The actor Michael Brandner, known from “Hubert without Staller”, has written a novel: “Guy from Coke”. A conversation about his childhood in the Ruhr area, free love and the question of why he never allowed himself to be driven by ambition.
Interviewed by
Susanne Hermanski
Most see Michael Brandner as the funny police chief Reimund Girwidz from the BR series “Hubert without Staller”. A distorted perception that is so typical of this world. Because Brandner not only played a hundred or so other roles – Hollywood productions included. Born in Augsburg in 1951, he grew up as the stepson of a miner in the pot. He was a technical draftsman, all-round craftsman, organizer, wanted to be an architect before he founded an amateur stage with friends in the wildest hippie times and was discovered by Peter Zadek. In addition, he maintained a love life (until he met his wife and agent Karin Brandner), which does credit to a quasi-communard. And he jumped off the shovel so often that others would knit five series plots out of it. Brandner has now written a novel about it: “Guy from Coke”.