Manfred Heidmann

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Manfred Heidmann (born December 27, 1923 in Lübeck ; † May 19, 2020 in Essen ) was a German actor , singer , radio play , dubbing and news presenter .

Life

The son of the actor and director Karl Heidmann was already eight years old in a theater adaptation of Emil and the detectives at the Lübeck Theater. After attending secondary school, he received acting lessons from his father.

In 1940 he took up his first engagement at the Potsdam Theater , after which he played at the Berlin artist theaters . After the end of the war he performed at the Theater der Stadt Essen , the Theater Lübeck and the municipal theaters in Frankfurt am Main .

From 1951 to 1960 he was part of the ensemble of the Bochum Schauspielhaus under Hans Schalla . As a freelance actor, he was a permanent guest there until 1972. Important roles in Bochum were the title character in The Unstoppable Rise of Arturo Ui , Heinrich in Der Teufel und der liebe Gott , Bolingbroke in Das Glas Wasser , Higgins in Shaws Pygmalion and the Pope in Der Stellvertreter .

At the Ruhr Festival in Recklinghausen , he played Count Almaviva in The Great Day or Figaro's Wedding and Scholz in Wedekind's The Marquis of Keith . On the stages of the city of Bonn he was seen as Macheath in the Threepenny Opera and in 1981 on a tour as Werhahn in Hauptmann's Der rote Hahn . Further appearances have taken him to the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg and the Staatstheater Stuttgart .

As a flight student Ludwig Mommsen, Heidmann made his film debut in 1941 in the Rühmann film Quax, the break pilot . As the singer of the song Heimat, your Stars , which was written for the film - afterwards popular with soldiers and covered by many artists - he played a not inconsiderable part in the great success of this film. Other hits sung by him on the Berlin radio were When our Berlin is also darkened , It was a girl and a sailor and greet me Berolina to the tune of Franz Grothe . After that he worked mainly as a theater actor until he intensified his work on television in the 1960s. He was particularly well known from 1970 to 1984 as Saarbrücker Kommissar Schäfermann in eight episodes of the crime series Tatort . He also worked as a dubbing and radio play speaker as well as a newscaster for Deutsche Welle .

Heidmann was also active as a speaker in many radio play productions, for example in two of the famous Paul Temple radio plays , namely in 1962 in Paul Temple and the Margo case (directed by Eduard Hermann ) and in 1967 in Paul Temple and the Alex case (directed : Otto Düben ).

The actor last lived in the Borbeck district of Essen. He was married to Elisabeth Heidmann (née Hausmann, 1926-2010). Until his death in May 2020, Manfred Heidmann was the oldest still living crime scene inspector.

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  1. ↑ Obituary notice in the WAZ from May 26, 2020 , accessed on May 27, 2020
  2. Hanns-Georg Rodek: Manfred Heidmann: The oldest "crime scene" commissioner was almost 100 . In: THE WORLD . May 27, 2020 ( welt.de [accessed on May 28, 2020]).