The gorgeous Baron, Helmut Griem died on Nov. 19. Also marvelous in The Damned; here are his other credits.
Helmut Griem was born on 6 April 1932 in Hamburg as a son of a funkoffiziers to lake and wanted to become originally journalist. It studied first literature science and philosophy, played then kabarett (“those Hamburg buchfinken”), which strengthened its love for the stage. 1956 debuetierte in Luebeck in a role in Richard Nashs “Regenmacher”. The well-known theatre director Oscar Fritz shoe had become fast on Helmut Griem attentively and got him to end of the fifties to Cologne. After successful commitments in Hamburg and Berlin he became in the middle of the seventies constant guest to the resident of Munich chamber plays and under Dieter of thorn directorship 1983 ensemble member. It played the large roles of Lessing, Kleist, Goethe, in addition, the frustrated intellectual one in “who fear of Virginia Woolf” or professor Higgins in “My has fair lady”.
Its largest public resonance obtained Griem however in film and television. Among Helmut Griems most successful TV productions ranked “the second lieutenant and its judge” (1983) and the multipart history film “Peter the large one” (1986). Since end of the eighties the public work for Helmut Griem took a ever larger value. Joe Ortons “are nicely Mr. Sloane” became 1989 under its line in Munich to a racer, later produced it John M. Synge (“hero of the western world”), Eugene O’Neill (“a long daily journey into the night”) and in Vienna 1992 “death and the girl” from Ariel Dorfman and 1997 Arthur Millers “death of a commercial traveller”.
“Helmut Griem was one of us”, said state State of director Dieter thorn on Friday. "as actors and a friend he was us for decades partner, way companion and challenger. The planned work on the Botho bunch piece “and the other one” he could not take up any more. Helmut Griem died after short serious illness on 19 November in a resident of Munich hospital.
—As much as I loved him in Cabaret and The Damned, I’d love to have seen him in Peter the large one.
I was very confused until I read the part about “those Hamburg buchfinken.” That cleared it up right away.
- He was a damned fine looking 40 year old in Cabaret.