Heinz Schubert (actor)

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Heinz Schubert (12 November 1925 – 12 February 1999) was a German actor, drama teacher and photographer, best known for playing the role of Alfred Tetzlaff in the German television sitcom Ein Herz und eine Seele.

Life

Schubert was born in Berlin, the son of a master tailor. He went to drama school after his release from captivity as a prisoner of war.

In 1951, Bertolt Brecht asked for him directly to join his Berliner Ensemble, where Schubert remained until the Berlin Wall was erected in 1961. From then on, Schubert worked in West Germany in theatre (in Munich, Hamburg, Stuttgart and Berlin) and taught drama; he was first a docent and in 1985 was awarded a professorship at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg.[1]

In 1958 Schubert also started to work in film, first for

Das Stacheltier
series. From 1961, in the West, he also acted in television productions.

In 1973 Schubert was given the part for which he is best remembered, and which he later did his best to escape from: the role of Ekel Alfred ("Nasty Alfred") in the satirical

bigot, and appeared the part, with a hairstyle and mannerisms comparable to those used by German dictator Adolf Hitler
.

Schubert was capable of a wide range of roles, however, and proved this in his much-praised portrayal of Hadschi Halef Omar in the 26-part ZDF television series Kara Ben Nemsi Effendi (1973/1975), based on the books of Karl May, or his starring role in films such as Strongman Ferdinand [de; fr; it] and Hitler – Ein Film aus Deutschland, in which he played both Hitler and Heinrich Himmler. Schubert also acted alongside Michael Caine in the British spy film Funeral in Berlin.

As well as his film roles, Schubert acted in an increasing number of

television series, playing the private detective Fetzer in Detektivbüro Roth and Dr. Fink in the ZDF film The Great Bellheim [de]. In 1996 he once more played the main role in a Wolfgang Menge series, again based on an idea by Johnny Speight, as Viktor Bölkhoff in Mit einem Bein im Grab. (One Foot in the Grave
.)

As well as his acting career, Schubert also loved photography. He is especially well known for his many photographs of shop windows and mannequins;[1] this work was on show at the documenta 6 in Kassel in 1977. In 1979 he published a book of these photographs, Theater im Schaufenster ("Theatre in the Shop Window").

Heinz Schubert received several awards, including the

Adolf Grimme Award (1994). He died of pneumonia on 12 February 1999 in Hamburg, where he had acted for many years.[1]

Partial filmography

References

  • Theater im Schaufenster, Heinz Schubert, 1979,
    ISBN 3-922170-04-8
  1. ^ a b c d "Nachruf: Heinz Schubert: 1925 bis 1999", Der Spiegel, 22 February 1999 (in German).

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This article was partly translated from the German language version of October 16, 2006

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