Günter Junghans
Günter Junghans (born July 14, 1941 in Leipzig ; † August 10, 2014 near Berlin ) was a German actor .
Life
Junghans attended the University for Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg , which he graduated in 1963 as a graduate actor. He then took on numerous theater, film and television roles.
His portrayal of the self-criticizing mayor Beutler in Fritz Marquardt's production Die Bauern (= The Resettled or Life in the Country ) by Heiner Müller at the Volksbühne in East Berlin was terrific (premiere: May 30, 1976).
In 1983 he was awarded the GDR Art Prize “for his benchmark artistic achievements as an actor” .
In 2005 he was appointed ambassador for the children's hospice in Central Germany. Günter Junghans died in August 2014 at the age of 73 after a short, serious illness in a hospital near Berlin.
Filmography (selection)
- 1961: The Rabauken-Cabaret
- 1962: The one from 12b
- 1962: Oh, you happy ...
- 1963: In love with a criminal record
- 1964: The search for the wonderfully colored bird
- 1965: Angels in purgatory
- 1965/1990: When you grow up, dear Adam
- 1965: The adventures of Werner Holt
- 1965: Berlin around the corner
- 1965: Lot's wife
- 1966: Black panthers
- 1967: The frozen lightning
- 1967: wedding night in the rain
- 1967: The corporal's revolver
- 1968: The dead stay young
- 1968/1969: Krupp and Krause
- 1969: Saint Urban
- 1969: There's a fair in heaven
- 1970: From Our Time (Episode 2)
- 1970: network
- 1971: hats off if you kiss!
- 1971: Rottenknechte (5-part television film)
- 1971: Approach Alpha 1
- 1971: The prosecutor has the floor - Anatomy of an accident (TV series)
- 1972: Despite all that!
- 1972: The stolen battle
- 1973: The prosecutor has the floor - The trial of strength (TV series)
- 1973: Eva and Adam (TV four-part series)
- 1973: Under the pear tree
- 1973: The desert king of Brandenburg
- 1974: Johannes Kepler
- 1975: Karlemanns Brücke (TV movie)
- 1975: Broddi (television)
- 1975: Icarus
- 1975: The Wild Duck (theater recording)
- 1975: a pyramid for me
- 1976: The prosecutor has the floor - Felix buys a horse (TV series)
- 1977: Ottokar the do-gooder
- 1978: Police Call 110 - Guilty (TV series)
- 1979: Ignition, the fire department arrives
- 1980: Police call 110 - Witnesses wanted (TV series)
- 1981: Police Call 110 - Truffle Hunt (TV series)
- 1981/1988: Jadup and Boel
- 1982: Police Call 110 - Barriers (TV series)
- 1982: Fat Tilla
- 1982: The Graupenschloss
- 1982: the beaver fur
- 1983: Martin Luther (TV movie)
- 1983: The stay
- 1983: Die liebe Luder (TV movie)
- 1986: Jorinde and Joringel
- 1986: Police Call 110 - Greed (TV series)
- 1986: The Bush Ghost (TV movie)
- 1987: As the ancients sang ...
- 1987: Entry into Paradise (TV series)
- 1987: childhood
- 1987: Examination of the witnesses
- 1988: Polizeiruf 110 - rampage (TV series)
- 1988: Police Call 110 - The Crossword Case (TV series)
- 1988: Polizeiruf 110 - Liquid weapon (TV series)
- 1992: Karl May (TV miniseries)
- 1992: Schtonk!
- 1993: Police call 110 - and you're dead (TV series)
- 1993: Tatort - Berlin - best location (TV series)
- 1993: Zirri - The Cloud Sheep
- 1994: Tatort - Songbird (TV series)
- 1994: Polizeiruf 110 - Bullerjahn (TV series)
- 1995: Police Call 110 - Seven Days of Freedom (TV series)
- 1995: Tatort - bombs for honest people
- 1998: Chopped off
- 1999: Tatort - Blind Couriers (TV series)
- 1999: Our Charly Surprises Episode 40 (TV series)
- 2000: Germany game
- 2000: A strong team: Der Todfeind (TV movie)
- 2003: hunger for life
- 2004: Tatort - Offside (TV series)
- 2005: The country doctor
- 2006: The dead man on the beach
- 2006: SOKO Wismar - Homesickness for Over there (TV series)
- 2008: Tatort - Damned (TV series)
- 2008: Tatort - Crooked Dogs (TV series)
- 2009: Dasbloghaus.tv
- 2009: Polizeiruf 110 - Wrong Father (TV series)
- 2010–2013: Weissensee (TV series)
- 2011: Tatort - Wet Things (TV series)
- 2011: Notruf Hafenkante - The whole truth (TV series)
- 2011: Commissioner Lucas - In the end there has to be luck
- 2012: The world after
- 2013: The Key Witness - Murder in the Mountains
- 2014: Tatort - Turkish Honey (TV series)
- 2014: On the street
theatre
- 1968: William Shakespeare : The Comedy of Errors - Director: Peter Kupke ( Hans Otto Theater Potsdam)
- 1968: Friedrich Wolf : Die Sailors von Cattaro (Toni Grabar) - Director: Peter Kupke (Hans Otto Theater Potsdam)
- 1968: Karl Mickel : Nausikaa (town crier) - Director: Peter Kupke (Hans Otto Theater Potsdam)
- 1969: Klaus Wolf : Campfire (Poet Lukas) - Director: Peter Kupke (Hans Otto Theater Potsdam)
- 1970: Valentin Katajew : Avantgarde (cobbler) - Director: Fritz Marquardt ( Volksbühne Berlin )
- 1971: Bertolt Brecht : The Good Man of Sezuan (police officer) - Director: Benno Besson (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1971: Heiner Müller : Weiberkomödie (Häcksel) - Director: Fritz Marquardt (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1974: Francisco Pereira da Silva : Speckhut (narrator) - Director: Manfred Karge / Matthias Langhoff (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1974: Kurt Bartsch : The Belly - Director: Fritz Marquardt (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1975: Carlo Gozzi : The beautiful green bird (Truffaldino) - Director: Ernstgeorg Hering / Helmut Straßburger (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1976: Heiner Müller: Die Bauern (Mayor) - Director: Fritz Marquardt (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1979: Ferenc Molnár : Liliom (Liliom) - Director: Brigitte Soubeyran / Irene Böhme (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1980: Georg Kaiser : From morning to midnight - Director: Uta Birnbaum (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1983: Heinrich von Kleist : The Broken Jug - Director: Helmut Straßburger / Ernstgeorg Hering (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1984: Gerhart Hauptmann : Schluck und Jau (Jau) - Director: Siegfried Höchst / Gert Hof (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1987: Alfred Döblin : Berlin Alexanderplatz (Biberkopf) - Director: Ernstgeorg Hering / Helmut Straßburger (Volksbühne Berlin)
Radio plays (selection)
- 1977: Samuil Marschak : Das Katzenhaus (Baron von Hahn, a rooster) - Director: Jürgen Schmidt (children's radio play - Litera )
- 1979: Helmut Bez : late performance - director: Fritz Göhler (dummy head version - radio of the GDR )
- 1980: Ottomar Lang : Wellermann makes it possible (Borchers) - Hans Knötzsch (detective radio play / short radio play - radio of the GDR)
- 1981: Arne Leonhardt : Jazz am Grab (Fred) - director: Werner Grunow (radio play award of the critics for author and director 1982 - radio of the GDR)
- 1983: Horst Ulbricht : Kinderlitzchen (father) - director: Peter Groeger (radio play - radio of the GDR)
- 1987: Theodor Fontane : Frau Jenny Treibel (Otto) - Director: Werner Grunow (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1996: Wolfgang Pönisch : The next one please - Director: Karlheinz Liefers (radio play - Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg )
- 2008: Volkmar Röhrig : Beautiful View - Director: Götz Fritsch ( ARD Radio Tatort - MDR Figaro )
Awards (selection)
- 1981: II. Performance comparison of the drama and music ensembles of the GDR: Special prize for outstanding individual performance as Bolbig in The Building at the Volksbühne
- 1983: Art Prize of the GDR (for artistic achievements that set standards)
Web links
- Günter Junghans in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Günter Junghans in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ berliner-zeitung.de: After a serious illness: Actor Günter Junghans is dead Article from August 11, 2014
- ↑ The 1983 Art Prize Winners , In: Neues Deutschland , May 18, 1983, p. 4
- ^ Morgenpost.de: Actor Günter Junghans died in Berlin Article dated August 11, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Junghans, Günter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig , Saxony, Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 10, 2014 |
| Place of death | near Berlin |