Klaus Wennemann

Acting

Klaus Wennemann

Born 1940-12-18 · Bad Aibling, Bavière, Germany

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Klaus Wennemann (18 December 1940 – 7 January 2000) was a German television and film actor. Wenneman was born in Oer-Erkenschwick, North Rhine-Westphalia. He is perhaps best known for his leading roles as the Chief Engineer, (the LI), in Das Boot, and as Faber in the TV series Der Fahnder. As an actor, he appeared in nine movies, and ten television series. He died in Bad Aibling, Bavaria, at the age of 59, from lung cancer. He was married to the same woman from 1963 until his death; they had two sons together. Wennemann was good friends with fellow actor Jürgen Prochnow. Their real-life friendship further added to the on-screen friendship of their respective character roles, portrayed in the film Das Boot.

Acting credits

Das Boot poster
8.1

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.

Das Boot

1981

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9.0

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Kissenschlacht

1995

The Power of Emotion poster
4.8

Emotions and feelings should not be confused with sentimentality. Emotion is ancient and more powerful than any artistic expression. The film observes young couples facing difficulties while trying to move their love experiences towards clear decision making. A film full of ideas, details and associations, fictional scenes, documentary footage, archival materials and opera music.

The Power of Emotion

1983

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7.0

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Helden haben es schwer

1996

Out of Order poster
6.0

It's Friday evening. The lift repairman leaves the building and wants to finish his work on Monday. But he doesn't know there are four men in the building. They use the lift but stay in it about 100 meters from the floor. They have little oxygen and must survive…

Out of Order

1984

The Adventures of Superhero poster
4.0

TV star Benjamin inherits from his uncle a cloak of invisibility. Invisible he must discover that his wife is cheating on him with his best friend and asks her in front of the television camera, it does not do to. A journalist on the hunt for a story, adds to the confusion.

The Adventures of Superhero

1987

Morgen gehört der Himmel dir poster
4.3

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Morgen gehört der Himmel dir

1999

Schuld war nur der Bossa Nova poster
7.0

In the summer of 1963, US President Kennedy visits the Berlin Wall and the hit song "Schuld war nur der Bossa Nova" plays from the jukeboxes in the pubs. And on the outskirts of a small town in the Ruhr region, a teenage clique organizes a party. Among them are 17-year-old Heike and her friend Gaby. While Gaby is being hit on by loud-mouthed Charly, Heike has lost her heart to Manni, much to the annoyance of dreamy Little Joe, who secretly has a crush on Heike. When it comes out that Heike is pregnant, a scandal ensues.

Schuld war nur der Bossa Nova

1992

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Bis ans Ende der Nacht

Neuner poster
8.0

Theo Neuner is an unscrupulous West German building contractor who senses big business in the GDR after the collapse of the SED dictatorship. But things don't turn out as he had imagined. The fall of the Berlin Wall does not bring the desired business, but rather a number of private problems: his lover dies, her sister makes his wife suspicious and the marital crisis reaches its climax on a business trip to Berlin...

Neuner

1990

Love Is Not an Argument poster
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The relationship of a married couple in their 40s is broken when the mother has an affair with her teenage daughter's boyfriend.

Love Is Not an Argument

1984