Dieter Hufschmidt

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Dieter Hufschmidt (* 1935 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) is a German actor , theater director , radio play speaker and reciter .

Life

Dieter Hufschmidt was born as the fourth son of a commercial clerk, he has a total of six siblings, all of them brothers. During the Second World War he spent three years of his life as a child as part of the Kinderlandverschickung in Swabia. Even while he was still at high school, Hufschmidt took private acting lessons from Adolf Dell , who was employed at the Düsseldorf theater at the time , and passed his stage maturity test. Hufschmidt began his theater career in the 1955/56 season at the Städtische Bühnen Bonn, three years later he moved to the Stadttheater Bremerhaven . After further engagements at the stages in Braunschweig, Baden-Baden and Münster, he was engaged by the then artistic director Franz Reichert at the Hanover Theater in 1969 , where he celebrated his 60th stage anniversary in September 2015. Here Hufschmidt also worked as a director. Until 2006 he was a permanent member of the company in Hanover, in later years he played at the Schauspielhaus Bochum, among others .

Well-known pieces with Hufschmidt's participation were Tennessee Williams' The Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , Don Karlos by Friedrich Schiller , Henrik Ibsen's Wildente or the world premiere of Lutz Huebner's play Flower Dreams . He played the character of the language professor Henry Higgins in GB Shaw's play Pygmalion as well as in the musical adaptation My Fair Lady by Frederick Loewe and Alan J. Lerner .

Hufschmidt made a name for himself just because of his voice. In addition to his participation in almost 100 radio play productions, he is known for extensive readings and recitation evenings. For example, Hufschmidt read from Marcel Proust's novel In Search of Lost Time over a period of eight years . He has with another long-time reading The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil initiated. His repertoire also includes texts by Goethe , Kleist and Paul Celan's death fugue .

One of Dieter Hufschmidt's brothers was the composer and church musician Wolfgang Hufschmidt . In his graduation film 7 Brothers , the director Sebastian Winkels portrayed the Hufschmidt siblings in a documentary film in 2003. Hufschmidt himself summarized stories and anecdotes from his life into a play with the solo piece My head is a chirping bird's nest . For many years he was a lecturer at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media , of which he is now an honorary professor.

Since the end of the 1950s and increasingly from the beginning of the 1970s, Dieter Hufschmidt has always been in front of the camera. He often embodied officials such as judges and prosecutors. In the series Our Teacher Doctor Specht , he played a school councilor in several episodes.

Filmography

Radio plays (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ronald Meyer-Arlt: "He amused himself like Bolle" , Hannoversche Allgemeine dated August 21, 2015 , accessed on June 15, 2016
  2. ↑ Review on the occasion of a performance of My Head is a Twittering Bird's Nest , accessed on June 16, 2016
  3. ↑ a b Short biography on the website of the Schauspielhaus Bochum ( memento of the original from June 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 16, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schauspielhausbochum.de
  4. ↑ a b Short biography on the Hanover Theater website , accessed on June 16, 2016
  5. ↑ a b Ronald Meyer-Arlt: Dieter Hufschmidt in the Schauspielhaus , Hannoversche Allgemeine from October 21, 2012 , accessed on June 16, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Hufschmidt, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, theater director, radio play speaker and reciter
DATE OF BIRTH 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr