Manfred Zapatka

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Manfred Zapatka with his wife Margarete (2017)

Manfred Zapatka (born October 2, 1942 in Bremen ) is a German actor .

biography

Zapatka is the son of an editor and a housewife. He grew up in Cloppenburg , where he graduated from high school in 1962. After training at the drama school in Bochum (formerly Westphalian drama school ), he played at the Freiburg Theater and the Essen Theater . He experienced his breakthrough at the Stuttgart State Theater when Claus Peymann hired him. When Peymann moved to the Schauspielhaus Bochum , Zapatka went to the Münchner Kammerspiele . For more than twenty years he was one of the protagonists of Dieter Dorn's theater . He later moved to the Residenztheater in Munich , where he is still a member of the ensemble today.

His first leading role in cinema was that of pimp Heinz in Utopia by Sohrab Shahid Saless , which was shown in the 1983 Berlinale competition . He became known to the general public through his role as the scheming Hans-Otto Gruber in the ZDF series Rivals of the Racetrack (1989). Numerous guest appearances in crime series (e.g. Eurogang ), especially regular roles in the series Der Alte and Derrick , ensured his popularity. In 1989, Zapatka played the leading role of Lieutenant Karl Krafft in the four-part film Factory of the Officers . This was followed by his role as Richard Maiers in the four-parter The Great Bellheim as the successor to the department store giant Bellheim embodied by Mario Adorf . In Heinrich Breloer's docu-drama Death Game about the kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer and the kidnapping of the Lufthansa plane Landshut to Mogadishu , he played the German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt .

In the last few years a close collaboration with the film director Romuald Karmakar has developed. Under his direction, he read a speech by Heinrich Himmler in Das Himmler-Projekt , played in Die Nacht singt Ihr Lieder in 2004 , which was also shown in the 2004 Berlinale competition , and in 2006 in Karmakar's Hamburg Lessons . He also appeared on stage as Hagen at the Nibelungen Festival in Worms in 2003, 2004 and 2005 .

In 2007, in the film Autopiloten by director Bastian Günther , Zapatka interpreted the roles of the aging pop singer Chris Kaiser in the pieces Come on, Katharina and Walk with me, written by Bernd Begemann for this film .

In 2004 Zapatka was a member of the 12th Federal Assembly . He was nominated by the SPD and represented the state of Lower Saxony .

Zapatka lives in Berlin today . His first wife was the actress Regine Vergeen . The actress Katharina Zapatka and one other child come from this relationship . Since 1978 he has been married to Margarete for the second time; There were three children from this marriage (including one adopted child).

In 2012 he worked as a narrator in the radio play Ulysses based on James Joyce , the longest radio play by Südwestrundfunk with a running time of more than 22 hours and one of the most elaborate radio play productions by ARD .

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

Audiobooks (selection)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ BR radio play Pool - Hoffmann, The Serapions Brothers
  2. ^ BR radio play Pool - Bulgakow, Meister and Margarita
personal data
SURNAME Zapatka, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen