Günther Kaufmann

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Günther Kaufmann (2009)

Günther Kaufmann (born June 16, 1947 in Munich ; † May 10, 2012 in Berlin ) was a German actor .

Life

Günther Kaufmann was born in 1947 in the Schwabing district of Munich as the son of a German and a US soldier . The family later moved to the Hasenbergl district . From 1965 to 1969 Kaufmann was a contract soldier in the German Navy . He was discovered as an actor by Rainer Werner Fassbinder , whom he met in 1969 during a television production of Bertolt Brecht's play Baal , and he appeared in several of his films; He also sang the theme song in two films. In the 1980s and 1990s, Kaufmann also played in the ZDF series Derrick and Der Alte .

In 2003 Johann Kresnik engaged him for his Bremen production The Ten Commandments . For this role he moved from Munich to Bremen . In 2006 Kaufmann played the role of Brother Tuck in the musical Robin Hood , which was performed in Bremen and Munich. In 2007/2008 he played this role in the Berlin Schillertheater .

After Fassbinder's death, Kaufmann also starred in various films, including the screwball comedy Murder is My Business, Darling 2009. On April 15, 2008, Kaufmann was mostly shown in the casting show Bully sucht die stark Männer for the film Wickie and die stark Männer unknown candidates presented as a prominent surprise applicant. He was turned down for the role of Faxe but accepted the offer to take on the role of villain The Terrible Sven .

In January 2009, Kaufmann took part in the RTL jungle camp I am a star - get me out of here! part and reached the sixth place.

Günther Kaufmann died on May 10, 2012 at the age of 64 from the effects of a heart attack after collapsing on the street in the Berlin district of Grunewald . Günther Kaufmann found his final resting place in the family grave in Munich's north cemetery .

Sentencing and rehabilitation

In 1986 Günther Kaufmann married a 16 years younger woman and settled in the Algarve . Six years later, his wife got cancer . The treatment costs consumed the savings, and films were rarely offered during this time. His wife cheated on Kaufmann's tax advisor Hartmut Hagen for 830,000 German marks by promising him a share of the profits from an invented damages lawsuit against a real estate investor. Hagen was supposed to fund the alleged process, but later became suspicious. What role Günther Kaufmann played in this remained unclear. Hagen was killed on February 1, 2001 in a robbery in his office in Munich-Großhadern. Kaufmann's wife died in May 2002.

On November 27, 2002, Kaufmann was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for a false confession of attempted aggravated extortion resulting in death. With the confession he wanted to protect his sick wife, who had instigated three men to do the crime. After the real perpetrators were convicted, Kaufmann was released. He retracted his confession and obtained a retrial . On January 26, 2005, he was acquitted by the 8th criminal division of the Augsburg Regional Court . On March 27, 2006, however, he was sentenced to probation and a fine for deprivation of liberty in a particularly serious case, since two alleged accomplices had been in custody for three weeks because of his false testimony.

In 2004 Günther Kaufmann published his autobiography The White Negro from Hasenbergl in collaboration with Gabriele Droste , in which he primarily dealt with the events of recent years. On May 14, 2012, Das Erste broadcast the documentary The False Confession of Günther Kaufmann in the series The Big Criminal Cases , in which Günther Kaufmann and the investigating commissioner Josef Wilfling once again commented on the Hartmut Hagen murder case in interviews.

family

Dave (* 1969) and Eva (* 1970) are from Günther Kaufmann's first marriage . The separation took place in 1976, 10 years later the ex-wife died. Dave Kaufmann took part in the third season of the RTL casting show Das Supertalent in 2009 . He made it to the final and finished in fourth place. Eva Kaufmann released two hit albums in 2015 and 2016 before participating in The Voice of Germany in 2018 , where she was eliminated in the first round.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Publications

  • The white negro from Hasenbergl . Autobiography (with Gabriele Droste). Diana, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-453-26506-8 .
  • Hans-Dieter Otto: The lexicon of legal errors , Ullstein-Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-548-36453-5 , page 103-106.
  • My job, my life . 2 audio CDs. Director: Simone Lehde. SL-Medien, Kehl 2006, ISBN 3-938858-08-7 .
  • Claire Fisher : Sammy and Floris on the road . As told by Günther Kaufmann. 1 audio CD. Terrani, Amsterdam 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Actor Günther Kaufmann is dead . In: Focus , May 11, 2012.
  2. a b Hannah Pilarczyk: The Unique . In: Spiegel Online , May 12, 2012. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
  3. Frederic Spohr: Bully is looking for strong guys - and finds Darth Vader . In: Welt Online , April 18, 2008.
  4. Antje Hildebrandt: This jungle camp is going to be really bad . In: Welt Online , January 7, 2009.
  5. Armin Lissfeld: Moving burial in the family circle in: Bild.de from June 18, 2012
  6. knerger.de: The grave of Günther Kaufmann
  7. Stephan Handel: The burden of one's own mountains of lies . In: Süddeutsche.de , September 3, 2003.
  8. Wolfgang Bayer, Sven Röbel: Love, Lies, Death . In: Der Spiegel , November 10, 2003.
  9. ^ Suspended sentence for Günther Kaufmann . In: Spiegel Online , March 27, 2006.
  10. ^ The false confession of Günther Kaufmann , documentation by Peter Gerhardt and Kamil Taylan, 43 min., HR / RB, first broadcast on May 14, 2012
  11. Papa in the jungle, son in Poing , merkur-online.de, January 21, 2009
  12. Evelyn Köhler: Kaufmann's daughter Eva: "Father lied out of love" ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: BZ , August 27, 2003 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bz-berlin.de
  13. Item 12 of November 9, 2016
  14. Bild.de : "The Voice of Germany": Günther Kaufmann's daughter is there from October 18, 2018