Volker Spengler

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Volker Spengler (* 16th February 1939 in Bremen , † 8. February 2020 in Berlin ) was a German actor in the theater and in film .

Life

Volker Spengler was a seaman from the age of 14 . At the age of 18 he began an apprenticeship as a businessman . From 1959 to 1961 Spengler studied at the drama school in Salzburg and at the Reinhardt seminar in Vienna .

After a long stay in the USA he worked at the theater in Stuttgart with Heinz Erhardt , in Hamburg with Ida Ehre and in Frankfurt with Fritz Rémond . From 1967 Spengler was engaged at the Schillertheater in Berlin - there he played the role of Caliban in Shakespeare's Storm in 1968 under the direction of Fritz Kortner ; he also worked in Munich and Cologne. At the Schauspiel Frankfurt / Main he took part in the Einar Schleef productions Before Sunrise by Gerhart Hauptmann (1987) and in the world premiere of Schleef's own play The Actors (based on Maxim Gorkis Nachtasyl , 1988). He also worked with Peter Palitzsch in Frankfurt: In the life of Eduard the Second of England by Christopher Marlowe (1988) and as Tarragon in Beckett's Waiting for Godot (1991). The collaboration with Palitzsch continued at the Berliner Ensemble (Shakespeare's Perikles and Brechts Baal , both 1993, Tankred Dorsts Fernando Krapp wrote me this letter and Edward Bond's Ollys prison , both in 1994, Hamm in Beckett's Endspiel , 1995) and at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus (as Gustaf Gründgens in Frank M. Raddatz ' Alles Theater - dedicated to Gustaf Gründgens as well as Beckett's The Last Volume , both 1999). In Düsseldorf, Volker Spengler also played the title role in Brecht's Life of Galilei , directed by Klaus Emmerich, in 2000. Spengler played the role of Giri in Heiner Müller's last production, Brecht's The Rise of Arturo Ui , 1995 at the Berliner Ensemble .

Between 1975 and 1981 Spengler took part in films by director Rainer Werner Fassbinder - initially in supporting roles, later he made his breakthrough as a character actor. He played in films such as Mother Küsters' Drive to Heaven (1975), Satansbraten , Chinese Roulette (both 1976), Bolwieser (1977), The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978), The Third Generation (1979), Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980 ) and The Longing of Veronika Voss (1982). A particularly striking role for Fassbinder was that of the transsexual Elvira Weißhaupt in the film In a Year with 13 Moons (1978). In addition to his work at the theater, Volker Spengler continued to work in film and television in the 1980s. In the film Der Unhold (1996) by Volker Schlöndorff , he played alongside John Malkovich and Gottfried John . He last stood in front of the camera in 2004 for the love drama Kammerflimmern .

From 1993 Spengler was engaged as an actor with the Berliner Ensemble , but also often played with René Pollesch at the Volksbühne Berlin as well as with Christoph Schlingensief .

His long-time partner Bob died on April 20, 1994 of complications from AIDS. Spengler died in February 2020 at the age of 80 in Berlin.

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rüdiger Schaper : Actor Volker Spengler dies: He belonged where there was chaos. In: tagesspiegel.de . February 8, 2020, accessed February 8, 2020 .
  2. ^ Fassbinder actor Volker Spengler has died. In: Deutschlandfunk-Kultur - “Kulturnachrichten”. February 8, 2020, accessed February 8, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Queer.de: Fassbinder and theater star Volker Spengler dies
personal data
SURNAME Spengler, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 2020
Place of death Berlin