Ernst-Georg Schwill
Ernst-Georg Schwill (born March 30, 1939 in Berlin ; † April 9, 2020 there ) was a German actor .
Life
Schwill and his four siblings grew up with his mother and later, as an orphan, first with his aunt. He then lived in a home for the difficult-to-educate and in the children's home in the Königsheide in Berlin. Here he was discovered at the age of 14 by film director Gerhard Klein for the DEFA crime strip Alarm im Zirkus (1954). Schwill gave up his career aspiration as a car mechanic in favor of a career in film. He initially trained as a film photographer in order to be able to become a cameraman , then studied acting at the German Academy for Film Art in Babelsberg from 1957 to 1960 .
During his training and his studies he did extensive film work for DEFA, of which he briefly belonged to the acting ensemble. His best-known film roles included the youngster “Coal” in Berlin - at the corner of Schönhauser… , the Rainer Meister in Heiner Carow's anti-fascist film made in 1958. They called him Amigo and his embodiment of Willi Seifert in Frank Beyer's five cartridge cases from 1960. 1962 he acted disguised as a bear in the DEFA fairy tale film Little Red Riding Hood based on a model by the Brothers Grimm and Evgeni Lwowitsch Schwarz .
In addition to his artistic work, Schwill was also politically active. In the early 1960s he became a candidate in the FDJ Central Council . From October 27, 1964 to May 22, 1973 Schwill worked as IM "Jacob" for the Ministry for State Security of the GDR. From 1983 to 1989 he worked again as IM "Maxe" for the MfS.
Schwill was briefly a member of the Erich Weinert Ensemble (EWE) of the National People's Army in Berlin-Biesdorf .
After a two-year theater engagement at the Berliner Ensemble and the Deutsches Theater , Schwill initially worked as a freelance, before he was contracted again in 1970 as a permanent actor with the GDR's German television network . In the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, he mainly played supporting roles in television films, series and plays, for example in productions by the Moritzburg television theater such as Between the Fronts (1968) by Otto Gotsche , Die Vielredner and Das Wundertheater (1972 ) by Miguel de Cervantes , When the Rosenkavalier comes ... (1974) by Helmut Grosz , Ein Berg Abwasch (1975) by Paul Herbert Freyer , A total crazy idea (1981) by Carl Laufs , La Mandragola (1984) by Niccolo Machiavelli and the Episode Der Hundezwinger (1989) by Ursula Damm-Wendler from the court series From Case to Case from 1989.
Even after the fall of the Wall in 1989, Ernst-Georg Schwill received roles in television series such as For all cases Stefanie , Mama is impossible , the children's series Die Gespenster von Flatterfels in which he plays the crook Paul, but especially in the television series Polizeiruf 110 , in which he from 1972 to 1997 participated in eleven episodes, and in Tatort from Berlin , where he played the assistant Lutz Weber from 1999 to 2013 . Most recently (2018) he was seen in a supporting role in the second episode of the ARD crime film series Der Prag-Krimi .
In 2008, his memoirs appeared under the title Isn't a question . 2012 was titled Icke, my and other crime scenes. Stories. another book with personal stories published by him at Verlag am Park .
On April 9, 2020, Schwill died of a heart attack at the age of 81 in Berlin. He found his final resting place in Cemetery I of the Georgen Parochial Community in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg , Greifswalder Strasse 229.
Filmography (selection)
- 1954: Alarm in the circus
- 1956: A Berlin romance
- 1957: Berlin - corner of Schönhauser ...
- 1959: SAS 181 does not answer
- 1959: They called him Amigo
- 1959: May punch
- 1960: Five cartridge cases
- 1960: One of us
- 1960: New Year's Eve punch
- 1961: The Rabauken-Cabaret
- 1961: the dress
- 1962: Little Red Riding Hood
- 1962: The one from 12b
- 1964: The search for the wonderfully colored bird
- 1965: Berlin around the corner
- 1966: The trip to Sundevit
- 1966: The prosecutor has the floor: Der Rosenkavalier (TV series)
- 1966: Escape into silence
- 1966: The prosecutor has the floor: At Mozartplatz
- 1967: The prosecutor has the floor: My sister
- 1967: Tales of That Night (Episode 4)
- 1967: wedding night in the rain
- 1967: A lord at Alexanderplatz
- 1968: Shots under the gallows
- 1968: Farewell
- 1968: Routes across the country (TV series)
- 1968: He came with the autumn wind (TV theater Moritzburg)
- 1969: Santa Claus is called Willi
- 1969: foggy night
- 1970: my zero hour
- 1970: close to the wind
- 1970: Customs investigation - Buoy 25 (TV series)
- 1971: Optimistic Tragedy (TV)
- 1972: Despite all that!
- 1972: Police call 110: Blood group AB (TV series)
- 1973: The public prosecutor has the floor: night shopping
- 1973: Rotfuchs (TV movie)
- 1973: Cement (TV film, two parts)
- 1973: Night of Secrets (Moritzburg TV Theater)
- 1974: Your Own Skin (TV movie)
- 1974: The Lieutenant vom Schwanenkietz (TV three-part)
- 1974: Police call 110: The advertisement
- 1975: Police call 110: Between the tracks
- 1975: The Black Mill (TV)
- 1975: Bicycle tour (Moritzburg TV theater)
- 1976: Gadgets (TV theater Moritzburg)
- 1976: Late podium: Blauer Dunst (TV theater Moritzburg)
- 1976: Misfortune in the game (TV theater Moritzburg)
- 1977: Who is going to run away from the devil?
- 1977: The little magician and the big five
- 1978: Scharnhorst (TV multi-part)
- 1979: Simply put flowers on the roof
- 1979: Brush Heinrich (TV film)
- 1980: Archives of Death (TV)
- 1980: Police call 110: Witnesses wanted
- 1980: Max and seven and a half boys
- 1981: Asta, my angel
- 1981: The daughters' hour
- 1982: Hello, Mr. Fitter, my husband is on the assembly line (TV theater Moritzburg)
- 1982: The blue Oskar (TV theater Moritzburg)
- 1983: The shots of Noah's Ark
- 1983: Fariaho
- 1984: The Lude
- 1984: The Doll's House in Pinnow (TV movie)
- 1984: Police call 110: Difficult years (1st part)
- 1985: White Cloud Carolin
- 1986: The brigadier's hat
- 1987: Neighborhood stories
- 1987: Rabbit Heart
- 1987: Police call 110: The dead pays
- 1987: Our most beautiful vacation (TV theater Moritzburg)
- 1988: Police Call 110: The Crossword Puzzle Case
- 1988: Rapunzel or the magic of tears
- 1988: Märkische Chronik (TV series)
- 1989: Two weird birds (Direction: Erwin Stranka )
- 1989: Johanna (TV series)
- 1990: Police call 110: Wrong Jasmine
- 1990: Police call 110: Alliance for clay
- 1991: Fire station 09 (TV series)
- 1992: banal days
- 1992–1996: The Ghosts of Flatterfels
- 1993: Anna annA
- 1995: Police call 110: Old friends
- 1995: The frying pan story
- 1996: Police call 110: Short dream
- 1996: The Millionaire (TV play)
- 1997: Police call 110: The exchange
- 1997: The Guard - Brown Shadow (TV Series)
- 1999: Klemperer - A Life in Germany
- 1999: Crime scene: Scrooge's grandson
- 2000: Tatort: Of cops and bears
- 2000: Germany game
- 2001: Crime scene: Berlin bear
- 2001: Tatort: You are dead!
- 2001: Tatort: The Long Arm of Chance
- 2002: Crime scene: payday
- 2002: Our papa, the genius
- 2002: Crime scene: film tear
- 2002: How do I raise my parents?
- 2002: Crime scene: dark chocolate
- 2003: Good Bye, Lenin!
- 2003: Crime scene: Little Red Riding Hood
- 2003: Tatort: Love and its price
- 2003: Crime scene: rosewood
- 2003: Crime scene: Jungle Brothers
- 2003: Days of the Storm
- 2003: Everything Samba
- 2004: Tatort: An honest skin
- 2004: Crime Scene: The Fourth Man
- 2004: A case for two - gigolo
- 2004: An angel named Hans-Dieter
- 2004: Löwenzahn - Peter chases the thief (as Commissioner Flink)
- 2005: The News
- 2005: Tatort: Suffering like an animal
- 2005: Crime scene: Death Bridge
- 2006: Crime scene: Malpractice
- 2006: Tatort: Love is blind
- 2006: Einstein Castle (episodes 411 to 413)
- 2006: Nobody loves you like me (short film)
- 2006: A Strong Team: Dark Shadows (TV series)
- 2007: How do you get hold of your boss?
- 2007: Crime scene: Sleeping Beauty's revenge
- 2007: Crime Scene: Creeping Poison
- 2007: Dandelion - Lifestyle - Time Travel in Bärstadt (as Commissioner Flink)
- 2008: Crime scene: Death of a grasshopper
- 2008: Tatort: Blind Faith
- 2008: Donna Leon - Bloody Stones (TV series)
- 2008: In all friendship - Not too late (TV series)
- 2008: Emergency call on the edge of the harbor - surprising encounter
- 2008: kiss me when it's love
- 2009: SOKO Leipzig - Aysha
- 2009: Honey, wake up the chickens
- 2009: Crime scene: pig money
- 2009: Tatort: Above and Below
- 2010: Crime scene: Hitchcock and Mrs. Wernicke
- 2010: Tatort: The impossibility of imagining death
- 2010: 380,000 volts - The great blackout (TV)
- 2010: The secret in Transylvania
- 2011: It's not over
- 2011: fragments
- 2011: Tatort: People are noble and healthy
- 2011: Crime scene: Mauerpark
- 2012: Tatort: Everything has its price
- 2012: Tatort: Things That Still Need To Be Done
- 2012: Sushi in Suhl
- 2012: The Tower (TV two-part)
- 2012: Blonder than the police allow
- 2012: Gods Like Us - The Weather Crisis (TV Series)
- 2012: SOKO Leipzig - The Condemned
- 2013: Seven days without
- 2013: crime scene: powerless
- 2013: Crime scene: Against the head
- 2014: Tuesday women - seven days without
- 2015: SOKO Wismar - Golden Autumn
- 2015: The Crown of Arkus
- 2016: The last compartment
- 2016: Bad Weather - The Secret of the Past
- 2016: SOKO Leipzig - Horror House
- 2017: Dandelion - bison - primeval animals in danger
- 2017: The beginner
- 2018: The Prague Crime - The Cold Death
Radio plays
- 1968: Rolf Gumlich : In love with one and a half ears - Director: Horst Gosse (children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR )
- 1969: Karl-Heinrich Bonn / Maria Bonn : Die Reise nach K. - Director: Wolfgang Brunecker (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1974: Wolf D. Brennecke : Demolition of a house - Director: Fritz-Ernst Fechner (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1989: Peter Brasch : Santerre (Thuriot) - Director: Joachim Staritz (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 2010: Beate Dölling : Der Hundekönig von Kreuzberg - Director: Klaus-Michael Klingsporn (Children's radio play - DKultur )
literature
- Frank-Burkhard Habel , Volker Wachter : Lexicon of the GDR stars. Actors from film and television. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-304-7 .
- Ernst-Georg Schwill: Isn't that a question - memories of an actor. Verlag Das Neue Berlin , Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-360-01952-3 .
- Ingrid Kirschey-Feix : Schwill, Ernst Georg . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Ernst-Georg Schwill: Icke, mine and other crime scenes. Stories. Verlag am Park in Edition Ost, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-89793-275-3 .
- Günter Helmes , Steffi Schältzke (Ed.): The Moritzburg TV Theater. Institution and schedule . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2003. ISBN 3-936522-99-5 .
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Claudia Kusebauch (ed.): TV theater Moritzburg II. Program history . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2005. ISBN 3-86583-015-3 .
- Claudia Kusebauch (with the assistance of Michael Grisko ): The Moritzburg TV Theater - Program Chronology . Ibid., Pp. 15-208.
Web links
- Ernst-Georg Schwill in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ernst-Georg Schwill biography at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Actor Ernst-Georg Schwill has died. Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 9, 2020, accessed on April 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Article in the press review archive of the BStU (no longer available online), February 6, 2006, formerly in the original ( page no longer available , search in web archives ).
- ↑ Excitement in the ARD: Stasi spy plays Stasi officer. Berliner Morgenpost , November 10, 2011.
- ^ Sven Felix Kellerhoff : “Tatort” actor Schwill spitzelte until 1989. November 19, 2012, accessed on May 22, 2018 .
- ↑ as: Sniffing until the fall of the Berlin Wall: Tatort star Schwill was with the Stasi until 1989. Focus, November 19, 2012, accessed April 10, 2020 .
- ↑ Ernst-Georg Schwill is dead: death shock! "Tatort" star died at the age of 81 Online article news.de from April 10, 2020.
- ↑ Online article in the Berliner Morgenpost from July 27, 2020
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Schwill, Ernst-Georg |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1939 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
DATE OF DEATH | April 9, 2020 |
Place of death | Berlin |