Uwe Friedrichsen

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Uwe Friedrichsen (2010)

Uwe Friedrichsen (born May 27, 1934 in Altona ; † April 30, 2016 in Hamburg ) was a German actor , audio book and voice actor .

Career

After completing secondary school, he completed a commercial apprenticeship at a Hamburg porcelain company. He took a liking to acting in the amateur theater group at the Hamburg Adult Education Center . Against the wishes of his parents, he began private acting training, which he financed as a dock worker and newspaper boy. In 1953 he founded theater 53 together with Marcus Scholz and others .

Here he played for three years in the performance of adapted short stories by Wolfgang Borchert and Ernest Hemingway . After Ida Ehre became aware of him, he was committed to the Deutsche Schauspielhaus in Hamburg under Gustaf Gründgens in 1956 . Until 1968 he was part of his ensemble , while he appeared in many other theaters. Then he worked as a freelance actor.

The stage actor Friedrichsen played the "pupil" in the legendary film adaptation of Gründgens' production of Faust when he was in his mid-twenties . He played his first cinema roles in the films Lemke Sel. Witwe (1957) and shortly afterwards in Our House in Cameroon (1961) (both with music by Martin Böttcher ). He also appeared in the Edgar Wallace film Der Gorilla von Soho (1968) as Sergeant Jim Pepper, after which he was mainly seen in television productions through which he became known to a larger audience, such as John Klings Abenteuer (1965) (alongside Hellmut Lange ), Stadt ohne Sheriff , Elefantenjunge (1973) and on Sesame Street (from 1979 to 1981 as Uwe).

Friedrichsen earned great recognition with his television role as customs investigator Zaluskowski in 18 films in the crime series Schwarz Rot Gold in the early 1980s, which always dealt with socially critical topics. He also played the mayor Hinrich Oppen at the side of Andreas Schmidt-Schaller in the series Oppen and Ehrlich . The series, which showed the lives of two dissimilar half-brothers, Mayor Hinrich Oppen and factory owner Ottwin Ehrlich, took place in the Sauerland at the beginning of the 1990s. In December 2006 he was seen as a good Christmas angel in some episodes of the ARD pre-evening soap Verbotene Liebe . In 2007 he played in the Sat.1 production Help! Wedding! - Worst week of my life . Overall, Friedrichsen was seen in over 120 film and television productions between 1957 and 2013.

In addition to acting, Friedrichsen was also a sought-after audio book and voice actor. As early as 1964 he spoke the title villain " Der Schut " in the radio play of the same name in the production by Joseph Offenbach , who also spoke the Hajji Halef Omar , alongside Charles Brauer as Kara Ben Nemsi . He loaned Ringo Starr (in "The Beatles: Yellow Submarine ", 1968), Jon Voight (in Asphalt-Cowboy , 1969), Bruce Dern (in Even a Sheriff Needs Help , 1969), Michael York (in The four Musketeers - Die Rache der Mylady , 1974), Donald Sutherland (in MASH , 1970), Danny Glover ( Lethal Weapon 1–4 , 1987–1998) and, last but not least, Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo 1969, his distinctive German voice. In the radio play series The three question marks , he spoke a role in the episode The Burning Sword (1997) . In the radio play edition of the Perry Rhodan series, published by Europa , he lent the title hero his voice (1983). He was also the voice actor for the German texts by Jerry Lewis , Gérard Depardieu and Donald Sutherland . In addition, Uwe Friedrichsen was a great advocate of the Low German language , which he learned as a little boy from his grandparents, which is also reflected in his participation in several Low German audio recordings. A book particularly valued by Uwe Friedrichsen was the novel One Day Longer Than a Life by Tschingis Aitmatow . After he had offered a reading of this work, published in 1981, to various audio book publishers and radio programs in vain, at his suggestion, MDR Radio finally produced a multi-part reading of this title in 2010.

The main focus of his professional activity was still the stage. He is remembered for guest appearances in various crime series and beyond the role of the customs investigator Zaluskowski, above all for remarkable appearances in theater films. For several years he had a permanent place in the ensemble of the Ernst-Deutsch-Theater in Hamburg. In the 2005/2006 season he played in the theater in Essen town hall .

Uwe Friedrichsen had been a member of the Free Academy of the Arts Hamburg since 1991 . In 2011, Uwe Friedrichsen volunteered as "Bootschafter" of the German Society for Rescue of Shipwrecked People (DGzRS) and promoted this independent non-profit organization, financed exclusively from donations. On December 6, 2013, Uwe Friedrichsen was made an honorary member of the Hamburger Volksbühne .

Private

Uwe Friedrichsen had three illegitimate children from previous relationships. In 1988 he married the Swiss actress Nathalie Emery , with whom he had a daughter. He last lived with his second wife in Seevetal near Hamburg.

Uwe Friedrichsen died as a result of a tumor on his cheek and was buried in the Baltic Sea at his request.

Filmography
Heide Keller , Patrick Mölleken and Uwe Friedrichsen filming the Traumschiff episode “San Francisco” 2007

Radio plays

Synchronous rollers (selection)

Audiobooks (selection)

literature

  • Uwe Friedrichsen: Stories are sinful for Frünnen . Quickborn-Verlag, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-87651-199-2

Awards

Web links

Commons : Uwe Friedrichsen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schiller, Maike: Actors from the beginning, In: Hamburger Abendblatt, May 3, 2016, p. 17
  2. ↑ Sebastian Theby: With love for Platt - Uwe Friedrichsen . ndr.de , May 27, 2014, accessed on May 2, 2016.
  3. ^ Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com): 1990: Interview with Uwe Friedrichsen | DW | 05/29/2012. Accessed June 11, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ Uwe Friedrichsen appointed honorary member . “Inkultur” magazine 64/5, January 2014, accessed on May 2, 2016.
  5. ↑ Uwe Friedrichsen . Prisma Online, accessed May 2, 2016.
  6. ↑ German TV star: From “Faust” to “Tatort”: Uwe Friedrichsen turns 80 . T-online.de , May 26, 2014, accessed on May 2, 2016.
  7. ^ Bild-Zeitung of October 10, 2016
  8. ↑ Uwe Friedrichsen In: Hersfeld Prize,
personal data
SURNAME Friedrichsen, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, audio book and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 2016
Place of death Hamburg