Raimund Harmstorf
Raimund Harmstorf ( born October 7, 1939 in Hamburg, † 3 May 1998 in Oberndorf market ) was a German actor. He became known in the early 1970s by starring in the television miniseries The Sea Wolf.
Life
Raimund Harmstorf grew up as the son of a doctor in Hamburg. He was decathlon champion in Schleswig -Holstein and initially studied medicine and later music and performing arts. He was seen at the end of the 1960s in small television roles and in 1971 had the role of catfish his breakthrough as an actor.
Harmstorf suffered in the course of his life in several accidents serious injury. His fish restaurant "Zum Sea Wolf", which he ran in Bad Durkheim, went bankrupt. In his last years, the actor was suffering from Parkinson's disease and was treated in a psychiatric hospital. On 2 May 1998, the Bild newspaper reported under the headline " Sea Wolf Raimund Harmstorf in psychiatry " about the illness of the actor. In the following night he committed on his farm in Same mountain ( Marktoberdorf ) suicide.
Raimund Harmstorf was last romantically involved with Gudrun RODS.
His grave is in the cemetery in Bad Oldesloe.
The Acting Career
1971 Harmstorf played the role of Captain Wolf Larsen brutal in the ZDF Adventure Vierteiler The Sea Wolf, which was created based on the eponymous novel by Jack London. Although the producers of the 31 -year-old performer initially thought was too young, she was the athletic Harmstorf by his physical presence convince them that he was the right man for the role. His "too young " voice, however, was replaced at Harmstorfs displeasure through the rough body of the older synchronous speaker Kurt E. Ludwig.
The four-part TV movie made Harmstorf famous. He was henceforth identified the epitome of vital adventurer and as an actor with the role of catfish.
Harmstorf had reached as catfish the peak of his career. In the 1970s, although he was seen in several international adventure films and turned with stars like Franco Nero and Charlton Heston. However, the films were mostly second-or third-rate, and Harmstorf could often only in the cliche role of " evil Germans " occur. In 1976, the actor a second television success in Germany, when he appeared in the same four-part adventure as Michael Strogoff, which originated from the book by Jules Verne. In 1978, he starred in the movie They called him an unpopular mosquito football coach stationed in Italy U.S. Army and an adversary of mosquito (played by Bud Spencer ). After his film career came to a halt in the 1980s, Harmstorf appeared on German television productions such as crime scene, Klinik unter Palmen and The Black Forest Clinic. He, however, fewer and fewer roles were offered.
Harmstorf was regularly seen as a stage actor and appeared as several times in Karl May stage productions:
Other theater performances: