Hark Bohm
Hark Bohm ( born May 18, 1939 in Hamburg- Othmarschen ) is a German actor, screenwriter, film director, producer and emeritus professor of film at the Institute of Theatre, Music Theatre and Film at the University of Hamburg.
Life
Bohm grew up on the North Sea island Amrum. After graduating from high school in 1959 in Hamburg, he graduated in law. His legal internship in Munich broke Hark Bohm in 1969 and dedicated himself entirely to the art of film. He was cast in several Fassbinder films. There Fassbinder put him preferably one for pedantic and authoritarian roles.
In 1971, Hark Bohm with other auteurs of the New German Cinema, the film published by the authors. In the following years he was director and author of several short films before then with Tschetan, the Indian boy turned an award-winning feature film. It was followed by several films that want to be understood socially critical especially.
Hark Bohm is also known as co-founder of the Hamburg Film Bureau (1979). In the same year he also initiated the Filmfest Hamburg with Werner Herzog, Volker Schlöndorff and Wim Wenders with the so-called Hamburg Declaration. In 1993 he founded the Hamburg film studies at the University of Hamburg - where he held a professorship since 1992 - which has been integrated into the Hamburg Media School in 2004. Hark Bohm is a member of the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg.
He is the brother of actor Marquard Bohm and adoptive father of actor Uwe Bohm, who starred in several of his films already as a teenager starring roles, mostly under his actual name Uwe grandson man. Bohm and his wife Natalia have adopted four children and two foster children.