Claus Biederstaedt

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Claus Biederstaedt

Claus Biederstaedt (born June 28, 1928 in Stargard / Pomerania ; † June 18, 2020 in Eichenau / Upper Bavaria ) was a German actor and voice actor .

Life

Childhood and youth

Claus Biederstaedt was the only son of Fritz Biederstaedt (1897-1971), a teacher of Music and Art History at the Stargarder Girls' High School, who also worked as a conductor and organist.

As for his father, music played a major role in Claus Biederstaedt's life; for him it was “the greatest of all” from childhood. The father was drafted as a reserve officer during World War II and served on a general staff on the Eastern Front . The grandfather Paul Biederstaedt († 1935) was superintendent of the Marienkirche in Prenzlau . Claus Biederstaedt indirectly owed him to him for his rescue from a boiler trapped by the Russians at the end of the Second World War, because the driver of a military truck knew his grandfather and therefore took him with him. His comrades all died.

The father's original career aspiration had been opera conductor. Claus Biederstaedt learned to play the piano and organ with him and sang in his choir. His mother was very interested in art and music. She repeatedly took over solo parts, e.g. B. in Handel's Messiah or in Bach's Christmas Oratorio . As a child, Biederstaedt admired Ernst Udet , with whom he was once allowed to fly because he was indirectly known to Biederstaedt's parents. This led to a crush on the profession of pilot.

At the age of 15, Claus Biederstaedt became a flak helper , and at 16, the student at the Gröning grammar school was drafted to the Eastern Front. After all of his classmates had died, he was just able to flee westward with a wounded comrade from the approaching Soviet troops. Biederstaedt's mother, also on a trek westwards, was firmly convinced that her only son Claus had died due to the desolate situation, so she took her own life with a cyanide capsule and was buried in a mass grave.

After meeting his father again, they both moved to Hamburg . There he attended the Wilhelm Gymnasium to catch up on his Abitur, which he passed with a large Latinum and Graecum . He also sang in his father's choir. One of his classmates at the grammar school was Joachim Kaiser . Biederstaedt decided to study medicine to become a doctor. In the fourth semester, however, he realized that he was not suitable for this.

Drama and theater

When he was on stage with his choir at a play, he got to know and appreciate Will Quadflieg . He gave him lessons at the drama school of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg and became his role model. He was also taught by Joseph Offenbach and Josef Dahmen . Under Offenbach he worked temporarily as an assistant director. He learned fencing, rhythmic gymnastics, costume studies, history of literature, speaking technique and role studies. After taking his final exam at the German Stage Members' Cooperative, he played as a theater actor on the stages in Hamburg, Berlin , Munich , Cologne and Wiesbaden, among others . In later years Biederstaedt also worked as a theater director and staged, among other things, Des Teufels General in 1985 , Der Hauptmann von Köpenick in 1986 and Gerhart Hauptmann's Before Sunset in 1993 . He was on stage more than 1,000 times with the actresses Karin Dor and Angélique Duvier in the play Der Neurosenkavalier by Gunther Beth , most recently in Essen in 2008 .

Cinema and television

In 1952, Biederstaedt made his film debut in The Great Temptation and received the German Film Award for Best Young Actor . In later years Biederstaedt also appeared frequently on television; Among other things, he played the male lead in 1963 alongside Heidelinde Weis in the twenty-part television series Meine Frau Susanne .

Synchronization and speaking roles

From 1960 Claus Biederstaedt worked as a voice actor. He often lent his voice to Marlon Brando (among others in The Last Tango in Paris or Queimada ), James Garner (German standard dubbing voice since Detective Rockford - just call ), Peter O'Toole ( How do you steal a million? ) , Peter Falk ( Columbo ) , Vittorio Gassman (including Life is a Novel or In Love with Sharp Curves ) and Yves Montand (including César and Rosalie or Vincent, François, Paul and the others ).

From the early 1950s to the mid-1980s, he appeared in numerous radio plays for public broadcasters. In the television series Raumpatrouille (1966) he spoke the introductory text "What still sounds like a fairy tale today ...". As a narrator from the off , he was used in the TV production Es muss nicht immer Kaviar (1977). His voice was also heard in advertisements. The best known spot with Biederstaedt as the speaker was the one for the Audi Procon-ten system in the early 1990s . After Achim Höppner's death , he took over his part in the audio book production of Golo Mann's "German History" as a complete edition on 37 CDs by the Zurich-based Diogenes Verlag.

marriage and family

Claus Biederstaedt was married for a second time in 1974 and had a son (* 1961) from his first marriage who is a trained film editor . He last lived in Eichenau .

Sickness and death

In August 2008, at the age of 80, he had to give up his professional engagement. A cancer was diagnosed that required numerous surgeries and resulted in the loss of most of his tongue. Claus Biederstaedt died in June 2020, a few days before his 92nd birthday.

Honors

Filmography

movie theater

Television (selection)

  • 1959: Love of the Year (TV movie)
  • 1962: Last item on the agenda (TV film)
  • 1963: Fathers-in-Law (TV movie)
  • 1963: My wife Susanne (TV series)
  • 1963: The Witcher (TV movie)
  • 1964: Comedy of Errors (TV movie)
  • 1965: Caesar and Cleopatra (TV movie)
  • 1966: History of the Rittmeister Schach von Wuthenow (TV movie)
  • 1966: Hava, the hedgehog (TV movie)
  • 1967: Nobile - Seven Weeks on the Ice (TV series)
  • 1968: This woman for example (TV movie)
  • 1968: The Blue Straw Hat (TV movie)
  • 1968: Flachsmann as an educator (TV film)
  • 1970: Dangerous Curiosity (TV movie)
  • 1970: Dear Friends (TV movie)
  • 1970: Up and Away (TV movie)
  • 1971: Der Kommissar - Kellner Windeck (TV series)
  • 1972: Divorce on musical terms (TV movie)
  • 1972: A Surgeon Recalls (TV Series)
  • 1973: Stay as you are (TV movie)
  • 1973: Okay SIR - Old Bills (TV series)
  • 1974: Under One Roof (TV series)
  • 1974: Thousand Francs Reward (TV movie)
  • 1974: The Commissioner - The couple killer
  • 1975: Resolved and Announced - All Benefits Apply (TV series)
  • 1975: The Commissioner - A Border Crossing
  • 1976: The Commissioner - The hero of the day
  • 1976: Festival for a crook (TV movie)
  • 1977: Do you have nothing to declare? (TV movie)
  • 1977: It doesn't always have to be caviar (TV series, voice-over narrator)
  • 1977: Special Department K1 - Death of a barrier guard (TV series)
  • 1978–1982: The strange methods of Franz Josef Wanninger (TV series, 60 episodes)
  • 1979: Derrick - Schubach's return
  • 1980: Police Inspection 1 - The unpleasant thing with Berndi (TV series)
  • 1980: The Old One (TV series)
  • 1981: Black Monday (TV series)
  • 1982: Water for the Flowers (TV movie)
  • 1982: Two dead in the transmitter and Don Carlos in the PoGl (TV film)
  • 1982: Special Department K1 - The Masurian Towel
  • 1982: Villa for rent (TV movie)
  • 1982: Derrick - a scary experience
  • 1983: Our Most Beautiful Years (TV series)
  • 1983: Police Inspectorate 1 - Educational Issues (TV series)
  • 1984: Berliner Weisse with Shot (TV series)
  • 1985: It Doesn't Always Have to Be Murder - Neighborhood Aid (TV Series)
  • 1985: Derrick - death of a young girl
  • 1988: The Black Forest Clinic - The Beginning of the End? (TV series)
  • 1988: The Black Forest Clinic - How You Me So I You (TV series)
  • 1989: The Old One - A Day of Fear (TV series)
  • 1993: Derrick - The Strange Thing of Love
  • 2011: Germaine Damar - The dancing star (DVD documentation)

Synchronous (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

Web links

Commons : Claus Biederstaedt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Claus Biederstaedt has died. In: sueddeutsche.de. June 21, 2020, accessed June 21, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Gudrun Gloth: I thought that was my end ... Conversations with contemporary witnesses about their experiences in World War II. FA Herbig Verlagsbuchhandlung GmbH , Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7766-8223-6 ( limited preview in Google book search [accessed June 22, 2020]).
  3. ^ Fritz Biederstaedt in the library for research on educational history.
  4. ^ Fritz Biederstaedt in: Pommersche Musikgeschichte - Historical overview and life pictures, issue 28, 1988.
  5. ^ Fritz Biederstaedt in: Close intelligence intelligence (East) and Soviet Russian Army Radio System until 1945, 1985.
  6. ^ Fritz Biederstaedt obituary in: Baltic studies.
  7. ↑ a b c Claus Biederstaedt in conversation with Wolfgang Binder (PDF file; 53 KB). In: Bayerischer Rundfunk from December 12, 2003, on: br.de
  8. ↑ a b c d e f g Gerhard Fischer: "I am grateful that I was able to experience the golden times" . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of June 22, 2018, on: süddeutsche.de
  9. ↑ a b Andreas Zemke: 1972: Interview with Claus Biederstaedt . In: Deutsche Welle of September 18, 2013, at: dw.com
  10. ↑ a b Heinz Fiedler: The permanent groom in the entertainment cinema . In: Sächsische Zeitung of March 11, 2017, on: sz-online.de (no longer available), article preview at Genios
  11. ↑ "But that doesn't happen to them in Munich". In: Voice of July 25, 2007, on: Stimme.de
  12. ↑ The classic series “Meine Frau Susanne” is now available on DVD , buch-film.com, May 22, 2016
  13. Jump up ↑ Theft, chase, shots and a little trick: a crime thriller about the son of film legend Claus Biederstaedt: This is how Tom tricked the car thieves. tz.de, January 28, 2019.
  14. ↑ Claus Biederstaedt with his wife and their son, 1961. keypix.de, accessed on March 27, 2019.
  15. ↑ Celebrity birthday of June 28, 2018: Claus Biederstaedt. volksstimme.de , June 28, 2018.
  16. ↑ To live from happiness , gustl-magazin.de, January 12, 2017
  17. ↑ Tongue amputated, cancer defeated. bild.de, December 22, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Biederstaedt, Claus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Stargard in Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 2020
Place of death Eichenau , Upper Bavaria