Klaus Wennemann

Klaus Wennemann ( born December 18, 1940 in Oer- Erkenschwick, Westphalia, † January 7, 2000 in Bad Aibling, Bavaria ) was a German actor.

Life

The son of a miner from the Ruhr made ​​after attending the trade school a commercial apprenticeship and took private acting lessons until he was called up for military service. From 1964 to 1966 he completed his acting training at the Folkwang Academy. His stage debut was in 1965 at Grenzlandtheater Aachen in the role of Lee Harvey Oswald in the world premiere of the play in Dallas, November 22. A first engagement was in 1966 Stadttheater Landshut, where he was a member until 1969. For his performance in Peter Weiss ' Marat Wennemann in 1968 awarded the Grand Prize Hersfeld. He then moved to the Württemberg State Theatre in Stuttgart. From 1972 to 1980 he worked at the Municipal Theatre of Frankfurt, where he The caretaker, Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening was seen and Carl Sternheim citizens Schippel in Harold Pinter. Guest performances also took him to the theater Aachen and the Municipal Theater Bonn. 1979/80 he stood at the Ruhr Festival in Recklinghausen on stage. Since 1980, the actor worked as a freelancer.

The breakthrough as a film actor succeeded Wennemann 1981 in the boat. In Wolfgang Petersen's adaptation of the bestseller by Lothar -Günther Buchheim, he served as Chief Engineer, LI short, the right hand of the commander. With Jürgen Prochnow Wennemann had already visited in Essen drama class. On the big screen, he was also in Alexander Kluge's The Power of Emotion (1983 ), directed by Carl Schenkel in the thriller Down ( 1984) and as the main character with Barbara Rudnik and Nena in the comedy The Invisible Man (1987 ) by Ulf Miehe to. seen In the first season of the miners saga Red Earth, he took over in 1983 the part of the operating guide. Large gained popularity Wennemann in the role of the investigator Faber, he from 1984 to 1993 in 91 episodes of the crime series The Investigator embodied, which was in 1989 awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize. As a " willful and unmistakable policeman completely new type ", he reached it in the evening program in the First Rekordeinschaltquoten. In the 1990s he played as the patents Pastor Henning Schwarz in the title role in the Black Sat.1 series intervenes. He also appeared, among other guest roles in Behind Bars ( according to the investigators again on the side of Barbara Freier) and in on-axis response at the side of Manfred Krug on.

Klaus Wennemann was married to his wife Hedi since 1963. The father of two sons died shortly after his 59th birthday in a lung carcinoma. Until his death, the actor in Herrsching am Ammersee lived.

Klaus Wennemann was Buried in the forest cemetery in Oer -Erkenschwick. He was laid to rest next to his parents.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

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