Robert Atzorn

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Robert Atzorn at the Grimme Awards 2013

Robert Atzorn (born February 2, 1945 in Bad Polzin ( Połczyn-Zdrój ) in Pomerania , today in Poland ) is a former German actor . He achieved particular popularity in the lead role of the successful television series Our Teacher Doctor Specht .

Life

education

Robert Atzorn grew up in Oldenburg and Hamburg and initially studied graphics at the Alsterdamm art school in Hamburg. However, he felt drawn to the theater and therefore switched to the New Munich Drama School (1967–1969).

Theater actor

In the season 1969/70 he got his first engagement at the Württembergische Landesbühne . This was followed by engagements at the Schauspielhaus Zurich (1970/1971), at the Münster Municipal Theaters (1971/1972), at the Cologne City Theaters (1972/73), at the Dortmund Municipal Theaters (1973-1975) and at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich (1977–1983).

Movie and TV

First engagement

1980 Atzorn was in his first film role in From the Lives of Marionettes , directed by Ingmar Bergman in front of the camera. After many years at the theater, he has worked exclusively for television since the mid-1980s.

Happily divorced

He became known to a wider audience in 1985 at the side of Beatrice Kessler in the family series Glücklich divorced .

Oh god, pastor

Atzorn gained great popularity from 1988 with Maren Kroymann in the series Oh God, Mr. Pfarrer . In 1989 he received the Golden Camera for his portrayal of the unconventional pastor .

Our teacher, Doctor Specht

He became a crowd favorite in the title role of the early evening series Our Teacher Doctor Specht , which was broadcast in 70 episodes from 1992 to 1999. In 1993 he was awarded the Telestar , the forerunner of the German Television Prize, for this.

More roles

Atzorn also worked in individual episodes of the television series Forsthaus Falkenau , Schwarzwaldklinik and Alpha Team - Die Lebensretter im OP as well as the crime series Derrick , Ein Fall für Zwei , Der Alte , Tatort and Die Männer vom K3 .

As the successor to Manfred Krug and Charles Brauer, he investigated from 2001 to 2008 as crime scene commissioner Jan Casstorff together with Tilo Prückner as commissioner Holicek and Julia Schmidt as Jenny Graf for the NDR . The crime scene episode And bye in February 2008 also meant the departure of the team of investigators around Atzorn.

Furthermore, in 2002 he was mayor of Dieter Wedel's multi-part Die Affäre Semmeling. To see Klaus Hennig .

In 2004, in the romantic comedy Kiss Me, Chancellor , he slipped into the role of a head of government who falls in love with a cleaning lady played by Andrea Sawatzki .

Also in 2004 he was in Das Kommando with his sons Jens and Daniel (who made his debut as an actor in the film) as the commander of a special unit in front of the camera.

2005 took over Atzorn in the series the chancellery the part of the Chancellery chief. In 2007 he was in the ZDF production Afrika, mon amour , as in Matti Geschonneck's Who Loves Is Right and in Das Kommando , alongside Iris Berben .

In 2008, he played a couple with Franziska Walser in the television drama Mein Mann, der Trinker , whose marriage is being put to a tough test. In 2008, after a long break, two new episodes of the adventure series Der Kapitän were created , in which he had played the character of Captain Frank Harmsen from 1997 to 2000 .

End of career

On December 29, 2017, it was announced that Atzorn would quit his work as an actor and withdraw into private life. On January 15, 2018, the last television film with Atzorn, an episode of the crime series Nord Nord Mord , was broadcast.

Private / family

Atzorn has been married to Angelika Hartung for the second time since 1976 . The couple have two grown sons, including actor Jens Atzorn .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

literature

  • C. Bernd Sucher (Ed.): Theater Lexikon. Authors, directors, actors, dramaturges, stage designers, critics. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-423-03322-3 .

Web links

Commons : Robert Atzorn  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ T-Online: Robert Atzorn ends TV career finally accessed on December 29, 2017
  2. ↑ quotemeter.de: Robert Atzorn: Farewell to the television business, accessed on December 29, 2017
  3. ^ Prize winners - Grimme Prize 2013. “Competition Fiktion”. Grimme Institute, accessed on December 31, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Bavarian State Chancellery: Bavarian Television Prize 2013 - Jury decision ( memento from February 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 10, 2019
  5. ^ Robert Geisendörfer Prize. (Call up on the page “Prize winners from 1993” - no sublink possible). Joint work of Evangelische Publizistik gGmbH, accessed on October 11, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Atzorn, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Polzin