Volker Spengler

Volker Spengler ( born February 16, 1939 in Bremen ) is a German actor in theater and film.

Life

Volker Spengler worked as a sailor from the age of 14 years. At 18, he began a commercial apprenticeship. From 1959 to 1961 Spengler studied at the drama school in Salzburg and at the Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna.

After a long stay in the U.S., he was at the theater in Stuttgart together with Heinz Erhardt, active in Hamburg with Ida honor and in Frankfurt with Fritz Remond. In 1967 Spengler was engaged at the Schiller Theater in Berlin - where he played in 1968 under the direction of Fritz Kortner the role of " Caliban " in Shakespeare's "Tempest "; besides, he worked in Munich and Cologne. At the spectacle Frankfurt / Main, he was among others in the familiarization Schleef productions "Before Sunrise " by Gerhard Hauptmann ( 1987) and in the premiere of Schleef's own play "The Actor " (after Maxim Gorky's " The Lower Depths, 1988). With Peter Palitzsch he also worked in Frankfurt: in "Life of Edward the Second of England" by Christopher Marlowe (1988 ) and " tarragon " in Beckett's "Waiting for Godot " (1991 ) Cooperation with Palitzsch continued at the Berliner Ensemble (. Shakespeare's " Pericles " and Brecht's " Baal ", both in 1993, Tancred Dorst's " Fernando Krapp wrote me this letter " and Edward Bond's " Olly's prison ", both in 1994, " Hamm " in Beckett 's "Endgame ", 1995) and the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus (as of Gustaf in Frank M. Raddatz ' " All Theatre - dedicated to Gustaf " and Beckett's " last Tape ", both 1999) in Dusseldorf Volker Spengler also played the title role in Brecht's " life of Galileo ", directed by Klaus Emmerich. in 2000. During the last staging of Heiner Müller, Bertolt Brecht's " the Resistible rise of Arturo Ui ", 1995 at the Berliner Ensemble, Spengler plays the role of " Giri".

Between 1975 and 1981 Spengler worked in films directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder; first in supporting roles, and later he made ​​a breakthrough as a character actor. So he plays in movies like Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975 ), Satan's Brew, Chinese Roulette (both 1976), Bolwieser (1977 ), The Marriage of Maria Braun ( 1978), The Third Generation (1979) Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980 ) and Veronika Voss ( 1982). His succinct role in Fassbinder is that of the transsexual Elvira White Main in " In a Year of 13 Moons " (1978). Besides his work in the theater Volker Spengler works in the 1980s continues in film and television, including films by Christoph Schlingensief, and his former pupil Claude Rudolph.

Since 1993 Spengler is committed as an actor at the Berliner Ensemble, but also plays frequently with Rene Pollesch at the Volksbühne Berlin.

In the film The Ogre (1996 ) by Volker Schlöndorff, he played alongside John Malkovich and Gottfried John.

Filmography (selection)

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