“I was so angry” interview with docudrama director Breloer on his 80th – culture

Heinrich Breloer receives guests in his attic studio in the southern part of Cologne, two streets away from the Rhine. A bright work room with film posters and photos, a lot of Bert Brecht, with whom he keeps busy, a lot of Sebastian Koch as Hitler’s architect Albert Speer – on the small balcony heaven is close, Breloer does yoga here in the mornings. He became known in 1982 with his docudrama “Das Beil von Wandsbek”. It was followed “game of death” (1997) about the German Autumn, the branching history of a family of writers (“Die Manns”, 2001), “Speer und Er” (2004) and most recently “Brecht” (2019). Breloer was for his work multiple awards. He will be 80 on February 17. He gleefully hints at his new project, but refuses to give any details.