Peter Haber (actor)

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Peter Alexander Haber (born December 12, 1952 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish actor .

Live and act

Peter Haber grew up as the son of a Swede and a German in Södertälje near Stockholm. He was baptized in Remscheid , where his father's family lived. As a child he regularly spent his summer holidays there. He is still connected to Germany today and speaks very good German. As a child he began to be interested in the theater and at the age of 12 he was on stage in an amateur theater .

After leaving school, he attended the state drama school in Stockholm, but dropped out and took on theater engagements in Landskrona and Gävle , where he was often seen in Shakespeare roles. Haber was also trained as a tenor and sang in operas . From 1987 to 1994 he was engaged at the Stockholm City Theater. Since then he has been working as a freelancer. In 2002 he appeared in the Stockholm China Theater in Der Revisor and in 2012 he was the first non-German actor to play the title character of Götz von Berlichingen at the Jagsthausen Castle Festival in a production by Danish director Jan Maagaard .

At the end of the 1980s, he began to take on smaller roles in Swedish television, which were soon followed by leading roles, mostly in crime series and multi-part series. Above all, Haber became internationally known in the role of Detective Inspector Martin Beck in the sequel to the television series Inspector Beck - The New Cases based on the crime novels by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö . He can also be seen regularly in Swedish films.

Because of his good knowledge of German, which makes dubbing unnecessary, and his popularity with German audiences, he can be seen regularly as a guest in German television series such as Tatort (2006 as Björndal in the episode Mann über Bord with Axel Milberg ) and in leading roles in television films. In 2008 he worked in the German-Swedish production Der Kommissar und das Meer . In 2009 he played the flight captain Winkler in the television film Crashpoint - 90 minutes until the crash . Occasionally he can be seen in TV melodramas alongside well-known German actresses, for example in 2008 alongside Hannelore Elsner in Mein Herz in Chile and in 2010 alongside Thekla Carola Wied in Den Tage mehr Leben! . In Swedish-language productions he is usually dubbed by Dieter Memel .

Peter Haber has been married to colleague Lena T. Hansson since 1990 and the couple have a son.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefanie Rüggeberg: A life with and after Beck . In: Hamburger Abendblatt, November 4, 2006. (Accessed September 10, 2010.)
  2. ↑ a b Short biography of Peter Haber . At: prisma.online.de . (Accessed September 10, 2010.)
  3. ↑ Beck i grave med Haber . In: Svenska Dagbladet of January 4, 2002 (Swedish; accessed September 10, 2010.)
personal data
SURNAME Haber, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haber, Peter Alexander (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm