Ernst-Georg Schwill

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Ernst-Georg Schwill, 2013

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)

Radio plays

literature

Web links

Commons : Ernst-Georg Schwill  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Actor Ernst-Georg Schwill has died. Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 9, 2020, accessed on April 9, 2020 .
  2. ↑ 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 ).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bstu.bund.de
  3. ↑ Excitement in the ARD: Stasi spy plays Stasi officer. Berliner Morgenpost , November 10, 2011.
  4. ^ Sven Felix Kellerhoff : “Tatort” actor Schwill spitzelte until 1989. November 19, 2012, accessed on May 22, 2018 .
  5. ↑ 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 .
  6. ↑ Ernst-Georg Schwill is dead: death shock! "Tatort" star died at the age of 81 Online article news.de from April 10, 2020.
  7. ↑ Online article in the Berliner Morgenpost from July 27, 2020
personal data
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