Harry Pietzsch

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Harry Pietzsch (born December 9, 1929 in Freital ; † September 9, 2003 in Berlin ) was a German film and theater actor .

Life

After graduating from drama school in Dresden , Harry Pietzsch received his first engagement at the Eisleben Theater in 1949 . After that he was engaged as a theater actor in Dresden, Dessau and Görlitz , Magdeburg . Harry Pietzsch came to the Deutsches Theater Berlin in 1962 , where he was employed until 1998 and worked in productions by Benno Besson , Adolf Dresen and Alexander Lang , among others . In addition to his work at the theater, Harry Pietzsch was a sought-after film actor in cinema and television films as well as an actor in TV series on German television .

A wide audience was Harry Pietzsch as an actor in popular TV series such as Police 110 , Krupp and Krause , I - Axel Caesar Springer , exciting years , the prosecutor has the floor and in the children's TV series spook under the ferris wheel and haunted tower block known . His most important film roles include the portrayal of Walter Küchenmeister in the film KLK an PTX - Die Rote Kapelle , Eberhard Bogans in the DEFA production The Night on the Highway and the role of Lieutenant Becker in the crime film Pension Boulanka .

In numerous television performances broadcast from theaters - for example the life and death of King Richard III. (1976), The Sad Story of Frederick the Great (1983) and The Round Heads and the Pointed Heads (1985), the actor played in supporting roles. In Soviet films such as Front ohne Flanken (1975), Front Behind the Front Line (1978), In the Back of the Enemy (1982), Soldiers of Freedom (1977), he was preferred as a member of the Wehrmacht.

The actors in the film KLK an PTX - Die Rote Kapelle , in which Harry Pietzsch played one of the leading roles, was awarded the FDGB art prize on June 6, 1971 .

In 1998 he ended his stage career and retired into private life. Harry Pietzsch was married to the theater critic and editor of the magazine Theater der Zeit Ingeborg Pietzsch . After a brief, serious illness, Harry Pietzsch died in Berlin in 2003.

Filmography (selection)

Movies

Collaboration on TV series

  • 1966 Boomerang Secret Command (First Lieutenant Kramer)
  • 1968 I - Axel Caesar Springer (Episode: Men Are Made)
  • 1969 Krupp and Krause (Fipps Keuben, three episodes)
  • 1969 Exciting Years (six episodes)
  • 1972 Police call 110 (episode: The house on the railway)
  • 1973 Police call 110 (episode: night safe)
  • 1974 Police call 110 (episode: night taxi)
  • 1975 Police Call 110 (Episode: A Case Without Witnesses)
  • 1975 The prosecutor has the floor (Episode: Divorced People)
  • 1979 Spook under the Ferris wheel (Lieutenant Märzenbecher, seven episodes)
  • 1982/83 Spuk im Hochhaus (three episodes)

TV performance of plays (selection)

Foreign film productions

  • 1975 Front without flanks (Standartenführer Karl Wolff)
  • 1977 Soldiers of Freedom (Erich von dem Bach)
  • 1978 Front behind the front line (Gruppenführer Karl Wolff)
  • 1982 In the rear of the enemy (Gruppenführer Karl Wolff)

Theater roles (selection)

operetta

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genossenschaft Deutscher Bühnen-Members (Ed.): Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 2005 , Verlag der Bühnenschriften-Vertriebs GmbH, p. 870
  2. ↑ defa-sternstunden.de: Harry Pietzsch , accessed on November 10, 2015
  3. ↑ ddr-lexikon.de: Chronicle of the GDR - 1971 , accessed on November 10, 2015
  4. ↑ berliner-zeitung.de: Actor Harry Pietzsch dies , accessed on November 10, 2015

literature

  • On the death of Harry Pietzsch , Theater der Zeit, issue 10/2003, p. 70

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Pietzsch, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Freital
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 2003
Place of death Berlin