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Volker Spengler Biography

Date of Birth:
Feb 16, 1939Birth Place:
Bremen, Germany

Biography

Although he joined the enduring if highly troubled band following the extremely difficult but equally gifted German film master Rainer Werner Fassbinder fairly late in the game, Spengler made an indelible mark as actor in several key films. A tall and typically lumpy man with small, beady eyes and perennially tousled hair, Spengler first worked for Fassbinder in 1976. He made an immediate impression as part of a sinister mother-and-son team of caretakers hovering about the tight web of lovers peopling the artful "Chinese Roulette." That same year, Spengler also shone in a Renfield-like turn as the bug-eating, breast-grabbing, mentally retarded brother-in-law in the kinky and absurdist sex farce "Satan's Brew."

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Volker Spengler

German actor (1939–2020)

Volker Spengler
Born	(1939-02-16)16 February 1939 Bremen, Germany
Died	8 February 2020(2020-02-08) (aged 80) Berlin, Germany
Years active	1966–2004 (film and TV)

Volker Spengler ([ˈfɔlkɐˈʃpɛŋlɐ]; 16 February 1939 – 8 February 2020)^[1] was a German stage and film actor. Spengler was best known to international audiences as a member of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder's acting ensemble, including his role as the transsexual Erwin/Elvira of Fassbinder's In a Year of 13 Moons (1978).^[2] Spengler appeared in about 40 film and television productions between 1966 and 2004, also working with other directors such as Christoph Schlingensief and Volker Schlöndorff. On stage, he performed at Berlin's Volksbühne and with the Berliner Ensemble.

Life

Born in Bremen, Spengler began a commercial apprenticeship at age 18. From 1959 to 1961, he attended the Schauspielschule in Salzburg and the Vienna Reinhardt-Seminar. He played boulevard theatre from 1965, alongside He

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VOLKER SPENGLER / HIGHFALUTIN

March 1 – March 9

German actor Volker Spengler (1939-2020) is known to film audiences in North America primarily as part of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s extraordinary stock company of actors, with whom he worked repeatedly. Spengler turned in numerous memorable performances for Fassbinder, but none more legendary than his heartbreaking turn as Elvira, the transgender protagonist of IN A YEAR OF 13 MOONS (1978), which is both Spengler’s most prominent starring role and one of the greatest performances by any actor in Fassbinder’s body of work.

Spengler’s career, however, extended far beyond his collaborations with Fassbinder. He was one of the giants of German cinema and theater, thanks in part to his roles in films by Christoph Schlingensief (a filmmaker, playwright, and author who was in many ways Fassbinder’s successor, and with whom Spengler worked every bit as closely), Volker Schlöndorff, Hans-Christof Stenzel, and others, but perhaps above all for his work on the stage. He appeared in countless product