Frithjof Hoffmann

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Frithjof Hoffmann (born September 13, 1931 , † April 4, 2012 in Dresden ) was a German theater actor and singer .

Life

Hoffmann grew up in the GDR and studied singing at the Weimar Music Academy from 1953 to 1958 . As Bass - Buffo played Hoffmann at theaters in Brandenburg and Wittenberg until 1964 moved to Dresden. At the Dresden State Operetta he made his debut in Offenbach's operetta Ritter Blaubart , where he played the role of Count Oskar. Later he played a. a. In 1965 Colonel Pickering in My Fair Lady , which had 464 sold out performances at the State Operetta. He also played the oil millionaire Mulligan in Die Gräfin vom Naschmarkt . He embodied the pig farmer Zsupán in the gypsy baron or Uncle Josse in the cousin from Dingsda .

In the DEFA - cartoons Paule Prince (1967), From someone who set out to learn fear (1968) and small table, deck dich (1969) lent Frithjof Hoffmann some forms its distinctive voice. In an interview he commented on his preference for plump folk figures: “Figures like Prince Basil Basilowitsch in the Count of Luxembourg are my favorite. Here I have the food for the comedian in me, here I have the tempting opportunity to expose a figure to the ridiculousness it deserves and yet to maintain a little bit of its divided humanity. I then feel like I am in the tradition of popular theater . "

In the 1990s he played Prince Basil Basilowitsch in the Count of Luxembourg at the Dresden State Operetta, Knieriem in Drei von der Donau and the role of Emperor in the White Horse Inn . After 31 years, Frithjof Hoffmann left the ensemble of the Dresden State Operetta in 1995 and retired. Then he traveled from the Amazon to China . He spent his old age in Andalusia together with his wife in a house he had built himself. Hoffmann died in Dresden in 2012 after a serious illness.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Commemorative remarks on Frithjof Hoffmann in the Dresden Official Gazette (PDF; 5.5 MB)
  2. ^ Jörg Herrmann: Die Trick-Fabrik: DEFA animation films 1955-1990 . Ed .: Ralf Schenk, Sabine Scholze, Jörg Herrmann. Bertz, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-929470-27-6 , pp. 429–433 (543 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).