Gerd Böckmann
Gerd Boeckmann ( born January 11, 1944 in Chemnitz ) is a German actor and director.
Life
His acting training completed Boeckmann at the Otto Falkenberg School in Munich. He then played in important German theaters, including the Schiller Theater Berlin, the Staatstheater Stuttgart, the Thalia Theater Hamburg Schauspielhaus, the Bavarian State Theatre or the Schauspielhaus Zurich. During this time he worked with directors such as Boleslaw Barlog Hans Lietzau or Dieter Dorn.
A wider audience Boeckmann but became known only by appearances in film and television. Mention may be made here, including his roles as Christian in the TV movie "Buddenbrooks" based on the novel by Thomas Mann (directed by Franz Peter Wirth), as Eichmann in " The Wannsee Conference " (directed by Heinz Shirk ), and in " The Venice Project "(directed by Robert Dorn helmet), " Uprising "(directed by Jon Avnet ) or with episode starring roles in " Derrick " or" The Old Man ". In 1981, he starred in the movie Prussian King Frederick II of Prussia the night
In addition to his work as an actor Gerd Boeckmann also a director. So he staged at the Staatstheater Stuttgart, the German -language premiere of David Mamet's " Edmond " and Thomas Bernhard's " theater people ". Other productions Böckmanns were about Harold Pinter " caretaker " at the Munich Chamber games or Thomas Bernhard's " On Target" at the Schauspielhaus Zurich. Recently he directed Patrick Marber's " Closer " at the Hamburg Chamber of games.
Since 1999 Gerd Boeckmann is again an ensemble member of the Vienna Burgtheater, where he served from 1977 to 1986 already. One of his greatest theatrical successes as an actor include, for example, his portrayal of the Roma in Mamet's " hillside sea view " directed by Dieter Giesing ( Staatstheater Stuttgart, 1986), or his appearance in Rudolf Noeltes production of Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey into Night " ( Schauspielhaus Hamburg, 1975). At the Salzburg Festival he played in Giorgio Strehler's " Game of the Mighty " (1973 ) and Andrea Breth's staging of Arthur Schnitzler's " The Vast " (2002). In Vienna he was seen among others in the title role of Yuri Ljubimows Dostoevsky processing " Raskolnikov " and worked with Andrea Breth ( " Mary Stuart " ), Andreas Kriegenburg ( " FIESCO " ) and Sebastian Hartmann ("Before Sunset" ).
More recently, he played the role of Dr. Frank Wedekind Franz Schöning in "Lulu" at the Berlin theater among others.
As a voice actor he lent his voice among others Gérard Depardieu ( The Last Metro ), Henry Fonda ( Jezebel, second dubbed version ) and Giancarlo Giannini (L' Innocente ).