Alfred Müller (actor)

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Alfred Müller (born July 4, 1926 in Berlin ; † December 2, 2010 there ) was a German theater and film actor .

Life

Alfred Müller's breakthrough as an actor came in 1955 at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater in East Berlin, after starting his career in Senftenberg . He stayed at the Gorki Theater for ten years until 1965. In 1964, the government honored his acting performance with the GDR Art Prize . A year later, his film, The Rabbit I Am , in which he plays a judge who has an affair with the defendant's sister, was banned for almost 25 years.

Müller also became known for the role of the MfS agent Hansen in For Eyes Only by János Veiczi , for which Harry Thürk wrote the script . In Veiczi's eleven-part television series Rendezvous with unknown from 1969, for which Thürk also wrote the scripts, Müller played the main role of MfS major Wendt.

In 1972 he went to the Maxim-Gorki-Theater for a second time and stayed there until 1984. Parallel to his work on the stage, Müller was also repeatedly seen on television. In 1969 he received the National Prize for his role as Karl Marx in the film Mohr and the Ravens of London . In 1975 Müller was chosen to be the recipient of the Goethe Prize . He acted in several GDR television productions, such as the postman Alois Wachtel in the Bergkristall holiday home .

After the fall of the Wall, Müller could be seen in other television productions such as Tatort and Polizeiruf 110 from 1993 . On stage he worked, among others, in the Theater des Westens and in the Theater am Kurfürstendamm .

On December 2, 2010, Alfred Müller died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 84 .

His written estate is in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

According to his request, he was buried at sea in the Baltic Sea off the island of Usedom .

Filmography (selection)

theatre

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biography. In: DEFA Foundation , accessed on August 9, 2012.
  2. ↑ Bärbel Beuchler: He was the "James Bond of the East" ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ). In: Superillu , December 13, 2010.
  3. ↑ Alfred Müller Archive Inventory overview on the website of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin.
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 2010
Place of death Berlin