Actor Fred Delmare is dead

He was one of the most popular actor in the GDR, played in classics like "Naked among wolves." Last Delmare Fred stood in the ARD series "In all friendship" as a grandfather Frederick in front of the camera. Now died the 87-year-old died as a result of pneumonia.

 

Leipzig - It was a hard life, despite the success. "Happily, I am in no way," was the sober conclusion by Fred Delmare on his 80th Birthday 2002nd

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Delmare was 1922 in the Thuringian town of Sonneberg, in the suburb of Cottage Steinach as Werner Vorndran born. Already as a youth he participated in stage performances with a farmer, and later refined his acting as an external student of the drama school of the renowned Berliner Hebbel-Theater.

The breakthrough on the big screen he made in "The vicious circle," a film about the Reichstag fire process. Delmare played the arsonist Marinus van der Lubbe. In the 60-years he was Delmare victim of political censorship. In "Do not Think I heule" about a society against lethargy and hypocrisy rebellious student he played Brigadier. The strip has been described as "antisozialistisch" branded and disappeared into the archives of the DEFA. When he was in January 1990 will finally be, was it as "masterpiece of critical realism 'is celebrated.

Delmare career includes more than 100 television and movie roles. From 1999 until early 2006, he was as Friedrich Steinbach in successful hospital-series "In all friendship" to see.

When his most important films he 'nude among wolves "in which he played Buchenwald prisoner, and" Everybody dies for himself alone. " In the cult film "The Legend of Paul and Paula" he mimes thwarted lovers. After German reunification was seen Fred Delmare also in the "Lime Street", "Cast off for MS Königstein" or the pensioner comedy "Matulla and bush."

The comedy was his favorite genre. He gives his characters in the severe "light form" cleverness, sometimes even a portion Bauernschläue.

Hard fate

Private but had just 1.60 of a lot of great actors cope. Four marriages fell apart. 1980 Fred Delmare escaped to the West's daughter Felicitas life. 1993 erstach Nici his youngest son his former girlfriend. Doctors diagnosed in 2000 with its fifth wife Renate, breast cancer, died in October 2001, his 41-year old son Tino from liver cancer.

His last role in the medical series also offered him warmth. Delmare felt the team as a Rotary family, and described the work as beautiful. On 7 November 2005 was the door for him, his colleagues, giving him a touching farewell with red roses and Hildegard Knef "For you to be red roses's raining."

Then vanished in the Thuringian increasingly born out of the public. After Alzheimer's disease when he was diagnosed, lived in 1922 when Werner was born Vorndran Mime withdrawn in a nursing home. Already in his 85th Birthday he lived in silence. Now is the little big actor dead He died on 1 May in a Leipzig hospital from the effects of pneumonia.