Peter Fricke

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Peter Fricke in front of the Schumann House in Zwickau, 2014

Peter Fricke (born August 26, 1939 in Berlin ) is a German film and theater actor and voice actor .

Life

Peter Fricke grew up with his Bavarian mother in Murnau am Staffelsee . After graduating from high school, he trained as an actor at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich. Fricke had his first stage appearance in 1960 as Lysander in the play A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare .

After engagements at the Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt (director Harry Buckwitz ), the Städtische Bühnen Köln (director Oscar Fritz Schuh ) and from 1964 the Bavarian State Theater Munich (director Helmut Henrichs ), for which he was engaged for ten years (award youngest German state actor ), from 1974 he worked as a freelance actor with guest theater engagements in Berlin, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Bonn, Nuremberg, Vienna, Zurich and again in Munich. From 1973 there were guest appearances in Berlin, Hamburg, Vienna, Zurich and Düsseldorf, and his artistic partner was the director Rudolf Noelte , who made him in Egmont , Die Wildente , Drei Schwestern a . a. occupied. After a long break, he continued his theatrical work more intensively, also with pieces in music theater such as Bernauerin in Zurich , Munich and Nuremberg and several works with Rafael Kubelík and Lorin Maazel , pieces such as Oedipus Rex , The Story of the Soldier , as well as all speaking roles with the Munich Philharmonic soloists, also at the Lucerne Festival 2007, or 2008 in the Frankfurt old opera in Peer Gynt . In the Theater des Westens and Deutsches Theater Munich he played the character of Higgins in My Fair Lady in 156 performances.

In addition to the theater, Fricke began working for television in the late 1950s. He began his television activity at Hessischer Rundfunk and continued it at Bayerischer Rundfunk with Gerhart Hauptmann's Und Pippa tanzt , directed by Fritz Umgelter . In numerous TV productions he played concise, multi-layered and often shady roles in crime series such as Der Kommissar , Der Alte , Derrick , SOKO , Krimistunde , Tatort or in the Durbridge films . After leaving the permanent theater ensemble, other films followed such as Rainer Erler's multi-part series Das Blaue Palais , The Red Chapel , Wunnigel , Nathan the Wise and Heinz Rühmann's last feature film “ Oh Jonathan - oh Jonathan! ". At the end of 1989 Fricke withdrew a little from television, from the mid-1990s he could still be seen in episode roles in Immer wieder Sonntag , Der Bulle von Tölz , Unser Charly or Schlosshotel Orth . In 2008 he played the character of Erich Ludendorff in the BR documentary game Hitler in court .

At the end of 1989, Fricke opened a French restaurant called Bu ~ nuel in Grünwald near Munich, which he ran with a kitchen and bar and “word and music programs” for ten years. During these years his audio book series Bunuel-Grünwald was created, the last being Michelangelo - The Poet was published in 2015 . He continued his radio activity on the transmitters over the decades.

Fricke also worked as a voice actor , for example he spoke the title roles in Shakespeare's Hamlet and Richard II and in Ranke-Graves Ich, Claudius, Kaiser and Gott in the BBC productions . He gave their German voice to David Rasche , Jean-Pierre Léaud , John Hurt , Ian McKellen , Pierre Richard , Alan Rickman , Jack Cassidy , Patrice Chéreau , Jean-Pierre Cassel , Derek Jacobi , Geoffrey Rush , Sidney Poitier , Laurence Olivier .

With his pronounced voice, Fricke was also involved in many radio plays, such as 80 Days Around the World , Dubliners , Harris Pompeji , Umberto Ecos Baudolino , Peter Weiss ' The Aesthetics of Resistance , Andy Warhol's Diary , Celine , Two Strangers on a Train , Four Cases for Lord Peter , Metropolis , night train to Lisbon , Grischka and his bear , Burn out , Dracula Dracula , Sherlock Homes , Paul Temples , Pygmalion , Nietzsche: Why I have a fate, Momo and in 2015 Laurence Stern's Tristram Shandy (in it the role of the father of Tristram ) or for the NDR Prof. Kuckuck in Thomas Mann's Felix Krull , the radio play multipart for the WDR Der Verbotene Ort by Fred Vargas and many literary features.

At the Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio , he spoke the novel Onitsha in three parts for BR2 Literature . Other audio books include Ingrid Noll's word of honor , or Veronique Bizot's My Coronation . Fricke appears at readings at home and abroad (Norway, Switzerland, France and Italy).

In the summer of 2006 Peter Fricke married the Italian painter and actress Patrizia Orlando , whom he met in 1994 while rehearsing for Goldoni's play The Liar .

Awards

Filmography (selection)

actor

Voice actor

Audio books and radio plays (selection)

Plays (selection)

1961/1962 season

Municipal theaters Frankfurt

1962/1963 season

Cologne theater

1963

Municipal theaters Frankfurt

1964-1973

Residenztheater Munich

Further
Festival / tours

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ VITA Peter Fricke at peterfricke-online.de, accessed on February 16, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Fricke, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin