Walter Plathe

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Walter Fritz Ernst Plathe (born November 5, 1950 in Berlin ) is a German theater and film actor .

Life

Walter Plathe grew up in the former Rosenthaler Vorstadt in the East Berlin district of Mitte and initially wanted to become a veterinarian. That is why he learned the profession of specialist salesman for zoo items, in which he also initially worked. He also appeared in the youth studio of the cabaret Die Distel .

After attending the State Drama School in Berlin from 1968 onwards, he was engaged at the Schwerin State Theater in 1971 and at the Berlin Theater of Friendship, today Theater an der Parkaue , in 1976 . Since 1972 he has also worked in feature films and television productions. From the 1980s onwards there were also assignments as a moderator and conférencier . In June 1986 and December 1987, for example, he ran Kessel Buntes , one of the most important entertainment programs on GDR television. In 1988 he also hosted his own entertainment program here with Said is said .

In the summer of 1989, he appeared as a guest at the, among others, the GDR Union of Journalists organized, 20 solidarity bazaar of Berlin journalists at the Berlin Alexanderplatz and was on 14 September in the East German entertainment show fun with Hans-Georg Ponesky guest . Shortly afterwards he moved to the Federal Republic and lived in Hamburg for a few years.

After 1990, Plathe became known to a broad public nationwide, in particular through his leading role in the ZDF television series Der Landarzt , in which he represented the doctor Dr. Ulrich Teschner embodied. In addition, Plathe was and is a frequent guest in other TV series, u. a. Derrick . Furthermore, Plathe works as an Otto Reutter interpreter. In autumn 2010 he was on tour with a program of the Theater am Kurfürstendamm as Zille . In 2015 and 2017 he took on the role of Götz von Berlichingen at the Jagsthausen Castle Festival .

Plathe was married twice and has a son from his first marriage. In his second marriage from 1999 to 2008 he was married to the 23 years younger actress Victoria Sturm , who also starred in the series Der Landarzt (1999 to 2008). In his autobiography I have not missed anything , published in 2017, he first publicly admitted to bisexuality .

In 1999, Plathe co-founded the Zille Museum in Berlin with Harald Juhnke and Günter Pfitzmann , which opened in 2002 in the Nikolaiviertel.

Filmography (selection)

theatre

  • 1977: Horst Hawemann : Tschapai… Tschapai… Tschapajew - Direction: Joachim Siebenschuh / Mirjana Erceg ( Theater der Freunde Berlin)
  • 1977: Erich Köhler : Das kleine Gespenst (Prahli) - Director: Wolfgang Engel (Theater of Friendship)
  • 1978: Eugen Eschner : Spring Caprioles - Director: Mirjana Erceg (Theater of Friendship)
  • 1978: Lutz Dechant : Paul and Maria - Director: Joachim Siebenschuh (Theater of Friendship)
  • 1978: Margarete Steffin : If he had an angel - Direction: Wolfgang Engel (Theater der Freunde)
  • 1978: Dieter Süverkrüp : Das Auto Blubberbumm - Director: Herbert Fischer (Theater of Friendship)
  • 2009: Horst Pillau : Zille - Director: Klaus Gendries (Theater am Kurfürstendamm)
  • 2018: Candide - Director: Winfried Schneider (State Operetta Dresden)
  • 2018: The Happy Vineyard - Director: Christian Filips (Literarisches Colloquium Berlin)
  • 2019: Monsieur Pierre goes online (comedy on Kurfürstendamm in the Schiller Theater)

Radio plays

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b WDR 4 : Walter Plathe questionnaire. Broadcast on February 9, 2016, accessed on December 10, 2016.
  2. ↑ Ralph Kotsch: Points contest that still has some reserves . in Neues Deutschland , August 16, 1988.
  3. ^ New Germany : 200,000 at the solidarity bazaar of Berlin journalists . 26./27. August 1989.
  4. ↑ New Germany : Current screen . September 11, 1989.
  5. ^ "Götz" premiere at the Jagsthausen Castle Festival: Walter Plathe in the title role of the knight with the iron hand. Jagsthausen Castle Festival, June 19, 2017, accessed on August 9, 2018 .
  6. ↑ a b Actor Walter Plathe comes out as bisexual. Queer.de, March 8, 2017, accessed August 9, 2018 .
  7. ^ Zille Museum in Berlin. Retrieved January 18, 2016 .
  8. ↑ http://www.komoedie-berlin.de/produktionen/zille.html
  9. ↑ http://www.morgenpost.de/kultur/article103895609/Walter-Plathe-in-Urauffuehrung-als-Zille-gefeiert.html
  10. ↑ Comedy on Kurfürstendamm: Monsieur Pierre goes online. In: Comedy on Kurfürstendamm. Komödie am Kurfürstendamm, March 17, 2019, accessed on March 17, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Alzey honors Walter Plathe with the Wine Culture Prize from April 20, 2009.
  12. ↑ Beer against thirst, wine for the senses - Walter Plathe receives Scheupreis  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) from July 11, 2009@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wormser-zeitung.de
personal data
SURNAME Plathe, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plathe, Walter Fritz Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH 5th November 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin