Till Kretzschmar

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Till Kretzschmar (born December 10, 1955 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ; † January 8, 2018 ) was a German actor and theater director .

Life

Till Kretzschmar came from a family of actors and initially learned to be a mechanical and plant engineer . He became a steel fitter and worked as a stage technician .

From 1977 to 1980 he completed his acting training at the State Drama School in Berlin . He had his first theater engagements in Schwedt , Zwickau and at the Annaberg-Buchholz Theater . Theater engagements in Berlin, St. Gallen, Munich, Hanover and Dresden followed later. From 1987 to 1990 he was permanently engaged at the Schauspielhaus Zurich . In 2010 he was a guest at the Rottweil Zimmer Theater in the title role of Molière 's The Imaginary Ill .

During his early years in the theater, he was discovered for film and television in the early 1980s. The director Celino Bleiweiß engaged the then 25-year-old Kretzschmar for the two-part TV series Wilhelm Meister's theatrical show (1982), in which he, together with Daniel Minetti in the title role, played as Laertes a "both spirited and meaningful" nude bathing scene. He had his first starring role as a young teacher in Evelyn Schmidt DEFA -Kinofilm on the go (1984).

Even before the “ Wende ”, Kretzschmar moved to the Federal Republic of Germany , where he worked at the theater and later mainly for television. In the 1990s and 2000s he starred in episode roles in numerous television series. In the 3rd season of the ZDF crime series SOKO Wismar (2005), he took on a leading role in the episode as the suspect archaeologist and scientist Dr. Stuth. In the documentary TV drama Mogadishu (2008) about the Lufthansa plane “Landshut” hijacked by terrorists in October 1977 , he was the chief pilot of Gäbel. In the TV film Who Loves Has Arrived (2009) from the TV series Stories from the Mountains , he played the entrepreneur Max Hallstein at the side of Katerina Jacob , who had retired to the USA after the death of his wife and now to his home village returns. He had his last TV role in 2017 in the crime series Alles Klara as the shaman Adahy.

In addition to his work as an actor, he also worked regularly as a theater director. From 1998 he worked as an acting lecturer at the drama school "Theaterwerkstatt" in Mainz . He also appeared in around 100 radio plays , including a. with Radio DRS , Saarländischer Rundfunk and Deutschlandradio .

Till Kretzschmar lived in Dennweiler-Frohnbach in Rhineland-Palatinate from 1994 . In the district of Kusel he initiated several theater projects, in which he directed. Shortly before his death, he studied the play Voll auf der Rolle with young people in the Kuseler youth center . Till Kretzschmar died in January 2018 a few weeks after his 62nd birthday. He was buried in Kaiserslautern .

Filmography

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Till Kretzschmar at schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c Till Kretzschmar . Obituary notice. In: Der Tagesspiegel from January 16, 2018. Retrieved on August 25, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b c d Frank-Burkhard Habel : Nekrologe 2018 . Obituary. In: The paper . 22nd year. Number 1 dated January 7, 2019. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b c Bodo Schnekenburger Rottweil: Till Kretzschmar in the room theater . In: Schwarzwälder Bote from July 6, 2010. Retrieved on August 25, 2019.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Obituary: Till Kretzschmar died at the age of 62 . Obituary. In: Die Rheinpfalz of January 16, 2018. Retrieved on August 25, 2019.
  6. ↑ a b c d e Till Kretzschmar . Biography at Filmsule.com. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
  7. ↑ The year 1982 mentioned in the obituary in the Tagesspiegel is probably incorrect, as Kretzschmar was still living and working in the GDR at that time. Kretzschmar's vita on his former profile at 451.ch indicates the years 1987 to 1990.
  8. ↑ WILHELM MEISTERS THEATRAL broadcast (1981) . Production details, cast and plot. Television of the GDR (online encyclopedia of GDR television films, television games and TV productions. Accessed August 25, 2019.
  9. ↑ SOKO Wismar: Viking gold . Brief description and content (with photo with Till Kretzschmar). TV today. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
  10. ↑ Stories from the mountains: Those who love have arrived . Production details, storyline, cast and picture gallery. TV feature film . Retrieved August 25, 2019.
  11. ↑ Cheerful to deadly: Everything Klara . Brief description and content (with photo with Till Kretzschmar). Official website of the NDR . Retrieved August 25, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Kretzschmar, Till
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Karl-Marx-Stadt , GDR
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 2018