Fred Delmare

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Fred Delmare , bourgeois Werner Vorndran , (born April 24, 1922 in Hüttensteinach , Thuringia , † May 1, 2009 in Leipzig ) was a German actor .

Live and act

Werner Vorndran was the son of a carpenter and a seamstress and grew up in Hüttensteinach near Sonneberg , where he worked as a teenager on a farmer's stage . After completing elementary school, he learned the trade of toolmaker . As a war volunteer , he went to the Navy in Bremerhaven in 1940 . In 1940 and 1941 he took his first acting lessons from the artistic director Karl Georg Saebisch at the local theater and worked as an extra in an operetta production . In 1943 he suffered a serious stomach injury while doing military service, for which he was treated until the end of the war.

In 1946 he went to Weimar and received acting lessons from Walter Jupé at the National Theater there . Since then he has been using the stage name Fred Delmare . From 1947 to 1950 Delmare completed the drama school of the Hebbel Theater in West Berlin as an external student . He made his debut there in 1947 as Vansen in Egmont . In 1950 he moved to the Leipziger Schauspielhaus , to which he belonged until 1970.

His grave in the Leipziger Südfriedhof

Fred Delmare, who is only 1.60 meters tall, is best known for his roles in more than 200  films . In his 50-year career, he played roles such as Pippig in Nackt unter Wölfen , the tire dealer Saft in Die Legende von Paul und Paula and Enno Kluge in Everyone dies for himself . With these roles at the latest, Delmare became one of the most popular film actors in the GDR . He was also known for his roles in productions at the Moritzburg television theater , for example in Marcel Achard's His Masterpiece (1966), Louis-Benoît Picard's Der Parasit (1967), Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Die Panne (1967) and Hans-Albert Pederzani's Unusual Excursion (1969) ). In the 1990s he appeared more and more in television series , including in Lindenstrasse , in Unser Charly and as Friedrich Steinbach in In All Friendship . His acting career ended in November 2005 with a day of filming for the series In allerfreund . This last episode (296) with Delmare as Grandpa Friedrich was broadcast on January 31, 2006. In December 2005, it was revealed that the actor was suffering from Alzheimer's disease . From the beginning of 2006 he lived in a nursing home in Leipzig.

Delmare was married five times, most recently from 1986 to his death with Renate Schuck (1944-2016). From his first four marriages he had five children (three daughters and two sons). The actor suffered a few blows of fate. Daughter Felicitas committed suicide in 1980 after fleeing to West Germany. In 1993 - on his father's birthday night - son Nici stabbed his girlfriend to death. The eldest son Tino died of liver cancer in 2001 at the age of 41.

One day after his 87th birthday, Fred Delmare was admitted to a Leipzig hospital with bilateral pneumonia, from the consequences of which he died a few days later. His urn was buried on May 27, 2009 with the participation of numerous former colleagues in Leipzig's southern cemetery.

His written estate is in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

Awards

Filmography

theatre

Radio plays

Sound recordings

  • Volkmar Röhrig; Anja Kling; Gerit Kling; Fred Delmare: Fred Delmare reads Hugo Rabbit becomes Santa Claus. Audio CD, Militzke; 1st edition 2005, ISBN 3-86189-918-3 .
  • Volkmar Röhrig; Fred Delmare: Hugo Rabbit detective. Audio CD. Hörwerk 2003, ISBN 3-935185-21-9 .
  • The bear on the high seat. Audio CD, 2003, ISBN 3-935185-19-7 .
  • The most beautiful animal tales by the Brothers Grimm. Audio CD, 2003, ISBN 3-935185-20-0 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c See information about Fred Delmare at filmportal.de (see web links).
  2. ↑ a b Actor Fred Delmare is dead. Report from May 3, 2009 at Spiegel Online (last accessed: May 28, 2009)
  3. ↑ a b King of the supporting roles. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung, May 4, 2009, p. 4.
  4. ^ A silent farewell for "Axel". In: Leipziger Volkszeitung of May 28, 2009, p. 21.
  5. ^ Fred Delmare Archive Inventory overview on the website of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin.
  6. ^ Neues Deutschland from February 6, 1986

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personal data
SURNAME Delmare, Fred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vorndran, Werner (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Hüttensteinach
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 2009
Place of death Leipzig