Horst Westphal

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Horst Westphal (* 1929 in Leipzig , according to other sources in Großpösna ; † December 2019 ) was a German actor .

Life

Education and theater

Horst Westphal initially made an apprenticeship as a car - electricians . During his apprenticeship and later while he was working in his learned profession, he took private acting lessons in Meißen . There he received his first theater engagement at the Stadttheater Meißen. This was followed by further theater engagements at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin , at the National Theater Weimar and from 1983 at the Schwerin State Theater .

In Schwerin he performed a. a. as Adolf Eichmann in Brother Eichmann by Heinar Kipphardt (1983; Director: Christoph Schroth ), in the title role in Uncle Wanja (1985; Director: Christoph Schroth), as Pater Lorenzo in Romeo and Juliet (1987; Director: Christoph Schroth), as Schigolch in Lulu (1995; directed by Peter Dehler ), as Jude Shylock in The Merchant of Venice (1997; directed by David Levin) and as Mr. Peachum in Brecht / Weill's Die Dreigroschenoper (1998; directed by Peter Dehler).

He had several guest engagements at the Volksbühne Berlin , where he played as Lucky in Warten auf Godot (1988; director: Siegfried Höchst ), as King Claudius in Hamlet (1989; director: Siegfried Höchst), as Alceste in Der Menschenfeind (1991; director: Henry Hübchen ) and as Trigorin in Die Möwe (1994; directed by Iwan Stanew). At the Volksbühne Berlin he also worked with the directors Horst Hawemann , Rudolf Koloc , Frank Castorf and Christoph Marthaler .

He also had theater engagements, mostly piece contracts, at the Stadttheater Dortmund (1993), at the Kleist Theater Frankfurt (1994; title role in Baumeister Solneß , director: Rudolf Koloc), at the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam (1995; as Odysseus in Philoctet by Heiner Müller ), at the Theater an der Parkaue (season 1998/99; as Harpagon in Der Geizige , director: Axel Richter ), at the Theater Magdeburg (1999; as Ebenezer Scrooge in Das Weihnachtslied , director: Franziska Ritter ), at the Volkstheater Rostock (2000; Title role in König Lear , director: Alexandro Quintana ), at BAT Berlin (2001; as Colonol in Blick zurück im Zorn , director: Kerstin Müller; 2002, as the father of the Marquise in Die Marquise von O .... , director: Rudolf Koloc ), at the Lübeck Theater (2003–2006) and at the Braunschweig State Theater (2009).

In the 2010/11 season he took on the role of Bronski in To Be or Not to Be at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin (director: Milan Peschel ).

Movie and TV

In addition to his extensive theatrical work, Horst Westphal was seen, primarily in supporting roles, also in film and television roles. In the 1960s he was regularly and very often in front of the camera, later his film appearances were then only sporadic. In the anti-fascist two-parter Die Mutter und das Schweigen (1965) he played alongside Erika Dunkelmann .

In film, he had a late age career. In the feature film Stilles Land (1992), director Andreas Dresen's first feature film , he played alongside actors such as Thorsten Merten , Jeannette Arndt , Kurt Böwe and Petra Kelling . In 2008, at the age of almost 80, Westphal played his first leading role in the cinema. In Andreas Dresen at the International Film Festival in Cannes premiered relationship drama Cloud 9 he embodied, alongside Ursula Werner , the 76-year-old pensioner and nature lover Karl, the lover of a married woman.

In the short film Erbgut (2013) he played the grandfather Fritz Hollmann, who was an overseer in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp . In the television film Du bist dran (2013), a tragic comedy starring Lars Eidinger as Hausmann Peter, he played the grandfather Herbert, the father of the male main character. In November 2014, he was seen in an episode role in the ZDF crime series SOKO Leipzig ; he played Klaus Mätzig, a major and former senior officer of the State Security . In the feature film Nachspielzeit (2015), which traces the life stories of young people in Berlin-Neukölln , he embodied old Liebach, a "careworn old man" in a wheelchair. In February 2017 he was seen again in an episode role in the ZDF series SOKO Leipzig ; he played the 92-year-old former SS-Untersturmführer Friedrich Senckenberg, who, as a Jew who survived the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and the death marches , acquired a new identity at the end of the war. In May 2017 he was seen alongside Carl Heinz Choynski in the television series Alles Klara , in an episode role as the UFO skeptic Rudi Boghausen; Westphal and Choynski played two older men and best friends who couldn't be more different. In the eighth crime scene case by the Berlin team of investigators Rubin and Karow , the crime scene: Animals of the Big City (first broadcast: September 2018), he embodied the old pensioner and witness Albert, a "distant neighbor with a memory leap". In the ZDFneo series Dead End (2019), alongside Marie Anne Fliegel , he had one of the episode roles as a retirement home resident Alfred Rauch, who fulfilled her last wish out of the love of a shared roommate.

Westphal lived in Berlin . He died in December 2019 at the age of 90.

Filmography

  • 1961: And that on Christmas Eve (TV movie)
  • 1962: TV epitaval: Shot while trying to escape (TV series)
  • 1962: The Wall of Retribution
  • 1963: Molitor murder affair (TV movie)
  • 1965: Heimbach's guests (TV film)
  • 1965: The successor
  • 1965: The mother and the silence (TV film; two-part)
  • 1969: Noon the boss arrives
  • 1969: Drei von der K : Die Thornsteinbande (TV series)
  • 1974: Maria (TV movie)
  • 1978: The visit of the old lady (theater recording, National Theater Weimar)
  • 1984: Romeo and Juliet in the village
  • 1992: Quiet Land
  • 2008: cloud 9
  • 2009: Ladylike - now all the more! (TV movie)
  • 2013: genetic material (short film)
  • 2013: It's Your Turn (TV Movie)
  • 2014: SOKO Leipzig : The Prodigal Son (TV series)
  • 2015: added time
  • 2017: SOKO Leipzig : Chefsache (TV series)
  • 2017: Alles Klara : UFOs over the Harz (TV series)
  • 2018: Tatort: ​​Animals of the Big City (TV series)
  • 2019: Dead End: Always Dying (TV series)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Horst Westphal . Profile and vita at Schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
  2. a b c d e f g Horst Westphal . Profile at CAST FORWARD . Retrieved September 6, 2016.
  3. a b Actor Horst Westphal died: With a great deal of late work . Obituary at Nachtkritik.de on December 19, 2019. Retrieved on February 3, 2020.
  4. Milan Peschel directed the Nazi comedy "To be or not to be" in Krakow and in Berlin Priorities of the Artist's Soul . Performance review; in: Berliner Zeitung of April 16, 2011. Retrieved on September 6, 2016.
  5. Maxim Gorki Theater: "To be or not to be" pepped up with Tarantino . Performance review; in: Berliner Morgenpost of April 15, 2011. Retrieved on September 6, 2016.
  6. THE MOTHER AND THE SILENCE (1965) . Plot, cast and production details. Television of the GDR. Online lexicon of GDR television films, television games and TV productions. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
  7. Suddenly the late lust burns… . Interview with Ursula Werner and Horst Westphal; in: BZ of September 2, 2008. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
  8. ^ The eternal right to love , film review in: Badische Zeitung from July 18, 2008. Accessed on September 6, 2016.
  9. ERBGUT ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Official website of the Max Ophüls Preis film festival . Retrieved September 6, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.max-ophuels-preis.de
  10. ↑ Tragic comedy: Lars Eidinger shines in “It's your turn” . Movie review; in: Tagesspiegel from August 27, 2013. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
  11. ↑ added time . Two hearts - a review by Lisa Tüch. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
  12. ^ "TATORT" FROM BERLIN: Machines rule the city . TV review. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of September 16, 2018. Retrieved September 18, 2018.
  13. People always die . Plot and cast. Official website of the ZDF . Retrieved March 17, 2019.