Heinz Schimmelpfennig (actor)

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Heinz Schimmelpfennig (born April 6, 1919 in Berlin ; † December 31, 2010 in Gernsbach ) was a German actor , director , radio play and voice actor .

Life

Heinz Schimmelpfennig grew up in his native Berlin and completed his school education there. He then trained as a designer and worked in this profession until 1939. After that, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . In 1942 he was seriously wounded and discharged from the Wehrmacht. After his recovery he got a job as a camera assistant at the UFA in Babelsberg . But just a year later he stopped working behind the camera because he was fascinated by acting. He turned to Thea von Harbou with a request to intercede with Joseph Goebbels , who, however, encouraged him to pursue a more important activity due to the serious war situation. Wolfgang Liebeneiner, on the other hand, recognized Schimmelpfennig's talent and helped him to get an acting scholarship. In Vienna he completed a three-year training course as an actor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar . He made his debut in 1946 at the Stadttheater Baden-Baden under the direction of Arthur Maria Rabenalt . From 1949 to 1951 he was under contract with the Städtische Bühnen in Freiburg im Breisgau . After this time he worked as a freelance actor and director. In 1971 he staged for a South Africa tour Physicists by Friedrich Dürrenmatt . Schimmelpfennig was friends with the actors René Deltgen , Friedrich Kayssler and Dominik Zahorka . With Kayssler he also maintained lively correspondence until his death in 1945. Zahorka received acting lessons from him from 2008 until Schimmelpfennig's death in 2010.

Some of his well-known stage roles were:

In the 1950s his career began in film and especially in television. There he also played his most famous role, that of crime scene commissioner Franz Gerber. In five episodes, he identified the leading actor in Baden-Baden and the surrounding area. In a few other episodes he appeared in this role as a guest commissioner. Other series and multi-parts in which he appeared were The Gallery of Great Detectives , Truck Driver , The Rope Around the Neck , The Gold of the Desert and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn . The television games include colleague Crampton , hurdles , the graduation party , war on the third floor , Don Carlos and walks through the Mark Brandenburg . The films in which Schimmelpfennig appeared include Many came by , The Forbidden Paradise , Ninety Minutes After Midnight , Who's Crazy, Doctor? and The strong Ferdinand . He also appeared as a voice actor, such as in the Polish-German television series Die Kinder vom Mühlental .

His main field of activity was broadcasting. You can hear your voice in countless lectures and radio plays . Many audio documents have been published on records and CDs. The best-known representations include several appearances in the Paul Temple radio plays of the WDR from the 1950s and 1960s. In these multi-parts, he mainly spoke rogue roles. Quite different from 1959, when he spoke to the Paris inspector, Inspector Lucas, in a series of Maigret radio plays . The longest radio play series with him was the crime series zum Mitrates Kriminalrat Obermoos told , which HR produced from May 1959 to November 1970 in 124 episodes. Here he spoke the title role and was at the same time the narrator who always revealed the solution to the listeners after a break in music. In some episodes he had to be represented due to illness. In 1962, in the multi-part science fiction radio play Terra Incognita , he embodied Inspector Adams, who, together with his colleague Gauge ( Horst Tappert ), uncovered mysterious beings that live deep underground, whose endeavors are apparently the annihilation of humanity.

Heinz Schimmelpfennig's grave a few weeks after the funeral

He occasionally worked as a director for both radio and television, just as he did at the theater. For example, he staged Hauptmanns Der Biberpelz with Lucie Mannheim and Theo Lingen , Goethe's Faust with Werner Krauss and for the television Das Glück sucht seine Kinder after Truman Capote with Harald Leipnitz , a play for which he also wrote the screenplay.

During his long career as a theater, radio play, film and television actor and as a reciter , he traveled almost all over the world; most recently he lived in the climatic health resort of Gernsbach near Baden-Baden. He was buried in an urn grave in the Evangelical Cemetery in Gernsbach, field 5, row 8, grave number 113b in January 2011.

Filmography

Unless otherwise shown, as an actor:

As a crime scene commissioner Franz Gerber

Synchronization work

Radio plays

speaker

As a director and writer

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Administration of the Evangelical Cemetery in Gernsbach on January 31, 2011 (with regard to the birth and death date) and according to IMDb .
personal data
SURNAME Schimmelpfennig, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and radio play director
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 2010
Place of death Gernsbach