Siegfried Lowitz
Siegfried Lowitz ( born September 22, 1914 as Siegfried Wodolowitz in Berlin, † June 27, 1999 in Munich) was a German actor.
Life
The parents were the sculptor Franz Wodolowitz and Hulda Hermione, native Lindstaedt.
Lowitz was at the beginning of his life in Berlin, but was at the age of 4 years with the mother to Amsterdam, where he worked as a fashion dressmaker. After the mother had died of stomach cancer, he grew up from the age of six with his father and his second wife in Mainz.
Lowitz graduated from high school in Mainz and then attended the State Drama School in Frankfurt. There he gave his theater debut in 1934. After that he played in Mainz, casting and Wroclaw.
After the war began in 1946 Lowitz in Munich in the cabaret " The Schaubude ". There he saw the director and artistic director Heinz Hilpert, who brought him to his Frankfurt theater. With Hilpert Lowitz went to Constance and later at the German Theater Göttingen. From there he moved to Hans Schweikart at the Munich Studio Theater, the ensemble he was a member from 1950 to 1956 and then again from 1962 to 1968. From 1968 to 1978 Lowitz also belonged to the Munich -based Bavarian State Theatre.
He appeared in the 1950s and 1960s in many Edgar Wallace films with: The Sorcerer ( 1964 Joachim Fuchs Berger), The Frog with the Mask, The forger of London, among others He was also repeatedly with Heinz Rühmann front of the camera, which made sure that Lowitz the role of the thief Flambeau in the movie Black Sheep ( Father Brown movie, 1960) was because he was able to interact on an equal footing with Lowitz. In the TV classics The gentlemen ask to checkout he was in 1966 as Inspector Macleod of evenly matched opponent by Horst Tappert.
1968 Siegfried Lowitz received the Golden Camera for the title roles in the film adaptation of the eponymous novel The Drinker and Biedermann and the Arsonists.
His most famous role came in the years after he represented the Chief Inspector Erwin Köster in the ZDF series The Old Man. This part, he played from 1977 to 1985 in 100 episodes. After that, the person suffering from anemia Lowitz again mainly devoted to the theater.
His second wife Marianne Probst ( Marriage 1952) was also active as an actress. Lowitz has been buried in the Bogenhausener cemetery ( grave No. 3-3 - 73a) in the east of Munich. The grave speech was held by Penny McLean.
Filmography
Movies
TV
Awards
Honorable remembrance
Since 2002, the Siegfried Lowitz Foundation for theater and drama gives Siegfried Lowitz price. Previous winners include:
- 2003: Mario Adorf
- 2005: Maria Furtwängler
Autobiography
- Lowitz Siegfried: What a life, Olzog, Munich 2000
- Lowitz Siegfried: I've been to the old man, Publisher: Ullsteinhaus Hc, 1999, ISBN 978-3550069857