Manfred Krug
Manfred Krug ( born February 8, 1937 in Duisburg ) is a German actor, singer and writer. As pseudonyms he used in GDR times Clemens Kerber (as lyricist ) and Isa carbuncle ( as an interviewer of itself ).
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Life
Duisburg and DDR
Manfred Krug was still a child when, after her parents divorced, his father, the iron metallurgical engineer Rudolf Krug, 1949 moved with him from Duisburg in the newly founded GDR. Krug trained as a steel smelter in the steel and rolling mill in Brandenburg an der Havel, today's industrial museum. A splash of liquid steel caused the distinctive scar on his forehead. During this time he earned a high school at night school. Then he began to study at the State Drama School in Berlin, but he had to cancel. From 1955 to 1957 he was engaged at Bertolt Brecht's Berliner Ensemble as an apprentice.
In a residential community in the East Berlin Cantianstraße pitcher lived with the writer Jurek Becker, who became one of his closest friends.
From 1957 on pitcher appeared in cinema and television of the GDR. In 1960, he took a role in the hit film Five Cartridges by Frank Beyer.
The film Traces of Stones, directed by Frank Beyer fell victim to censorship. The film was taken after three days of the cinema and could in the GDR until during the turn time back in 1989 are shown.
Manfred Krug was popular in the GDR as a jazz singer. 1970 cast him Walter Felsenstein at the Komische Oper Berlin as Sporting Life in George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess ( Directed by Götz Friedrich). From 1971 onwards, published pitcher with the composer Günther Fischer several LPs on which it challenging, artistically arranged hit songs and sang. The lyrics he wrote under the pseudonym Clemens Kerber itself addition an album of jazz standards appeared greens. Particularly popular was the song There is a house in New Orleans. Even today, very well known are his appearances at the events Poetry - Jazz - prose, several of which recordings have been published. The two pieces recited by Krug The cow in the propeller ( by Mikhail Zoshchenko ) and The hoist can because of its interpretation today, many citizens of the former GDR by heart. Krug also appeared in numerous TV shows and worked as a voice actor, for example, in the film Eolomea.
The end of 1976 Krug was a part of prohibition, because he had signed the protest against the expatriation of Wolf Biermann.
On 19 April 1977 Manfred Krug presented after six months of unemployment for an exit visa, which was finally approved, so he left East Berlin on 20 June 1977. In his private life he had been shadowed until departure from the State Security.
The documentation of the events at that time published pitcher 20 years later in his book Runaways. It features an unsparing depiction of everyday life not quite line loyal citizens of the GDR. The book was made into a film in 1998, directed by Frank Beyer under the same title, Manfred Krug was played by Peter Lohmeyer.
Federal Republic of Germany
Krug lived after his departure in the western part of the town in Berlin- Schöneberg.
In the Federal Republic, he found initial fears because of his age defiance again rolls ( among others in the children's show Sesame Street ) and began a second career. As one of the most popular German actors he played in parallel over long periods of time different characters in different television series. He was seen from 1977 to 1992 in the role of the adventurous truck driver Franz Meersdonk in the series on axis. As a musician, he initially had less success in the West. In 1979, his album was released There you are.
Large gained popularity pitcher in the role of the idiosyncratic lawyer Robert favorite in the television series Liebling Kreuzberg. The screenplays for the first three seasons and the fifth season wrote his friend Jurek Becker. Popular he was also as Commissioner Paul Stoever on the side of Charles Brauer as Peter Brockmöller in the scene of the NDR. This he played from 1984 to 2001 41 times, which pitcher was at times the most "senior " Tatort Commissioner and was elected in 2008 in a survey together with Brauer 's second most popular after Götz George. In later episodes, it became the scene of ritual that Stoever and Brockmöller darboten a singing performance. It appeared now also some CDs as reissues of LPs, which he had taken in the GDR together with Günther Fischer, and new, on which he sings with his daughter Fanny Krug together.
Manfred Krug is also active as a writer. His biographies Runaways (1996) and My Beautiful Life ( 2005) became bestsellers. In 2008 he published his short story collection Schweinegezadder. Krug participated in some radio plays radio and worked as a voice actor. As spokesman jug reads, among other things his own texts.
Campaigns
Krug took jobs in advertising, including for Pan Am and the German Telekom, which was preparing the IPO of "T- shares " in 1996. After an interview comment in which he apologized for the losses that were suffered by the Deutsche Telekom shareholders, the Telekom separated by Krug. About ten years later he described the commercials as his " biggest professional mistake". Krug told the magazine Stern in January 2007: "I apologize from the bottom of my heart for all fellows who bought a recommended me share and have been disappointed. " In the campaign, a legal expenses insurance, he appeared as a lawyer, which as its role " attorney favorite " alluded ( " Advocard 's favorite lawyer !"). As of 2010, appeared in a pitcher ad campaign of Mercedes -Benz Bank, whose motive refers to the series on reference axis.
Private
Manfred Krug is married to Ottilie pitcher since 1963. Together they have three children, including the singer Fanny Krug. In 2002 it was announced that Manfred Krug has an illegitimate child. Krug lives in Berlin -Charlottenburg.
Krug's music
Since 2008, the Putensen Beat dedicated ensemble of the North German actor and musician Thomas Putensen the work of Manfred Krug from the 1970s, with regular concerts.
Filmography
Discography
Audiobooks
- Manfred Krug: Runaways. Econ Verlag, 1996, ISBN 978-3430157254 (4 CDs).
- Manfred Krug: Schweinegezadder and others. Part 1 Ullstein Hörverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-550-09001-3 (CD, MC ).
- Manfred Krug: Schweinegezadder and others. Part 2 Ullstein Hörverlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-550-09028-5 (CD, MC ).
- Thomas Brussig: life to men. Roof Music, Bochum 2001, ISBN 3-936186-54-5 (2 CDs).
- Manfred Krug: My beautiful life. The Hörverlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-89940-399-1 (8 CDs).
- Bertolt Brecht: Stories from the Lord Keuner. Read / Germany radio culture. The audio -Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89813-406-7 (CD).
- Jurek Becker: Jurek Becker's news to Manfred Krug and Otti. Roof Music, Bochum 2005, ISBN 3-936186-81-2 (2 CDs).
- Bertolt Brecht: Lust of starting. Read / Germany radio culture. The audio -Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89813-517-9 (CD).
- Runaways. A recording and a diary. Econ, Dusseldorf 1996, ISBN 978-3-547-75723-1.
- 66 poems, what is this?. Econ, Dusseldorf 1999, ISBN 3-430-15728-5 ( book and CD).
- My beautiful life. Econ, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-430-15733-1.
- Schweinegezadder. Beautiful stories. Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-550-08731-8.
- MK picture book. A smorgasbord. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86265-106-1.