Helmut Fischer

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Helmut Fischer at the German Film Ball in Munich, 1991

Helmut Fischer (born November 15, 1926 in Munich ; † June 14, 1997 in Riedering / Chiemgau ) was a German actor who was best known for his roles as a Bavarian folk actor . In his roles he embodied the charming Hallodri and suburb - Casanova . Fischer's trademark was his gaunt gait, which was related to a damaged spinal disc. Fischer achieved particular popularity in the role of the Munich original Monaco Franze .

Life

Helmut Fischer was the son of a businessman and an alteration seamstress and grew up without a father in the Neuhausen district of Munich at Donnersbergerstraße 50a , where he also went to school. In World War II, Fischer joined the Munich Fotoschule one, was in the last months of the war the Wehrmacht fed, ill there to diphtheria and fell on the war briefly in captivity .
After the war he joined the acting school of Otto Falkenberg , but he dropped out after a short time. In the following years, Fischer worked as a theater actor. In 1952 he made his stage debut at the Würzburg City Theater as Albrecht III. in Hebbel's Agnes Bernauer .

For almost 20 years, Fischer remained largely unknown and had to be content with insignificant supporting roles. Among other things, he worked at the Munich Oktoberfest at the Zuban show as the rear of a zebra. In 1953 he married the dancer Utta Martin (born April 28, 1924 - April 23, 2012), with whom he lived for 44 years until his death. In 1961 the actor made his debut on Bavarian television : as a hairdresser in Ludwig Thomas' comedy Die Lokalbahn . Fischer himself described himself as "terrible" and, looking back, said: "I was really ashamed of how exaggerated I played back then". During this time, Fischer also worked as a film critic for the Münchner Abendzeitung . In an interview on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, he confessed that he had barely earned his monthly rent by acting until he was 50.

In 1972 he played in the first crime scene of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation as Chief Detective Ludwig Lenz, the assistant of the then Chief Detective Melchior Veigl (played by Gustl Bayrhammer ). When Veigl was "retired", Fischer was promoted to detective superintendent in 1981 and - later promoted to chief detective - solved a total of seven cases by 1987. In 1974 Helmut Fischer got to know the director Helmut Dietl in his regular Schwabing café "Münchner Freiheit" . Dietl recognized Fischer's true talent and in 1979 gave him a supporting role in the TV series Der absolut normal Wahnsinn , in which Fischer was allowed to play a prevented Playboy for the first time.

The final breakthrough came in 1983 with the series Monaco Franze - The Eternal Stenz . The director was again Helmut Dietl ; Patrick Süskind also worked on the script for almost all episodes . In the ten-part series, Fischer, alongside Ruth Maria Kubitschek , Karl Obermayr and Erni Singerl, embodies the easy-going charmer and woman's darling Franz Münchinger, who always manages to manage the situation with a wink and a little lamb look (“No sheep looks much more faithful ") to master. Famous sayings by the main character (e.g. “A bisserl was always going”) went into common usage. In keeping with this, Fischer also recorded a successful single entitled "Spatzl (Schau wia i schau)".

From now on, the actor was busy with roles, but their characters were always based on the "eternal stenz". Fischer himself asserted until the end of his life that the figure of Monaco Franze had nothing to do with his real life. According to his own information, he had little in common with the Monaco Franze in terms of personality and was rather shy of women. In the mid-1980s, Fischer played alongside Thomas Gottschalk and Michael Winslow in the two "Zärtliche Chaoten" films, and from 1987 to 1992 he was seen alongside Veronika Fitz and Ilse Neubauer as "Josefbärli" in the series Die Hausmeisterin . He celebrated his last series successes in Ein Schloß am Wörthersee , where he played the absent-minded estate administrator Leo Laxeneder, and as Hohenwaldau mayor Peter Elfinger in Peter and Paul at the side of Hans Clarin .

Grave in the Bogenhausen cemetery

In 1993, when Helmut Fischer cancer diagnosed. In 1996, the actor went to the treatment of the controversial cancer specialist Julius Hackethal . In November he celebrated his 70th birthday with a large group of friends and colleagues. At the same time he let the press announce: “Life is running away more and more.” Eight months later, Fischer died in Chiemgau . More than 1000 people came to the funeral service in the funeral hall of Munich's north cemetery and to the burial in the Bogenhausen cemetery (grave no. 176) in Munich on June 19, 1997. In the funeral speech, the Mayor of Munich, friend and neighbor of Helmut Fischer's Christian Ude, said: “He was popular all over Germany - he was loved in Munich.” At Helmut Fischer's favorite place in the garden of the Münchner Freiheit café in Schwabing , a bronze monument was erected by Nicolai Tregor Jr. revealed, which shows him in his most famous role as Monaco Franze. In addition, a square in the Schwabing district of Munich was named after him.

Movies

TV Shows

Crime scene :

Other TV series:

theatre

Awards

Monument to Helmut Fischer in the role of Monaco Franze in Munich, Münchner Freiheit

literature

documentary

  • The immortal stenz. Memories of Helmut Fischer. Documentary, Germany, 2001, 44 min., Script and director: Sybille Krafft , production: BR , content from BR.

Web links

Commons : Helmut Fischer  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Fischer , neuhausen-muenchen.de
  2. ↑ Helmut Fischer. A tribute to the 90th birthday. Bavaria 2, November 11, 2016 (accessed November 20, 1916)
  3. ↑ Utta Fischer, obituary notice , accessed on December 26, 2017
  4. ↑ Helmut Fischer's wife is dead , accessed on December 26, 2017
  5. ↑ TV program " Memories of Helmut Fischer" - The immortal Stenz - broadcast on Bavarian television on Saturday, November 19, 2011 from 11.30 p.m. to midnight
  6. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Helmut Fischer
  7. ↑ State Capital Munich Editor: Helmut-Fischer-Platz. Retrieved May 17, 2020 .
  8. ↑ : The "Stenz" lives on. In: Münchner Merkur . November 14, 2006.
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1997
Place of death Chiemgau