Gunther Malzacher

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Gunther Malzacher (born March 5, 1929 in Berlin ; † May 24, 1995 in Buchholz in the Nordheide ) was a German actor , director and author .

Life

Malzacher attended secondary school in Potsdam and studied from 1946 at the Academy for Dramatic Art in Stuttgart a. a. with Rudolf Fernau drama. In 1947 he made his debut at the Kleiner Theater there as Ruprecht in Kleist's Der zerbrochne Krug .

Engagements led Malzacher to the Landestheater Memmingen , the Städtische Bühnen Heidelberg , the Landestheater Detmold , the Vereinigte Bühnen Krefeld-Mönchengladbach , the Württembergische Staatstheater Stuttgart , to the Komödie Basel , to the Städtische Bühnen Dortmund , to the Schauspielhaus Bochum and to the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf , where he worked between 1964 and 1970. Further stations of his stage activity were the Bavarian State Theater as well as the Bad Hersfeld Festival and the Castle Festival in Jagsthausen .

Malzacher's roles included the title character of Torquato Tasso and Hamlet , Wetter von Strahl in Das Käthchen von Heilbronn , Franz in Die Räuber , Tellheim in Minna von Barnhelm and the title role in Albert Camus ' Caligula. In 1954 he directed the Landestheater Detmold in Waiting for Godot for the first time. Malzacher also wrote his own plays, including When the Wolves died, which was premiered in the Werkraum of the Münchner Kammerspiele.

He took part in several feature films and numerous television games, where he played mostly obscure and difficult characters, including the murderer of the wife Karl-Heinz Drossbach in Niklaus Schilling's cult film Rheingold . Malzacher was married to the actress Helga Bach for the first time. The sons Claus-Urs and Andreas emerged from the marriage.

In 1988 he met actress Loretta Wollenberg during rehearsals for a theater tour (witness for the prosecution) . Together they moved to Jesteburg in the Nordheide in 1990 . At about the same time, Malzacher began to increasingly turn to the stage. In 1991 he returned to the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus in the role of Captain Shotover from Shaw's Herzstod House . He played at the Bern Academy Theater a. a. together with Hansjörg Felmy in Ibsen's Ein Volksfeind or Simon Gray's Missed Hours and was a regular guest at the Hamburger Kammerspiele with Ida Ehre and in the Theater im Zimmer with Gerda Gmelin . Here he played Valmont in Heiner Müller's two-person piece Quartet or Manningham in Hamilton's gas light .

One of his last roles in front of the camera was Mustafa Tyüen in The Sins of the Fathers (TV series Ein Fall für Zwei ). Directed by Markus Fischer , he shot the Swiss film Brandnacht together with Bruno Ganz .

Gunther Malzacher is not identical to the voice actor and producer Gig Malzacher (1931–1980).

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SURNAME Malzacher, Gunther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1995
Place of death Buchholz in the north heath