Dieter Laser
Dieter Laser ( born February 17, 1942 in Kiel ) is a German actor.
Life and work
Dieter Laser grew up in Hamburg. His family belonged to a Christian sect, in the Luther Bible was allowed as the only reading. After he had to depart from the school shortly before graduation at the instigation of his mother, "because Studying spoils the faith," he left home and went into hiding in Hamburg. During his training as an actor, he worked as an extra at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg and as a waiter, but the study broke down in 1960 after one year and despite passing the state intermediate examination.
Since laser continues secretly visited the samples at the Hamburg Schauspielhaus, he was discovered in 1961 by Gustaf, and when he tried to refer him of the auditorium, and entrusted with the time off with small, then larger roles. From 1967 to 1974 he devoted himself to the theater. 1967 started his collaboration with Peter Stein. In 1970 he joined with stone to the Berlin stage in the Hall 's bank, where he was from 1971 to 1973 Member of the Executive Board. In 1974, laser worked freelance and with guest appearances, among others, the State Drama Theatres in Berlin and at Vienna's Burgtheater.
In the 1970s, laser was repeatedly directed by Rainer Erler front of the camera, with which he the five-part science fiction series The Blue Palace, in which he played the researcher Enrico Polazzo, and the film Operation Ganymede turned. For his performance in Ulf Miehes directorial debut, John Gluckstadt on a novella by Theodor Storm Dieter Laser 1975 was awarded the German Film Award in the category for Best Actor. Two roles made him in 1975 also to a wider audience: In the staged by Wolfgang Petersen Tatort episode short he settled as a petty criminal Piet Kallweit to a fatal game with a police officer, played by Günter Lamprecht, a. On the big screen laser was seen in the same year as the windy newspaper reporter Totges in The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum. In 1978, he starred alongside Helmut Griem and Brigitte Fossey in Hans W. Geißendörfer Oscar -nominated film drama The glass cell.
In the star-studded miniseries Fathers and Sons - A German tragedy by Bernhard Sinkel about the rise and fall of a German industrialist family, he took over in 1986 the part of Friedrich Deutz. In addition to guest appearances in various crime series Dieter Laser was in the 1990s with films such as Peter Kasper Hauser Sehrs adaptation and Armin Mueller-Stahl's directorial debut Conversation with the Beast still present in the cinema. In fiend he played in 1996, but again, directed by Volker Schlöndorff, the "race scientists " Professor leaflets. In 2007 and 2008 he was in the role of the king of the Huns Etzel at the Nibelungen Festival in Worms on the stage. Directed by Dieter Wedel, he played there in 2012, the assets of the Lord Sweet the General Speckenschwardt.
2009 illustrated laser in the Dutch horror film The Human Centipede ( First Sequence) Tom Six to quickly become a cult figure surgeon Dr. cloudy. To put his performance as bizarre parody near the infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, to laser got an extra one Eppendorf doctor's coat and hit the director intend to give the figure give the first name Joseph. For his performance, he received in the same year at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas Actor Award.
In the third and final part of The Human Centipede trilogy laser should play again. On March 29, 2012, he declared for profound creative differences his exit from the project. Quick Six Entertainment announced in an official press release to take legal action against laser. Beginning of 2013 gave both known, the film now but put together. The filming was completed in the middle of the same year. Laser will take a part in an opera actresses Next, and is planning his directorial debut in its screenplay titled Total Eclipse.
Dieter Laser is married and lives with his wife in Berlin.