Günter Lamprecht

German actor (1930–2022)

Günter Lamprecht

Born|

Günter Hans Lamprecht

21 January 1930

Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia, Germany

Died| 4 October 2022(2022-10-04) (aged 92)

Bad Godesberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Occupation| Actor
Years active| 1959–2022

Günter Hans Lamprecht (21 January 1930 – 4 October 2022) was a German film and stage actor, best-known internationally for his leading role in the Fassbinder miniseries Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) and as a ship captain in the epic war film Das Boot (1981).

## Life and career[edit]

Lamprecht was born in Berlin, the son of a taxi driver. After training at the Max Reinhardt Seminar, he had his first theatre engagement at the Schauspielhaus Bochum. He joined the Theater Oberhausen in 1959, and remained with them until 1961.[1] His roles there included Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire and John in Gerhart Hauptmann's The Rats.

Lamprecht in the television film Der Tod zu Basel [de] (1990), with Hilde Ziegler

Lamprecht began appearing on television in the 1960s. He was cast in the series Kara Ben Nemsi Effendi, which ran from 1973 to 1975. His first film role was in Ottokar Runze's Knife in the Back [de] (1975). In 1976, Lamprecht won the Ernst Lubitsch Award for his performance in Baker's Bread [de], and in 1978 won the Goldene Kamera award for Best German Actor for Rückfälle.[2] He played the leading role in the 1979 TV movie Frontiers of Darkness (Schattengrenze).[3]

In 1973, filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder cast Lamprecht in his series World on a Wire. He recruited him again for The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979). Fassbinder then gave Lamprecht the lead role of Franz Biberkopf in his acclaimed 1980 miniseries Berlin Alexanderplatz, based on Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel of the same name. Turner Classic Movies wrote of his performance: "Lamprecht was quite extraordinary as the hapless center of gravity as Biberkopf is drawn into and betrayed by Berlin's underworld in the days spanning from the end of WWI to the Nazi era."[3] The role won him Best Actor at the Munich Film Festival, and he came in third place at the American National Society of Film Critics Awards.[2]

Lamprecht had a role in the World War II submarine film Das Boot (1981), playing the captain of the SS Weser, and continued to appear regularly on German television.

### Personal life[edit]

In 1999, Lamprecht and his partner, actress Claudia Amm, were badly injured in a mass shooting.[4][5]

Lamprecht's memoirs, And Sadly I'm Still: A Youth in Berlin was published in 2000, where he discusses his experiences in Nazi Germany and the postwar years. His second book, A Hellish Thing, Life was published in 2007. He died on 4 October 2022 in Bad Godesberg at the age of 92.[6]

## Filmography[edit]

Year  | Title  | Role  | Notes

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1960 | Die Brücke des Schicksals [de] | Schläger in Tanzbar |
1973 | World on a Wire | Fritz Walfang | TV film
1974 | Martha | Dr. Herbert Salomon | TV film
1975  | The Unguarded House | The Baker | TV film
Stellenweise Glatteis | Karl Maiwald | TV film
Knife in the Back [de] | Schöffe |
1976  | Der Stumme [de] | Kahlmann |
Die Ilse ist weg [de] | Kurt | TV film
Baker's Bread [de] | Georg Baum |
1977  | Planübung | Bundeswehr Officer | TV film
Rückfälle | Manfred Burger | TV film
1978 | The Marriage of Maria Braun | Hans Wetzel |
1979  | Frontiers of Darkness | Matthias Berger | TV film
The Great Runaway [de] | Piesch | TV miniseries
1980  | Das gefrorene Herz | Gwerder |
Berlin Alexanderplatz | Franz Biberkopf | his magnum opus
1981 | Das Boot | Captain of the 'Weser' |
1982 | Fleeting Acquaintances | Walter | TV film
1983 | Milo Barus, the Strongest Man in the World | Milo Barus [de] |
1984  | Love Is Not an Argument [de] | Felix |
What's Up, Chancellor? [de] | Chef |
Ein Mann namens Parvus | Alexander Parvus | TV film
Super | Kuballa |
After Your Decrees [de] | Sergeant Kleinschmidt |
Silent Poison | Philipp Fäsch | TV film
Gnadenlos | Jakob | TV film
1985  | Liebfrauen | Philipp | TV film
Die Komplizen | Joseph Lambert | TV film
Red Kiss | Herschel |
1987 | Gegen die Regel | Klaus Weber | TV film
1991 | Amaurose |  |
1992  | Herzsprung | Vater |
Moebius [de] | Arnold |
1993  | Gefährliche Verbindung | Kiefer | TV film
Engel ohne Flügel | Paul |
1997  | Berlin – Moskau | Jürgen Schröder | TV film
Friedrich und der verzauberte Einbrecher | Fischer |
Comedian Harmonists | Erik Charell |
1998 | Black Ice | Jupp Scholten | TV film
2002 | Epstein's Night [de] | Groll / Giesser |
2013 | Wir | Sprecher | voice
2017 | Babylon Berlin | President Hindenburg | TV series

## References[edit]

1. ^ Andrea Rickers: Hier ist es menschlich, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. September 2010. In German.
2. ^ a b "Günter Lamprecht Awards". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
3. ^ a b Gunter Lamprecht. Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
4. ^ "Eltern des Amokläufers von Reichenhall sollen vor Gericht". Spiegel Online. 17 November 1999. Retrieved 11 January 2015. In German.
5. ^ Motiv bis heute unklar. Heimatzeitung (27 October 2009). In German.
6. ^ "Günter Lamprecht ist tot: "Tatort"-Kommissar im Alter von 92 Jahren gestorben". 7 October 2022.

## External links[edit]

* Günter Lamprecht at IMDb

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