, p. 780. The Internet Movie Database gives his death age at 32 and the year of birth 1960. The taz Hamburg , p. 19, announced a conversation with Anne Bennent , Wesselmann and Wolfgang Engel on November 23, 1993 .
↑ Information about the Bochum drama student Wesselmann in Engel aus Eisen .
↑ At the time of the Berlin Airlift , seventeen-year-old Werner Gladow (Ulrich Wesselmann) built up a gang of gangsters. When he accepts the former executioner Wölpel ( Hilmar Thate ) into his gang, a strange relationship develops between the two.
↑ Berlin Ballad . In: Der Spiegel . No. 18 , 1981, p. 218 ( online ). Quotation: "Brasch's Gladow, barely shiny gangster boss, is a slim, pale, dismissive, taciturn boy (Ulrich Wesselmann), and Brasch's story is that of the hateful complicity that connects the chaste childish killer Gladow with the filthy executioner Völpel: a dark companionship." Peter von Becker wrote in Theater heute : “Otherwise there is no humor. You can see that in Werner Gladow. Ulrich Wesselmann plays him with a mixture of boyish lankiness in his movements and a precocious, beastly seriousness facing him. This person would actually have a nicely open, rather soft boyish face, but his purity, which in older language can be described with attributes such as fresh and clean, is that of the puritan and rigorist. A gentle fanaticism works in the blond boy, who persistently pursues the rise from leisure pickpocket to gang leader and big robber - never laughing, at best from a noncommittal friendliness: a merciless and fish-blooded being. "In: Theater heute , June 1981, p. 27f. Ulrich Greiner also gives a detailed description: When Berlin was Chicago . In: Die Zeit , No. 19/1981, p. 40.
↑ "Ulrich Wesselmann plays Miss Amalia von Edelreich. Of course, this will also be a parody: how the boy in a girl's dress suffers and pays for him, as he pointedly says 'itzt', recently lowers his eyes or turns imploringly to the sky. A joke that, astonishingly, does not destroy the touching character of the figure, but rather brings it to light. ” Schiller child . In: Die Zeit , No. 26/1984, p. 42.
↑ Wesselmann played the German premiere of the two-person play directed by Jürgen Gosch with Angela Schanelec . Rolf Michaelis: Trio of four . In: Die Zeit , No. 20/1989, p. 76.
↑ Numerous role models can be found in the documentation of the Bochumer Ensemble (1986, see bibliography), pp. 50, 52f. 140, 166, 216, 261, 273f., 467.
^ "Johanna's brother Felix (Ulrich Wesselmann) is a pale, deadly serious German youth. He is still rebelling against doom, lashing out, striking. But he will certainly not find 'happiness' - rather a beautiful heroic death, on marble cliffs. ”Benjamin Henrichs: Fire in your hair, water in your mouth . In: Die Zeit , No. 42/1991, p. 66.

personal data
SURNAME	Wesselmann, Ulrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wesselmann, Ullrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German theater and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH	1960
DATE OF DEATH	November 1993

[1] Only the following information can be used for the life data: "Ulrich Wesselmann, a highly talented Berlin actor, committed suicide at the age of 33 according to a press release from November 1993. [… He] was brought to the Schaubühne, where he last played Felix in the Schnitzler drama Der einsame Weg in September 1993. “In: Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch , 1995, p. 780. The Internet Movie Database gives his death age at 32 and the year of birth 1960. The taz Hamburg , p. 19, announced a conversation with Anne Bennent , Wesselmann and Wolfgang Engel on November 23, 1993 .

[2] Information about the Bochum drama student Wesselmann in Engel aus Eisen .

[3] At the time of the Berlin Airlift , seventeen-year-old Werner Gladow (Ulrich Wesselmann) built up a gang of gangsters. When he accepts the former executioner Wölpel ( Hilmar Thate ) into his gang, a strange relationship develops between the two.

[4] Berlin Ballad . In: Der Spiegel . No. 18 , 1981, p. 218 ( online ). Quotation: "Brasch's Gladow, barely shiny gangster boss, is a slim, pale, dismissive, taciturn boy (Ulrich Wesselmann), and Brasch's story is that of the hateful complicity that connects the chaste childish killer Gladow with the filthy executioner Völpel: a dark companionship." Peter von Becker wrote in Theater heute : “Otherwise there is no humor. You can see that in Werner Gladow. Ulrich Wesselmann plays him with a mixture of boyish lankiness in his movements and a precocious, beastly seriousness facing him. This person would actually have a nicely open, rather soft boyish face, but his purity, which in older language can be described with attributes such as fresh and clean, is that of the puritan and rigorist. A gentle fanaticism works in the blond boy, who persistently pursues the rise from leisure pickpocket to gang leader and big robber - never laughing, at best from a noncommittal friendliness: a merciless and fish-blooded being. "In: Theater heute , June 1981, p. 27f. Ulrich Greiner also gives a detailed description: When Berlin was Chicago . In: Die Zeit , No. 19/1981, p. 40.

[5] "Ulrich Wesselmann plays Miss Amalia von Edelreich. Of course, this will also be a parody: how the boy in a girl's dress suffers and pays for him, as he pointedly says 'itzt', recently lowers his eyes or turns imploringly to the sky. A joke that, astonishingly, does not destroy the touching character of the figure, but rather brings it to light. ” Schiller child . In: Die Zeit , No. 26/1984, p. 42.

[6] Wesselmann played the German premiere of the two-person play directed by Jürgen Gosch with Angela Schanelec . Rolf Michaelis: Trio of four . In: Die Zeit , No. 20/1989, p. 76.

[7] Numerous role models can be found in the documentation of the Bochumer Ensemble (1986, see bibliography), pp. 50, 52f. 140, 166, 216, 261, 273f., 467.

[8] "Johanna's brother Felix (Ulrich Wesselmann) is a pale, deadly serious German youth. He is still rebelling against doom, lashing out, striking. But he will certainly not find 'happiness' - rather a beautiful heroic death, on marble cliffs. ”Benjamin Henrichs: Fire in your hair, water in your mouth . In: Die Zeit , No. 42/1991, p. 66.