Vadim Glowna

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Vadim Glowna (2006)
Vadim Glowna in November 2006 at the Biberach Film Festival
Vadim Glowna in June 2007 in Ludwigshafen
Grave of Vadim Glowna in the forest cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend

Vadim Glowna (born September 26, 1941 in Eutin , Schleswig-Holstein , † January 24, 2012 in Berlin ) was a German actor , director , screenwriter and film producer .

Life

Vadim Glowna was born in the Holstein district town of Eutin in 1941, but grew up as a key child in Hamburg after his parents separated . The Polish surname Glowna comes from his stepfather, who first worked as a captain of a ship and in the post-war period as a pilot for Lufthansa . Family life was not caring as the mother had to run her own flower shop. Vadim therefore broke out several times at a young age by going out on his own for days and staying away without news. He broke off his studies in theology and made his way as a seaman, bellhop, taxi driver, drummer and journalist. An extra job finally gave him the idea of ​​attending an acting school. Then he got a role in 1962/63 in the Christmas fairy tale Once Upon a Time at the Hamburger Schauspielhaus . Glowna was then discovered by theater director Kurt Huebner and promoted at his Bremen theater . In the 1972/73 season he appeared again in three productions in Hamburg, directed by Claus Peymann , Niels-Peter Rudolph and Dieter Giesing .

From the mid-1960s on, Glowna appeared in over 160 cinema and television films, including with Romy Schneider and Claude Chabrol . He made his debut as a director in 1981 with the feature film Desperado City , for which he won an award at the Cannes Film Festival .

In 1980 Glowna founded the production company Atossa-Film with his then wife Vera Chekhova - they were married from 1967 to 1991 . The couple lived for years in the inherited suburban house in Munich - Obermenzing ; and Vadim Glowna adopted Chekhova's son, later the film composer Nikolaus Glowna . In 2000 he took over a professorship for film directing (direction and camera) at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . Vadim Glowna later moved to Berlin.

In November 2006, Glowna's first feature film in fourteen years opened. The house of the sleeping beauties is based on the book The sleeping beauties (German book title) by Yasunari Kawabata . The project was initiated by his friend, the writer Bodo Kirchhoff . Glowna wrote the script, directed, starred and produced the film. In this, Maximilian Schell and Angela Winkler took on other leading roles.

Glowna was a sought-after character actor by outsiders. He was easily recognized by his hoarse, throaty voice.

Vadim Glowna's last project that he wanted to realize as a director and producer (Atossa film) was a film about Che Guevara in Hamburg, Che is alive ... ! based on the script by Volker Führer - Glowna saw it as the final part of his Hamburg trilogy (after Desperado City and Dies rigorose Leben ), a declaration of love for this city.

In September 2006 Ullstein Verlag published Glowna's memoirs under the title The Storyteller - Recollections . Glowna had one of his last appearances in the psychodrama television series Bloch in the episode The Stranger . This episode aired on June 20, 2012 on Das Erste .

Vadim Glowna died in January 2012 at the age of 70 after a brief, serious illness in a Berlin hospital. The actor had suffered from diabetes for years . His grave is on the state's own forest cemetery in Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (grave location: 8-D-18).

Works

As a director (selection)

movie theater

Glowna also wrote the script for almost all of the feature films mentioned.

watch TV

  • 1970: The Commissioner - The murder of Frau Klett (TV series)
  • 1993: Tatort - Bauernopfer (TV series, also screenplay)
  • 1995: A Woman Is Chased (TV Series)
  • 1998: The Snapper - Flowers for the Murderer (TV movie)

In addition, several directorial work for television series such as Peter Strohm (1996), Siska (6 episodes between 1998 and 2008) and Der Alte (18 episodes between 1996 and 2010).

As a performer (selection)

Feature films

Television films

In addition, television series appearances in Der Alte , Ein Fall für Zwei , Rosa Roth , Die Männer vom K3 , Der last Zeuge (bitter in the finish) , Polizeiruf 110 , Nachtschicht and ( Nachtschicht - death in the supermarket ) .

Radio plays and audio books (as a speaker)

Books

Awards

Web links

Commons : Vadim Glowna  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jens Dirksen: Vadim Glowna - the man for the striking outsider is dead. In: DerWesten from January 26, 2012.
  2. ↑ Jürgen Overkott: Vadim Glowna: "John Lennon relaxed my girl". In: DerWesten from January 11, 2009, interview.
  3. ↑ Peter von Becker : Kurt Hübner: The Challenger. In: Tagesspiegel from August 23, 2007.
      Ulrich Seidler: What would Zadek and Stein be without him? The theater director Kurt Huebner died at the age of 90: Bremer Frühling. In: Berliner Zeitung of August 24, 2007.
  4. ↑ Vadim Glowna in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  5. ↑ Peter Luley: On the death of Vadim Glowna. The mild extremist. In: Spiegel online from January 26, 2012: "Vadim Glowna has cultivated the outsider role, which he has interpreted with so much fervor in many films, in his life too."
  6. ^ Berlin mourns Vadim Glowna . In: BZ January 27, 2012. Retrieved November 23, 2019.
  7. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 486. Vadim Glowna. Actor, director . On: http://www.berlin.friedparks.de/ . Retrieved November 23, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Glowna, Vadim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director, screenwriter, film producer
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Eutin , Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 2012
Place of death Berlin