Günter Lamprecht
Günter Lamprecht | |
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| Born | Günter Hans Lamprecht 21 January 1930 |
| Died | 4 October 2022 (age 92) Bad Godesberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1959–2022 |
Günter Lamprecht (21 January 1930 – 4 October 2022)[1] was a German actor known for his leading role in the Fassbinder miniseries Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) and as a ship captain in the epic war film Das Boot (1981).
Life and career
Lamprecht was born in Berlin, the son of a taxi driver. After training at the Max Reinhardt Seminar, he had his first theatre engagement at the Schauspielhaus Bochum. He joined the Theater Oberhausen in 1959, and remained with them until 1961.[2] His roles there included Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire and John in Gerhart Hauptmann's The Rats.
Lamprecht began appearing on television in the 1960s. He was cast in the series Kara Ben Nemsi Effendi, which ran from 1973 to 1975. His first film role was in Ottokar Runze's A Knife in the Back (Das Messer im Rücken, 1975). In 1976, Lamprecht won the Ernst Lubitsch Award for his performance in Das Brot des Bäckers, and in 1978 won the Goldene Kamera award for Best German Actor for Rückfälle.[3] He played the leading role in the 1979 TV movie Frontiers of Darkness (Schattengrenze).[4]
In 1973, filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder cast Lamprecht in his series World on a Wire. He recruited him again for The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979). Fassbinder then gave Lamprecht the lead role of Franz Biberkopf in his acclaimed 1980 miniseries Berlin Alexanderplatz, based on Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel of the same name. Turner Classic Movies wrote of his performance: "Lamprecht was quite extraordinary as the hapless center of gravity as Biberkopf is drawn into and betrayed by Berlin's underworld in the days spanning from the end of WWI to the Nazi era."[4] The role won him Best Actor at the Munich Film Festival, and he came in third place at the American National Society of Film Critics Awards.[3]
Lamprecht had a role in the World War II submarine film Das Boot (1981), playing the captain of the SS Weser, and ontinued to appear regularly on German television.
Personal life
In 1999, Lamprecht and his partner, actress Claudia Amm, were badly injured in a mass shooting.[5][6]
Lamprecht's memoirs And Sadly I'm Still: A Youth in Berlin was published in 2000, where he discusses his experiences in Nazi Germany and the postwar years. His second book, A Hellish Thing, Life was published in 2007.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Die Brücke des Schicksals | Schläger in Tanzbar | |
| 1973 | World on a Wire | Fritz Walfang | TV film |
| 1974 | Martha | Dr. Herbert Salomon | TV film |
| 1975 | Stellenweise Glatteis | Karl Maiwald | TV film |
| Das Messer im Rücken | Schöffe | ||
| 1976 | Der Stumme | Kahlmann | |
| Das Brot des Bäckers | Georg Baum | ||
| 1977 | Planübung | Bundeswehr Officer | TV film |
| Rückfälle | Manfred Burger | TV film | |
| 1978 | The Marriage of Maria Braun | Hans Wetzel | |
| 1979 | Schattengrenze | Matthias Berger | TV film |
| The Great Runaway | Piesch | TV miniseries | |
| 1980 | Das gefrorene Herz | Gwerder | |
| Berlin Alexanderplatz | Franz Biberkopf | his magnum opus | |
| 1981 | Das Boot | Captain of the 'Weser' | |
| 1982 | Fleeting Acquaintances | Walter | TV film |
| 1983 | Milo Barus, the Strongest Man in the World | Milo Barus | |
| 1984 | Love Is Not an Argument | Felix | |
| What's Up, Chancellor? | Chef | ||
| Ein Mann namens Parvus | Alexander Parvus | TV film | |
| Super | Kuballa | ||
| After Your Decrees | Sergeant Kleinschmidt | ||
| Das leise Gift | Philipp Fäsch | TV film | |
| Gnadenlos | Jakob | TV film | |
| 1985 | Liebfrauen | Philipp | TV film |
| Die Komplizen | Joseph Lambert | TV film | |
| Red Kiss | Herschel | ||
| 1987 | Gegen die Regel | Klaus Weber | TV film |
| 1991 | Amaurose | ||
| 1992 | Herzsprung | Vater | |
| Moebius | Arnold | ||
| 1993 | Engel ohne Flügel | Paul | |
| 1997 | Friedrich und der verzauberte Einbrecher | Fischer | |
| Comedian Harmonists | Erik Charell | ||
| 1998 | Black Ice | Jupp Scholten | TV film |
| 2002 | Epstein's Night | Groll / Giesser | |
| 2013 | Wir | Sprecher | voice |
| 2017 | Babylon Berlin | President Hindenburg | TV series |
References
- ^ https://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/leute/leute/guenter-lamprecht-ist-tot-tatort-kommissar-im-alter-von-92-jahren-gestorben-81543716.bild.html
- ^ Andrea Rickers: Hier ist es menschlich, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. September 2010. In German.
- ^ a b "Günter Lamprecht Awards". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
- ^ a b Gunter Lamprecht. Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
- ^ "Eltern des Amokläufers von Reichenhall sollen vor Gericht". Spiegel Online. 17 November 1999. Retrieved 11 January 2015. In German.
- ^ Motiv bis heute unklar. Heimatzeitung (27 October 2009). In German.
External links
- 1930 births
- 2022 deaths
- 20th-century German male actors
- 21st-century German male actors
- Male actors from Berlin
- German male film actors
- German male television actors
- German male stage actors
- Recipients of the Order of Merit of Berlin
- Members of the Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany