Later, Folker increasingly became a mentor and promoter of young talent. And not only in the performing arts; he recognized the talents of young people in a wide variety of fields: painting, music, writing. He encouraged them in their creative endeavors and inspired them with new ideas – to persevere with what interested them. "You have to do it. Success doesn't come by itself, you have to work, work, work!" Age thus sets limits for an actor, even 'an elegant, humorous, enterprising man like Folker Bohnet, who can't possibly get old,' as the theater critic Klaus Geitel wrote in a newspaper article in 2011. New product