Jaecki Schwarz

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Jaecki Black (2009)

Jaecki Schwarz (born February 26, 1946 in Berlin ) is a German actor . With around 120 film and television roles, he was one of the busiest actors at DEFA and GDR television . In reunified Germany he was best known for his role as chief inspector Schmücke in Polizeiruf 110 and that of Sputnik in the ZDF series A strong team .

Life

origin

Jaecki Schwarz was born in Berlin in the Köpenick district. According to his own statement, he owes his first name to his grandmother, who was a fan of the silent film child star Jackie Coogan . Since the American spelling "Jackie" was not allowed at the registry office, "Jaecki" was entered as the nickname.

education

Even while he was still at school, Schwarz played in school performances and was in the youth club of the German Theater in Berlin. He completed an apprenticeship as a photo chemistry specialist while attending the Alexander von Humboldt High School in Berlin . After that he applied twice to different drama schools, but received a rejection after the aptitude test. In the third attempt he was successful and then studied from 1965 to 1969 at the German Academy for Film Art in Potsdam-Babelsberg .

Career

theatre

In 1969 Jaecki Schwarz made her debut in Magdeburg in the stage version of Hermann Kant's novel Die Aula as a student Quasi. This was followed by numerous other roles for him in Magdeburg, such as the Elf Puck in William Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream . From 1974 to 1997 he was a member of the Berliner Ensemble , where he was on stage for 23 years. Here he took on the role of Stalin in Volker Braun's drama Lenin's Death and also took part in a number of plays by Bertolt Brecht , Maxim Gorki and again William Shakespeare. Schwarz worked with directors Christoph Schroth , Fritz Marquardt , Manfred Wekwerth and Peter Zadek , among others . In 1996 his colleague Katharina Thalbach brought him to the Maxim-Gorki-Theater for the role of mayor in Carl Zuckmayer's Der Hauptmann von Köpenick .

Movie and TV

GDR

In 1968, while still a student, Jaecki Schwarz was cast for the lead role of Lieutenant of the Red Army Gregor Hecker in Konrad Wolf's autobiographical DEFA film I Was Nineteen . He then appeared in several DEFA and DFF cinema and television productions. In 1969 he played alongside Manfred Krug in Herrmann Zschoche's road movie Weite Straßen - stille Liebe (1969) the student Herb Schneider, whose friendship with the truck driver Hannes Kass broke up because they both fell in love with the beautiful Johanna ( Jutta Hoffmann ). In the five-part television film Krupp and Krause (1969) he played the young Krause.

Schwarz was cast in leading and supporting roles in several fairy tale films in the 1970s . In Sleeping Beauty (1971) he played a knight who gave the young prince, played by Burkhard Mann , a golden coin with the image of Sleeping Beauty, and in The Blue Light he dubbed Viktor Semjonow , who played the leading role of the soldier Hans, and was at the same time seen in the role of Knut. In 1977 he took on the leading role of the poor soldier who is supposed to uncover the secret of the king's daughters in the fairy tale film The Dancing Shoes . In 1974 he was seen at the side of Jutta Hoffmann in Egon Günther's Die Schlüssel in the role of the mathematics student Klaus, who during a holiday together with his wife Ric in Krakow discovered that they both had differences and that he had difficulties in empathizing with other people . In the seven-part film Das Mädchen Krümel (1976) he can be seen as Otto's big brother.

In 1975, directed by Horst Seemann , he starred in Suse, liebe Suse (1975) Manne, who leaves his girlfriend with a child and is in prison for attempting to flee the republic . In the seven-part crime film Dangerous Fahndung (1978) he played the young Austrian criminal inspector Toni Pleisner, who went in search of stolen art treasures by a group of former Nazis. In the contemporary comedic film Simply Flowers on the Roof (1979) he was seen as son Schilling in one of the leading roles. In Herrmann Zschoche's guarantee for one year (1981), he played the role of Peter Müller, a guarantor for a single mother who is aware of his responsibility, alongside Katrin Sass and Monika Lennartz . In 1988 he was seen alongside Hansjürgen Hürrig under the direction of Jurij Kramer in the Hour of Truth as Kollwitz, an employee of the “Youth Welfare” department. He took on roles in the series Polizeiruf 110 and Schauspielereien, popular in the GDR .

After the turn

Jaecki Schwarz with Franziska Troegner (2009)

After the fall of the Wall , Schwarz was able to build on his successes in the GDR. In the 1990s he was seen in several television series, such as in the family series Spreewaldfamilie (1990) as grandson Günter. In a total of 38 episodes between 1993 and 2000 he was seen alongside the leading actress Thekla Carola Wied as Boris Beckmann in the ARD crime series At Your Own Risk . He took on other guest roles in the series Liebling Kreuzberg , Praxis Bülowbogen and Die Männer vom K3 . In the Sat.1 - hospital drama Judging Stefanie he played from 1997 to 2003 the role of Professor Friedlander.

Since March 1994, Schwarz has been playing the supporting role of ex-police officer Sputnik in the ZDF crime series A Strong Team, which appears as a running gag in every episode, and who tries to keep himself afloat financially by changing activities. From 1996 to 2012 he played alongside Wolfgang Winkler as Chief Detective Herbert Schmücke in the crime series Polizeiruf 110 . The 50th and final case of the investigator duo Schmücke and Schneider was broadcast on March 3, 2013. From 2012 to 2014 he took on the role of the head of health in the ARD hospital series In all friendship from episode 581.

Black also took on leading and supporting roles in various television films. In the two-part television docudrama Deutschlandspiel (2000) he played the SED secretary Roland Wötzel . In 2001 he was directed by Michael Steinke for the first time in the ZDF series Das Traumschiff in the episode Mexico , in 2005 and 2008 he took part in two further episodes. In the crime comedy Zwei alten Gauner (2001) he was seen alongside Peter Weck . In Wolfgang Panzer's four-part chronicle Liebesau - The Other Home , which tells the story of the GDR from the perspective of a fictional village in the east German province between 1953 and 1989, he was seen in a supporting role. In Marco Serafini's Christmas film Snowman Seeks Snow Woman (2002) he took on the supporting role of Arnold Wirth, in the Christmas comedy A Sack full of Money (2002) with Wolfgang Stumph in the lead role he was the bank director Stefan Staudinger. In 2004, black was seen in the comedy Ein Gauner Gottes as a pharmacist.

In the ZDF Christmas fairy tale film Little Red Riding Hood , the pilot of the film series Märchenperlen , he and his long-time play partner Winkler formed a team of robbers that threatened Little Red Riding Hood in the forest. In the family comedy A Grand Prize for Papa (2006), he played a seedy investor. In the Christmas comedy Help, My Daughter Marries (2006), he was the godfather of the woman who confronts her father with a fait accompli with marriage intentions. In 2008 he was seen in the family comedy The Dream Couple as divorced again at Winkler's side. In the fairy tale film Snow White , which was broadcast for the first time on ARD in December 2009 as part of the fairy tale series Six in One fell swoop , he was the king and father of Snow White .

He also has guest roles in several television series, such as in Coast Guard (2007), SOKO Leipzig (2009), A Case for Two (2009), Ex Files (2016) and The Specialists - In the Name of Victims (2019).

Readings

Schwarz regularly gives recitations and readings . With his colleague and friend Wolfgang Winkler, he recited at irregular intervals from the book Never forget where I come from - life paths of famous and less famous alcoholics , published at the end of December 2009 . In September 2012 he and Wolfgang Winkler published the book Herbert & Herbert - I don't want to be married to you in Eulenspiegel-Verlag . , which Winkler and Schwarz presented in readings for several years.

Awards

In 2013, Jaecki Schwarz and his colleague Wolfgang Winkler received the Golden Hen for life's work. In August 2019 he was again awarded the fairy tale film festival prize fabulix in Annaberg-Buchholz for his life's work.

social commitment

In the Initiative Queer Nations Black is one of the members of the Board of Trustees . He is also involved as a volunteer ambassador for the Children's Hospice Central Germany Nordhausen Foundation . V. in Tambach-Dietharz. In July 2011, Schwarz was the patron of the 18th federal seminar of the employee network VelsPol Deutschland e. V. (Association of lesbian and gay police officers). Since August 2011 he has been an honorary member of the VelsPol Berlin-Brandenburg e. V.

Private life

Jaecki Schwarz lives in Berlin and was in a relationship with his fellow actor Hagen Henning , whom he met in 1986 at the Berliner Ensemble , for 20 years . Black was an alcoholic ; he suffered a circulatory collapse on the day the Berlin Wall came down and then went to a rehab clinic. In October 2013, Schwarz suffered an eye infarction in his right eye and has only had 10 percent vision since then .

Filmography

Cinema (selection)

Television (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

Awards

  • 2013: Golden Hen for his life's work (together with Wolfgang Winkler)
  • 2019: Fairy Tale Film Festival Prize fabulix for his life's work

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Jaecki Schwarz biography at defa-stiftung.de ; accessed on May 5, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Jaecki Schwarz In: Prisma.de .
  3. ↑ a b c The DEFA stars in the fairy tale film on the MDR program pages from July 29, 2019.
  4. ↑ Interview with Jaecki Schwarz at UFA Fiction about his role Sputnik in A strong team .
  5. ↑ Sidekicks in German TV crime novels Competition, Commissioner! - 3rd part: The windy landlord - "Sputnik" in "A strong team" In: spiegel.de from December 10, 2010.
  6. ↑ Police call 110: filming the last case.
  7. ^ Sylvester Groth and Claudia Michelsen new "police call" investigators. welt.de, accessed on January 29, 2013.
  8. ↑ From the police station to the health department: "Polizeiruf" investigator Jaecki Schwarz joins the series "In allerfreund". In: daserste.de . Retrieved November 4, 2012 .
  9. ^ Snow White (2009) film data sheet from the film service
  10. ↑ Reading Jaecki Schwarz talks about alcoholism. In: mz-web.de. Retrieved September 6, 2012 .
  11. ↑ a b Police call actors Wolfgang Winkler and Jaecki Schwarz in Leinefelde. In: mz-web.de. Retrieved June 23, 2014 .
  12. ^ Herbert & Herbert on tour in Eulenspiegel-Verlag ; accessed on May 5, 2019.
  13. ↑ a b Goldene Henne 2013: These are the winners online edition of the Superillu from September 30, 2013.
  14. ↑ a b Thomas Wittig: Jaecki Schwarz feels like being at the Academy Awards online edition of the Free Press from August 31, 2019.
  15. ↑ queer-nations.de ( Memento from October 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ): Kuratorium - Jaecki Schwarz, actor. As of October 1, 2006.
  16. ↑ "Our relationship is a mess" - "Polizeiruf" star Jaecki Schwarz loves young actors. In: rp-online.de . Retrieved August 8, 2004 .
  17. ↑ Police call star is gay. In: queer.de. Retrieved August 9, 2004 .
  18. ↑ Ex-TV commissioner Jaecki Schwarz almost blinded on one side. In: Berliner Morgenpost . Retrieved October 7, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Black, Jaecki
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin