Helmut Pick

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Helmut Pick (* 1929 ; † September 24, 2006 in Munich ) was a German actor .

life and work

He saw his artistic focus primarily in the theater and in radio plays .

Pick, who was born in the Rhineland , was a member of the Münchner Kammerspiele ensemble from 1976 to 2001 , before he joined the Bayerische Staatsschauspiel in 2001 through a change in artistic director Dieter Dorn . Although he had a strong potential for leading roles, he mostly gave small and medium-sized roles with his concise to bizarre personality a special color, which made him an indispensable member of the ensemble. Of course, the eccentrics, the weird owls, the quirky loners and weird birds were his specialty. But each time the people he played on stage were meaningful in that he still suggested a second and third level behind their outer facade. Pick also appeared as a voice actor. So he lent u. a. Michel Serrault and Ian Richardson his voice.

On television he was named the father of Dr. Markus Paul Specht known in the series Our Teacher Doctor Specht . Fritz Bachschmidt played Specht's father Oswald, who was believed dead, in the first season. With Bachschmidt's death, Oswald Specht also died in the series. Later it turns out that it is not he, but his brother Alfons Specht's actual father. Helmut Pick plays Alfons Specht until the end of the series.

Theater roles (selection)

Münchner Kammerspiele:

  • Sunday children of Gerlind Reinshagen : Ludwig Wöllmer (1976)
  • Germania Death in Berlin by Heiner Müller : Drunken, Minister (1978)
  • I wanted my daughter lay dead at my feet and had the jewels in the ears of George Tabori : Shylock , Graziano (1978)
  • Danton's death by Georg Büchner : Mercier (1980)
  • Platonov by Anton Chekhov : Abram Abramowitsch Wengerowitsch (1981)
  • Merlin von Tankred Dorst : Sir Girflet (1982)
  • A block on the leg of Georges Feydeau : Monsieur Gontran de la Cheneviette (1983)
  • Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (Direction: Fritz Marquardt) (1984)
  • The Trojans of Euripides by Walter Jens : Menelaos (1985)
  • Penthesilea by Heinrich von Kleist: Adrast (1987)
  • Women in front of a river landscape by Heinrich Böll: Fritz Blaukrämer (1988)
  • In the Thicket of Cities by Bertolt Brecht: C. Maynes (1988)
  • And Pippa is dancing! by Gerhart Hauptmann: Tagliazoni (1988)
  • The minor performers by Peter Turrini : Schmelzer (1989)
  • Final choir by Botho Strauss: Chorus, Rudolf (1991)
  • The Persians after Aeschylus by Mattias Braun: Man from the City (1993)
  • The Stupid Boy by Jeremy Weller: The Social Worker (1994)
  • Prince Friedrich von Homburg by Heinrich von Kleist: A Court Cavalier (1995)
  • The balance by Botho Strauss : Carsten (1996)
  • Cymbelin by William Shakespeare : Philario (1998)
  • The do-gooder by Thomas Bernhard : Dean (2000)

Bavarian State Theater:

Radio play roles (selection)

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Pick, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1929
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 2006
Place of death Munich