Name
Hark Bohm
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1939-05-18
Deathday
2025-11-14 (86 years old)
Place of Birth
Hamburg, Germany
Biography
Hark Bohm (18 May 1939 – 14 November 2025) was a German actor, screenwriter, film director, playwright and former professor for cinema studies. He was born in Hamburg-Othmarschen and grew up on the island Amrum. His younger brother was the actor Marquard Bohm, who starred in some of his early films. He was most notable for his long-time collaboration with Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
His first featurefilm as a director was the German western Tschetan, der Indianerjunge shot in 1972 and starring his brother Marquard as well as his adopted son Dschingis Bowakow as Tschetan.
In 1978, he directed the film Moritz, Dear Moritz, which was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival. Ten years later, his film Yasemin was entered into the 38th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1990, his film Herzlich willkommen was entered into the 40th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1997, he was a member of the jury at the 47th Berlin International Film Festival.
Known For
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A Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried....
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Katja's life collapses after the deaths of her husband and son in a bomb attack. After a t...
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Black marketeers Marko and Blacky manufacture and sell weapons to the Communist resistance...
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Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing...
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Maik, a fourteen-year-old teenager, sets out on a road trip during summertime with Tschick...
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A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadve...
- 1997 Knockin' on Heaven's Door as Police Psychologist
- 1981 Lili Marleen as Taschner
- 1979 The Marriage of Maria Braun as Senkenberg
- 1981 Lola as Volker
- 1997 Conversation with the Beast as Dr. Hassler
- 2008 Underdogs as Wache
- 2007 Die Todesautomatik as Chefredakteur
- 2008 Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers as Self
- 2007 True North as Pol
- 2008 The Charlemagne Code as Roland Brenner
- 1974 Effi Briest as Pharmacist Gieshübler (uncredited)
- 1991 Lost in Siberia as Max Brunovich
- 2008 The Architect as Roth
- 1975 Fear of Fear as Dr. Rozenbaum
- 1976 The American Soldier as Doc
- 2021 Zimmer mit Stall - Schwein gehabt as Hans Bosch
- 1999 A Good Opportunity as Dobisch
- 1979 The Third Generation as Gerhard Gast
- 1976 Bomber & Paganini as Syndikatssekretär
- 2013 Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter as Himself
- 1980 Slow Attack as TV-Moderator
- 1993 Justice as Prof. Adolf Winter
- 2002 Atlantic Affairs as Administrator
- 1972 Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet as Admiral
- 1992 Ruby Cairo as German (uncredited)
- 1988 Linie 1 as Er
- 1971 Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8 as Self
- 1974 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul as Doctor
- 1978 Little Godard as First Director
- 1978 Despair as Doctor
- 1997 Der Hauptmann von Köpenick as Kriminalinspektor Schmude
- 1972 The Merchant of Four Seasons as Polizei-Vorgesetzter
- 1978 Moritz, Dear Moritz as Arzt
- 1980 Panic Time as Dr. Gerhard Kühn
- 1992 Schtonk! as Priest
- 1989 Spider's Web as Dada-Künstler
- 1995 The Promise as Müller II
- 2008 Was wenn der Tod uns scheidet as Busfahrer
- 1985 Ain’t Nothin’ Without You as Architekturprofessor
- 1989 Beim nächsten Mann wird alles anders as 1. Stammgast
- 1997 Das Hochzeitsgeschenk
- 1979 1+1=3 as Anwalt
- 1977 Adolf and Marlene as Photographer Hoffmann
- 2008 Leo und Marie – Eine Weihnachtsliebe
- 1998 Härtetest as Psychiater Dr. Bohm
- 1990 Herzlich willkommen as Direktor Dr. Fischer
- 1984 Love Is the Beginning of All Terror as Torsten
- 1989 Reunion in Travers as Bürgermeister
- 1969 Die Revolte as Erster Student
- 2011 Kissenschlacht as Patrick Brandt
- 2002 Falcons as Man of the World
- 1997 Forever and Ever as Richter
- 1967 So what ...?
- 2015 Fassbinder as Self
- 1995 Underground as Dr. Strasse
- 1971 The Big Mess as Von Schaacke
- 1985 Power Of Evil
- 1993 Madregilda as Alvariño
- 2011 Familiengeheimnisse - Liebe, Schuld und Tod as Sky
- 2015 Der Liebling des Himmels as Prof. Kessler
- 1987 Der kleine Staatsanwalt as Staatsanwalt König
- 1975 Fox and His Friends as Policeman Müller (uncredited)
- 2001 Invincible as Richter
- 1987 Das andere Leben as Dorn
- 2025 Amrum as Old Man
- 1997 Koerbers Akte: Tödliches Ultimatum
- 2011 If Not Us, Who? as Kritiker
- 1976 Strongman Ferdinand
- 1989 Adrian und die Römer as Augenarzt
- 2003 Das verräterische Collier as John Felsenstein
- 1970 Red Sun as Student
- 1987 Ossegg oder Die Wahrheit über Hänsel und Gretel as Petschau-Hartlieb
- 1988 Eine Bonner Affäre
- 1989 Earthbound as Chefarzt
- 1989 Ein verhexter Sommer as Karl
- 2019 The Golden Glove as Dornkaat-Max
- 2018 Sealed Lips as Konrads Vater
- 2018 Early Birds as Jossi
- 2020 Wim Wenders, Desperado as Self
- 1972 Liebe, so schön wie Liebe
- 2006 Sportsman of the Century as Frans Berkhout
- 2017 Aufgeklärt! - Spektakuläre Kriminalfälle ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1970 Scene of the Crime ( 1 episode ) as Professor Koning
- 1994 Doppelter Einsatz ( 1 episode ) as Heinz Tralau
- 2002 Blond: Eva Blond! ( 1 episode )
- 2001 Der Ermittler ( 1 episode ) as Justiziar
- 1997 Küstenwache ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Schenk
- 1995 Die Straßen von Berlin ( 1 episode ) as Robert Kessler
- 1995 Die Harald Schmidt Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1995 Balko ( 1 episode ) as Wachmann Bredendiek
- 1974 Die Montagsmaler ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1958 Stahlnetz ( 1 episode ) as Gerritzen
- 1951 German Film Award ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1970 Scene of the Crime ( 1 episode ) as Erich Becker
- 1991 DAS! ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1979 NDR Talk Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1973 Je später der Abend ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1997 Nachtstudio ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2020 Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen ( 4 episodes ) as Self
- 1996 Once Upon a Time There Was a Country ( 6 episodes ) as Dr. Štrase
- 1980 Berlin Alexanderplatz ( 2 episodes ) as Lüders
- 2001 Vera Brühne ( 2 episodes ) as Prof. Peters
