RIP Herbert Tennigkeit

 

Actor Herbert Tennigkeit has died

 

The Limited Times

10/12/2022

 

Younger viewers know him as the voice of the villain Skeletor, older ones as Dr. Laudann from the "Black Forest Clinic": The actor and radio play speaker Herbert Tennigkeit is dead.

Hamburg – This was announced by his longtime good friend Thomas Speyerer on Wednesday to the German Press Agency in Berlin. Accordingly, the character actor died on Monday in his hometown of Hamburg. He fell asleep peacefully in a clinic at the age of 85.

Tennigkeit's star role was the anesthesiologist Dr. Laudan in the ZDF cult series "The Black Forest Clinic".

Anyone who spent his childhood in the 1980s knows his distinctive voice from the German dubbed version of the dead-headed villain Skeletor in the animated series "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" - dark, throaty and raspy, he gave him great rogue charm.

Tennigkeit also took part in the youth radio play series of the audio label Europa, such as "The Three ???" and "Five Friends", as well as in Karl May settings such as "Through Wild Kurdistan".

He had TV appearances several times in "Tatort" thrillers and in the series "Das Traumschiff".

Tennigkeit, who was born near Tilsit (today in the Russian region of Kaliningrad) in 1937, was considered one of the last great reciters of literary texts in the East Prussian dialect.

TENNIGKEIT, Herbert

Born: 2/28/1937, Graszpelken, East Prussia, Germany

Died: 10/10/2022, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

 

Herbert Tennigkeit’s westerns – actor:

Frei nach Mark Twain (TV) – 1971

Old Surehand (TV) – 1975 (Apanatschka)