RIP Michael Gwisdek

 

Michael Gwisdek is dead 

taggesschau.de

9/23/2020

With films like "Good Bye, Lenin!" or "Oh Boy" he became a crowd favorite. Now the actor and director Michael Gwisdek has died at the age of 78. The Berliner was already a star in GDR times.

The Berlin actor and director Michael Gwisdek died at the age of 78 after a brief serious illness. According to the PR agency Just Publicity, his family announced this.
With films like "Good Bye, Lenin!", "Boxhagener Platz", "Nachtgestalten" and "Oh Boy" he was a crowd favorite. He was also often seen on television: whether in "Tatort", "Bella Block" or "Donna Leon". In his roles he showed himself to be a comedian, melancholic and eccentric, as the Defa Foundation wrote to him. In his directorial work, he convinced "with sophisticated figure drawings".

Renowned character actor

Gwisdek was born in Berlin-Weißensee in 1942. His acting career also began in the East: first he worked at a theater in Chemnitz from the late 1960s, before joining the ensemble of the East Berlin Volksbühne in 1973. Ten years later, Gwisdek moved to the German Theater and became known in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1980s. He made his directorial debut in 1988 with "Treffen in Travers". His other directorial work included "Abschied von Agnes" and "Das Mambospiel"

In 1999 Gwisdek received a Silver Bear for best leading actor in Andreas Dresen's "Nachtgestalten". His work has received awards such as the German Film Prize, the German Television Prize and the Grimme Prize.

In private, Michael Gwisdek and actress Corinna Harfouch were a couple for many years. Son Robert also became an actor, son Johannes a composer. Later Gwisdek lived with his wife, the screenwriter and writer Gabriela Gwisdek, in the countryside near Berlin.

GWISDEK, Michael

Born: 1/14/1942, Weissensee, Berlin, Germany

Died: 9/22/2020, Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Michael Gwisdek’s westerns – actor:

The Falcon’s Trail – 1967 (miner)

White Wolves – 1969

The Adventures of Huck Finn – 2012 (King)