Thomas Holtzmann

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Thomas Holtzmann (born April 1, 1927 in Munich ; † January 4, 2013 there ) was a German theater and film actor .

Life

Thomas Holtzmann initially studied theater studies in Munich , but had private acting lessons during his studies. At the Ateliertheater Munich he played his first major role in Jean Anouilh's Medea with Jason . This was the basis for his first engagements in the city theaters of Schleswig , Nuremberg , Saarbrücken and Cologne .

Holtzmann celebrated his first success in 1959 at the Berlin Schillertheater with Edward Albee's two-person play The Zoo Story . In 1961 he achieved his breakthrough with the Prince of Homburg by Heinrich von Kleist under the direction of the artistic director Boleslaw Barlog . In the same year he returned to his hometown Munich and from then on worked a lot with Fritz Kortner . He then joined the ensemble at the Burgtheater in Vienna and played there among other things in a Sellner -Inszenierung Orestes in The Flies by Jean-Paul Sartre , and Goethe's Faust .

During the directorship of Hans Lietzau Holtzman was also at the Hamburg Schauspielhaus committed, where he staging Kortner among others in 1969 in the Clavigo played and 1970 in the German premiere of Arthur Kopit piece of Indians to Sitting Bull embodied. In the 1976/77 season he returned to the Schauspielhaus Hamburg and played Prospero in Shakespeare's Sturm as well as Fernando in Goethe's Stella in productions by Wilfried Minks .

From 1977 to 2001 Holtzmann was a member of the Münchner Kammerspiele ensemble . A great success of this time was, among other things, his Malvolio in William Shakespeare's Was ihr wollt , directed by Dieter Dorn . The version of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, staged as a reading sample, is legendary . Directed by George Tabori , and Holtzmann played, as so often at the Kammerspiele, alongside Peter Lühr . In 2001 he moved to the Bavarian State Theater with the artistic director Dorn and numerous other actors from the Kammerspiele . Here Dorn staged with him as Antonio the Merchant of Venice and Barbara Frey Beckett's Endgame .

Holtzmann was rarely seen in the cinema, but more often on television. In the German-French co-production Who Are You, Dr. Worry? He took on a leading role in 1961, as well as in the television play Die Wölfe by director Falk Harnack in 1963. In the crime series Der Kommissar , he played in 1969 in the episode On the Schedule: Murder , directed by Theodor Grädler, the primary suspect high school teacher . In the television miniseries Factory of the Officers , the remake of a novel by Hans Hellmut Kirst , he was seen in the role of Major General Modersohn. He also appeared in several episodes of the crime series Derrick and Der Alte and in an episode of Der Bulle von Tölz . He had his last television role in 2004 in the film adaptation of the stage drama Uncle Vanja by Anton Chekhov .

In 2007, for his 80th birthday, a television portrait was made with the title Holtzmanns Erzählungen - With the Munich actor on a world and theater trip . In the last years of his life, Holtzmann stood out primarily with readings, including for audio books. His last public appearance was on February 27, 2010 at the Cuvilliés Theater in Munich , where he and his wife read from the diaries of Sofja and Leo Tolstoy .

Thomas Holtzmann was married to the actress Gustl Halenke from 1956 until his death .

theatre

Filmography

TV adaptations of theatrical performances

Feature and television films

Radio plays

Awards

literature

  • Gerhard Stadelmaier : The king of the rich madness . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . January 5, 2013, p. 34 . [Obituary]
  • C. Bernd Sucher : Thomas Holtzmann, The face behind the mask . In: Theater magicians, actors, 40 portraits . 1988, ISBN 3-492-03125-0 , pp. 110-117 .
  • Egbert Tholl: There is only good or bad . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . January 5, 2013, p. 13 ( sueddeutsche.de ). [Obituary]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Actor Thomas Holtzmann died. In: The Standard . Retrieved January 4, 2013.
  2. ^ Theater program of the Burgtheater from March 12, 1965.
  3. ^ Theater program at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus on November 23, 1969.
  4. ^ Theater program at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus on March 5, 1970.
  5. ^ Theater program at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus from September 1, 1976.
  6. ^ Theater program at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus on March 4, 1977.
  7. ^ Obituary in the SZ of January 4, 2013
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  14. ↑ Information according to IMDb ; Hellmuth Karasek : Critique in the Spiegel from May 20, 1985
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  17. ↑ Information according to IMDb
  18. ^ Wallenstein (1987-). In: IMBd. Accessed August 28, 2018 .
  19. ^ BR radio play Pool - Hältner, Irmis Ehre
personal data
SURNAME Holtzmann, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich , Bavaria, Germany
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 2013
Place of death Munich , Bavaria, Germany