Lutz Moik

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Lutz Moik (born November 10, 1930 in Berlin ; † July 4, 2002 there ; actually Lutz-Jürgen Moik ) was a German actor and voice actor . He gained great fame in 1950 through Paul Verhoeven's film adaptation of the fairy tale The Cold Heart .

life and work

Grave in the Stubenrauchstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Friedenau

Lutz Moik was born in Berlin as the son of a chemist and a housewife. He and his two siblings had to overcome the death of his father at an early age, whereupon his family broke up. The mother found herself unable to support the family, so Moik was housed in a military orphanage in Potsdam, where he spent part of his childhood. In 1942 he was discovered there as a schoolboy by director Robert A. Stemmle for a small role in the film Meine Herren Söhne at the side of Werner Hinz . Further film assignments followed, including in Hans Robert Bortfeld's spring melody and Erich Waschneck's A lovely family .

After the end of the Second World War , the 15-year-old Moik initially worked as a radio speaker in various radio plays when he started studying art history to become a set designer. In addition, he took private acting lessons from Leonore Ehn when he was offered the leading role in Hans Müller's post-war drama And We Will Find Each Other Again ... in 1947 . After another collaboration with the film director, the DEFA strip 1-2-3 Corona , Moik dropped out of his studies and concentrated on his career as an actor. He worked in several films for the East German film production company DEFA and from 1951 also in West German films.

At the age of 19 he starred under the direction of Paul Verhoeven in the fairy tale The Cold Heart , the first German post-war color film, which was highly praised nationally and internationally. At the beginning of the 1950s he embarked on an extensive career in theater, film and television, both in the eastern and western parts of Berlin, when he decided to move to the Federal Republic of Germany. Some of his best-known films were made in the late 1950s, including Der eiserne Gustav (1958) with Heinz Rühmann and in the 1960s, such as Factory of the Officers (1960). In the successful family series Till, the boy next door (1967/1968) he played Till's father as Peter Hauser. He also worked alongside Grethe Weiser in the play No corpse without Lilly (1967).

As a voice actor, he voiced Mickey Rooney in The Bridges of Toko-Ri , George Peppard in When Jim Dolan Came and Earl Holliman in The Four Sons of Katie Elder .

1981 and 1983 he played in two Frankfurt crime scenes the Commissioner Bergmann , but was due to an illness in multiple sclerosis always limited in his profession. He played one of his last television roles between 1992 and 1993 as millionaire Richard Graf in the soap opera Gute Zeiten, Bad Zeiten . Lutz Moik played smaller roles in a wheelchair and held readings, often together with his Viennese wife Anna Moik-Stötzer.

Lutz Moik succumbed to his serious illness on July 4, 2002 at the age of 71. He was buried in the Schöneberg III cemetery in Berlin-Friedenau . He was an honorary member of the European Cultural Workshop Berlin-Vienna (EKW).

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SURNAME Moik, Lutz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moik, Lutz-Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 2002
Place of death Berlin