Horst Hiemer

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Horst Hiemer (born April 22, 1933 in Ratibor , Upper Silesia ) is a German actor.

Horst Hiemer (2nd from right) rehearsing Benno Besson's production of Heiner Müller's Ödypus Tyrann (1967)

Life

Horst Hiemer grew up in Silesia . In 1945 the family was expelled to Thuringia . From 1952 to 1955, Hiemer studied acting at the German Theater Institute in Weimar and at the "Hans Otto" theater school in Leipzig . After his theater debut at the Schauspielhaus Leipzig , he played at the Landestheater Halle and the Staatstheater Schwerin .

In 1960 Wolfgang Langhoff brought him to the Deutsche Theater (DT) in Berlin . For more than 40 years, Hiemer then belonged to the DT Ensemble and worked under directors such as Hanns Anselm Perten and Dieter Mann . His numerous roles, often comic or grotesque, include his father João in Ariano Suassuna's The Testament of the Dog (1968, directed by Friedo Solter ), the blonde in Alonso Alegría's The Crossing of the Niagara Falls (1976, staged by Hiemer) and his role in George Bernard Shaw's House of Hearts Death (1990, directed by Thomas Langhoff ).

In addition to his theater work, he was a lecturer for drama at the State Drama School in Berlin and has worked in over 200 cinema and television films and numerous radio plays since 1959. While in the 1960s functionaries or model workers with positive signs (like the title role in the propaganda multi-part Hannes Trostberg written by Bernhard Seeger ) were primarily part of Hiemer's film repertoire, it was later set to negative figures. The reason for this was apparently the fact that on November 18, 1976 (together with DT colleagues such as Eberhard Esche , Cox Habbema , Jutta Wachowiak , Elsa Grube-Deister and Margit Bendokat ) he had signed the declaration of protest against Wolf Biermann's expatriation .

With the departure of the artistic director Thomas Langhoff, Hiemer left the DT in 2001 and has been working as a freelancer ever since.

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SURNAME Hiemer, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Ratibor , Upper Silesia