Frithjof Vierock

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Frithjof Vierock (born August 28, 1943 in Eisenach ; † July 4, 2020 ) was a German theater, film and television actor .

Life

Frithjof Vierock grew up in his hometown. After secondary school, he attended a vocational school for dancers and musicians, later he took acting lessons in Munich with Ado Riegler and his wife Martina Eginhardt . In the Bavarian capital, Vierock received his first roles at the Fitz children's stage and the then Theater der Jugend at the end of the 1950s . Working as a freelance actor right from the start, Vierock had play contracts at numerous renowned Munich theaters such as the Bavarian State Theater , the State Theater on Gärtnerplatz and the Kleine Freiheit . Further engagements led him to the Stuttgart Comedy in the Marquardtand the theater on Kurfürstendamm in Berlin.

Vierock's roles included Gottliebchen in Christian Dietrich Grabbe's joke, satire, irony and deeper meaning , Fabian in Pioneers in Ingolstadt by Marieluise Fleißer , Barnaby Tucker in the musical Hello, Dolly! by Jerry Herman , Collin in Die Grasharfe based on the novel of the same name by Truman Capote or Nestor le Fripé in the musical Irma la Douce by Marguerite Monnot and Alexandre Brefford . Vierock played under well-known directors such as Axel von Ambesser , Niels-Peter Rudolph , Rolf Henniger and Karin Jacobsen .

In 1958 Vierock played in Hula-Hopp, Conny (with Conny Froboess ) an apprentice in a department store; As a teenager, Frithjof Vierock stood in front of the camera alongside Peter Alexander in the music film Im Weisse Rößl in 1960 . Especially in the 1970s, he played in many well-known TV series.

Vierock became known nationwide as Gustl Seiler in Helmut Dietl's series Munich Stories . Frithjof Vierock lived in Munich district Laim .

In his last years he suffered from a lung disease and rarely appeared in public.

His aunt was the actress Jessie Vihrog .

Filmography

Cinema (selection)

Television (selection)

further guest appearances

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Peter Alexander: Servus Gustl - Frithjof Vierock has died. In: evening newspaper . PressReader.com, September 8, 2020, accessed September 9, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Langen Müller's Actor Lexicon of the Present, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-7844-2058-3
  3. ↑ Room 13 at fernsehserien.de. Retrieved September 12, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Vierock, Frithjof
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater, film and television actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 2020