Thomas Lawinky

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Thomas Lawinky (born October 3, 1964 in Magdeburg ) is a German actor . At the theater he mainly plays in plays by the director Sebastian Hartmann . He is best known on television for roles in crime series. In the 2013/14 and 2014/15 seasons he was part of the permanent ensemble of the Schauspiel Stuttgart under Armin Petras.

Life

Lawinky completed an acting training at the University of Film and Television Potsdam from 1988 to 1992 .

The theater scandal

On February 16, 2006, the theater critic Gerhard Stadelmaier attended the premiere of the play The Great Massacre or Triumph of Death by Eugène Ionesco (production: Sebastian Hartmann ) at the Schauspiel Frankfurt . As part of the plot, Thomas Lawinky involved him in his actions by taking away the notepad with his impressions from Stadelmaier and - after leafing through briefly with the words: "Let's see what that guy is writing!" - returned it. When Stadelmaier then left the performance, he shouted “Get out, you ass! Piss off! ”After. Stadelmaier saw this as an attack on his role as a critic and also on himself as a person and was very open to the media. a. the following day in the FAZ under the title Attack on a Critic . In response, Thomas Lawinky resigned to forestall his release. As a result, a discussion broke out within the German theater scene , with well-known theater people also taking sides with the actor Lawinky, for example Claus Peymann offered him a place in the Berlin ensemble he directed .

Regardless of the theater scandal, Lawinky was allowed to continue playing the title role in Macbeth at the Magdeburg Theater .

In September 2007 he played Father Lorenzo again under Hartmann in his Romeo and Juliet production at the Burgtheater Vienna.

Cooperation with the Stasi

In a conversation with the Süddeutsche Zeitung in March 2006, he admitted that from August 1987 until the fall of the Berlin Wall he had worked under the code name “Beckett” as an IM for the GDR Ministry for State Security . He tells this very openly in the short film Omen from the hamlet X project by Herbert Fritsch . Why he went to the press unsolicited shortly after the “theater scandal ” he had triggered, he answered taz in April 2006 as follows: “Since the scandal in Frankfurt I have had such a large public in the feature section that I want to become an example . For the history of the GDR and the history of the Federal Republic of Germany . "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the website of the Schauspiel Stuttgart
  2. ↑ Christine Dössel: Portrait of a scandal actor . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 24, 2006
  3. ↑ Interview with Barbara Bollwahn. In: taz , April 4, 2006
personal data
SURNAME Lawinky, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lawincky, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd October 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg