Winfried Glatzeder
Winfried Franz Glatzeder ( born April 26, 1945 in Sopot, Poland today ) is a German actor. The media often termed the " Belmondo of the East", Glatzeder first made from the 1960s in the GDR career. The early 1970s, he succeeded by leading roles in films such as time of storks and The Legend of Paul and Paula the acting breakthrough. From 1996 to 1998 Glatzeder played the role of the Commissioner Ernst Roiter in the television series Tatort. Since then, he is mainly seen in theater productions.
Life
Childhood and education
Glatzeder was the only child of a weaver and a corsetry representative to the world. His mother was of Jewish descent and hid during the Nazi period, her grandmother, to protect them from deportation. She had married in 1942, Glatz Eder's father died in 1944 in a Russian prison camp. Shortly after Glatz Eder's birth his mother was admitted to a mental hospital where she contracted tuberculosis and, therefore, spent many years in sanatoriums. With his grandparents Glatzeder 1945 came to Berlin. His grandfather, contractors Gustav Adolf Werner, shortly after became mayor of Berlin- Lichtenberg and Friedrichshain. Glatzeder grew up in privileged circumstances, the time spent working travel of his grandparents but in a children's home. At the age of five he first met his mother, who returned to the family, as Glatzeder was ten years old.
For the first time with the theater came Glatzeder during school hours in contact when he became a theater of the House of Pioneers in Berlin- Lichtenberg member of the Association. His first role was tailor Hupf on a story by the Brothers Grimm. Glatzeder graduated after leaving school trained as a mechanical engineering technicians at VEB Kühlomat in Berlin- Johannisthal. His Mitlehrlingen belonged Wilfried Loll, with the Glatzeder during the teaching founded a Cabaret group. Glatzeder studied after the end of the apprenticeship period from 1965 at the Academy of Film and Television Babelsberg. Important lecturers were BK Tragelehn and especially Fritz Marquardt, the Glatzeder retrospect described as a surrogate father. Among his fellow students were Jaecki Black, Thomas Brasch and Juergen Karl Klauss. Glatzeder played while studying, among others, in the controversial performance of As You Like It in a translation by Heiner Müller, the jester Touchstone; the staging was banned after a few performances for obscenity. His studies concluded Glatzeder in 1969 with a thesis about the clowns in Shakespeare.
Theater and film in the GDR
After finishing his studies Glatzeder received an engagement at the Hans Otto Theatre in Potsdam, which existed until 1971 in September 1969. During a performance of Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths in a production of Peter Kupke, in the Glatzeder played the actor, he was discovered by the chief dramaturge of the Berlin Volksbühne Karl -Heinz Müller and 1971 committed to the Volksbühne. Here he remained until 1977 Cast Member. Among other things, he played in 1971 under Benno Besson the pilot Yang Sun in The Good Person of Szechwan.
Already during his studies Glatzeder had worked as a bit player in movies and TV films and synchronized crowd scenes. Among other things, he was seen in a side scene in Maltese Falcon. For the first time on television played Glatzeder directed by Ulrich Thein, 1969 in unknown citizens. The role of the drama students Bel [o ] mondo brought Glatzeder his nickname: " Since this film and thanks to my wide nose, I was struck by the journalists, Belmondo called the East ' ", Glatzeder wrote in his autobiography. A representational reference to Jean -Paul Belmondo did not exist there.
His breakthrough as a performer managed Glatzeder 1971 in the role of the young, unconventional Christian Bohrarbeiters in Siegfried Kühn time of storks. His experience as a father - his second son Robert Glatzeder was in 1971 came into the world - he worked in the role of students of the social sciences Erwin Graf foundation in The man who came to the grandmother. In 1972, that started in the cinema film became one of the most successful comedies DEFA. Beyond the borders of the GDR Glatzeder was known for his portrayal of the lover Paul in the GDR cult film The Legend of Paul and Paula, who was released in theaters in 1973. He played it on the side of Angelica Domröse that as he was a member of the Berlin Volksbühne. The film was shown, among others, in the Federal Republic, Austria and Switzerland, where Glatzeder and Domröse attended the premiere in Munich. His portrayal of Till Eulenspiegel in Rainer Simon's eponymous film was praised by critics as " a theatrical masterpiece ", while the critique itself described the rough film satire as distasteful and provocative. The role of the party secretary in Druskat Lothar Bellags television miniseries Daniel Druskat refused Glatzeder and instead took the role of Jacques Besson's production of Shakespeare's As You Like It at. Glatzeder fell out in 1977 with Besson and then broke his contract with the Berlin Volksbühne on. From January 1978 Glatzeder was under an exclusive contract actor at DEFA. The contract provided that Glatzeder have a year to make a film. He turned 1978 film comedy ignition on, it comes firefighters; the cinematic sequel to The Legend of Paul and Paula in 1979 but rejected. In 1980, turned Glatzeder Asta, my little angel with Erwin Geschonneck and 1980 Horst E. Brandt The colony, which he escaped a Nachmusterung the NVA.
Expatriation and in the Federal Republic
In February 1981 Glatzeder filed a request for dismissal from citizenship of the GDR. He had " had enough. I could not and would not take it anymore, that other people control what is good for me, and would that still stand in the old people's home on the bulletin board. , The Party Group speaks ' " Since the 1960s, was Glatzeder by the Ministry of State Security was under surveillance; monitoring continued until 1989. Glatzeder presented from 1981 onwards several emigration applications, before he was allowed to leave in July 1982 in the Federal Republic and was expatriated.
In the Federal Republic Glatzeder could continue his career almost seamlessly. His first television role he took over in 1982 at the Thekla Carola Wied page in Peter Beauvais ' TV movie The malpractice. It was followed by many films for cinema and television, including Forget Mozart ( 1984) and Rosa Luxembourg (1986). In the gangster film Va Banque Glatzeder stood together with Joschka Fischer and Willy DeVille front of the camera. Although Glatzeder had received an engagement at the Schiller Theater in Berlin during his departure preparations, however, announced his contract in 1983 during rehearsals for the first piece of Pains of Youth by Ferdinand Bruckner. It was not until 1987 Glatzeder turned back to the theater and played with guest contract at the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus under BK Tragelehn the Malvolio in Twelfth Night. This will be followed Sganarelle in Molière's Don Juan (1988) and Clov in Samuel Beckett's Endgame (1991); Glatz Eder last piece in Dusseldorf Eduardo De Filippo's Saturday, Sunday, Monday, in which he took on the role of the charmer Luigi Ianniello was 1995.
Development since 1989
Glatzeder turned from 1990 for the first time for the DEFA: Under the direction of Jürgen Brauer dance originated on the brink, the plays in 1989 and 1991 was released: also Horst sailor between Pankow and Zehlendorf and Herwig Kipping The land beyond the rainbow, the play in the 1950s. After several appearances in television series, including Derrick, Glatzeder got the role of Crime Scene Commissioner Ernst Roiter 1996. In twelve episodes he was seen until 1998 in the CRC; In retrospect he appreciated the quality of the films as rather poor. As a film actor since followed especially television appearances, roles in short films and series (including The Secret of Sagala, Berlin, Berlin, Unser Charly ). In the movie Sun Alley Glatzeder was seen in a reference to The Legend of Paul and Paula.
Glatzeder devoted himself even after the end of his time at the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus theater. From 1997 he played at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm in Berlin the role of Eugene in Pension Scholler Scholler and was with the piece until 2007 also on tour. From 1999, he held the role of Elwood P. Dowd in Jürgen Wölffers Berlin production of My friend Harvey, who also went on tour. At the Renaissance Theater in Berlin was followed in 2002 Donald Margulies ' play friends for dinner, in which he played the role of Tom. In 2006 he played at the Karl May Festival in Bad Segeberg Gojko Mitic as next Winnetou Winnetou III in the play the villain Santer. In the same year he received as part of the golden hen with Mitic and Jutta Hoffmann the " Speedwell 60 years DEFA". The following year Glatzeder played on the side of Angelica Domröse at the Hans Otto Theatre Potsdam piece Filumena Martirano what a great press response elicited.
In the years 2008, 2010 and 2011, he took over at the Everyman Festival in Berlin Cathedral, the main role of Everyman. He played this role also in 2011 at the Meininger Theater, where he also directed. Glatzeder became operational in January 2014, the eighth season of the reality show I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here! on RTL part and reached the fifth place among eleven participants.
Since the 1970s Glatzeder is regularly on a reading tour. He also works as a synchronous and radio speaker.
Private
Glatzeder is married since 1970; the marriage produced two sons, including actor Robert Glatzeder (* 1971). Glatzeder has another son from a previous relationship. In 2008 Glatzeder published with Paul and I his autobiography. He lives in Berlin.