Dieter Eppler

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Heinz Dieter Eppler (born February 11, 1927 in Stuttgart ; † April 12, 2008 there ) was a German actor .

Life

Eppler already sang in the children's choir at the Stuttgart Opera and took on extra roles there. After graduating from high school, he financed his acting lessons as a construction worker and liquor seller. In 1947 he was on stage for the first time in Heidenheim and Sigmaringen . He worked for three years at touring theaters , then he received a seven-year contract at the State Theater in Stuttgart . Eppler embodied the Templar in Nathan the Wise , Hartmann in The Devil's General and Hippolytus in Racine's Phaedra .

Further engagements took him to the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe , the Komödie im Marquardt Stuttgart, the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, where he won the Dr. Walpo in Shaw's The Doctor at the Crossroads , to the theater Die Kleine Freiheit in Munich, to the Kammertheater Karlsruhe, the Theater Baden-Baden and the Kleine Komödie in Munich, where he acted alongside Sonja Ziemann in Shaw's California Roulette .

Eppler worked as a spokesman for the Süddeutscher Rundfunk and was seen in film and television from 1956. He worked in 37 national and international film productions. Initially, he was committed to World War II soldier roles. His most famous film of this kind was U 47 - Kapitänleutnant Prien . In the 1960s it was used frequently in Edgar Wallace films . He was also seen in over 150 television films and series, for example as Inspector Liersdahl in the ARD television series Tatort . He was also often seen in crime series such as Stahlnetz , Der Alte , Polizeiinspektion 1 , Großstadtrevier and Derrick . As an actor, Dieter Eppler also appeared in the ZDF television series Der Landarzt as Hugo Cornelsen.

In addition to his acting activities, Dieter Eppler directed over 40 radio plays and was also a popular speaker. He lived and worked in Stuttgart, had been married to Magdalene Schnaitmann since 1947 and had five children. According to his family, he died on April 12, 2008 at the age of 81 after a long and serious illness in Stuttgart . He was buried in the cemetery of the Stuttgart district of Birkach .

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Dieter Eppler in: Spiegel
  2. ^ Heinz Dieter Eppler . knerger.de. Retrieved December 12, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Eppler, Dieter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eppler, Heinz Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 2008
Place of death Stuttgart