Heinz Meier

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Heinz Meier (born February 17, 1930 in Perwissau near Königsberg ; † July 21, 2013 in Schliengen , Baden-Württemberg ) was a German actor and theater director .

Life

Heinz Meier co-founded the Freiburg Wallgraben Theater in 1953 and was its co-director from 1957 to 2003.

Meier studied literary history and the history of the Middle Ages at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg im Breisgau from 1950 to 1956 .

In 1953 he co-founded the Wallgraben Theater in Freiburg and was its director from 1957 to 2003 (together with Ingeborg Steiert, who died in 1997). He then remained responsible for the theater together with his successor, his niece Regine Effinger. Here he played around 200 roles, mainly in modern theater plays, etc. a. in works by Albert Camus , Jean Cocteau , Eugène Ionesco , Samuel Beckett and Jean-Paul Sartre . At the same time he also played in films, for example at the Freiburg Aka Film Club .

Heinz Meier became popular when he took part in the six-part television series Loriot from 1976 to 1979 , z. B. as the father of the returning Hoppenstedt family (also in Christmas at the Hoppenstedts or in the sketch with the Cossack's tip ), as a piano carrier Finke ( “ A piano, a piano ” ) and as a pensioner Erwin Lindemann in the sketch Der Lotto Winner . He had previously played in Loriot's cartoon series (1967 to 1972), including in the sketch The Astronaut . Some of these skits by Loriot, shot as short films, were later played by Meier at the Wallgraben Theater in Freiburg.

In 1982 he was awarded the Baden-Württemberg Medal of Merit. In 1985 he took part in the radio plays “Understanding” and “Wages for Work” by Heinz-Werner Geisenberger at Hessischer Rundfunk.

Meier lived in Schliengen near Freiburg, where he died on July 21, 2013 at the age of 83. He was married to the writer Gisela Bonsels, a granddaughter of Waldemar Bonsels .

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Actor Heinz Meier turns 80. Retrieved on August 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Loriot's "lottery winner" Heinz Meier is dead. In: Die Welt , July 22, 2013. Accessed on July 21, 2013.
  3. ↑ Loriot's “lottery winner” Heinz Meier dies | NWZonline. Retrieved November 1, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Meier, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH 17th February 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Perwissau near Königsberg
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 2013
Place of death Schliengen