Matthias Fuchs

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Matthias Fuchs (born November 3, 1939 in Hanover ; † January 1, 2002 in Hamburg ) was a German actor .

Life

Beginnings and first film roles

Fuchs' parents were actors. At the age of nine he was on a theater stage for the first time, at the Ballhof in Hanover in the play Death in the Apple Tree by Paul Osborn . At the theater, Fuchs initially worked in extras , as a prop master and as a lighting technician . In addition, he took acting lessons, among others with the character actor Peter Lühr .

Fuchs became known in the 1950s as the actor of Ethelbert in the Immenhof film series alongside Angelika Meissner , Heidi Brühl and Raidar Müller . In the course of the plot, Fuchs embodied in his role the change from the snooty, “spoiled big city lout” to the “down-to-earth nature boy” to the responsible young man who, with his rich uncle, takes the rescue of the pony farm from financial ruin in his hand. The popularity of the Immenhof films made Fuchs the teen idol of his generation; numerous cover pictures in the magazine Bravo document this. In 1959 he was directed by Alfred Weidenmann in the role of the young, rather unmilitary lieutenant René Maria von Trotha in his Buddenbrooks film adaptation. With his portrayal of the apprentice Klaas Henning in the fairytale comedy Der Engel, who moved his harp (1959) by Kurt Hoffmann , he won over the film audience and the film press. In 1959 he was awarded the Federal Youth Film Prize for this .

theatre

Fuchs' popularity in 1950s film enabled him to hit the theater stage. In the beginning he was mainly used in the role of “young lover” and “young hero”, then he developed into one of the most respected character actors in German-speaking theater. He received his first stage engagement at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna , where he was a permanent member of the ensemble from 1962 to 1964. There he played, among others, Romeo in Romeo and Juliet and Ferdinand in Kabale und Liebe . Another permanent engagement followed at the State Theater in Hanover (1965–1967). There he appeared as Titus Feuerfuchs in the Nestroy pose The Talisman , as Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet and in the title role of Friedrich Schiller's play Don Carlos . From 1968 to 1970 he was engaged on the stages of the city of Cologne ; there he played the title role in Kaspar by Peter Handke and appeared in Three Sisters in a production by Rudolf Noelte .

In 1970 he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival . There he took over Laertes in Hamlet in a production by Oskar Werner , who was Fuchs' role model as an actor. In 1971 Fuchs became a permanent member of the ensemble at the Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt ; he stayed there until 1979. His stage roles there included Troilus in Troilus and Cressida (1972, director: Hans Neuenfels ), the title role in The Marquis of Keith by Frank Wedekind (1972, director: Hans Neuenfels), Melchior Gabor in spring Awakening (1973, directed by Peter Palitzsch ), the prince in The Impermanence of Love by Marivaux (1975, directed by Luc Bondy ) and the Junker Bleichenwang in Was ihr wollt (1977, directed by Peter Löscher ).

In 1979 he made a guest appearance at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus . Directed by Peter Löscher, with whom he had a working friendship, he played Karl Moor in Schiller's tragedy The Robbers, alongside Charlotte Schwab as Amalia . Another guest appearance followed in 1984 at the Freie Volksbühne Berlin as Rakitin in A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev .

From 1981 until his death, Fuchs was permanently engaged at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. His work with the director Peter Zadek has become particularly famous ; in 1988 he took on the role of the painter Eduard Schwarz in Zadek's five-act production of Lulu , at the side of Susanne Lothar . Fuchs' other roles in Hamburg were the title role in Perikles (1981, directed by Augusto Fernandes ), Gyges in Gyges and his Ring by Friedrich Hebbel (1982, directed by Ernst Wendt ), Orgon in Tartuffe (1982, directed by Ernst Wendt), Jupiter in Amphitryon (1989, director: Christof Nel ), Leicester, who Fox gave "as a somewhat faded, aging playboy" and "elderly, nervous beau", in Maria Stuart (1990, director: Michael Bogdanov ), the elector in The Prince von Homburg (1994, directed by Martin Kušej ), Schalimov in Sommergäste von Maxim Gorki (1997, directed by Elke Lang ) and Philipp von Burgund in Die Jungfrau von Orléans (1999, directed by Matthias Hartmann ), in 2000 he played in Merlin or Das wüsten Land by Tankred Dorst in a production by Jossi Wieler . Fuchs' last role at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus was in 2001 in Roland Schimmelpfennig's play Push Up , in which Fuchs was on stage three days before his death.

In addition to his appearances in the classical theater repertoire, Fuchs also played in numerous plays by modern dramatists, including works by Tony Kushner ( Angels in America , 1993) and Peter Turrini ( Tod und Teufel , 1991).

Later film and television work

Fuchs had worked for television since the 1960s. He was often seen in literary adaptations (as Sali in Romeo and Juliet in the Village , 1967) or in adaptations of plays (as Dorante in The Game of Love and Chance , 1968). Later, episode roles in numerous television series were added, including Derrick , Der Alte , Peter Strohm , Der Fahnder and Wolffs Revier . In the RTL crime series Doppelter Einsatz , he was seen several times between 1997 and 2001 as a lawyer Harald Manthey.

Later film works were made several times under the direction of Rainer Werner Fassbinder , the Fuchs, among others, as anarchist Horst Knab in Mother Küsters' Journey to Heaven (1975), as a doctor in the television series Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) and as building department head Esslin in Lola . Along with Karlheinz Böhm , Adrian Hoven , Claus Holm and Rudolf Lenz, Fuchs was one of the stars of the 1950s, whose acting potential he tried to use for his films.

In the film Die Flambierte Frau (1983) he played Markus, the arrogant and complacent husband of the main female character Eva. In 1995 he embodied the doctor Dr. Machnik in the "chamber play-like" movie Der Totmacher .

Radio plays and speaking activities

Fuchs was also a speaker in radio plays . In 1961 he worked under the direction of Gert Westphal in a production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters . In the same year, alongside Gustl Halenke as a partner, he was the Uhlan lieutenant Anton Hofmiller in a radio play version of Stefan Zweig's novella Impatience of the Heart . After the death of Peter Pasetti , he played the role of the narrator in 39 episodes of the radio play series Die Drei ??? from 1996 until his death in 2001. (Episodes 65 to 103). Shortly before his death, he spoke to the concentration camp commanders in the radio play Time of Unbeatability, produced by Konrad Halver . As an audio book he recorded the short story Innocence by Harold Brodkey . He was also heard as a speaker in television documentaries.

Matthias Fuchs died at the age of 62 years at the Hamburg University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in a lung disease . His grave is located in the Eiderstedter community cemetery in the Tetenbüll district .

His daughter Maria Fuchs has played the role of Carla Saravakos in the ARD telenovela Rote Rosen since 2008 .

Filmography

Movie

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literature

  • Langen Müller's Acting Dictionary of the Present. Germany. Austria. Switzerland. Albert Langen. Müller, Munich, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-7844-2058-3 , p. 277.
  • Rolf Aurich, Susanne Fuhrmann, Pamela Müller (Red.): Dreams of film. Cinema in Hanover 1896–1991. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Theater am Aegi from October 6 to November 24, 1991. Society for Film Studies, Hanover 1991, p. 158f.
  • C. Bernd Sucher (Ed.): Theater Lexikon . Authors, directors, actors, dramaturges, stage designers, critics. By Christine Dössel and Marietta Piekenbrock with the assistance of Jean-Claude Kuner and C. Bernd Sucher. 2nd Edition. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-423-03322-3 , p. 209.
  • Manfred Brauneck , Wolfgang Beck (Ed.): Theater Lexikon 2. Actors and directors, stage managers, dramaturges and stage designers. With the participation of Werner Schulze-Reimpell . rowohlt's encyclopedia in Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-499-55650-0 , pp. 225/226.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Actor Matthias Fuchs The last interview before his death in: Der Spiegel from January 3, 2002
  2. ↑ a b c d Matthias Fuchs biography at Deutsches Filmhaus
  3. ↑ Performance review of : Maria Stuart in: Die Bühne , issues 376–387, Verlag Austria International 1990
  4. ↑ Twenty Years of Hamburg in: Theater heute , issues 1–6, 2002 (excerpts from Google Books)
  5. ↑ Three sisters HÖRDAT, the audio game database (No. 10)
  6. ↑ Impatience of the Heart HÖRDAT, the audio game database (No. 12)
  7. ^ Knerger.de: The grave of Matthias Fuchs
  8. ↑ Immenhofmuseum honorary members
  9. ↑ Immenhof Festival Rehearsal with television team ( memento from November 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Sun - Land - Sea in Schleswig-Holstein, report from July 6, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Fuchs, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 2002
Place of death Hamburg