Balduin Baas

Baldwin Baas (actually Baaske Baldwin, born June 9, 1922 in Gdansk, † 22 May, 2006 Hamburg ) was a German actor, writer and artist.

Life

The trained postal workers came during the Second World War to soldiers stage for acting. After the war he was announcer at a group of artists and cabaret artist from 1946 in Hannover. In 1948 he appeared in Hamburg and was briefly in the Foreign Legion.

Baas wrote plays and worked as a radio writer. In several magazines and the newspaper Die Welt, he published his articles. Baas 1962 published his autobiography 40 which attracted considerable attention among readers as literary critics. Shortly afterwards, the poetry collection It's spring, Ilse and the novel The Fritz.

When listening specialist Baas debuted in 1954 in Helmut Käutner The Devil's General in the film. As an East Prussian Grenadier he said in the film The Captain of Köpenick the legendary phrase " Dat I may suffer non! " His best-known German -speaking role may well have been the clown of the first bank from 1968 to 1972 that of the teacher in the Blue Meier Pauker films of the cinema series. Gained international recognition Baas especially in 1978 for his starring role in Federico Fellini's Prova d' Orchestra ( The Orchestra Rehearsal ) for which he chose the director himself. He also played in the ZDF series The legacy of Guldenburgs of 1987-1990 the sleazy private investigator George Altdorf.

From 1971 to 1977, he joined in WDR 2 with satirical cabaret texts in the solo revue silk naughty to each other ( about 20 episodes) on. After the WDR for prohibited the broadcasting of a sequence to harsh Wolf Biermann criticism and the mission had alternatively designed with different material Baas, Baas broke off further cooperation with WDR.

Baldwin Baas was married to fellow actress Ruth Stephan and then romantically involved for 30 years with the Hamburg photographer Charlotte March.

His estate and his art objects and drawings are in the Falkenberg collection in Hamburg.

Filmography (selection)

  • 40 - An Autobiography. Merlin Publishing. ISBN 3-87536-041-9
  • It's spring, Ilse. Poems. Merlin Publishing. ISBN 3-926112-55-7
  • The Fritz. Novel. Merlin Publishing. ISBN 3-87536-161 -X

Pictures of Balduin Baas

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