Helmut Krauss

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Helmut Krauss (2010)

Helmut Krauss (born June 11, 1941 in Augsburg ; † August 26, 2019 in Goslar ) was a German actor , cabaret artist , dubbing actor and dubbing director . One of his best-known roles was that of the neighbor Paschulke in the ZDF series Löwenzahn between 1981 and 2020. He was also active as a radio play speaker and audio book speaker.

Life

theatre

Helmut Krauss completed an acting training and studied education . He played at the Forum Theater, the Grips Theater and the Hansa Theater in Berlin and at the State Theater in Hanover . In the 1970s he also appeared as a reciter at events organized by the left and socialist movement in West Berlin. As a cabaret artist, among other things, he appeared as a partner of Hannelore Kaub in the cabaret The Ironing Board and a few times with Dieter Hildebrandts windshield wiper .

At the Karl May Games in Bad Segeberg in 2005, Helmut Krauss took on the role of Don Geronimo, a cozy innkeeper who runs a cantina in the small Mexican town of Guaymas in the play Winnetou and the Secret of the Rock Castle. At the same time, as in previous years, he embodied the narrator. The Störtebeker Festival on Rügen hired him for the 2006 season as Ambrosio. In Bregenz he played the role of Paul Bunyan in the play of the same name under the direction of Nicholas Broadhurst . In April 2008 he toured Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy with the production Der Name der Rose vom Theater des Ostens .

Movie and TV

The list of appearances in television and film is long. In one of his most famous roles he was seen from 1981 to 2020 as neighbor Hermann Paschulke in Löwenzahn ; until 2005 initially at the side of Peter Lustig and since 2006 with Guido Hammesfahr . In this role, Krauss formed the bourgeois contrast to Peter Lustig, and the two mostly engaged in friendly rivalries and arguments within the episodes. He made guest appearances in productions such as Berliner Weisse mit Schuß , Tatort , Lukas und Sohn , Der Hausgeist , Praxis Bülowbogen and Pastewka .

He became known to a nationwide television audience through his portrayal of the civil investigator "Django" Fiebig in the police series Direktion City , which was produced in three seasons based on the English model of Task Force Police by the SFB at the time , together with Andreas Mannkopff , Ulli Kinalzik , Klaus Sonnenschein , Gerd Duwner and many other well-known Berlin actors.

In August 2009, the Hordes film The Founder , a satire about the former television channel Telemedial , was shot. Krauss played the title character Gerhard Hornbacher, who parodies the controversial media entrepreneur Thomas Hornauer . Krauss also took on the role of dubbing director for the film he helped produce. In 2015 Krauss worked again with director Hordes and stood next to Eva Habermann , Jiří Lábus and Katy Karrenbauer for Goblin .

In 2019, Krauss worked with Hordes for the third time and embodied Commissioner Hornbacher in the dramedy series Patchwork Gangsta produced by SWR for the media service funk . Two months before his death he was in front of the camera for the filming of Löwenzahn .

To honor his long-standing role as Paschulke at Löwenzahn , the dandelion episode Endless Durable - When Neighbors Are Friends for the First Time , was broadcast on May 17, 2020, which is intended as an homage to and farewell to Helmut Krauss.

Dubbing and radio plays

Krauss gave his voice to Marlon Brando , John Goodman , Yaphet Kotto , Wilhelm von Homburg , Jean Reno , Samuel L. Jackson , Paul Winfield , Jon Voight and the music project E Nomine as well as Reginald VelJohnson (Carl Winslow) in the American sitcom Alle one roof . He was also the German voice of the speaking horse Mr. Ed in the American television series of the same name in the 1960s.

Krauss was often subscribed to rogue roles. So he spoke in the Disney cartoons Basil, the great mouse detective the claw and in Bernard and Bianca in Kangaroo land the Percival C. McLeach. In the Disney cartoon version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame , he spoke the archdeacon - in the official radio play for the film by Kiddinx, Krauss was also the narrator, as the narrative texts were written from the archdeacon's point of view. He was the narrator in the German version of the Japanese anime series Captain Future . In 1987 Krauss lent his dark, menacing voice to the pale-faced nailhead Pinhead in the surrealistic horror film Hellraiser - The Gate to Hell . In addition to his full-time speaking roles, since 2007 he has also supported the student cartoon Dreckmonster (Dirtmonsters) at the Konrad Wolf University of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg and took over the voice of the main role Willi in the German version.

In 2002 and 2003 he was also with the three - ??? - Speakers Oliver Rohrbeck , Jens Wawrczeck and Andreas Fröhlich with the live radio play Die Drei ???: Master Of Chess on tour in Germany, where he took on the role of the narrator. also again in 2009 in the live radio play Die Drei ??? and the strange alarm clock: Live and Ticking and 2014 with Phonophobia - Symphony of Fear . In Oliver Döring's Star Wars radio play Labyrinth des Evil (based on the novel of the same name by James Luceno ) Krauss spoke to a bartender - ISBN 978-3-8291-2087-6 .

In 2007 Krauss announced two books by Dirk Bernemann as audio books for UBooks-Verlag . He has also been involved as Opi Kopi since the beginning of the radio play series Elea Eluanda and was involved in a variety of ways with the Hörplanet radio play label . In the radio play series Die Elfen by Bernhard Hennen, Krauss took on the role of builder Guido in 2014 from episode 9.

In addition, Krauss was in several Lady Bedfort - listening to radio plays such. B. in Lady Bedfort and the captain's chest and Lady Bedfort and the deception in the train .

Private

Krauss was married twice and had three children and three grandchildren. He lived in the Goslar district of Lengde from 1978 until his death and at times also had residences in Berlin and Mallorca .

Krauss died on August 26, 2019 at the age of 78 in Goslar.

Work (selection)

Synchronous roles

Bill Cobbs

Charles S. Dutton

  • 1993: Menace II Society as Mr. Butler
  • 1995: Against time as Huey
  • 1996: Bittersweet Kisses as Howlin 'Wolf
  • 2000: The Jazz Connection as Dizzy Gillespie

James Earl Jones

John Goodman

John Ingle

Marlon Brando

Paul Winfield

  • 1972: The Year Without a Father as Nathan Lee Morgan
  • 1987: Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story as George Hairston
  • 1990: 83 hours - war of nerves against time as Dr. Dantley

Yaphet Kotto

Movies

Series

Video games

Radio plays and audio books

Live radio plays

  • 2002–2003: The three ???: Master Of Chess as narrator
  • 2009: The three ??? and the strange alarm clock: Live and Ticking as the narrator
  • 2014–2015: Phonophobia - Symphony of Fear
  • 2015: Pre fiction , role: Jules Winnfield

Acting roles

Web links

Commons : Helmut Krauss  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Goslarsche Zeitung, GZ, GZ live Editor: Helmut Krauss is dead | GZ Live. Retrieved August 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d episode Fritz Fuchs 203 Endlessly durable - when neighbors become friends at Löwenzahn Fanclub or Endlessly durable - when neighbors become friends at Fernsehserien.de
  3. ↑ Winnetou rides on rp-online.de again . Retrieved July 15, 2018
  4. ↑ Channel boss Hornauer shocked by the new movie bild.de
  5. ↑ Successful crowdfunding startnext.de
  6. ↑ Helmut Krauss in GOBLIN 2 gamona.de
  7. ↑ New funk series - dwdl.de
  8. ↑ "Löwenzahn" actor: Helmut Krauss is dead . In: Spiegel Online . August 29, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed August 29, 2019]).
  9. ↑ Review of the radio play Die Elfen - 09: Tod in der Nachtzinne.Retrieved on February 16, 2014
  10. ↑ Fence to fence with Helmut Krauss - Goslar - Goslarsche.de. Retrieved May 28, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Village life in Lengde - Special. Retrieved September 3, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Pastewka (episode 2) on Fernsehserien.de (accessed on May 3, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Krauss, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, cabaret artist, dubbing actor and dubbing director
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Augsburg , Bavaria, Germany
DATE OF DEATH 26th August 2019
Place of death Goslar