Peter Fitz

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Peter Fitz (born August 8, 1931 in Kaiserslautern , † January 10, 2013 in Berlin ) was a German actor and voice actor .

Life

For decades, Peter Fitz was one of the outstanding actors in the German theater landscape. In the 1950s he trained at the drama school of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg . In the 1960s, engagements at the Schauspiel Frankfurt followed . The director Peter Stein brought him into the ensemble of the Berlin Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer , where he could be seen under Stein's direction in productions such as Trilogy des Wiedersehen by Botho Strauss and under Klaus Michael Grüber in his legendary staging of the Bacchus by Euripides . In 1981, Grüber cast him at the Free Volksbühne Berlin as Mephisto, alongside Bernhard Minetti as Faust . Most recently he was on stage in the production of Nathan the Wise at the Berliner Ensemble and in the Wallenstein production by Peter Stein.

In the course of his career, Fitz played in all major German-speaking theaters, such as the Burgtheater in Vienna , the Munich Kammerspiele , the Berlin Schiller Theater and the Salzburg Festival . In 1980 and 1983 he was voted Actor of the Year by the editorial staff of Theater heute magazine . In recent years he has performed at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz under the direction of Christoph Marthaler and at the Berliner Ensemble under the direction of Claus Peymann .

In comparison to his theater work, his film and television work was always in the background. But he played z. B. directed by Louis Malle in Auf Wiedersehen, Kinder and was seen in demanding television productions such as Die Geschwister Oppermann , Die Bertinis and Die Wannseekonferenz . In 1996, Fitz was nominated for the German Film Prize for his portrayal of Reinhold Schünzel in Hans-Christoph Blumenberg's The Next Kiss I Pop Him Down .

Peter Fitz also became known to a broad television audience through crime films and series. Most recently, he played the role of Conte Falier in the Donna Leon film adaptations alongside Joachim Król and Uwe Kockisch . As a voice actor , he lent his voice to international actors like Michel Serrault , Sam Waterston , Jean-Louis Trintignant and Dean Stockwell .

In the episodes of ARD Radio Tatort produced by Hessischer Rundfunk , he spoke to Camillo Falk, a photographer with contacts to the underworld, whose son is chief detective and another main character in the series. In a series of Sherlock Holmes - radio plays (1987-2004) for the SWF or SWR , MDR and RBB he was Dr. Watson .

Peter Fitz, who last lived in Berlin-Charlottenburg , died on January 10, 2013 at the age of 81 in his apartment. He was the father of the actress Hendrikje Fitz (1961–2016) and the actor Florian Fitz (* 1967). His grave is in the Berlin forest cemetery Zehlendorf on Potsdamer Chaussee. His daughter Hendrikje was also buried next to him. He was married to the actress and prompter Ute Fitz .

Awards

Filmography (selection)

theatre

Radio plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Camillo Falk alias Peter Fitz . ( Memento from August 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) radiotatort.ard.de, accessed on April 8, 2016.
    Crimean War in Wiesbaden. By Roland Schimmelpfennig . radio.tatort, August 8, 2013, accessed April 8, 2016.
  2. ↑ HÖRDAT, the audio game database
  3. ↑ Stefan Grund: Obituary: Peter Fitz - the silent king with a big voice has fallen silent . Berliner Morgenpost , January 10, 2013, accessed on April 9, 2016.
  4. ^ The grave of Peter Fitz on the website of Klaus Nerger, accessed on April 9, 2016.f
  5. ↑ Sascha Stiehler: Interview with “Trude” Ute Fitz . ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Löwenzahn Fan Club, July 1, 2013, accessed April 9, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.loewenzahnfanclub.de
  6. ↑ The Lockspitzel. In: IMDB. Retrieved January 26, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Fitz, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiserslautern , Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 2013
Place of death Berlin , Germany