Tilo Prückner

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Tilo Prückner (2018)

Tilo Prückner (born October 26, 1940 in Augsburg ; † July 2, 2020 in Berlin ) was a German theater and film actor . Among other things, he became known for the incarnation of often eccentric characters in television productions such as Tatort , Adelheid and their murderers , Commissioner Lucas and Pensionnercops .

Life

Tilo Prückner was born in Augsburg in 1940 as the son of the pediatrician Alfred Prückner and his wife Dorothea Krause. The Prückner family has a long family tradition in Hof . He first attended St. Anna's grammar school in Augsburg, and later the Melanchthon grammar school in Nuremberg , where he graduated from high school in 1960 . His Jura - study he broke off to in Munich a drama training with Hans Josef Becher and Ellen Mahlke to complete.

In 2013 he published the novel Willi Merkatz will leave . Prückner died of heart failure in July 2020 at the age of 79 . He left a wife and two grown sons.

Career

theatre

Tilo Prückner, 1968

From 1962 to 1964 he was engaged at the Theater der Jugend in Munich, then at the Stadttheater St. Gallen , from 1966 to 1968 at the Städtische Bühnen Oberhausen and 1968/1969 at the Schauspielhaus Zürich .

He played from 1970 to 1973 in Berlin at the Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer , of which he was a founding member. From 1973 he worked as a freelance actor at the Bavarian State Theater .

Movie and TV

After his appearances in television recordings of the stage productions, he was used more and more often by the directors of the New German Cinema . In 1977 Prückner received the German Actor Award for his role as the standing violinist Hännschen Wurlitzer in Bomber and Paganini .

In later years Prückner proved his versatility in numerous film and television productions. He embodied eccentrics of all kinds in a particularly striking way. Prückner had great success when he played the hypochondriac detective chief Gernot Schubert at the side of Evelyn Hamann and Heinz Baumann for six years in the television series Adelheid and their murderers .

Between 2001 and 2008 he investigated together with Robert Atzorn as chief detective Eduard Holicek in fifteen episodes of the ARD crime series Tatort . He also played concise supporting roles, such as in the episode " Never be free again ".

In addition, from 2003 until his death in 2020, he regularly worked in the ZDF crime series Kommissarin Lucas alongside the main actress Ulrike Kriener as their landlord Max Kirchhoff. From March 2015 he played the main role of the retired commissioner Edwin Bremer in the ARD early evening series Rentnercops . Between 2012 and 2016 he took on the role of Kluftinger sen. in the crime series Kommissar Kluftinger at the side of Herbert Knaup . Prückner remained active as an actor until his death.

Filmography

Cinema (selection)

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Plays (selection)

  • 1984: Gilgamesch and Engidu (with Roland Teubner)
  • 1999: Meier has to eat soup

Radio plays (selection)

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Tilo Prückner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Former "Tatort" commissioner dead: He died unexpectedly - even a Hollywood star is shocked. In: fr.de . July 6, 2020, accessed October 26, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Frank Dietschreit: "Meier has to eat soup" - clear as dumpling broth. In: tagesspiegel.de . November 23, 1999, accessed July 6, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Prückner, Tilo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH 2nd July 2020
Place of death Berlin