Hark Bohm

Hark Bohm (1939 to 2025) was a German film director, actor, screenwriter, playwright, novelist and professor of cinema studies. Born in Hamburg-Othmarschen, he grew up on the island of Amrum. He is best known for his long collaboration with Rainer Werner Fassbinder and for his work as a director. His first feature as director was the German western Tschetan, der Indianerjunge (1972), starring his brother Marquard Bohm and his adopted son Dschingis Bowakow. His films Moritz, Dear Moritz (1978), Yasemin (1988) and Herzlich willkommen (1990) were each entered in the Berlin International Film Festival, and he served on the festival jury in 1997. In 2025 he and Fatih Akin released Amrum, a coming-of-age film that premiered at Cannes, and he died in November 2025 at the age of 86.