Volker Lechtenbrink

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Volker Lechtenbrink

Volker Lechtenbrink (born August 18, 1944 in Cranz , East Prussia ) is a German actor , voice actor , director , artistic director , copywriter , country and pop singer .

Life

Lechtenbrink, who grew up in Bremen and Hamburg , attended the Johanneum School of Academics and played in the film Die Brücke (1959, directed by Bernhard Wicki ) at the age of 14 . From 1962 to 1963 he embodied in the television series All my animals alongside Gustav Knuth and Tilly Lauenstein in all nine episodes of their son Ulli. After graduating from secondary school, he attended an acting school in Hamburg and then worked at various theaters. From 1995 to 1997 Lechtenbrink was director of the Bad Hersfeld Festival and from August 2004 to July 2006 at the Hamburg Ernst-Deutsch-Theater , where he also worked as a director. From November 2006 he was there for the first time on stage with his youngest daughter Sophie - in the play Dr. med. Job Praetorius by Curt Goetz .

In the meantime, he has appeared in numerous television films and series, including Der Kommissar , Der eiserne Gustav, Ein Fall für Zwei , Derrick , Die Männer vom K3 , Großstadtrevier , Happy Journey , Der Alte , Siska , Tatort and SOKO Leipzig . In the ZDF television series METRO - A Team for Life and Death , he played alongside Ursula Karven and Michael Roll the chief doctor of a Hamburg tropical clinic. Also films of the popular Rosamunde Pilcher - and Inga Lindström- series part of his repertoire as an actor. As a voice actor, Volker Lechtenbrink lent his very distinctive, sonorous voice to Kris Kristofferson , Dennis Quaid and many others.

In 1976 he recorded his first record as a singer. The title Der Macher ( cover version of The Taker by Kris Kristofferson) became an initial success. Other songs followed, for which he usually wrote the lyrics himself. He also worked as a copywriter for other artists, for example Peter Maffay . He also wrote the text for the German contribution consideration for Euro Vision Song Contest 1983 , with the brothers Hoffmann & Hoffmann reached the 5th place among 20 participants. In 1979 he got his own TV show on Saarländischer Rundfunk, entitled Live: Volker Lechtenbrink . In the early 1980s he could be heard as a singer and speaker in a commercial for malt coffee (“ Caro , I like you”), for which his song I like was rewritten. In the episode Sometime in the crime series Ein Fall für Zwei , Lechtenbrink played a leading role and also composed the eponymous title for the episode.

In 2007 Lechtenbrink was awarded the German Audio Book Prize for Die Brücke as “Best Interpreter” . In 2010 he received the Rolf Mares Prize for his performance in Frost / Nixon at the Hamburger Kammerspiele . In 2014 he was awarded the Biermann Ratjen Medal of the City of Hamburg.

Volker Lechtenbrink is the fifth marriage to the trained alternative practitioner Gül Ural-Aytekin and lives in Hamburg, which he describes as his "hometown". From his previous relationships he has a son and two daughters.

Filmography (selection)

As a director

  • 1976: Charley's aunt (for television)
  • 1979: Two men around a stove (TV series) several episodes
  • 1983: Stories from Home (TV series) several episodes

As a speaker

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
The doer
  DE 28 06/15/1976 (8 weeks)
Heart & snout
  DE 30th 04/10/1982 (6 weeks)
Singles
The doer
  DE 19th 04/26/1976 (14 weeks)
I like
  DE 42 11/09/1981 (14 weeks)
Sometime
  DE 33 06/29/1987 (15 weeks)

Albums

  • 1976: The maker
  • 1977: Volker Lechtenbrink No. 2
  • 1977: Everyday Stories
  • 1978: My door is always open
  • 1979: The player
  • 1980: Live the way I like it
  • 1981: Already possible
  • 1982: Heart & Snout
  • 1982: Who is playing with me
  • 1983: Live today
  • 1984: leaned back
  • 1987: I can win
  • 1989: heartbeat

Singles

  • 1976. Harry Lehmann
  • 1976: The maker
  • 1977: First the lady over there
  • 1977: Hitch-Hike Baby
  • 1978: The player
  • 1980: Live the way I like it
  • 1980: lady and clown
  • 1981: I like
  • 1982: I think Grandma, you're sitting on a cloud
  • 1985: The Stuntman (cover version of "The unknown stuntman" / Lee Majors )
  • 1987: At some point

Audio books

literature

  • Volker Lechtenbrink: Give up the things of youth with grace! Hoffmann and Campe 2010, ISBN 978-3-455-50144-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SWR homepage: discography "I can win" at swr.de. Retrieved September 10, 2014.
  2. ↑ Farewell in Zorn ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at drombuschs.de. Retrieved September 10, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.drombuschs.de
  3. ^ Rolf Mares Prize on the official website
  4. ↑ a b Chart sources: Singles albums
personal data
SURNAME Lechtenbrink, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, country and pop singer
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Cranz , East Prussia