Harry Rowohlt(1945-2015)
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Philantrophist, Man of Letters, publisher, translator, columnist -
these are the attributes that could describe Harry Rowohlt. He is a
member of the publisher family Rowohlt from the fa-mous German
Publishing House Rowohlt Verlag, but by no means a conformist one. The
guy with the gray hair and the long gray beard loves to contradict
anything. If you do an interview with him, you should not have
questions prepared. You never know what way such an inter-view may
take. He is famous for his interesting reading performances and for
translating works, e.g. of Flann O'Brien and Frank McCourt. But how did
he turn out to play a tramp on Lindenstraße (1985)? One day in 1995, a
German food & beverage magazine requested an interview from him in a
restaurant of his choice. He chose the restaurant 'Akropolis' which is
a well-known meeting point on the series Lindenstraße" (1985), and, in
the wake of this interwiew the Lindenstraße officials asked him if he
wanted to play a little part on this soap. He agreed and told the
Lin-denstrasse officials that he wanted to play a tramp because, in his
opinion, this fringe group was still quite underrepresented on
Lindenstraße. They agreed. If you watch Harry Rowohlt act as this
tramp, you can see that he really enjoys playing this role. You will
also see that his hair and beard, as long and bushy as it is, is always
clean and crisp. Enjoy Harry Rowohlt as Harry the Tramp!