Biography

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 Tenderness of the Wolves (1973), Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970) and Satan's Brew (1976). He died on June 28, 1988 in Hamburg, West Germany.

Frequently cast in Rainer Werner Fassbinder films.

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).