Horst A. Reichel

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Horst A. Reichel (born April 15, 1936 in Ludwigshafen , † September 10, 2014 in Munich ) was a German actor , theater founder and director.

Life

At the end of the 1950s, Horst A. Reichel worked as a lighting technician at the Munich Residenztheater and had private acting lessons when he founded Theater44 at the age of 23 in 1959 , where he worked as an actor and director as well as in the administrative area.

Since the late 1960s, Reichel has found time to work in front of the camera. He was repeatedly seen in episode roles in the crime series Derrick and other series such as Der Alte , Die Schwarzwaldklinik or Forsthaus Falkenau , and also in literary adaptations, such as in 1986 in The attack based on the novel The Assassination by Harry Mulisch and The Apothekerin based on the bestseller by Ingrid Noll .

In 1964, Reichel met his future wife Irmhild Wagner when she was playing in Jean Cocteau's play The Beloved Voice at his theater . From 1965 he ran the Theater44 together with her until it was closed in 2009. In 1999 both were awarded the Schwabing Art Prize. Their son Robinson Reichel emerged from the marriage and is also an actor today. Horst A. Reichel died at the age of 78 and was buried in the north cemetery in Munich .

Filmography

Radio plays

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ place of birth according to IMDb; In contrast, Reichel mentions in the quoted Merkur article that he was born in the Black Forest.
  2. ↑ a b Christine Diller: A Life in the Theater , Münchner Merkur from April 16, 2009 , accessed on June 3, 2016
  3. ^ Obituary notice , accessed on June 3, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Reichel, Horst A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, theater founder and director
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 2014
Place of death Munich