Dieter Pfaff

Dieter Pfaff ( born October 2, 1947 in Dortmund, † March 5, 2013 in Hamburg ) was a German actor and director.

Life and work

Pfaff was born the son of a policeman. As a child he loved the pop of the 1950s and learned them by heart, after his grandmother took him to the barber and the shopkeeper and had to sing in front of audiences him there. He visited the construction and Ernst -Barlach -Gymnasium in Unna and made in 1968 the school; one of his classmates was the writer Heinrich Peuckmann. In school, he discovered his passion for acting. His wife Eva he knew since high school and married her in 1969., He left home early and his father approached again until after the birth of his children. Pfaff regretted the early death of his strict father at the age of 58 years, with whom he had an intense and difficult relationship.

First Pfaff began a teaching degree in German and History. At 22 he abandoned his studies and took up his first appointment as assistant director at the Theater Dortmund. Up to the age of 35 was Pfaff theater dramaturge, and later a writer and director in the theaters of Paderborn, Dortmund, at the State Theatre Tübingen, Nuremberg, Munich, at the Theater am Turm (TAT ) in Frankfurt am Main and in Landshut. He counted himself among the most politically active 68ers, but overmatched entirely on the lookout for new models of living. Pfaff held the story of his '68 for processed yet - contrary to the statements and idealizations of his contemporaries.

In 1983 he became Professor of Drama at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and exercised it seven years. At the same time he was active in the movie business. When teleplay Rita, Rita in Norddeutscher Rundfunk it was established in 1984 for the first time worked as a television director. With about 35 years, he realized that he was an actor rather than a director. By supporting roles in television films and series, especially from 1984 on as a police officer Otto Schatz Schneider in the crime series The Investigator, he became a character actor. He also received his first Grimme Prize in 1996 as a supporting actor in the RTL series Balko.

As a 50 - year-old he went with even co-developed roles on the television leading man. In the RTL series brother donkey he played in 1996 a monk who falls in love and leaves the monastery. Together with Rolf Basedow and Dominik Graf he created for the character of the Commissioner bird in the same crime series. Both series received the 1997 Adolf Grimme Prize. In the ARD series Bloch he played from 2002 in over 20 films an unconventional psychotherapist. This role is fulfilled Pfaff an earlier career aspirations. The television series The thickness is about a lawyer in Hamburg, who is leaving his law firm and is committed to the problems of ordinary people.

His heavyweight Pfaff led not return to his appetite, but his sensibility. The weight keep it from heights. " The fat is something that grounds me and makes me firmly on the ground. "

Dieter Pfaff was married to the producer Eva Maria Emminger since 1969; they had a daughter and a son (twins, born 1979, an assistant director, actor). Since 1995, Pfaff and his family lived in Hamburg and from 2010 in an " intergenerational WG" with the families of his children in his own house in Hamburg- Altona. His daughter lives with the director Max Count. When his favorite actress Nadja Uhl he called, a former film partner ( Fateful luck, 2000), which also " multi-generational " life in one.

In his spare time, and on the set, he sang while accompanying himself on a guitar. In the entertainment program Inas night he sang the title 2010 All Along the Watchtower and Ring of Fire. He was involved for several years as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador against global use of child soldiers and took his wife to sponsor several children.

On September 20, 2012 his agency announced that Dieter Pfaff was suffering from lung cancer. On March 5, 2013, he succumbed to his passion with his family.

Filmography

Series

Documentation

  • 2005: The self- inventor - Dieter Pfaff. A portrait of the actor.

Awards

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