Michael Mechel
Michael Mechel (born January 16, 1944 as Karl Michael Balzer , † March 6, 2014 in Leipzig ) was a German actor .
life and career
Karl Michael Balzer worked as an actor even as a child and was already seen in a film adaptation of The Princess and the Pea in 1953 . In 1959 he played the role of the hairdresser's son Karl Horber in Bernhard Wicki's famous anti-war film Die Brücke . After this success, he worked mainly as a theater actor in the following decades, including at the Thuringian State Theater, the Braunschweig State Theater , the Bielefeld City Theaters and freelance in Munich and Hamburg. In 1983 Balzer took on the surname of his wife with Mechel, from then on he also appeared as an actor under this name. Apart from the theater, he only played sporadically, for example in the television series Faust , Großstadtrevier and In allerfreund as well as in the 1998 feature film Hundred Years of Brecht .
Mechel's last station was the Schauspiel Leipzig , where he appeared between 1997 and 2002 under the direction of Wolfgang Engel . He then had to retire from acting because of a back pain. Michael Mechel died in 2014 at the age of 70 after a long illness in a Leipzig nursing home.
Web links
- The time of lost innocence , article by Michael Mechel about the filming of Die Brücke
- Michael Mechel at filmportal.de
- Michael Mechel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Michael Balzer at the film portal
- ^ Karl Michael Balzer at the film portal
- ↑ Obituary at Theater der Zeit
- ↑ Obituary at Theater der Zeit
- ↑ Theater actor Michael Mechel dies in Leipzig , report from March 14, 2014 on Focus Online . Retrieved October 5, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mechel, Michael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Balzer, Karl Michael (birth name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1944 |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 6, 2014 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |