Until the very end, one thought one could see the contours of the freckled boy from "Nordsee ist Mordsee" shimmering through his play.

Uwe Bohm was fourteen when the director and later adoptive father Hark Bohm gave him the role of the working-class child whose father drank and beat.

Sandra Kegel

Responsible editor for the feuilleton.

  • Follow I follow

The role should become an artistic beacon for the youngster.

"Nordsee ist Mordsee" with the film music by Udo Lindenberg became a Hamburg cult film and also attracted attention because Hark Bohm already showed his unmistakable signature in this drama from 1976, his fourth film: outsider stories with great authenticity and more careful to tell actor guidance.

At the age of eleven, the director Uwe Bohm, still under his name, discovered the grandson in a home and cast him in "I can also build an ark".

With disarming frankness, the actor spoke to the "SZ-Magazine" a few years ago about growing up early in difficult circumstances - his father, a dockworker, had spied for the GDR and had been imprisoned - and how his life and roles sometimes were intertwined.

In addition to Hark Bohm, with whom the 1962 Hamburg-born continued to make films, including the novel adaptation of Walter Kempowski's "Herzlich Willkommen", he also worked with film directors such as Peter F. Bringmann ("Die Heartbreakers") and Thomas Arslan ("Ferien"). .

In the runaway drama "Tschick" based on Wolfgang Herrndorf (Fatih Akin, 2016), he was the father who is not interested in his son.

At the theater, Bohm had worked with directors such as Zadek and Peymann, and described Ibsen's "Peer Gynt", which tries to escape reality with tall tales, as a key role.

Above all, however, Uwe Bohm has been present on television since the 1980s.

He often embodied perpetrators or suspects, such as in Stefan Kornatz' brilliant "Tatort" episode "Es ist Böse".

To find a way other than the obvious one

was his credo as an actor, which he also gave a disturbing effect to in supporting roles.

Uwe Bohm died in Berlin on April 8th at the age of sixty.