As of: 04/09/2022 5:27 p.m
The actor Uwe Bohm died at the age of 60. His wife Ninon Bohm confirmed the death of the German Press Agency.
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Uwe Bohm was known as a villain in Tatort, from films like Fatih Akin’s literary adaptation “Tschick” and on stage. For around 20 years he acted under the direction of Peter Zadek, initially at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg – including in the musical “Andi” and in Wedekind’s “Lulu”. He later followed Zadek to the Burgtheater in Vienna. Most recently he had lived in Berlin.
Uwe Bohm dies “suddenly and surprisingly”
Actor Uwe Bohm grew up in Hamburg. He last lived in Berlin.
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The adoptive son of the director, born on January 24, 1962 as Uwe Grossmann in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg According to his family, Hark Bohm “died suddenly and unexpectedly”. “It is with infinite sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved father, husband, son and great actor Uwe Bohm,” it said in a letter. The family ask for privacy. At the request of the German Press Agency, Bohm’s adoptive mother Natalia Bowakow-Bohm confirmed that she had also received the news of the death.
Culture Senator Brosda appreciates Bohm’s work
Hamburg’s Senator for Culture Carsten Brosda (SPD) responded to the news of death on Twitter with the words: “What sad news. Uwe Bohm has brought us complex and difficult characters.” He was a great Hamburg actor – in the theater as well as in film and television. “I will miss him and my thoughts are with his family and friends.”
With Peter Zadek at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus and the Burgtheater in Vienna
Uwe Bohm did not have an easy childhood. The father was a crane operator in the port of Hamburg, the mother a housewife. The family broke up, the boy was placed in a home, later he was adopted by Hark Bohm. Already as a teenager he played in 1976 Hark Bohm’s cult film “Nordsee ist Mordsee” with. During the casting for the TV production “I can also build an ark” Hark Bohm discovered the then eleven-year-old in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg and promptly hired him.
After school, Uwe Bohm initially trained as a painter and varnisher, later as a theater painter. Peter Zadek brings him to the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg. Uwe Bohm played there in the musical “Andi” in 1987, and in 1988 he embodied Jack the Ripper in Frank Wedekind’s “Lulu”. In 1990 he followed Zadek to Vienna. There he plays at the Vienna Burgtheater in the “Kaufmann von Vendig”, later he gives the Parzival in Peter Handke’s “Spiel vomfragen oder die Reise zum Sonoren Land” in a Claus Peymann premiere.
Uwe Bohm: “Being close to the truth”
“I always try to do it in such a way that it’s close to the truth. A colleague once said to me, ‘always 150 percent, not over the limit, but always up to the limit’. You can do that in the job and it’s very important to me to give everything I have here,” Bohm said of his acting. “It’s a lot of fun for me and that takes me further.”
Villain in the “Borowski” crime scene “In the Underworld”
In the “Borowski in the Underworld” crime scene, Uwe Bohm plays a priest, behind him Axel Milberg as Commissioner Borowski.
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In 1988 Uwe Bohm won the Bavarian Film Prize for his role as Jan in “Yasesmin” – a German-Turkish Romeo and Juliet variation. His other filmography in cinemas and on television included roles in “Freistatt” (2015) and “Gold” (2013), in “Der Alte” and in the Tatort. In 2015 he played “Borowski in der Unterwelt” by Claudia Garde in the Kiel crime scene the role of the Catholic pastor Albrecht Maria Benz, who is suspected of murder.
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