Kurt Raab was born on July 20, 1941 in Bergreichenstein, Sudetenland [now Kasperské Hory, Czech Republic]. He was an actor and production designer, known for Satan’s Brew (1976), Tenderness of the Wolves (1973) and Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970). He died on June 28, 1988 in Hamburg, West Germany.
Kurt Raab
Movies
Fox
Working class and middle-upper class worlds come together in this interesting look at class conflict within the gay world from the German director Reiner Werner Fassbinder. Fassbinder plays Fox, he is working class, a former circus performer who wins the lottery of DM 500,000. His life starts to look up…
Fun Facts
Actor, director, screenwriter and production designer. Though born in what is present-day Czech Republic, he grew up in lower Bavaria. He made his stage debut in 1967 and was a co-founder of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 'Anti-Theatre' the following year. He starred in that director's stage productions and in films from the late 1960's (again mostly for Fassbinder), specialising in powerful portrayals of unsympathetic, even reprehensible characters, small-minded philistines, opportunists, mass murderers (Haarmann) and dictators (Hitler).