Martin Lüttge

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Martin Lüttge (born July 7, 1943 in Hamburg ; † February 22, 2017 in Plön ) was a German actor and director .

Life

Lüttge was the son of the garden and landscape architect Gustav Lüttge (1909–1968) and the nurse Erika von Delius (1915–1997).

Martin Lüttge spent his childhood first in Hamburg and then, due to the war, from 1946 to 1952 in the hamlet of Klashorn belonging to Bad Bramstedt . He was a Waldorf student and went to England in the late 1950s to become a farmer. He trained on a veal farm in Devon . He soon practiced acting there. He broke off his stay in England, first attended the Zerboni Drama School in Gauting and then the New Munich Drama School . Since then, acting has been Lüttge's second profession alongside farming.

The director Fritz Umgelter recognized the talent of the young Lüttge and cast him for several leading roles on television, including Fried Potatoes , Rebellion of the Lost and in the series Like a Tear in the Ocean based on the novel trilogy by Manès Sperber . In the early evening series If the music wasn't ... (directed by Georg Tressler ) he became known to a wide audience with the lead role of a music student. During this time, Lüttge also had a stage engagement at the Münchner Kammerspiele from 1966 to 1970 , where he made a name for himself as an all-round talent in the character field and as a comedy actor. After that he was on stage at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus until 1974 and was then engaged by Claus Peymann at the Schauspielhaus of the Staatstheater Stuttgart until 1977 , where he celebrated great successes as Faust, among others .

In 1978, together with other artists, he founded his own tent theater , which has been operating as Theaterhof Priessenthal since 1980 . The independent theater company has a 400-year-old, five- hectare farm in Mehring near Burghausen , where they live and where they rehearse in winter. The Theaterhof wants, according to its own presentation, "to make political folk theater self-determined and responsible, to be a cultural producer with a wide range". This claim from the early days is still valid today, even if the old tent, which held 600 spectators, is no longer used. Instead, the actors go on tours and appear in cultural and theater halls. Today ten people work on the Theaterhof, which also offers overnight stays, a petting zoo and children's baking courses.

Martin Lüttge became known to a broad television audience from 1992 to 1997 as commissioner Bernd Flemming in the Tatort series of the WDR . As Bernd Flemming , he succeeded the Schimanski portrayed by Götz George in 1992 . He already made a guest appearance as the husband of reporter Ulli in the crime scene movie Tooth for Tooth (1985). After fifteen missions, Lüttge dropped out of the series in 1997.

Lüttge was on ZDF as the father of Hardy Krüger jr. embodied forester Stefan Leitner in the family series Forsthaus Falkenau .

From the end of 2006 to the beginning of 2007 he made a guest appearance in Berlin with the theater production Brothers Grimm in the role of Jacob Grimm , whom he had played with great success six years earlier in guest performances in Finland, Bulgaria, Poland and Estonia.

From February 2010, Martin Lüttge was the official sponsor of the Bethel children's hospice . His mother Erika worked as a housemother in Bethel before her marriage .

Private

Martin Lüttge was married to the actress Gila von Weitershausen from 1966 to 1972 . In 1999 he married the actress Marlen Breitinger , who had been his partner at Tatort since 1993 . After a serious illness in 2012, where an aneurysm was discovered, he stepped down professionally and moved with his wife near Plön .

Martin Lüttge died on February 22, 2017 after a long and serious illness in a hospital in Plön.

Filmography (selection)

Theater roles (selection)

  • 1968 Rosenkranz in Stoppards Rosenkranz and Güldenstern are dead (Director: Dieter Giesing , Münchner Kammerspiele under Artistic Director August Everding )
  • 1969 Priest Kiro in Edward Bond's Narrow Path to the Deep North (Director: Peter Zadek , Münchner Kammerspiele)
  • 1977 Faust in Faust I and II (director: Claus Peymann , Staatstheater Stuttgart)
  • 1978 Florindo in The Servant of Two Masters (Direction: Niels-Peter Rudolph , Staatstheater Stuttgart)
  • Since 1980 touring theater classics, Theaterhof Priessenthal

Awards

Bibliography

  • Christian Schröder, cows are sensitive spectators . In: Der Tagesspiegel , No. 19402, December 15, 2006, p. 29 with a current photo of the actor, taken by Birgit Kleber.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Klietz: The homecoming of the "Commissioner" . Hamburger Abendblatt , April 9, 2003, accessed on March 3, 2017.
  2. ↑ Martin Lüttge: "Bethel is predestined for this task". From Bodelschwinghsche Stiftungen Bethel , archived from the original on October 31, 2012 ; Retrieved March 3, 2017 .
  3. ↑ German Gender Book , Volume 193. Starke Verlag, Limburg ad Lahn 1987, p. 492.
  4. ↑ Freizeit Revue , 11/2017, March 8, 2017, pp. 12–13
  5. ^ Peter Jungblut: Obituary: Tatort and Volkstheater: Actor Martin Lüttge died. In: br24.de , February 27, 2017, accessed on February 27, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Lüttge, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 22nd February 2017
Place of death Plön