Roger Fritz

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Roger Fritz (born September 22, 1936 in Mannheim ) is a German actor , filmmaker and photographer .

Life

Roger Fritz trained as a baker, then a waiter and trained as a building materials wholesaler. He began with amateur photography, assisted the photographer Herbert List from 1954 , and then made photography his profession. The Photokina Awards in 1954 and 1956 marked the beginning of his career. He went on numerous reporting trips for the magazines Stern , Quick , Jours de France , Münchner Illustrierte , French Vogue and Bunte . Over the course of a few years he photographed almost 150 pages about Ibiza for Bunte alone . He was one of the founders of the magazineTwen .

During a report on the film Die Halbstarken , he met the director of the UFA junior school for acting and directing, Else Bongers . He decided to spend two and a half years there as a student. Roger Fritz took photographs, acted in films and worked for many years for the opera festival Festival dei Due Mondi with Gian-Carlo Menotti in Spoleto , Italy, lived in Rome, assisted the Italian director Luchino Visconti there and played under his direction with Romy Schneider in Boccaccio 70 . He lived and worked in New York for two years. In 1961 he made his first short film Zimmer im Grünen , in 1962 his second short film about the construction of the Berlin Wall, Silent Voices . His first feature film, Girls, Girls, 1967, was a success; the leading actress Helga Anders won the Federal Film Prize.

Roger Fritz and Helga Anders married in 1967; Their daughter Tatjana Leslie Fritz comes from this marriage, which was divorced in 1974.

Fritz also directed several films and television series, e.g. B. The beautiful Marianne with Hannelore Elsner and Iris Berben . Klaus Löwitsch received the Federal Film Prize for his role in the Roger Fritz film Girls with Violence . 1971 Roger Fritz played the leading role in the Italian television series Bloody Street ( Nessuno deve sapere ) alongside Stefania Casini ; he worked with Rainer Werner Fassbinder on various films such as B. Berlin Alexanderplatz and Lili Marleen and wrote a book about Fassbinder's last film Querelle .

In the eighties and nineties he ran the restaurants Pappasito , Mamasita and Visconti in Munich . Back in the media world, he won the lead award in 2007 for a St. Pauli report, printed in Quest magazine . In 2011 he won the German Independence Honorary Award in Oldenburg .

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Querelle , Munich, Schirmer-Mosel Verlag, 1982
  • Muc People (People in Munich), Munich, T. Bauer Verlag, 2002
  • Memory is often the most beautiful photographic portraits by Romy Schneider, Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2008
  • Extrem Bayrisch , Munich, Südwest Verlag, 2010

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personal data
SURNAME Fritz, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim , Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany