Rüdiger Kuhlbrodt

Rüdiger Kuhlbrodt is a German film and theatre actor and director.

Life Rüdiger Kuhlbrodt was born in Hamburg, Germany, on 20 November 1942. After high school, he studied performing arts at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg (University of Music and Theatre Hamburg). Kuhlbrodt joined the Stadttheater Pforzheim and the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg, later the Theater Lübeck and the Städtische Bühnen Münster, and in 1975, the Schauspielhaus Bochum. After a creative break that he spent in California, Kuhlbrodt with other artists established in 1980 an alternative theater project in the former Atlantic Movie Theatre in Düsseldorf. With various projects he toured throughout West German correction institutions and other theater-distant social facilities. In 1983, he was appointed a senior director at the Westfälisches Landestheater. In 1986, he was selected by Peter Zadek to the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg.

After a stint at the Theater des Westens in 1992, Kuhlbrodt became a member of the Berliner Ensemble. After 1996, he made guest appearances at the Kammerspiele Berlin, the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, the Wiener Festwochen, the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, the Schlosspark-Theater Berlin, the Theater der Landeshauptstadt Magdeburg, the Hamburger Kammerspiele, the Ruhrtriennale, the Freilichtspiele Schwäbisch Hall, and the Salzburger Landestheater. In 2002, for political reasons, Kuhlbrodt established the independent group Global Heroes that appeared with the multimedia performance America at war: a mini-series.

Kuhlbrodt lives in Berlin and in Palm Beach, Florida.

Director 1968: Max Frisch: The great anger of Philip Hotz 1969: James Saunders: The Pedagogue 1969: John Mortimer: The Mandatory Mandate 1970: Christopher Fry: A Phoenix Too Frequent 1971: René de Obaldia: Sea air 1973: G.G. del Torre: Presumed Innocent 1973: Louise Labé, Pierre de Ronsard: Love and Regret 1980: Till Eulenspiegel 1983: Janosch: I say you are a bear 1984: The Glass Man 1984: George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four 1985: Hans Fallada: Every Man Dies Alone 1985: Germany a wonder fairy tale 1987: Henry Miller: Sexus, Plexus and Nexus 2007: Erich Kästner: The Blue Book. War diary and novel notes

Theater roles 1975: Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind, Role: Father Gabor, directed by Peter Zadek 1976: The Sunshine Boys by Neil Simon, Role: Ben Clark, directed by Hans Lietzau 1976: Menschen im Hotel (Grand Hotel) by Vicki Baum, Role: Baron von Geigern, directed by Rosa von Praunheim 1977: Das Käthchen von Heilbronn by Heinrich von Kleist, Role: Georg von Waldstätten, directed by Werner Schroeter 1978: Der Untertan by Heinrich Mann, Role: Major Fox, directed by Jürgen Flimm 1979: Macskajáték (Catsplay) by István Örkény, directed by Jiří Menzel 1986: Pravda by Howard Brenton, Role: Michael Quince, directed by Matthias Langhoff 1987: Andy by Burkhard Driest, Role: Olaf Wolpe, directed by Peter Zadek 1988: The "Lulu" plays Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box by Frank Wedekind, Role: Journalist Heilmann, directed by Peter Zadek 1988: Punkt, Punkt, Komma, Strich by Wilfried Minks, Role: Ernst Jandl, directed by Wilfried Minks 1989: Reineke Fuchs (Reynard the Fox) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Role: Isegrimm the Wolf, directed by Michael Bogdanov 1990: Amphitryon by Heinrich von Kleist, Role: Alcibiades, directed by Niels-Peter Rudolph 1992: Der blaue Engel (The Blue Angle) by Heinrich Mann, Role: Konsul Wolters, directed by Peter Zadek 1994: Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, Role: Thidias / Proculeius, directed by Peter Zadek 1997: In der Sache J. Robert Oppenheimer (In the matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer) by Heinar Kipphardt, Role: Robert Oppenheimer, directed by Hermann Kleinselbeck 1998: Doppelleben Deutsch (German double life) by Marc Pommerening, Role: Johannes R. Becher, directed by Hannes Hametner 1998: Histoire de Pygmalion et Don Juan (Ballet), Role: Frederick the Great, directed by David Southerland 2000: Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Role: Guildenstern, directed by Peter Zadek 2001: Hitler's Doktor Faust by Rolf Hochhuth, Role: Nils Bohr, directed by Rolf Hochhuth 2004: Wallenstein by Friedrich Schiller, Role: Wallenstein, directed by Axel Schneider 2005: Don Carlos by Friedrich Schiller, Role: Philip II of Spain, directed by Manfred Weiss 2008: Maestro by Christoph Klimke, Role: Maestro Karajan, directed by Johann Kresnik

Filmography

Cinema 1980: Exit Sunset Boulevard, directed by Bastian Clevé 1987: Der Einbruch (The Burglary), directed by Bettina Woernle 1988: Blindman's Ball, directed by Dore O. 1991: The Polar Bear King, directed by Ola Solum 1994: Das Rätsel Knut Hamsun (The Riddle of Knut Hamsun), directed by Bentein Baarson 1998: The Waiting Time, directed by Stuart Olme 2006: The Somme – From Defeat to Victory 2007: The Baader Meinhof Complex, directed by Uli Edel 2009: Blissestraße, directed by Paul Donovan 2010: Der ganz große Traum (The Ultimate Big Dream), directed by Sebastian Grobler 2013: , directed by David Dietl

Television 1983: Rote Erde (Red Earth), directed by Klaus Emmerich 1993: Ispettore Sarti, directed by Giulio Questi 1995: Die Angst hat eine kalte Hand (Fear has a cold hand), directed by Matti Geschonnek 1999: Virtual Vampires, directed by Michael Busch 1998: Die vier Gerechten (The Four Justices), directed by Wolfgang F. Henschel 2000: The Tunnel, directed by Roland Suso Richter 2004: , directed by Winfried Oelsner 2005: Die Bagdadbahn (The Baghdad Railway), directed by Roland May 2005: (Die Luftbrücke – Nur der Himmel war frei), directed by Dror Zahavi 2006: Chubby Me, directed by Thomas Nennstiel 2006: Polizeiruf 110, directed by Christine Hartmann 2007: Tatort, directed by Angelina Maccarone 2008: Puccini - die dunkle Seite des Mondes (Puccini - the dark side of the Moon), directed by Andreas Morell 2009: Ein starkes Team, directed by Ulrich Zrenner 2010: Schicksalsjahre (The Fateful Years), directed by Miguel Alexandre 2011: Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei, directed by Heinz Dietz 2011: And all were silent, directed by Dror Zahavi 2012: Heiter bis tödlich - Hubert und Staller, directed by Jan Markus Linhof 2013: The Jerusalem Syndrome, directed by Dror Zahavi 2014: , directed by Rainer Kaufmann