Lutz Riemann

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Lutz Riemann (born December 19, 1940 in Stettin ) is a German actor , journalist and author . He gained fame through roles in several DEFA films and as First Lieutenant Zimmermann in the DFF's " Polizeiruf 110 " series .

Life

Youth and Studies

Riemann grew up in Lubmin and first learned the profession of shipbuilder at the Peene shipyard in Wolgast . There he found interest in the acting profession by working in an amateur drama group . He studied at the Potsdam Film and Television Academy and until 1964 at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin .

Stage, film and television

Riemann made his debut at the Meininger Theater in the 1960s, and then played at the Weimar theater . He has been working as a freelancer since a serious car accident in 1973. He had guest appearances at the theaters of Neustrelitz and Meiningen and at the Theater im Palast in Berlin . He first took on a role at DEFA in 1962, but the film “Wind von Front” was never completed. In the following DEFA films he often portrayed proletarians . In the 1980s he played the KPD chairman Ernst Thälmann in the films The Investigation Process and The Warning . The role of Lieutenant Zimmermann in "Polizeiruf 110" from 1983 to 1991 brought him great popularity with the GDR television audience. After reunification , he worked as an editor and presenter for NDR television until his retirement . Here he could be seen, among other things, as an outside reporter for the Northern Magazine . Together with Michael Schmidt, he published the book “Der Untergang der Beluga”, in which the two authors deal with the shipwreck of the Sassnitz fishing boat “Beluga”.

Unofficial employee of the State Security

In August 2013 it became known from the Rosenholz files that Riemann had been working as an unofficial employee of the Ministry for State Security under the code name Richard König since the 1960s . He spied on his Thuringian environment and reported on the SPD politician Peer Steinbrück , with whose cousin Riemann is married. Riemann states that he committed himself to this activity out of “ideological conviction”. He was always a communist and always will be. Riemann explained that he had been assigned to Steinbrück by his command officer, but that he had refused the spying, which is not confirmed by the documents.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dirk Banse, Michael Behrendt: Steinbrück, Stasi and "the friends". In: Welt am Sonntag, August 18, 2013, pp. 2–3.
  2. ↑ Steinbrück recorded as "Vorlauf-IM" at the Stasi. In: Focus from August 18, 2013
  3. ^ Website for the book
personal data
SURNAME Riemann, Lutz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin