Winfried Glatzeder

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Winfried Glatzeder (2008)

Franz Winfried Glatzeder (born April 26, 1945 in Sopot , German Empire , today Sopot in Poland ) is a German actor . Often referred to as the “ Belmondo of the East” by the media , he started his career in the GDR in the 1960s . In the early 1970s, he achieved his acting breakthrough with leading roles in films such as Zeit der Störche and Die Legende von Paul und Paula . From 1996 to 1998 Glatzeder played the role of Commissioner Ernst Roiter in the television series Tatort . Since then he has mainly appeared in theater productions .

Life

childhood and education

Winfried Glatzeder was the only child of a hand weaver and a corsetry salesman. His mother was of Jewish descent and hid her grandmother during the Nazi era in order to save her from deportation . His parents had married in 1942, Glatzeder's father died in 1944 as a Soviet prisoner of war . His mother did not obey the order announced on March 19, 1945 that civilians should evacuate Sopot, so that he was born there. Shortly afterwards, his mother was admitted to a psychiatric hospital, where she fell ill with tuberculosis and from then on spent many years in sanatoriums.

Glatzeder came to Berlin with his grandparents in 1945 . His grandfather, the building contractor Gustav Adolf Werner, soon became mayor of Berlin-Lichtenberg and Friedrichshain . Glatzeder grew up in privileged circumstances, but spent the time of his grandparents' work trips in a children's home. He met his mother for the first time at the age of five. She returned to the family when Glatzeder was ten years old.

Glatzeder first came into contact with theater during his school days when he became a member of the theater working group of the House of Pioneers in Berlin-Lichtenberg. His first role was the tailor Hupf based on a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm . After finishing school, Glatzeder completed an apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer at VEB Kühlautomat in Berlin-Johannisthal . One of his fellow apprentices was Wilfried Loll , with whom he founded a cabaret group during his apprenticeship. After completing his apprenticeship, Glatzeder studied from 1965 at the Babelsberg University of Film and Television . Important lecturers were BK Tragelehn and above all Fritz Marquardt , whom he described in retrospect as a surrogate father. His fellow students included Jaecki Schwarz , Thomas Brasch and Jürgen Karl Klauss . During his studies, Glatzeder played the fool Probstein in the controversial performance of As You Like It in a translation by Heiner Müller . The production was banned after a few performances because of profanity . Glatzeder completed his studies in 1969 with a thesis on the clown characters in Shakespeare .

Theater and film in the GDR

After completing his studies, Winfried Glatzeder received an engagement at the Hans-Otto-Theater in Potsdam in September 1969 . During a performance of Maxim Gorki's Nachtasyl in a production by Peter Kupke , in which Glatzeder played the actor, he was discovered by the chief dramaturge of the Berlin Volksbühne, Karl-Heinz Müller, and in 1971 committed to the Volksbühne. Here he remained a member of the ensemble until 1977. Among other things, he played the aviator Yang Sun in The Good Man of Sezuan in 1971 under Benno Besson .

Already during his student days Glatzeder had worked as a small actor in cinema and television films and dubbed crowd scenes. Among other things, he was seen in a sideline in The Falcon's Trail . Glatzeder first played on television in 1969, directed by Ulrich Thein, in Unknown Citizens . The role of the acting student Bel [o] mondo earned him his nickname: "Since that film and thanks to my wide-spread nose, journalists called me 'Belmondo of the East'", Glatzeder wrote in his autobiography. There was no acting relation to Jean-Paul Belmondo .

Glatzeder made his breakthrough as an actor in 1971 in the role of the young, unconventional drill worker Christian in Siegfried Kühn's Time of the Storks . His experience as a father - his second son Robert was born in 1971 - he processed in the role of the social science student Erwin Graffunda in The Man Who Came After Grandma . The film, which was released in cinemas in 1972, became one of the most successful DEFA comedies. Glatzeder became known beyond the borders of the GDR with his portrayal of the lover Paul in the GDR cult film Die Legende von Paul und Paula , which was released in 1973. He played alongside Angelica Domröse , who like him was a member of the Berliner Volksbühne ensemble. The film was shown in the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, among others, with Glatzeder and Domröse taking part in the premiere in Munich. His portrayal of Till Eulenspiegel in Rainer Simon 's film of the same name was praised by the critics as “an acting masterpiece”, while the critics described the crude film satire itself as tasteless and provocative. Glatzeder turned down the role of party secretary Druskat in Lothar Bellag's multi-part television program, Daniel Druskat , and instead took on the role of Jacques in Besson's production of Shakespeare's As You Like It . Glatzeder fell out with Besson in 1977 and then dissolved his contract with the Berliner Volksbühne. From January 1978 he was an actor with DEFA with an exclusive contract. The contract stipulated that Glatzeder would shoot one film per year. In 1978 he turned on the comedy film Zünd, the fire department is coming ; a film sequel to The Legend of Paul and Paula was rejected in 1979. In 1980 he shot Asta, mein Engelchen with Erwin Geschonneck and, from 1980, Horst E. Brandt's Die Kolonie , which prevented him from being retyped for military service in the NVA .

Expatriation and time in the Federal Republic

In February 1981 Winfried Glatzeder applied for release from the citizenship of the GDR . He had “finally enough. I couldn't and didn't want to endure that other people decide what is good for me and that the notice board would still read in the old people's home: 'The party group speaks'. ”Glatzeder had been with the Ministry of State Security since the 1960s The surveillance continued until 1989. Glatzeder submitted several exit applications from 1981 before he was allowed to leave the Federal Republic of Germany on July 21, 1982 and was expatriated .

In the Federal Republic he was able to continue his career almost seamlessly. He took on his first television role in 1982 on the side of Thekla Carola Wied in Peter Beauvais ' TV film Der Kunst Fehler . Numerous films for cinema and television followed, including Forget Mozart (1984) and Rosa Luxemburg (1986). In the gangster film Va Banque , Glatzeder stood in front of the camera with Joschka Fischer and Willy DeVille . Although Glatzeder had an engagement at during his departure preparations Schiller Theater Berlin obtained, but announced his contract in 1983 during rehearsals for the first piece of illness youth of Ferdinand Bruckner . It was not until 1987 that Glatzeder turned back to the theater and played Malvolio in Was ihr wollt with a guest contract at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus under BK Tragelehn . This was followed by Sganarelle in Molière's Don Juan (1988) and Clov in Samuel Beckett's Endgame (1991). His last play in Düsseldorf was Eduardo De Filippos Saturday, Sunday, Monday in 1995 , in which he took on the role of the charmer Luigi Ianniello.

Development since 1989

Winfried Glatzeder 2010 with Eva Habermann in Jedermann

Winfried Glatzeder started filming for DEFA for the first time in 1990: under the direction of Jürgen Brauer , Tanz auf der Kippe was created , which takes place in 1989 and was released in 1991. Other films were Horst Seemann's Between Pankow and Zehlendorf and Herwig Kippings Das Land Behind the Rainbow , which are set in the 1950s. After several appearances in television series, including Derrick , Glatzeder received the role of Tatort commissioner Ernst Roiter in 1996 . Until 1998 he was seen in twelve episodes in the SFB ; In retrospect, he judged the quality of the films to be rather poor. As a film actor, he has since followed mainly television appearances, roles in short films and series (including The Secret of Sagala , Berlin, Berlin , Our Charly ). In the movie Sonnenallee he was seen in a reference to Die Legende von Paul und Paula .

Glatzeder devoted himself to the theater even after his engagement at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus. From 1997 he played the role of Eugen Schöller in Pension Schöller at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm in Berlin and was on tour with the play until 2007. From 1999 he played the role of Elwood P. Dowd in Jürgen Wölffer's Berlin production of Mein Freund Harvey , which also went on tour. At the Renaissance Theater in Berlin, Donald Margulies ' play Freunde zum Essen followed in 2002 , in which he took on the role of Tom. In 2006 he played the villain Santer at the Karl May Festival in Bad Segeberg alongside Gojko Mitić as Winnetou in the play Winnetou III . In the same year he received the “Honorary Award 60 Years DEFA” at the Golden Hen with Mitić and Jutta Hoffmann . In the following year Glatzeder played alongside Angelica Domröse at the Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam in the play Filumena Martirano , which caused a positive response from the press.

In 2008, 2010 and 2011 he took on the leading role of Jedermann at the Jedermann Festival in Berlin Cathedral . He also played this role in 2011 at the Meininger Theater , where he also directed. Glatzeder has been on a regular book tour since the 1970s. He also works as a dubbing and radio play speaker.

Glatzeder took part in the eighth season of the reality show I'm a Star - Get Me Out of Here! on RTL and reached 5th place out of eleven participants.

In 2017 he played a former GDR spy in the agent comedy Kundschafter des Friedens . For the Netflix series Dark , Glatzeder took on the role of old Ulrich Nielsen from 2019 to 2020 in the second and third season.

Private

Winfried Glatzeder has been married since 1970. The marriage has two sons, including the actor Robert Glatzeder (* 1971). He has another son from a previous relationship. In 2008, Glatzeder published his autobiography with Paul and I. He lives in Berlin - Niederschönhausen .

Filmography (selection)

Theater roles (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

Audio books

  • 1979: Nasreddin in Bukhara . German records, Berlin
  • 1980: Fortunata's Bag of Fortune or The Art of Being Rich . German records, Berlin
  • 1987: The shoemaker's wife as Tsarina . German records, Berlin (reprint)
  • 1997: The Little King December . The Hör-Verlag, Munich
  • 2001: Enigma . The audio publishing house, Berlin
  • 2001: The three ???: "Island of the Dead", (episode 100), role of Professor Phoenix (EUROPE)
  • 2002: strange looks . The audio publishing house, Berlin
  • 2006: Dark Sleep . The audio publishing house, Berlin
  • 2007: The Broken Jug . Argon-Verlag, Berlin
  • 2008: Winfried Glatzeder reads Paul and I. DAV, Berlin
  • 2015: Winfried Glatzeder reading the wonderful years of Reiner Kunze , Director: Petra Meyenburg , 115 min, mp3 CD, MDR 2003 / Audio Verlag, 2015.

literature

Web links

Commons : Winfried Glatzeder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Winfried Glatzeder, Manuela Runge: Paul and me. Autobiography , 2nd edition. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 11.
  2. ↑ Winfried Glatzeder, Manuela Runge: Paul and me. Autobiography. 2nd Edition. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 17.
  3. ↑ Winfried Glatzeder, Manuela Runge: Paul and me. Autobiography. 2nd Edition. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 35.
  4. ↑ Winfried Glatzeder, Manuela Runge: Paul and me. Autobiography. 2nd Edition. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 45.
  5. ↑ Winfried Glatzeder, Manuela Runge: Paul and me. Autobiography. 2nd Edition. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 57.
  6. ↑ Winfried Glatzeder, Manuela Runge: Paul and me. Autobiography. 2nd Edition. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 64.
  7. ↑ Winfried Glatzeder, Manuela Runge: Paul and me. Autobiography. 2nd Edition. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 63.
  8. ↑ After he finished school, his nose bone , which had been smashed in a fight, had to be removed. Cf. Winfried Glatzeder, Manuela Runge: Paul and me. Autobiography. 2nd Edition. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 52.
  9. ↑ Winfried Glatzeder, Manuela Runge: Paul and me. Autobiography. 2nd Edition. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 69.
  10. ↑ Norbert Wehrstedt: Winfried Glatzeder celebrates his birthday on a tour in Merano . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , April 26, 2005, p. 7.
  11. ↑ F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, p. 387.
  12. ↑ Renate Biehl: Enlightenment pranks of Till Eulenspiegel . In: Filmspiegel , No. 13, 1975, p. 8.
  13. ↑ Till Eulenspiegel . In: Renate Holland-Moritz : The owl in the cinema. Movie reviews . Eulenspiegel, Berlin 1981, p. 139.
  14. ↑ Winfried Glatzeder, Manuela Runge: Paul and me. Autobiography. 2nd Edition. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 119.
  15. ↑ Winfried Glatzeder, Manuela Runge: Paul and me. Autobiography. 2nd Edition. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 134.
  16. ↑ Winfried Glatzeder, Manuela Runge: Paul and me. Autobiography. 2nd Edition. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2008, pp. 144–145.
  17. ↑ Glatzeder, Winfried . In: Munzinger Online / Personen - Internationales Biographisches Archiv ( URL , accessed on February 15, 2014)
  18. ^ Va Banque. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed April 1, 2016 .
  19. ↑ Winfried Glatzeder, Manuela Runge: Paul and me. Autobiography. 2nd Edition. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 162.
  20. ↑ Winfried Glatzeder, Manuela Runge: Paul and me. Autobiography. 2nd Edition. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 177.
  21. ↑ Winfried Glatzeder, Manuela Runge: Paul and me. Autobiography. 2nd Edition. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 185.
  22. ↑ Barbara Jänichen: Angela Merkel and Jogi Löw receive “Goldene Henne” . In: Die Welt , September 22, 2006, p. 38.
  23. ↑ Antje Horn-Conrad: Paul and Paula reunited . Der Tagesspiegel , January 17, 2008, p. T21.
  24. ↑ Glatzeder and Wussow in Berlin's "Jedermann" . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung , October 11, 2011.
  25. ↑ Netflix continues hit series "Dark" in June , derwesten.de, accessed on August 13, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Glatzeder, Winfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Glatzeder, Franz Winfried (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Sopot , German Empire