Jimmy Hartwig
Jimmy Hartwig
William George "Jimmy" Hartwig ( born October 5, 1954 in Offenbach am Main ) is a former German football player, coach and theater actor.
- 3.1 theater works
Private life
The son of an African American GI and a German mother is metal worker.
Its active football career lasted until 1988. Since then Jimmy Hartwig involved in various projects for the football youth development. He also hosted soccer TV shows (including the first call-in show of the German television right in the middle at the German Sports Television end of the 1990s ) and was in Weimar, Wolfsburg, Leipzig, and soon in Luxembourg on the theater stage.
In 1989 he was diagnosed with cancer and needed a few years to fight successfully against it. Since then, Hartwig promotes cancer checkups.
Jimmy Hartwig is the father of actor and presenter Daniel Hartwig and two daughters. He now lives with his family in Munich.
Football career
He began his career in 1972 on the Bieberer mountain at Kickers Offenbach. In 1973 he was loaned out to VfL Osnabrück. In 1974 he moved to TSV 1860 Munich, with which he rose to the Bundesliga in 1977. From 1978 to 1984 he played for Hamburger SV, with whom he became German champion three times and won the European Champions Cup. In this team he was used as a defensive midfielder. In 1984, he joined the 1st FC Cologne and came 1987 on Austria Salzburg to FC Homburg, where he had to end his career in 1988 with a knee injury. Hartwig played twice for the German national football team.
Successes as a player
National:
International:
(each with Hamburger SV)
( with the 1st FC Cologne)
Statistics
- 2 'A' matches
- 6 B internationals; 2 Goals
- 8 games in the Olympic national team, 1 goal
- 1st Bundesliga 34 games; 6 Goals TSV 1860 München
- 182 games; 52 goals Hamburger SV
- 24 games; 5 goals 1 FC Köln
- 4 FC Homburg
- 3 games; 1 Goal 1 FC Köln
- 9 Matches 1 FC Köln
Theater actors
In 2002, he was with Ben Becker and Blixa Bargeld as a merchant mighty in Bertolt Brecht Baal to see at the German National Theatre in Weimar under the direction of Thomas Thieme.
In 2005 he played the Duke of Suffolk in Margaretha. Eddy. Dirty Rich by Tom Lanoye and Luk Perceval at the National Theatre, directed by Thomas Thieme.
2008 premiere of the theatrical piece The legend on the couch with Jimmy Hartwig Himself and Thomas Thieme as the main actor in the Movimentos ( festival weeks the Autostadt Wolfsburg). The project is based on Hartwig's 1994 published biography I want to do so much and on motives of the author Thomas Potzger and found great approval among critics.
In October 2009 was at Central Theatre Leipzig premiere of Georg Büchner's Woyzeck with Jimmy Hartwig in the title role under the direction of Thomas Thieme. Maike Schiller wrote about this performance: Its concentration is almost palpable, his voice also carries the rank. Those who had hoped for a disgrace, will be disappointed. As odd as it may sound, Jimmy Hartwig does its job. Not spectacular, but also not bad.
On January 8, 2014 he played in the premiere of " game without the ball " by Albert Ostermaier the lead role as the tragic figure "Bob".
Theater works
- 2002: Kaufmann mighty in Baal by Bertolt Brecht ( Director: Thomas Thieme ) at the German National Theatre Weimar
- 2005: Duke of Suffolk in Margaretha. Eddy. Dirty Rich by Tom Lanoye and Luk Perceval ( Director: Thomas Thieme ) at the National Theatre in Weimar
- 2008: When he himself is a legend on the couch by Thomas Potzger by motives of Biography Hartwig, Movimentos, Festival Wolfsburg
- 2009: title role in Woyzeck by Georg Büchner ( Director: Thomas Thieme ) at the Central Theatre in Leipzig
- 2014: starring in play without the ball by Albert Osterhaus Maier ( Director: John Zametzer ) at the Grand Théâtre de la ville de Luxembourg and other
TV
2011 Jimmy Hartwig was seen in the reality show The perfect celebrity dinner. The result of the series The perfect celebrity dinner in a dressing gown was broadcast on VOX on 9 July 2011.
In addition, he took in 2004 at the second season of I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here ( the " jungle camp " ) part, which he finished in fourth place.
Singer
Social involvement and volunteering
Since 2011, Jimmy Hartwig committed to Show Racism the Red Card - Germany eV He participated in several workshops, the education initiative, in which he told the students about his own experiences with racism and discrimination. He also participated in the campaign "Our team against racism " part. Since May 2013, supports the DFB as ambassador integration, thus strengthening the diplomatic corps of the DFB in terms of integration. In the winter, is committed to Jimmy Hartwig for the project " Kältebus Munich," in which he hiflt the team of Golden Donkey eV to bring homeless in freezing temperatures hot food, drinks and clothing.