Karl Lieffen

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Karl Lieffen born as Carel František Lifka , also Karl Franz Lifka (born May 17, 1926 in Osek , Czechoslovakia , † January 13, 1999 in Starnberg ) was a German stage, film and television actor .

Life

Karl Lieffen's grave in the cemetery in Zell (Schäftlarn)

The son of a mountain official and an innkeeper and cook was already taking violin lessons from a village teacher at the age of eight. After Hitler incorporated Carel's homeland into the German Reich, his father hoped for a bright future for his son in an orchestra of the German Wehrmacht. A 12-year commitment to the German Wehrmacht was negotiated, and his father took the 12-year-old Carel by train to Bückeburg to the Bückeburg Army Music School there . "Hard training like recruits," "Drills and constant harassment" awaited him here. Through a simulated suicide and with the help of an understanding superior, he came to the state music school in Braunschweig , where he received a scholarship after passing the exam. After Reich Labor Service, Wehrmacht and American and French captivity, from which he was able to flee, he made his debut in 1946 as a theater actor in Freiburg im Breisgau . Engagements in Wiesbaden, Munich and Frankfurt followed. He played theater under directors such as Bertolt Brecht , Fritz Kortner , Harry Buckwitz and Hans Schweikart . From 1975 Lieffen was part of the ensemble of the Bavarian State Theater in Munich .

Lieffen , who was named Bavarian State Actor in 1991, gained nationwide popularity through his appearances in film and television, for example in the title role in the comic book adaptation of Nick Knatterton's Adventure (1959), as a chauffeur in Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three (1961), as Inspector Janot alongside Günther Neutze in Jürgen Roland's TV guessing thriller On the Trail of the Perpetrator (1967 to 1973) and as father in the Kempowski film Tadellöser & Wolff (1975).

Karl Lieffen played over two hundred film and television roles and was a guest in crime and entertainment series several times. In 1974 he published his memoirs What are you thinking of, Lieffen . In the same year he played in the first episode of the crime series Derrick and was hired for the last episode in 1998 - his last film and television role at all. In 1994 he played his last leading role in the cheerful television crime series Lutz & Hardy with Hans Korte as a partner.

As a voice actor he lent his voice to Michael Bates (in A Clockwork Orange ) and Christian Marin (in Der Gendarme von Saint Tropez ), among others .

Lieffen died of a brain tumor in Starnberg in 1999 . His final resting place is in the cemetery in Zell , a district of Schäftlarn in the Munich district . He was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon .

theatre

  • 1945: "The New Way" (Städtische Bühne Freiburg / Breisgau) Director: Martin Hellberg
  • 1948: "The Lord in the House" (State Theater Wiesbaden) Director: Wolfgang Spier
  • 1948: "Des Teufels General" (Staatstheater Wiesbaden) Director: Christian Mertin
  • 1949: "Black Forest Girl" (Wiesbaden State Theater)
  • 1950: "Endstation Sehnsucht" (Kammerspiele Munich) Director: Paul Verhoeven
  • 1950: "Much Ado About Nothing" (Kammerspiele Munich) Director: Hans Schweikart
  • 1950: "Mother Courage" (Kammerspiele Munich) Director: Bertolt Brecht
  • 1951: “Die Irre von Chaillot” (Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt / Main) Director: Harry Buckwitz
  • 1952: "The good man of Sezuan" (Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt / Main) Director: Harry Buckwitz
  • 1954: "Sports cabaret" (Theater Die Kleine Freiheit Munich)
  • 1955: "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" (Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt / Main) Director: Harry Buckwitz
  • 1955: "Die Zeit und die Conways" (Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt / Main) Director: Dietrich Haugk
  • 1956: "Graf Öderland" (Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt / Main) Director: Fritz Kortner
  • 1957: “What you want” (Kammerspiele Munich) Director: Fritz Kortner
  • 1957: "The Face of Simone Machard" (Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt / Main) Director: Harry Buckwitz
  • 1958: "Androclus and the Lion" (Residenztheater Munich) Director: Fritz Kortner
  • 1963: "In the case of J. Robert Oppenheimer" (Kammerspiele Munich) Director: Paul Verhoeven
  • 1964: "Measure for Measure" (Kammerspiele Munich) Director: Paul Verhoeven
  • 1964: "Peace" (Kammerspiele Munich) Director: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
from 1975 mainly at the Residenztheater in Munich
  • 1975: "Arturo Ui's resilient rise" Director: Dietrich Haugk
  • 1975: "Gnadenbrot" Director: Hans Schweikart
  • 1975: "Mr. Puntila and his servant Matti" Director: Hans Schweikart
  • 1976: "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark" Director: Willi Schmidt
  • 1977: “Macbeth” Director: Dietrich Haugk
  • 1977: "Fear and Misery of the Third Reich" Director: Frank Baumgartner
  • 1978: "Der Revisor" Director: Karl Paryla
  • 1978: "Richard II." Director: Dietrich Haugk
  • 1979: "The Broken Krug" Director: Dietrich Haugk
  • 1979: "Faust II." Director: Leopold Lindtberg
  • 1980: "Der Hauptmann von Köpenick" Director: Horst Sachtleben
  • 1980: "Richard III." Director: Kurt Meisel
  • 1980: "The Imaginary Sick" Director: Helmut Baumann
  • 1981: "In the case of J. Robert Oppenheimer" Director: Dieter Giesing
  • 1981: "Moral" Director: Kurt Meisel
  • 1982: "Electra must bear grief" Director: Klaus Löwitsch
  • 1983: "Zinsen des Ruhms" (in the Cuvilliés Theater in Munich) Director: Kurt Meisel
  • 1984: “The Merchant of Venice” Director: Alfred Kirchner
  • 1984: “Arsenic and lace cap” (also in the Cuvilliés Theater in Munich) Director: Rolf Stahl
  • 1986: "Bantam" Director: Klaus Michael Grüber
  • 1986: "Success" Director: Hans Hollmann
  • 1986: "Professor Bernhardi" Director: Volker Hesse
  • 1987: "Somebody has to be the stupid" Director: Herbert König
  • 1987: "Der nackte Wahnsinn" Director: Mario Andersen
  • 1989: "The Good Man of Sezuan" Director: Omri Nitzan
  • 1990: "Gott" Director: Mario Andersen
  • 1990: "Moliere or The Secret Society of Hypocrites"
  • 1990: "Stuffing Appol from Nothing or Excellencies - A Nonsense" Director: Hans Hollmann
  • 1992: “Singer” Director: Thomas Schulze-Michels
  • 1993: "Julius Caesar" Director: Peter Stein
  • 1995: “Shards” (in the Cuvilliés Theater Munich) Director: Gerd Heinz

Filmography

movie theater

watch TV

Radio plays and audio books (selection)

Fonts

  • 1974: Karl Lieffen: What do you think of - Lieffen! - (autobiography), Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1976 (1974, Verlag RS Schulz, Percha)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source: NDR Talk Show 1995.
  2. ↑ Source: WDR Zimmer frei, 1996.
  3. ↑ Karl Lieffen: What do you think of - Lieffen! P. 109ff.
  4. ^ Knerger.de: The grave of Karl Lieffen
personal data
SURNAME Lieffen, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lifka, Carel František (maiden name); Lifka, Karl Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stage, film and television actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Osek , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1999
Place of death Starnberg