Heinz Schirk

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Heinz Schirk (2006)

Heinz Schirk (born December 22, 1931 in Danzig ; † December 10, 2020 in Bickenbach ) was a German author and director , painter and graphic artist.

Life

Schirk grew up in his native city of Danzig . At the age of 10 he lost his father. In January 1945, at the age of 13, he fled from the approaching Soviet troops across the Baltic Sea towards the west. During the famine years he was housed in changing refugee camps with improvised school lessons. After the war he lived with his mother near Hamburg. This was followed by a working life at the theater and film. Increasingly he devoted himself to painting. Heinz Schirk lived on Bergstrasse in Hesse, was married and the father of two children.

theatre

Before graduating from high school in 1952 at the Sachsenwald-Oberschule in Reinbek, Schirk played there in student performances and performed chansons that he wrote himself and his school friend Christian Bruhn . These experiences increased his drive for theater and writing. First he studied theater studies with Hans Knudsen as a Berlin scholarship holder . In addition, there were German studies, art history and journalism with Emil Dovifat . At the student stage at the Free University of Berlin there was an opportunity for first productions and dramaturgical works. At the same time he received acting lessons with final exams and private art studies with Willi Schmidt . After several individual engagements as an actor and assistant director a. a. at the Bad Hersfeld Festival, followed by three seasons at the Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt as actor and assistant director to Harry Buckwitz . Then he got his first engagement as a director at the theater of the state capital Kiel. Further engagements followed at the Nationaltheater Mannheim and the Landestheater Darmstadt. In the following years Schirk worked as a freelance director on German-language theaters, at the Frankfurt Municipal Theaters, at the Stuttgart State Theater under the direction of Günter Lüders , on Ida Ehre's Hamburger Kammerspiele, at the Burgtheater Vienna, at the Bochum theater with Hans Schalla , on the comedy Basel, at the Hanover State Theater, at the Theater an der Wien, at the Deutsches Theater in Göttingen, at the Ruhr Festival in Recklinghausen.

In the late 1960s Schirk worked increasingly in film and television, but he kept returning to the theater stage.

Movie

Schirk is the author and director of numerous television productions in Germany, Italy, Austria, France, Switzerland and Czechoslovakia. In addition to adapting classical and modern stage works, he wrote nine scripts for the ARD crime series Tatort between 1971 and 1999 and staged 12 episodes. The satirical comedy "O sweet security" , which he shot in 1969 for the broadcaster Freie Berlin , was perceived as scandalous at the time, for which the broadcaster had to apologize in public. I.a. In 1974 he directed the TV thriller Der Springteufel with Arno Assmann and Dieter Hallervorden . As a director he was responsible for the beginning of Liebling Kreuzberg with Manfred Krug in 1986 . He also directed the docu-drama The Wannsee Conference in 1984 , "The Broken Jug" in 1990 and the French feature film "Le Pigeon" in 1993 (the latter two with Günter Strack in the lead role). Schirk made short acting appearances in many of his films.

Filmography (selection)

Awards (selection)

Works (book)

literature

  • Egon Netenjakob: TV film lexicon . Frankfurt am Main 1994.

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personal data
SURNAME Schirk, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director, author, actor, painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 2020
Place of death Bickenbach