Hilmar Thate

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Hilmar Thate (2006)

Hilmar Otto Thate (born April 17, 1931 in Dölau , Saalkreis ; † September 14, 2016 in Berlin ) was a German actor .

Life

The son of a locomotive fitter and a housewife grew up in Halle (Saale) , where he attended the Francke Foundations up to the 10th grade . Already as a student in an amateur drama group, Hilmar Thate studied acting at the State University for Theater and Music in his hometown, which he graduated with the state examination in 1949. He began his theater career in the same year at the Stadttheater Cottbus . In 1951 he came to the Theater der Freunds in Berlin, today's Theater an der Parkaue , then to the Maxim-Gorki-Theater in Berlin and in 1959 to the Berliner Ensemble . He stayed there until the death of the artistic director Helene Weigel in 1971 and then moved to the Deutsches Theater , of which he was a member until 1980. Thate was voted theater actor of the year twice in the GDR : 1967 for his portrayal of Galy Gay in Mann ist Mann by Bertolt Brecht and then, already at the Deutsches Theater, for his embodiment of Shakespeare's Richard III. .

After Wolf Biermann was expelled , Thate, who was one of the signatories of the protest petition, was severely hindered in his work as an actor in the GDR from 1976, so he decided to leave the country. From 1980 he lived with Angelica Domröse in West Berlin, and both were engaged at the Staatliche Schauspielbühnen Berlin under the artistic direction of Boy Gobert .

Hilmar Thate later worked as a freelance actor mainly in the theater. He had his best-known roles in Peter Zadek's production of Everyone dies for himself at the Schiller Theater and, staged by George Tabori , in Gaston Salvatore's play Stalin in Vienna , where he was engaged in 1987 together with Angelica Domröse. They both stood together in a production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? on stage.

He was a member of the GDR Academy of the Arts and since 1993 a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts .

Hilmar Thate was married to the actress Angelica Domröse in 1976 . From his first marriage he is the father of a son who is a sculptor.

Thate died in Berlin at the age of 85. He found his final resting place in the Dorotheenstadt cemetery in the Mitte district .

Filmography (selection)

theatre

Radio plays

Awards

literature

Film portrait

  • 2008: Hilmar Thate - acting icon and village romantic ( MDR series CVs )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hilmar Thate . In: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 34/2005 from August 27, 2005, supplemented by news from MA-Journal up to week 19/2006 (accessed via Munzinger Online ).
  2. ↑ bz-berlin.de: Hilmar Thate buried in Berlin - article from September 30, 2016 in a prominent location , accessed on September 30, 2016
  3. ^ Knerger.de: The grave of Hilmar Thate
personal data
SURNAME Thate, Hilmar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thate, Hilmar Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Dölau , Saalkreis
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 2016
Place of death Berlin