Heinz Schubert (actor)

Heinz Schubert ( born November 12, 1925 in Berlin, † February 12, 1999 in Hamburg ) was a German actor, acting teacher and photographer who was known for the role as " disgust " Alfred Tetzlaff in the television series One heart and one soul.

Life

Early years

The son of a master tailor came after moving into the Volkssturm at the end of the Second World War in British captivity. He then began an acting school in Berlin. 1951 brought him Bertolt Brecht at his Berliner Ensemble, where Schubert in 1961 remained until the building of the Berlin Wall. In the Federal Republic, he worked from 1961 both as a theater actor ( including Munich, Hamburg, Stuttgart or Berlin) and as a drama teacher, for which he received the title of professor.

In 1958, Schubert also made ​​his debut as a film actor. Initially he worked on productions of the DEFA and played the role of Swiss Cheese in the film version of the Brecht drama Mother Courage and her children, whom he had often given at the Berliner Ensemble, among others, and also in fairytale movies and in the popular Stingers series. In the 1961 DEFA produced comedy on the sunny side ( Director: Ralf Kirsten, with Manfred Krug and Marita Böhme ) Schubert played already in disgust -Alfred - style Brigadier Schnepf.

Moved

After moving to the Federal Republic in 1961, he also starred in TV productions. In 1973, his portrayal of Alfred disgust the audience made ​​him unequal popular than his other roles. In the satirical WDR television series One heart and one soul of Wolfgang amount he starred as Alfred Tetzlaff the caricature of the right-wing conservative philistine and family tyrant. Named after the British model Till Death Us Do Part, designed by Johnny Speight series made ​​by their subjects and their vocabulary for numerous television scandals, but developed in the crowds. The definition of the role of the tyrannical philistine Schubert resisted thereafter by a wise selection role.

His versatility he demonstrated among other things by his acclaimed portrayal of Hajji Halef Omar in the 26- part ZDF television series Kara Ben Nemsi Effendi ( 1973-1975 ) by Karl May, with Karl Michael Vogler, Hans Epskamp and Joachim regulations Lien, as well as by leading roles in movies such as the strong Ferdinand ( directed by Alexander Kluge ) and Hitler, a film from Germany, in which he both Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler also embodied under the direction Hans -Jürgen Syberberg. In addition to Michael Caine Schubert played in the British spy movie Final in Berlin, in the German version dubbed by Rolf Schult. Continuous or recurring roles took Schubert in television series, such as the private detective agency in Fetzer Roth and the auditor Dr. Fink in the ZDF miniseries The Great Bell home of Dieter Wedel.

In 1996, he starred in with one foot in the grave one more time starring in a series of Wolfgang amount. The German adaptation of the successful BBC series One Foot in the Grave by David Renwick included with the Schubert played by Viktor Bölkhoff turn a caricature of a small and petty bourgeois. Unlike a heart and a soul, however, he is not embodied in a family tyrant, but a prematurely retired grouch is the raw deal also of his environment.

In addition to his work as an actor, Schubert devoted to photography. Particularly well known are his numerous photos of various shop windows and mannequins, with whom he was in 1977 also represented at documenta 6 in Kassel. In 1979 he published to the picture book theater in shop window with black and white and color photos.

For his artistic work Schubert won awards including the Golden Camera 1993 and 1994 the Adolf Grimme Prize. He died on 12 February 1999 at the age of 73 from pneumonia in Hamburg, where he also worked as a drama teacher for many years. Schubert is buried in the cemetery of the chapel frieze in Westerland (Sylt ).

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