Klaus Schwarzkopf

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Klaus Schwarzkopf (born December 18, 1922 in Neuruppin ; † June 21, 1991 in Bochum ) was a German actor and voice actor .

Life

Schwarzkopf grew up with his mother Gertrud and was tied to a plaster bed for years because of bone tuberculosis ; his father died a few weeks after he was born. After finishing school, he trained in administration and became a government inspector . Against the express will of his mother, he began at the age of 20 - during the Second World War - a four-year acting training in Berlin, which he successfully completed in 1947.

Schwarzkopf kept his private life largely away from the public. In an interview he once said:

“I missed getting married! The job is so dominant in my life that private feelings and desires are neglected. "

In June 1991 he was admitted to the St. Josef Hospital in Bochum because of an acute bilateral pneumonia . His Munich management informed the press that Schwarzkopf did not want to endanger the ongoing filming of The Great Bellheim and had therefore delayed "a serious pneumonia". After his death, German daily newspapers reported that Schwarzkopf had died at the age of 68 as a result of the effects of the immune deficiency disease AIDS .

His homosexuality was first publicly discussed in the year before his death through press coverage of a book by Hermann J. Huber and he was forced to come out - even if Schwarzkopf never took a public position. Various publications later claimed that Schwarzkopf had a long-term secret relationship with the former dancer and director Hubertus Moeller; In an interview in 2016, however, he corrected that there was only a close friendship between him and Schwarzkopf, but never a civil partnership .

The resident of Munich found his final resting place in Aidenbach in Lower Bavaria .

Career

theatre

Schwarzkopf made his debut in 1947 as a theater actor under Boleslav Barlog at the Schlosspark Theater in Berlin alongside Hildegard Knef . In 1953 Schwarzkopf moved to Wiesbaden , later he was engaged in Hanover and Munich . He became a crowd favorite and was named "Bavarian State Actor".

In the 1970s he was seen in productions at the Hamburg Thalia Theater (including Gin Romme by James Saunders alongside Edda Seippel and, in 1979, in Boy Gobert's farewell production there, Goethe's Faust. A Tragedy. And Faust. The Tragedy, Part Two , staged by Hans Hollmann ). In the 1980s Gobert signed him to the Staatliche Schauspielbühnen Berlin , where he played the Russian ambassador in the German premiere of Sławomir Mrożek's The Ambassador in 1982 and Captain von Köpenick in Carl Zuckmayer 's play of the same name in 1984 .

Schwarzkopf's repertoire included roles such as the gay hairdresser Harry in Charles Dyer's Under the Stairs and representative Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman , whom he called his favorite role. Schwarzkopf was seen as the scheming secretary Wurm in Schiller's Kabale und Liebe , as Captain von Köpenick or as Tartuffe and also appeared in contemporary plays such as Women in Front of a River Landscape based on the novel by Heinrich Böll . In addition to his television career, Schwarzkopf was successful as a stage actor until the end of his life.

Television and cinema

Schwarzkopf's television career began in the early 1960s. He has appeared in more than 250 television productions over the decades. He was seen in crime series such as Der Kommissar , Derrick , Das Kriminalmuseum and Der Alte and was repeatedly referred to as the “master of the quiet”. The plump, short actor often portrayed rather inconspicuous, "average" characters. In 1969 he was seen in the title role of the television adaptation of Molière's Tartuffe or The Deceiver , and in 1970 he played in the rogue comedy The Man Who Selling the Eiffel Tower .

Between 1971 and 1978 Schwarzkopf played the always somewhat grumpy Commissioner Finke in seven crime scene thrillers , who investigated together with his respective assistant in Kiel and the surrounding area. Most of the Finke crime thrillers were directed by the later Hollywood director Wolfgang Petersen. Special gained popularity in 1977 the follow -leaving certificate , which the then 16-year-old Nastassja Kinski established her international career. Schwarzkopf is also remembered for his portrayal of the banker Kesselmeyer in the television series Die Buddenbrooks (1979) .

Even in the 80s, Schwarzkopf remained a busy performer on television. He starred in the series Wer den Schaden… (1981), in the multi-part series Alte Gauner (1985), in The Hour of Léon Bisquet (1986) and in the television satire The Blue Bidet (1982) based on the novel by Joseph Breitbach , where a button manufacturer sells all his belongings and wants to spend his first vacation in the Mediterranean. In several episodes of the popular series Praxis Bülowbogen , Schwarzkopf embodied the clochard " Gleisdreieck " from 1987 to 1991 .

Schwarzkopf starred in films such as Herrliche Zeiten im Spessart (1967) and in the Simmel adaptations And Jimmy went to the rainbow (1971), The Stuff Dreams Are Made of (1972) and All Men Become Brothers (1973). In 1973 he was also seen in the psychological thriller One of Us Two - as a sociology professor who is blackmailed by a failed student ( Jürgen Prochnow ). Schwarzkopf made his last cinema appearance in Bernhard Wicki's Die Grünstein-Variant in 1985 .

In 1991 he played one of the leading roles in Dieter Wedel's four-part miniseries The Great Bellheim , alongside Mario Adorf , Will Quadflieg and Hans Korte . In June, Schwarzkopf had to stop filming due to his advanced illness; his role was then taken over by Heinz Schubert .

Synchronous

Thanks to his gentle, concise voice, Klaus Schwarzkopf was a sought-after voice actor. He gained particular popularity in the 1970s as the German voice of Peter Falk in the role of Inspector Columbo . He has also spoken to actors such as Gower Champion in the film adaptation of the musical Show Boat Mississippi Melodie (1951), William Shatner in The Judgment of Nuremberg (1961), Mickey Rooney in In Beirut The Nights Are Long (1965), Peter Lorre in The Trail of the falcon (dubbing from 1969). In addition to Robert Mitchum , Burt Lancaster , Bob Hope , Douglas Fairbanks junior and many more, he voiced Tony Curtis in Winchester '73 and Lloyd Bridges in twelve noon from 1953. In the Dieter Hallervorden comedy Oh you dear Harry from 1980, he was the German voice of Jacques Marin .

Filmography (selection)

Sound carrier

Radio plays

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rosemarie Kuheim: Klaus Schwarzkopf - Biography . In: Deutsches Filmhaus . June 12, 2019. Retrieved July 4, 2019.
  2. ^ Bild-Zeitung Munich, June 25, 1991, based on an older interview with Schwarzkopf.
  3. ↑ a b Actor Klaus Schwarzkopf dies: buried in silence . In: Neues Deutschland , June 25, 1991. Retrieved July 4, 2019. 
  4. ↑ a b Let the world know , DER SPIEGEL. December 2, 1991. Retrieved July 4, 2019. 
  5. ↑ Rosemarie Kuheim: Klaus Schwarzkopf - Biography . In: Deutsches Filmhaus . June 12, 2019. Retrieved July 4, 2019.
  6. ↑ Hermann J. Huber : Our VIPs. YOU & I, September 1990, p. 11.
  7. ↑ Axel Schock, Karen-Susan Fessel: OUT! - 800 famous lesbians, gays and bisexuals. Querverlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89656-111-1 .
  8. ↑ Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller: Man for Man - A biographical lexicon. Suhrkamp Taschenbuch, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-518-39766-4 .
  9. ↑ Gudrun Passarge: Oberschleißheim - From mood to love . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 24, 2016. Accessed July 3, 2019. 
  10. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Klaus Schwarzkopf
personal data
SURNAME Schwarzkopf, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuruppin
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1991
Place of death Bochum