Ulrich Tukur, Hannelore Hoger and Eva Mattes were among the guests at a memorial service in Hamburg for their colleague, who died unexpectedly in early April.
In Hamburg’s St. Pauli Theater, family, friends and colleagues said goodbye to actor Uwe Bohm, who died in early April. Actors such as Ulrich Tukur, Hannelore Hoger and Eva Mattes also attended the public commemoration on Sunday.
Hannelore Hoger, who had been on stage with Bohm in the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg in the mid-1980s, praised the deceased as one of “the most lovable colleagues (…) that I met at the theatre”. As an actor he was “great”, “although he had no idea about the job”.
Bohm was discovered in the mid-1970s as a teenager by his later adoptive father Hark Bohm, who also cast him in the lead role in his 1976 film “Nordsee ist Mordsee”. Later, Bohm played successfully in theaters, including at the Schauspielhaus under Peter Zadek. He had also become known to a wide audience with villain roles in thrillers such as “Tatort”. The 2016 film “Tschick” was directed by Fatih Akin.
Bohm was a “great, unmistakable, often fragile-looking actor,” “who still had the boyish charm in his face, but who always felt alien to the job,” said director and theater manager Ulrich Waller, who led the commemoration. “And that was exactly his quality, that he had kept this view from the outside.”
Uwe Bohm died unexpectedly of heart failure on April 8 in Berlin at the age of 60. He found his last resting place “in the most beautiful cemetery in the world” in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf and ultimately returned to his hometown, Waller said. (dpa)