Peter Millowitsch
Peter Millowitsch ( born 1 February 1949 in Cologne ) is a German folk actor, playwright and director of the private Cologne Millowitsch Theatre.
Biography
The son of the Cologne folk actor and theater entrepreneur Willy Millowitsch (1909-1999) and his wife Gerda Millowitsch (1922-2004), nephew of the People's actress and theater director Lucy Millowitsch (1905-1990), grandson of actor and theater director Peter Wilhelm Millowitsch (1880-1945 ), great-nephew of actress and singer Cordy Millowitsch (1890 -? ) and older brother of actress Mariele Millowitsch ( b. 1955 ) took his first role in the family's own Millowitsch Theatre at the age of eight. After high school he attended acting school in Hamburg.
In the 1970s, Peter Millowitsch played in comedy films with Roy Black (Green is the Heath, 1972; Age Kahn and young love, 1973; Schwarzwaldfahrt from lovesickness, 1974), but also in socio-critical television dramas such as 1973 in Herbert Ball 's (* 1924) stations, 1975 the city in the valley by Wolfgang Petersen, or 1978 in an episode of the adventure series on ARD - axis. From 1975 to 1977 Millowitsch hosted the children's channel cli- Kla - Klawitter, succeeding Wolfgang Jansen. Since the 1980s, he joined inter alia, in the family series in the most attractive reason Bilsen (1980 ), Forstinspektor Buchholz ( 1989), Heidi and Erni (1990 ), The Anrheiner (1998) and The altricial - to give away family (1999) on. He was also seen in guest roles in numerous detective series, such as in European co-production Eurocops (1990 ), in the RTL productions The Guard (1994) and SK- Babies (1996 ), in the series SK Kölsch sat.1 (1999), the ZDF police series Two professionals (2002) and in the following misconduct in addition to his father, who identified repeatedly in episodes of ARD crime scene, including 1991 as a retired Commissioner Hermann -Josef Klefisch in Cologne. 1978 saw father and son Millowitsch also common in the comedy The money is in the bank of Curth Flatow on the screen.
From 1993 to 1996 Peter Millowitsch led the traditional Cologne stage his family as an equal business partner with his father. From the season 1996/1997 he became sole manager and director and sat among other things, with the slapstick comedy Where are they going? the British King Philip (1904-1979) a new course. Among the arguments with his father on the future theater program, he later said: " First of all disagreements and disputes that exist between us, I respect the achievements of my father, which it is, understandably, was very hard, the scepter, after so many years from the to give hand. " In Millowitsch theater theater entrepreneur also plays serious roles and leads to pieces that do not fit the popular stereotype of a popular stage.
In contrast to his father - and in tribute to his grandfather and his aunt Lucy - writes Peter Millowitsch also itself plays. Together with Barbara Schoeller, he wrote, for example, the farce of love from Nippes ( 1993), the musical folk play King of the frieze course ( 1998) and the comedies coterie Klett Berg (2001), Saionara Aunt Klara (2003), Taxi to Ehrenfeld (2005), Once to be Prince ... (2006 ) and D'r kütt Pope (2006). In September 2007, the author duo brought out the fairy tale musical Eau de Cologne.
Since the late 1990s, Peter Millowitsch also works as a screenwriter. He wrote, among other things, the episodes of birthday specials for his father, together with Jochen Busse and Barbara Schoeller some consequences of the WDR sitcom and in the basement it ferments (1998) and his co-author of several television adaptations of their own stage plays, including Et kütt as et kütt ( 2003).
Peter Millowitsch is married to actress Barbie Millowitsch stone house since 1981. He is an avid sports fan and motor drives in his own racing car in the German Endurance Cup.