Götz George

Götz George (born July 23, 1938 in Berlin, real name Götz Schulze) is a German actor, son of actor couple Berta Drews and Heinrich George. His arguably best-known role is that of Duisburg commissar Horst Schimanski in the TV crime series Tatort. July 23 is the 204th day (205th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 161 days remaining. ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Location of Duisburg Duisburg is a German city in the western part of the Ruhr Area (Ruhrgebiet) in North Rhine-Westphalia. ...

Early years

Götz George has been born into an actor family: His father Heinrich George is a famous film and theater star of his times, his mother Berta Drews a well-known character actress. George is named after his fathers favorite character, Götz von Berlichingen. The father dies in 1946 during appendix surgery. Götz George grows up in Berlin with his elder brother Jan and his mother. He goes to school in Berlin-Lichterfelde and later attends the Lyzeum Alpinum in Zuoz. He was married to Loni von Friedl from 1966 to 1976, who gave birth to their daughter Tanja-Nicole in 1967. A character actor is an actor who predominantly performs supporting parts, often in similar roles throughout the course of a career. ... In human anatomy, the vermiform appendix (or appendix) is a blind ended tube connected to the cecum. ... -1...

Acting career

George gave his stage debut in 1950, performing a role in William Saroyan's Mein Herz ist im Hochland. In 1953 he is able to get a small film role next to Romy Schneider in Wenn der weiße Flieder wieder blüht. In the same year he plays, as he will often do from then on, next to his mother in Shakespeare's Richard III. From 1955 to 1958 he studies at the Berlin UFA-Nachwuchsstudio, though he receives the crucial part of his actorial education between 1958 and 1963. Following his mother's advice he occasionally plays at the Deutsches Theater in Göttingen under the direction of Heinz Hilpert. After Hilpert's death, George would never join a fixed theater company again, although he did regularly stand on stage during tours and guest performances. William Saroyan (August 31, 1908 - May 18, 1981) was an American author who wrote many plays and short stories about growing up impoverished as the son of Armenian immigrants. ... 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Romy Schneider a. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... The Tragedy of Richard III is a play by William Shakespeare, in which the monarch Richard III of England is unflatteringly depicted. ... 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Events January-February January 11 - The Whisky A Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened. ... Map of Germany showing Göttingen 1 External links Coat of Arms University of Göttingen Top: The old Auditorium Maximum (1862-65) Bottom: New library building Göttingen is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany. ...

Hansgünther Heyme signed him in 1972 to the Kölner Schauspielhaus, where George played Martin Luther in Dieter Forte's Martin Luther und Thomas Münzer. His most important stage achievement, in his own opinion, was the lead role in Büchner's Dantons Tod during the Salzburger Festspiele in 1981. In 1986 and 1987 George, together with Eberhard Feik and Helmut Stauss, stage-managed Gogol's Revisor. Performing in Anton Tschechow's Platonov, George goes on his hitherto last theater tour. 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... Map of Germany showing Cologne Cologne skyline at night. ... Martin Luther (originally Martin Luder or Martinus Luther) (November 10, 1483 – February 18, 1546) was a German theologian and an Augustinian monk whose teachings inspired the Protestant Reformation and deeply influenced the doctrines of Lutheran, Protestant and other Christian traditions (a broad movement composed of many congregations and church bodies). ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol (Russian: Николай Васильевич Гоголь) (March 31, 1809 - March 4, 1852) was a Ukrainian-born Russian writer. ...

After small movie parts during the 1950s, Götz George's breakthrough with audience and critics manifests itself in the form of the film Jacqueline.

The surprise is Götz George, who, in the role of the good natured pro boxer Gustav, puts on an beautiful presence. Funny, moving, awkward, full of realness in his play, motion and expression - a well-rounded performance. Let us hope that this gifted young artist will not be typecast as the clumsy nature-boy with an awkward speech impediment right away. After all, he doubtlessly can do a lot more than that.

George is awarded the Bundesfilmpreis and the Preis der Filmkritik for his role. In 1961 he receives the Bambi as the most popular actor. 1961 (As MAD Magazine pointed out on its first cover for the year) was the first upside-down year - i. ...

In the sixties, George gets the chance to show that he is able to do more than playing sappy peasants, through roles in movies such as Kirmes, playing a desperate Wehrmacht deserter, and Herrenpartie. More often, though, he performs in comedies and action-oriented movies, which gain from his physical presence. He becomes well-known to a broad audience when during his theater tour in Göttingen Horst Wendlandt is able to persuade him to play in one of the Karl May series of films, which he started in 1962 with Der Schatz im Silbersee. It was originally planned to give George the lead role of the farmer son Fred Engel, but this plan was abandoned when Lex Barker became engaged, playing the role of Old Shatterhand. The Wehrmacht (literally defence force or means/power of resistance) was the name of the armed forces of Germany from 1935 to 1945. ... Desertion is the act of abandoning or withdrawing support from someone or something to which you owe allegiance, responsibility or loyalty. ... Karl Friedrich May (Hohenstein-Ernstthal, February 25, 1842 - Radebeul, March 30, 1912) was the best selling German writer of all time, noted chiefly for wild west books set in the American West and similar books set in the Middle East; in addition, he also wrote some lesser-known stories set... Lex Barker (May 8, 1919 - May 11, 1973) was born Alexander Crichlow Barker, Jr. ... Old Shatterhand is a fictional character, the white friend and blood-brother of Winnetou the fictional chief of the Mescalero-tribe of the Apaches in the western novels by German writer Karl May (1842-1912). ...

George performs all stunts himself, even in his lead role as sheriff in Sie nannten ihn Gringo.

The Neue Deutsche Film ('New German Film') has quite some difficulties with Götz George, who gained a firm stand in the German movie business of the fifties and sixties. There are few film roles for George during the seventies. He performs at the theater and in TV productions, among them many episodes of Der Komissar, Tatort, Derrick, and Der Alte. It was not until 1977 that he was cast in a prominent role again, playing Franz Lang in Aus Einem Deutschen Leben, a character modeled after Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höß. For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... Auschwitz, in English, commonly refers to the Auschwitz concentration camp complex built near the town of Oświęcim, by Nazi Germany during World War II. Rarely, it may refer to the Polish town of Oświęcim (called by the Germans Auschwitz) itself. ... Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höß (in English, Hoess without or Höss with the umlaut) ( November 25, 1900 – April 16, 1947) was a senior Nazi official, member of the SS and Waffen-SS (with the rank of SS- Obersturmbannführer) and commander of the Auschwitz concentration camp where he was responsible for the...

George probably had his greatest popular success in the eighties on TV: The Schimanski Tatort episodes of the WDR, broadcast from 1981 to 1991. The series of Schulz & Schulz movies, starting in 1989 and dealing with the issue of the German reunification, gave him the opportunity to show his talents as a comedian in a double role, as did the role of the industry consultant Morlock in the series of the same name, which is very far away from the roughneck charm of senior commissar Schimanski. German reunification (Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) refers to the reunification of Germany from its constituent parts of East Germany and West Germany under a single government on October 3, 1990. ...

Among George's most impressive roles in the nineties are his TV appearances: In Der Sandmann he plays the alleged serial killer and writer Henry Kupfer as a cold, calculating and manipulative intellectual, and in Die Bubi-Scholz-Story George lays down the trauma of an aged, broken boxer. Serial killers are individuals who have a history of multiple slayings of victims who were usually unknown to them beforehand. ...

Filmography (Movies)

• Wenn der weiße Flieder wieder blüht, 1953
• Ihre große Prüfung, 1953
• Alter Kahn und junge Liebe / Sonne über den Seen (GDR), 1957
• Solange das Herz, 1958
• Jacqueline, 1959
• Kirmes, 1960
• Die Fastnachtsbeichte, 1960
• Der Teufel spielt Balaleika, 1961
• Mörderspiel, 1961
• Unser Haus in Kamerun, 1961
• Ihr schönster Tag / Das Fenster zum Flur, 1962
• Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt, 1962
• Nur tote Zeugen schweigen (Hipnosis), 1963
• Liebe will gelernt sein, 1963
• Mensch und Bestie, 1963
• Herrenpartie, 1964
• Wartezimmer zum Jenseits, 1964
• Unter Geiern, 1964
• Ferien mit Piroschka, 1965
• Sie nannten ihn Gringo, 1965
• Winnetou und das Halbblut Apanatschi, 1966
• Der Schatz im Silbersee, 1962
• Ich spreng' euch alle in die Luft - Inspektor Blomfields Fall Nr. 1 (video release title: Der Superbulle / Mad Joe), 1968
• Der Todeskuss des Dr. Fu Man Chu, 1968
• Himmelfahrtskommando El Alamein (Commandos), 1969
• Ostwind (Le Vent d'Est), 1970
• Die Diamanten des Präsidenten (The Pawn), 1976
• Aus einem deutschen Leben, 1977
• Abwärts, 1984
• Zahn um Zahn, 1985
• Zabou, 1987
• Die Katze, 1988
• Der Bruch (GDR), 1989
• Blauäugig, 1989
• Schtonk!, 1992
• Ich und Christine, 1993
• Die Sturzflieger, 1993
• Der Sandmann, 1995
• Der Totmacher 1995
• Rossini, 1997
• Das Trio, 1998
• Solo für Klarinette, 1998
• Nichts als die Wahrheit, 1999
• Commercial Man, 2001
• Gott ist tot, 2003

For the historical eastern German provinces, see Historical Eastern Germany East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR), German Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR), was a Communist Party-led state that existed from 1949 to 1990 in the former Soviet occupation zone of Germany. ... For the historical eastern German provinces, see Historical Eastern Germany East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR), German Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR), was a Communist Party-led state that existed from 1949 to 1990 in the former Soviet occupation zone of Germany. ... Schtonk! (1992) is a satirical German movie, retelling the hoax of the Hitler Diaries. ...

Filmography (made-for-TV movies and series)

• Kolportage, 1957
• Alle meine Söhne, 1965
• Schlehmihls wundersame Geschichte, 1967
• Match, 1968
• Ein Jahr ohne Sonntag, 1969
• 11 Uhr 20, 1970
• Der Kommissar, Episode: Tod einer Zeugin, 1970
• Tatort: Blechschaden, 1971
• Diamantendetektiv Dick Donald, 1971
• Der Kommissar, Episode: Der Amoklauf, 1972
• Der Illegale, 1972
• Tatort: Rattennest, 1972
• Kesselflickers Hochzeit, 1972
• Die Gräfin von Rathenow, 1973
• Der Kommissar, Episode: Sommerpension, 1973
• Zwischen den Flügen, 1973
• Mandragola, 1974
• Café Hungaria, 1976
• Tatort: Transit ins Jenseits, 1976
• Vermutungen über Franz Bieberkopf, 1977
• Derrick, Episode: Der Spitzel, 1978
• Der Alte, Episode: Der schöne Alex, 1978
• Überfall in Glasgow, 1981
• Die Sonnenpferde (Les chevaux du soleil), 1981
• Tatort: Duisburg Ruhrort, 1981
• Der König und sein Narr, 1981
• Tatort: Grenzgänger, 1981
• Tatort: Der unsichtbare Gegner, 1982
• Der Regenmacher (The Rainmaker), 1982
• Tatort: Das Mädchen auf der Treppe, 1982
• Tatort: Kuscheltiere, 1982
• Tatort: Miriam, 1983
• Das schöne Ende dieser Welt, 1984
• Tatort: Kielwasser, 1984
• Tatort: Zweierlei Blut, 1984
• Abgehört, 1984
• Tatort: Rechnung ohne Wirt, 1984
• Tatort: Doppelspiel, 1985
• Tatort: Das Haus im Wald, 1985
• Tatort: Zahn um Zahn, 1985 (Kinofilm)
• Tatort: Der Tausch, 1986
• Tatort: Schwarzes Wochenende, 1986
• Tatort: Freunde, 1986
• Tatort: Zabou, 1987 (Kinofilm)
• Tatort: Spielverderber, 1987
• Tatort: Gebrochene Blüten, 1988
• Tatort: Einzelhaft, 1988
• Tatort: Moltke, 1988
• Tatort: Der Pott, 1989
• Tatort: Blutspur, 1989
• Spielen willst du ja alles. Götz George - rastlos im Einsatz, 1989
• Tatort: Katjas Schweigen, 1989
• Schulz & Schulz, 1989
• Tatort: Medizinmänner, 1990
• Tatort: Schimanskis Waffe, 1990
• Tatort: Unter Brüdern, 1990
• Schulz & Schulz II, 1991
• Tatort: Bis zum Hals im Dreck, 1991
• Tatort: Kinderlieb 1991
• Tatort: Der Fall Schimanski, 1991
• Schulz & Schulz III, 1992
• Schulz & Schulz IV, 1992
• Morlock I - Kinderkram, 1993
• Morlock II - Die Verflechtung, 1993
• Morlock III - König Midas, 1993
• Schulz & Schulz V, 1993
• Morlock IV - Der Tunnel, 1994
• Das Schwein - Eine deutsche Karriere, 1995
• Der König von Duisburg, 1995
• Der Sandmann, 1995
• Der Mann auf der Bettkante, 1995
• Tote sterben niemals aus, 1996
• Tor des Feuers, 1996
• Schimanski - Die Schwadron, 1997
• Schimanski - Blutsbrüder, 1997
• Schimanski - Hart am Limit, 1997
• Die Bubi-Scholz-Story, 1998/99
• Bargeld lacht, 2001
• Schimanski - Kinder der Hölle, 2001
• Liebe. Macht. Blind., 2001
• Mein Vater, 2002
• Liebe ist die halbe Miete, 2002
• Schimanski - Asyl, 2002
• Verliebte Diebe, 2002
• Der Anwalt und sein Gast, 2002
• Geheimnisvolle Freundinnen, 2003
• Familienkreise, 2003
• Schimanski - Das Geheimnis des Golem, 2004

Der Kommissar is also the name of a 1982 hit song by Falco. ... The Rainmaker is a 1956 film which tells the story of a middle-aged woman, suffering from unrequited love for the local town sheriff, who falls for a con man who comes to town with the promise that he can make it rain. ...

Awards

Awards for Götz George (IMDb) (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0313443/awards)

External links

• Götz George (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0313443/) at the Internet Movie Database
• goetz-george.de (in German) (http://goetz-george.de/)