Overview
- He died on Friday, 13 February, after a short, severe illness in Munich, his family confirmed to the dpa.
- He became a mainstay at the Münchner Kammerspiele and the Residenztheater after early work at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, with Residenztheater chief Andreas Beck calling him "a great of Munich theatre."
- On screen he was widely seen in crime series such as Der Alte and Tatort and portrayed Helmut Kohl in the 2005 TV docudrama Deutschlandspiel.
- Born in Ludwigshafen in 1940, he studied theater studies and philosophy, trained at the Bochum acting school, and lived in Munich for decades.
- Obituaries largely cite a final screen role in 2019’s Und tot bist Du! (Schwarzwaldkrimi), though some reports list a later 2022 appearance in Gestern waren wir noch Kinder.