Werner Enke

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Werner Enke , also as a screenwriter under the pseudonym Peter Schlieper (born April 25, 1941 in Berlin ), is a German actor and author . He is the partner of director May Spils .

Life

Enke grew up in Göttingen and drew his first flip books when he was ten . After he had been rejected by the drama schools in Berlin and Munich in 1960 , he took private lessons at the Ruth von Zerboni drama school and enrolled at the University of Munich for theater studies , French and German studies . In 1965 he got to know Klaus Lemke and his future partner May Spils , who was to direct the films that followed on the subject, Schätze and Enkes.

After two short films with the group around Spils and Lemke, Enke made an appearance in Volker Schlöndorff's Murder and Manslaughter in 1966 , in which he was shot after just a few minutes. He played his first leading role in a feature film in 1967 in With Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt , directed by Franz-Josef Spieker .

He became famous for the film Zur Ding, Schätze (1968), in which he played alongside Uschi Glas , who was almost three years his junior . The next film, Don't Fumble, Darling , again with May Spils as director, was a great success with the public. However, Enke was unable to build on earlier successes with the following films, which were made more and more experienced in terms of their craftsmanship. His last film, Not with me, you Knallkopp , which Enke produced himself, was withdrawn from the cinemas after a few days due to a lack of audience response. Other film projects failed due to the lack of financial resources.

Enke received the gold film tape for his performance in On the subject, sweetheart and together with May Spils another gold film tape for the dialogues. The dialogs category was set up especially for this film and was otherwise never awarded again. For the comedic portrayal in the film Not Fummeln, Liebling , Enke, who acted as the main actor and screenwriter, and Spils received the Ernst Lubitsch Prize in 1970 .

Enke developed his own category of humor in his films , which is characterized by quick-witted laconicity and linguistic wit , mocking authorities and addressing one's own failure in a self-deprecating way. Some of Enke's sloppy expressions entered colloquial language, such as the saying “It'll end badly” or “Candles out! There is no ignition here! ”. The popularity of the term Fummeln is also due to his work.

From 1985 Enke withdrew from the public. It only reappeared in 2003 when he published a collection of his own cartoons under the title It will end badly . Werner Enke lives today in Munich-Schwabing and on a farm near Bremen. On November 12, 2010 he gave one of his rare interviews to the Göttinger Tageblatt .

Trivia

The band The League of Ordinary Gentlemen dedicated the song Kennst Du Werner Enke? , for which a music video was also shot and which was released as a single.

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Werner Enke: It will end badly - Enke's speaking man . Munich 2003. ISBN 3-88897-325-2 (originated from the flip book in "To the thing, honey")

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Enke: "I've never played doctors or foresters"  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Britta Bielefeld in the Göttinger Tageblatt from November 12, 2010 (accessed June 14, 2011)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.goettinger-tageblatt.de  
personal data
SURNAME Enke, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlieper, Peter (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin