Henning Schlüter

Henning Schlüter
Born
Henning Behrend Schlüter

(1927-03-01)1 March 1927
Hamburg, Germany
DiedJuly 5, 2000(2000-07-05) (aged 73)
Hamburg, Germany
OccupationActor
Years active1947–2000

Henning Behrend Schlüter[1] (1 March 1927 – 20 July 2000) was a prolific German character actor known for his role in the 1979 screen adaptation of Günter Grass's The Tin Drum[2] and in the long-running German TV police procedural, The Old Fox (1977).

Early life and career

Born in Hamburg on March 1, 2027,[1] Schlüter was the son of Hilda Maria (née Framheim) and Otto Franz Schlüter.[3]

From 1949 to 1952, Schlüter performed with the Berliner Ensemble under Bertold Brecht,[4] where he appeared in 1951, as Fritz von Berg in Brecht's adaptation of Jakob Lenz's The Tutor.[5] Other notable stage credits include a 1962 double bill of one-act plays at Berlin's Schiller Theater, featuring Tankred Dorst's Tirade at the Town Hall and Polish playwirght Tadeusz Różewicz's The Card Index, the former staged by a young Peter Zadek and the latter by trans-Atlantic stage and screen veteran, William Dieterle, the former work had Schlüter cast—amidst a quartet of uniformly generic character handles–as "Fat Officer", and the latter, simply "Fat Man".[6]

Schlüter's command of English afforded him employment both as a German language dubber on Hollywood imports and as a credible and cost-effective alternative to English or American actors in German productions,[7] for characters such as Inspector Bradley in an episode of globe-trotting German TV spy series John Kling,[8] and Robinson in the 1996 horror comedy Killer Condom. It also allowed him to provide German language translations of works such as Earl Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Cautious Coquette,[9][10] as well as a number of works of Art Buchwald.[11][10]

Other screen credits include Dr. Bauer in Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three, Catone in Roman Polanski's What?,[12] Dr. Richter in A Lost Life,[13] Dr. Bruno Schefold in Winterspelt,[14] Ludwig Erhard in The Odessa File, and the bridge player in Ash Wednesday[15]

Personal life and death

Schlüter died on July 20, 2000 at the age of 73. His remains are interred at Friedhof Hamburg-Ohlsdorf.[1]

Partial filmography

References

  1. 1 2 3 Thomsen, Tobi (2018). Wohnhäuser der Promis. Hamburg: FoTe Press. p. 108. ISBN 978-3-7481-3043-7.
  2. ↑ Champlin, Charles (18 April 1980). "CRITIC AT LARGE: 'TIN DRUM'—CENTURY OF HORROR, HILARITY". The Los Angeles Times. p. H1. ProQuest 162764606. Like an epic, 'The Tin Drum' is a succession of remarkable scenes and sharp-etched characters: the generous grandmother (Tina Engel as a girl, Berta Drews as an old woman); an Ichabodian figure (Marek Walczewski) who begs alms at funerals, the doomed friends at the post office: the pompous local Nazi leader (Ernst Jacobi); the sensual servant girl (Katharina Thalbach) who is also Oskar's love; a pompous doctor (Henning Schluter).
  3. ↑ "Otto Franz Schlüter: Brief Life History; Family Timeline". FamilySearch.
  4. ↑ Kosch, Wilhelm; Bigler-Marshall, Ingrid (1992). Deutsches Theater-Lexikon: Biographisches und Bibliographisches Handbuch. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. p. 2021. ISBN 3-317-00456-8.
  5. ↑ Berliner Ensemble (1961). Theaterarbeit. Berlin : Suhrkamp. p. 120.
  6. ↑ Hans (22 February 1962). "Legitimate: Grosse Schmaehrede an der Stadtmauer und Die Kartothek (Tirade at the Town Hall and The Card Index)". Variety. p. 64. ProQuest 1017061337. Young woman – Gisela Stein; Soldier – Holger Kepich; Thin Officer – Rudi Schmitt; Fat Officer – Henning Schlueter [sic] [...] Hero – Holger Kepich; Mother – Hilla Hofer; Father – Karl Hellner; Old Men – Hermann Ebeling, Joachim Ansorge, Wolfgang Condrus; Olga – Ursula Guetschow; Fat Man – Henning Schlueter [...]
  7. ↑ "Henning Schlueter". Spotlight. Issue 130, Part 2 - Page 1385. "Languages: ENGLISH / GERMAN 1 Berlin 33 , Im Gehege 10 West Berlin , Germany Tel .: Berlin ( 0311 ) 832 57 29 Manager : RODOLFO LOEWENTHAL 8 München 80 Holbeinstr . 16 Tel .: Munich ( 0811 ) 47 26 19 Telegrams : 47 28."
  8. ↑ "MITTWOCH, 18 MÄRZ". Bravo. . p. 62. "Inspektor Bradley (Henning Schlüter, links) hat einen Fail für Jones (Uwe Friedrichsen) und John (Hellmut Lange, rechts)"
  9. ↑ Gardner, Erle Stanley (1979). Die Schwarze Limousine. Bern, München Scherz. p. 4. ISBN 3502507430. "Einzig berechtigte Übertragung aus dem Amerikanischen von Henning Schlüter"
  10. 1 2 Deutsche Bibliothek (Frankfurt am Main, Germany). Deutsche Bibliographie. Fuenfjahres-Verzeichnis 1961-1965: Vol 1 Part 1. Frankfurt: Buchhändler Vereinigung GMBH. 1969. pp. 1011, 1189. ISSN 1613-6241.
  11. ↑ "Nein, meine Klappe halt ich nicht!". WorldCat. "Authors:Art Buchwald (Author), Henning Schlüter (Translator). Print Book, German, 1970. Edition:Gekürzte Ausg. Publisher: Fischer Bücherei, Frankfurt am Main, 1970."
  12. ↑ Holl (14 April 1976). "Film Reviews: Verlorenes Leben". Monthly Film Bulletin. p. 26. ProQuest 1286037781. Verlorenes Leben (A Lost Life) (WEST GERMAN-B&W) [...] Siegfried Closka – Gerhard Olschewski; Wenzel von Sigorski – Marius Mueller-Westernhagan; Commissioner Weber – Gert Haucke; Dr. Joachim – Richard Beek; von Werdenfeis – Willmut Borell; Tramp (in silent film) – Juerger Feindt; Dr. Richter – Henning Schlueter [sic]
  13. ↑ Holl (14 April 1976). "Film Reviews: Verlorenes Leben". Variety. p. 26. ProQuest 1286037781. Verlorenes Leben (A Lost Life) (WEST GERMAN-B&W) [...] Siegfried Closka – Gerhard Olschewski; Wenzel von Sigorski – Marius Mueller-Westernhagan; Commissioner Weber – Gert Haucke; Dr. Joachim – Richard Beek; von Werdenfeis – Willmut Borell; Tramp (in silent film) – Juerger Feindt; Dr. Richter – Henning Schlueter [sic]
  14. ↑ Holl (29 March 1978). "Film Reviews: Film Of Berlin Festival - Winterspelt". Variety. p. 26. ProQuest 1401333115. Winterspelt (WEST GERMAN-COLOR) Berlin, March 4 [...] Major Joseph Dincklage – Ulrich von Dobschuetz; Kaethe Lenk – Katherina Thalbach; Wenzel Hainstock – Hans-Christian Blech; Dr. Bruno Schefold – Henning Schlueter [sic]
  15. ↑ Millar, Sylvia (1 January 1974). "Ash Wednesady". Monthly Film Bulletin. p. 68. ProQuest 1305832287. Elizabeth Taylor (Barbara Sawyer), Henry Fonda (Mark Sawyer), Helmut Berger (Erich), Keith Baxter (David), Maurice Teynac (Dr. Lambert), Margaret Blye (Kate), Monique Van Vooren (German Woman), Henning Schlueter (Bridge Plaer), Dino Mele (Mario), Kathy van Lypps (Mandy),
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