Christian Doermer

Christian Doermer ( born July 5, 1935 in Rostock ) is a German actor, filmmaker, director, producer and screenwriter.

Biography

The son of the physician Dr. Hartmut Doermer and the actress Ruth von Zerboni grew after the separation of parents in different European cities and visited the castle boarding Neubeuern. After graduation, he studied sociology and economics in Frankfurt and Marburg. Through the mediation of his mother, who in Munich drama school Zerboni operation, he received 1954 film roles. In 1956, he debuted at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg as a theater actor.

In the film, he fell for the first time as a brother of Horst Buchholz in The yobs (1956). In flight to Berlin ( 1960) he played a disillusioned young SED functionary which settles into West Berlin. For this he received the Film Award for best young actor. In 1961, he starred in the successful crime - Six divider according to Francis Durbridge, " The scarf " with. At his side played in this street sweeper high profile colleagues such as Heinz Drache, Albert Lieven, Horst Tappert, Margot Trooger, Erwin Linder, Dieter Borsche, Hellmut Lange and Erica Beer. In the same year he played the lead role in Herbert Vesely's The Bread of Those Early Years and signed the Oberhausen Manifesto, which was recognized twenty years later with another movie band in gold as a single actor. In 1963 he founded his own film company Cine document film.

After the participation in various television movies and a significant role in Peter Schamonis socially critical works closed season for foxes (1965 ) he found the late sixties access to a number of international productions. In the kind of filmmaker he realized even more films for which he was also writer, producer, director and actor. He repeatedly thematized this intercultural problems, as in the TV movie You (1975 ), who presented the relationship between a living in Thailand and its native German domestic workers at the center.

After his complex movie about General Paul von Lettow -Vorbeck (1984 ) was a flop, is Doermer acting increasingly turned to again. In 1989 he founded with Hans Clarin and actress Mona Freiberg production company ensemble am Chiemsee, who works primarily for the private television and local media.

Christian Doermer is since 1961 married with Lore Schmidt- Polex and father of three children.

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