Christoph Hofrichter

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Christoph Hofrichter (born April 30, 1946 in Stuttgart ) is a German actor and director .

Life

Education and theater

Hofrichter received private acting lessons from Hans Helmut Dickow and in Stuttgart from the well-known acting teacher Tordis Ludwig-Haas . He had theater engagements at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz under Peter Stein , at the Staatliche Schauspielbühnen Berlin under director Hans Lietzau , at the Staatstheater Stuttgart under Claus Peymann , at the Theater Basel under the directorship of Werner Düggelin , at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich , at the Schauspielhaus Wuppertal and on Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus under the directorship of Karl-Heinz Stroux .

Hofrichter began his theater career as a beginner at the Stuttgart State Theater , where he took part in the 1966 Palitzsch production The Wars of the Roses (based on Shakespeare ). This was followed by a year at the Badische Landesbühne Bruchsal . In the 1968/69 season he was at the Schauspielhaus Wuppertal under the direction of Hans Bauer in the play Arthur Aronymus and his fathers by Else Lasker-Schüler together with Ilse Ritter and Rosel Zech . At the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus in 1970 he could be seen under the direction of Karl-Heinz Stroux together with Veronika Bayer and Nicole Heesters in the play Triumph des Todes or The Great Massacre by Eugène Ionesco ; the performance was also recorded for television. From 1970 to 1972 he played with Werner Düggelin at the Theater Basel . From 1972 to 1977 Hofrichter belonged to the ensemble of the State Drama Theaters of Berlin under the directorship of Hans Lietzau. In 1977 he briefly returned to the Stuttgart State Theater, in the ensemble of Claus Peymann; he played there u. a. in Entenklemmer , the Swabian version of Molière's The Miser . This was followed by stations again in Basel and Bonn . In 1984 he played again the Duke of Albany in Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear at the Residenztheater in Munich under the direction of Hans Lietzau .

Hofrichter also worked as a director during his theater career : in 1975, together with cameraman René Perraudin, he shot a short film in Berlin based on Heinrich von Kleist's anecdote The Water Drinker and the Incombustible (Production Ossi Wiener , broadcast in SFB Berlin , January 1975). As a theater director , among other things, in 1979 in Düsseldorf I found Drei Gigeuner , 1980 in Basel Freedom I mean (theater evening with songs and texts by Heinrich Heine , Georg Herwegh and others), 1987 Die Gerechten by Albert Camus ) at the Württemberg State Theater Esslingen - Artistic director Friedrich Schirmer , also under this artistic director in 1989 in Freiburg im Breisgau children's tragedy by Karl Schönherr and in 1992 at the Staatstheater Stuttgart Samum by August Strindberg , together with Atem / Nacht und Träume by Samuel Beckett . In 2003 he staged the comedy Over all summits is Ruh by Thomas Bernhard at the Tiroler Landestheater .

Movie and TV

Since the 1970s Hofrichter was also seen in films and on television. In 1973 he played Longaville for ZDF in a television version of Shakespeare's comedy Lost Love Labor, entitled Love suffers with lust . In 1978, the “Goethe Year”, Hessian TV produced a short adaptation of Faust ; Hofrichter played the double role of Faust and Mephisto in the film Person Faust , while Franziska Walser played as Gretchen . In 1985, in Didi and the Revenge of the Disinherited , he played Langenhagen, the stupid assistant to the police superintendent. From the 1980s Hofrichter could be seen in numerous television series. Hofrichter took on several continuous series roles, recurring episode roles and guest roles. In 1986 he shot the comedy Three Against Three with Dominik Graf ; he played the tank salesman Dr. Fisherman. In 1987 he played the embassy attaché Sigi von Hofmeister alongside Manfred Krug in the ARD early evening series Aufachse .

Between 1982 and 2006 Hofrichter worked in a total of eleven episodes of the crime series Tatort . In two Tatort episodes, he impersonated Dr. Born the unpleasant colleagues and superiors of Detective Inspector Horst Schimanski. In 1999 he played in the Tatort episode Bienzle and the Zuckerbäcker on Südwestrundfunk the role of lawyer Dr. Fisherman. In the episode Bienzle and the Stone Guest , court judge was the music expert and critic Dr. Arnulf Sontheim, who is the victim of a murder. In 2006 he was seen again in the role of Arthur Katzbach in the Tatort , this time in the episode Bienzle and Death in the market hall .

In 1992 he had a leading role in the Swabian television series Der König von Bärenbach . He played the city inspector and later mayor Manfred Schnell at the side of Walter Schultheiss . In 2000, Hofrichter played the Swiss major general Bruno Botta in the movie Joint Security Area in South Korea . The film (director: Park Chan-wook ) was an international success and ran in 2001 in the Berlinale competition. In 2009 he played Mayor Braun in the crime film The Woman Who Disappeared in the Forest . With Dominik Graf in the crime scene: The Red Shadow (2017).

In 1980 he also appeared in Basel on the ARD TV show One will win as an artist.

Speaker and acting teacher

Hofrichter also worked as a reciter and as a speaker in radio plays . In 1990, he took the South German Radio that Kriminalhörspiel Slippery fingers of Dashiell Hammett on.

He also worked as an acting teacher, from 1996 to 1998 lecturer at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich . His students include a. the actors Stefanie von Poser ., Jörn Knebel and Christian Baus . Christoph Hofrichter has also worked as a screenwriter since the 1990s and is involved in the creation of film projects as a “ creative producer ”.

Political commitment

Hofrichter has been politically active since 1966. He took part in many activities of the so-called "left scene", including party politics. As a lieder singer, he appeared in various politically committed programs. Hofrichter was intensely involved in the citizens' initiative to prevent the Stuttgart 21 construction project . He described the project as a “cultural-political crime”. Since the 2014 local elections , he has been active in the Obertürkheim district of Stuttgart as a district advisory board for the LINKEN parliamentary group with SÖS -Piraten- Tierschutz . He is a member of the CG Jung Gesellschaft Stuttgart e. V. in Stuttgart.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Hofrichter vollfilm.com
  2. ↑ Christoph Hofrichter profile at Schauspielervideos.de
  3. ↑ Arthur Aronymus and his fathers ; Schauspielhaus Wuppertal (1965–1970) ( Memento of the original dated February 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Homepage of the actress Rosel Zech @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rosel-zech.de
  4. ↑ King Lear . Theater Reviews JSTOR
  5. ↑ "There is peace above all peaks" DIE ZEIT , 05/2003
  6. ^ Didi and the revenge of the disinherited Moviemaster.de , short review
  7. ^ Bienzle and the confectioner . Crime scene fundus
  8. ^ Tatort - Bienzle and the stone guest film database
  9. ↑ Bienzle and Death in the Market Hall . Crime scene fundus
  10. ↑ The King of Bärenbach Fernsehserien.de
  11. ↑ The King of Bärenbach television lexicon
  12. ↑ The woman who disappeared in the forest Ziegler Film
  13. ↑ Slippery fingers HÖRDAT, the audio play database (No. 6)
  14. ↑ Stefanie von Poser . Vita jo art ensemble
  15. ↑ The protest should continue Stuttgarter Zeitung; January 13, 2010
  16. ↑ Christoph Hofrichter against Stuttgart 21 Video YouTube
  17. ↑ http://soeslinkeplus.de/bezirke/obertuerkheim/
personal data
SURNAME Court judge, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart