Walter Bockmayer

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Walter "Wally" Bockmayer (born July 4, 1948 in Fehrbach , now Pirmasens , † October 7, 2014 in Cologne ) was a German film and theater writer and director . He lived in Cologne.

Life

Walter Bockmayer grew up in the small village of Fehrbach, which today belongs to Pirmasens. Walter Bockmayer began an apprenticeship as a wholesaler, which he broke off to work as a canteen assistant in the USA. In 1968 he went to Cologne, where he initially earned his living as a cloakroom in the Cologne Opera House . There he also met his partner and later co-director Rolf Bührmann (1942–2016). In 1972 he founded the production company “Enten-Produktion”, which was first used for the movie Carmen (1972). The film production company is named after Bockmayer's waddling gait, which is why he was called “aal Ent” (old duck) at home. In 1975 he opened the Filmdose restaurant , where he had his productions performed on a stage.

Between 1970 and 1976 he made a total of 15 8 mm films , including "They danced only for a summer" (1971), "Carmen" (1972), "Alcohol girl" (1972), "Salzstangengeflüster" (1975) or "Salzstangengeschrei" (1976). His other works are shaped by films such as Jane remains Jane , which premiered on April 4, 1977 in Cologne. The actress Johanna König, known as the “ Ariel Klementine”, plays a retirement home resident who thinks she is Tarzan's widow. In 1978 his film Flammende Herzen was released , in which the bachelor Peter Huber wins a trip to New York in a competition, picks up a blonde in the subway and takes her to a copy of the Oktoberfest . There the couple is elected the royal cornflower couple, wins a cow and moves with it through Manhattan . The film was shown at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1978 and, like Looping - the long road to happiness , which was shown at the 1981 Toronto Film Festival , won several federal film awards.

In 1984 he opened the Kaiserhof Theater in Cologne, where he staged the frivolous and vulgar plays that he wrote and spoken in Kölsch , and the “Theater in the Filmdose”. Walter Bockmayer played the role of Frau Sommer in Helmer von Lützelburg's comedy In Heaven is Hell Going on, the film premiered on October 31, 1984. Bockmayer's best-known film is the satire Die Geierwally from 1988, which is based on Wilhelmine von Hillern's Geierwally . In 2000 the building that housed the Kaiserhof Theater was sold and rebuilt. The last performance was Wally's Wild Sixties (2000). He found a new home in the Scala Theater in Cologne, where the first stage play Ich möch zu Foß noh Kölle jonn was performed in 2003 . In the 260-person theater, new stage plays were performed annually from Bockmayer's. He moved famous operas such as Carmen (1995) or La traviata (1998) to the milieu of the Klapperhof in Cologne or a massage parlor. Gigi Herr (born December 28, 1942), the niece of the late Trude Herr , has been part of his permanent ensemble since 1994 .

Bockmayer was considered the discoverer and promoter of Hella von Sinnen , Dirk Bach , Ralph Morgenstern and Veronica Ferres . He died on October 7, 2014 at the age of 66 from lung cancer, which he was diagnosed with in March 2014. His grave is in the St. Bartholomew's Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Cologne .

Works

  • Jane Remains Jane (1977)
  • Flaming Hearts (1977/78)
  • Victor (1977) - film adaptation of the rock opera of the same name for ZDF
  • Looping - The Long Road to Happiness (1980)
  • Kiez - The Rise and Fall of a Luden (1983)
  • Hell Is Loose In Heaven (1984)
  • The Geierwally (1988)
  • Sissi - Bag Years of an Empress (1989)
  • Cleopatra and the Curse of the Temple Whores (1992)
  • Elvira - The Sperm Bank Killer of Burg Gerolstein (1994)
  • Carmen - The Queen of the Klapperhof (1995)
  • Tarzan (1997)
  • La Traviata: The Bandage Was Her Destiny (1998)
  • Funzbroichs ahoy (1999)
  • Wally's Wild Sixties (2000)
  • I would like to Foss noh Kölle jonn (October 2, 2003)
  • Speck für Kölle (September 24, 2005)
  • Quo va driss (2006)
  • Jebütz always weed (September 6, 2007)
  • Jebohnert op Kölsch (September 25, 2008)
  • Ming Ding honed (September 25, 2009)
  • Nubbel Alaaf ju (23 September 2010)
  • Trude for dessert (September 22, 2011)
  • With Winnetunt through the prairie (September 20, 2012)
  • Wie fott jeblose (September 26, 2013)
  • Aape op jöck (September 25, 2014)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Filmhaus News 2016. In: deutsches-filmhaus.de. Retrieved October 7, 2018 .
  2. ↑ deutsche-filmakademie.de
  3. ↑ deutsche-filmakademie.de ( memento of the original dated August 24, 2014 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deutsche-filmakademie.de
  4. ↑ Carmen rattles Kölsch . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 1995, pp. 255 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Walter Bockmayer is dead In: rundschau-online.de. from October 7, 2014.
  6. ^ Bockmayer Wally. In: friedhof-ansichten.de. Retrieved October 7, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Bockmayer, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bockmayer, Wally
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film and theater author and director
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Fehrbach
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 2014
Place of death Cologne