Helmut Körschgen

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Helmut Körschgen (* 1923 ; † August 18, 2002 ) was a German amateur actor who played leading roles in Helge Schneider's two films .

Life

The shooting at Texas - Doc Snyder holds the world in suspense (1993) was initially Körschgen parking attendant on location in Elspe . Almost all supporting roles were filled with residents of the surrounding area during the recordings; In this way, Körschgen was given a small double role as a resident of the fictional western town of Texas (dressed in a distinctive sand-colored tracksuit) and as a grave digger .

After completing the actual recordings, Schneider shot a few additional scenes , including those in which Körschgen's roles as “Citizens of Texas” and gravedigger as Schneider's dialogue partner came to the fore. In addition, new final scenes were filmed in which the figure of the policeman " Lieutenant Körschgen" embodied by Körschgen was introduced; as the latter, Körschgen played the second leading role in the following film 00 Schneider - Hunt for Nihil Baxter (1994) . Körschgen, who was already over 70 years old, suffered a stroke while filming . He therefore had to be doubled for the rest of the recordings and could only attend the film premiere in a wheelchair.

Körschgen, whose health had previously been in poor health, did not recover from the consequences of the stroke and was therefore no longer able to appear in other films. He died in 2002 at the age of 79 and was buried in Altenhundem .

Körschgens striking appearance, which loudly Schneider Jean Gabin remembered his idiosyncratic improvised dialogues in which he struck his stage directions, and his unsophisticated Authentic utter inability in the field of acting made him a cult figure with a high recognition value are the is inextricably linked with Helge Schneider's early films. Some of his lines achieved cult status, such as “Everything goes in the fantasy” and in particular “As long as you live, you should smoke”.

Filmography

  • 1993: Texas - Doc Snyder holds the world in suspense
  • 1994: 00 Tailor - Chasing Nihil Baxter

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Carsten Jakobi, Christine Waldschmidt: Joke and Reality: Comedy as a Form of Aesthetic Appropriation of the World, transcript Verlag, 2015, p. 444 [1]
personal data
SURNAME Körschgen, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German amateur actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1923
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 2002