Overview
- Hark Bohm died in Hamburg on November 14, 2025 at age 86, shortly after the theatrical release of Amrum.
- Amrum was directed by Fatih Akin from Bohm’s screenplay, drawn from his childhood on the North Sea island during the war’s final days.
- Bohm’s 1976 feature Nordsee ist Mordsee became a touchstone of German coming-of-age cinema, following earlier works begun in the early 1970s.
- He co-founded key institutions including the Filmverlag der Autoren and the Deutsche Filmakademie, helped launch Hamburg’s film festival and film studies program, and received an honorary Lola in 2018.
- He mentored generations of talent, adopted the future actor Uwe Bohm, collaborated with Akin on Tschick and the award-winning In the Fade, and late in life confronted his father’s Nazi past, a theme central to Amrum with some critics questioning the adaptation’s fidelity to his script.