Alfred Struwe
Alfred Struwe ( born April 22, 1927 in Marienburg, † 13 February 1998 in Potsdam ) was a German actor.
Life
As the son of a postman, he grew up with his five brothers and sisters in Marienburg. In the children's holiday camps of Hitler youth, he first stood on the stage. In 1944 he was sent to the Reich Labor Service, then the military. After attending military school in Hanover, he was sent together with other young comrades still in the last days of the war in the fight. In 1945 he was back in Leipzig with his family. Since his father Gustav was against it, that the son of the Acting dedicated, he first had to instead attend a police academy until it closed in 1948 and he was discharged. From then on, Alfred Struwe could devote himself to acting. During his police training, he played the way already to amateur theater and took private acting lessons. In 1949 he went to the theater Greiz, followed by engagements in Brandenburg, Zittau, Cottbus, Karl- Marx-Stadt and Dresden.
A first appearance before the camera completed the mime in 1954 in the DEFA co beacon. From the 60s Struwe was then seen more often on the big screen and on the screen. Several times he embodied the Hitler assassin Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. To his starring role was in 1985 at the grumpy dentist Dr. Alexander Witt ball in the television series a tooth for a tooth. This was already from the beginning such a success that they continued the originally planned seven episodes on viewers request and a total of 21 stories originated.
With the turn it was quiet around the popular actor who occasionally Struwe was still working for stage and television. In 1998, he died after a long illness from the effects of pneumonia and was buried at the West Stahnsdorf.
His daughter Catharina Struwe is also active as an actress, including long -standing commitment at the Theater New Stage Senftenberg.