Overview
- His death was confirmed by his daughter to the dpa, who said he died Friday in Hamburg surrounded by family.
- Bohm was celebrated for youth-focused social dramas including Nordsee ist Mordsee (1976), Moritz, lieber Moritz (1978) and Yasemin (1988), winning the German Film Award in Gold for the latter.
- He helped build key film institutions, co-initiating Filmverlag der Autoren in 1971, co-founding Filmbüro Hamburg and Filmfest Hamburg in 1979, and launching film studies at the University of Hamburg in 1992.
- A longtime mentor to Fatih Akin, he co-wrote Akin’s Aus dem Nichts; Akin’s Amrum, drawn from Bohm’s autobiographical novel, had its world premiere at Cannes in 2025 after Bohm stepped back from directing for health reasons.
- Public tributes poured in, with Akin calling him a lighthouse, Hamburg film fund chief Helge Albers praising an icon of the region’s cinema, and culture senator Carsten Brosda lauding his humanist storytelling.