Hansjörg Felmy
Hansjörg Felmy ( born January 31, 1931 in Berlin, † August 24 2007 in Eching, actually Hans -Jörg Hellmuth Felmy ) was a German theater and film actor, radio drama and voice actor. Among his most famous roles is one of the WDR - Tatort Commissioner Heinz Haferkamp, which he embodied 1974-1980 in 20 episodes of the crime series.
Life
His parents were of General der Flieger Hellmuth Felmy and his wife Helene, nee Boettcher. Growing up is Hansjörg Felmy in Braunschweig, where he attended to the lower third of the Hoffmann- Fallersleben school. After a dispute with a teacher, he left high school without a degree. Then he tried his hand in the locksmith and book printing trade and gained his first experience in a traveling theater. From 1947 to 1949 he took acting lessons at Hella emperor. In 1949 he received the State Theater Braunschweig his first engagement, he made his debut as a worker in Carl Zuckmayers The Devil's General. In 1953 he moved to the Stadttheater Aachen.
His earliest movie appearance was in Felmy The Star of Africa (1957 ) next to Joachim Hansen. After that he played in some of the classics of German film history with, as in sharks and small fish (1957, with Horst Frank), muzzle (1958, with OE Hasse ), we prodigies (1958, with Robert Graf and Wolfgang Neuss ), The gripper (1958, with Hans Albers ), Buddenbrooks (1959, with Liselotte Pulver ), and eternally sing the woods (1959, with Gert Frobe ) and many other films. Even in international productions such as Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain (1966 ), he appeared.
After Felmy has always occurred until the early 1970s as a film actor, his successful TV career began in 1972. He was particularly well known in his role as a crime scene Essen Commissioner Heinz Haferkamp, he played 1974-1980. In this role, he had an affair with his ex-wife Ingrid, who was played by Karin Eickelmann tree. Haferkamp became one of the most popular crime scene investigators and Felmy one of the most popular television stars of the 1970s ( in just seven years 20 Haferkamp - episodes were produced ).
After that, he still appeared in several television series with the main character. In companies Köpenick ( 1985) he played the delicatessen manufacturers Philipp chalice in The Wilsheimer (1987 ) the contractor Jean Ziegler. In 1990 he played in the TV series Adventure Airport Charly Kapitzki, the right hand of the airport bosses. His last starring role in a television series was the Paul Hagedorn in the family series Hagedorn's Daughter ( 1994).
As a voice actor he lent his voice among other things, Jack Nicholson (among Chinatown, Terms of Endearment and heartburn ), Steve McQueen ( Getaway ) and Roy Scheider ( Jaws ). Felmy could also sing. In the film version of the musical Camelot - At the court of King Arthur (1967 ) he sang and spoke the German voice of Franco Nero Lancelot Du Lac and thus came on in the current Schaubude the NDR.
Since 1954 he was also intensely as radio speaker in use as early as 1956 in So Far As My Feet borne by Josef Martin Bauer, among others with Wolfgang Wahl, Kurt Lieck and Walter Richter. In 1963, he spoke Charles Lindbergh in My flight over the ocean and 1970, the Beatty in Fahrenheit 451 with Hellmut Lange, Marianne Mosa and Alfred Balthoff.
Hansjörg Felmy was married to his first marriage to actress Elfriede Rückert, with whom he lived in the fog on the North Sea island Amrum many years. After the divorce of married Rückert Felmy 1986 his longtime girlfriend Claudia Wedekind.
Hansjörg Felmy suffered since the mid-1990s from osteoporosis and had sat down to rest. He spent his last years in Lower Bavaria and North Friesland, near Fahretoft. He died 24 August 2007 at his home in Eching, near Landshut.
He was buried quietly in the forest cemetery Munich in the presence of his family and close friends. In his one year earlier patch will, he had decreed that his urn to be buried without a memorial stone under a tree.
Filmography
Radio plays (selection)
Awards
In his role as a crime scene Commissioner Haferkamp Felmy took the occasion of the 700th scene broadcast in 2008 in terms of popularity, the 3rd place, even though his last appearance already dated back nearly three decades.