Overview
- In a new SuperIllu interview, the 80-year-old actor confirms his wife Marion died about three months ago from the incurable lung disease COPD, shortly before her 78th birthday.
- He says a large part of his life has collapsed and calls her an incredibly respectful and lovable person.
- Glatzeder credits Marion with enabling his career, saying she ran the household and family while she studied and later worked as a teacher.
- He says their two sons are caring for him, though he believes he must cope with the loss on his own.
- He is best known for the 1973 East German film Die Legende von Paul und Paula and later moved with his family from the GDR to West Berlin in 1982.