Peter Franke (actor)

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Peter Franke in 2016 in the Lichtwerk studio

Peter Franke (born July 19, 1941 in Breslau ) is a German theater and film actor .

Life

Franke originally wanted to be an opera singer and also studied singing at the Folkwang School in Essen . In Düsseldorf he attended a private drama school. After completing his studies, he performed in various cellar and room theaters from 1961 to 1968. From 1969 to 1972 he was engaged at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus and from 1972 to 1974 at the stages of the city of Cologne .

At the beginning of his career, Franke mainly took part in plays. Among other things, he played the title role at the Schauspiel Frankfurt , where he worked from 1974 to 1978, in the world premiere of the play Der Dauerklavierspieler (by Horst Laube , directed by Luc Bondy ) and Arlequin in the play The Unstability of Love (by Pierre Carlet de Marivaux ).

He had further engagements from 1978 to 1980 at the Bremen Theater , 1980 to 1985 at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus (Hamburg), 1985 to 1988 at the Staatliche Schauspielbühnen Berlin and 1988 to 1994 at the Thalia Theater (Hamburg). He sang Papageno in Mozart's Magic Flute at the Lübeck Opera in 1999/2000. At the Hamburger Kammerspiele he played in the play Die Jungs with the Tüdelband . The piece is about the Wolf brothers , who were Hamburg Jews and musicians. At the St. Pauli Theater Franke played in the Brecht play The Threepenny Opera together with Ulrich Tukur and Eva Mattes .

The greatest successes of his cinema career were Schlafes Bruder , Migratory Birds ... Once to Inari and The Miracle of Bern . In the film about the Football World Cup in 1954 , Franke plays the national coach Sepp Herberger .

Donata Höffer and Peter Franke in Hamburg, 1986

In addition to working for the theater and television, Franke had many large and small appearances, e. B. the solo part in the Canto General as well as recitals in school halls, restaurants or readings in bars with the Hamburg singer heap.

On August 13, 2016, Peter Franke was a guest on the “Red Sofa” for the third time in the regional evening program “DAS!” On NDR television.

Franke is active as a speaker of audio books, for example he speaks the work of Theodor Storm Der Schimmelreiter and Patricia Highsmith The talented Mr. Ripley .

Peter Franke lives in Hamburg-Ottensen . He was married to the actress and singer Donata Höffer ; they have a daughter together. He has been married to Ursula Stampa since 2017.

Filmography

theatre

literature

  • Werner Schulze-Reimpell: Franke, Peter . In: Manfred Brauneck, Wolfgang Beck (ed.): Theater Lexikon 2. Actors and directors, stage managers, dramaturges and stage designers . Rowohlt's encyclopedia published by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag. Reinbek near Hamburg, August 2007, ISBN 978 3 499 55650 0 , p. 215 f.

Web links

Commons : Peter Franke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 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. (PDF) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.renaissance-theater.de
  2. ↑ Peter Franke is reading. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. February 23, 2007. Reading from a book by Heiko Rosner in the Sonnseite bar
  3. ↑ "THAT! Peter Franke as a guest ” , NDR, 13 Aug 2016
  4. ↑ hoergold.de
  5. ↑ Detlef Jens: Beautiful schooner . In: The world . March 2, 2002, ISSN  0173-8437 ( online [accessed August 14, 2012]).
personal data
SURNAME Franke, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Breslau , German Empire