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Actor and presenter Herbert Köfer is dead

2021-07-25T19:29:50.762Z


He was on stage for around 80 years - his role as Grandpa Paul Schmidt in the television series »Pensioners Never Have Time« was legendary. Herbert Köhler has now died at the age of 100.


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Herbert Köfer: "I live with every performance, every reading and every day that I play on"

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He was still active professionally well into old age: Herbert Köfer, one of the most famous actors in the GDR and also successful after the fall of the Berlin Wall, died at the age of 100.

His widow Heike Köfer announced this to the German press agency on Sunday evening.

Born in Berlin, he was on stage for around 80 years.

He was a theater and film actor, presenter and voice actor.

Especially in his star role as Grandpa Paul Schmidt in the GDR television series "Pensioners Never Have Time", he was popular with many viewers.

After the Second World War he started working for GDR television, where he read the first news in 1952 - including a birthday greeting from the GDR leadership to Stalin.

And Köfer was also present at the New Year's Eve gala in 1991 when the lights went out for GDR television.

He played in DEFA films such as "Nackt unter Wölfen" (1963), in which a child is smuggled into the Buchenwald concentration camp.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he was seen in popular series such as "In aller Freunde", "SOKO Leipzig" and "Ein starkes Team".

He was seen on the screen, on stage or on television in teasing and comedies, but also in plays on serious topics.

"A nice role in a film is fun, on stage it's completely different, the stage is my podium," he said.

"I live with every performance, every reading and every day I play," is how he himself described his elixir of life, from which he drew strength and energy.

Work keeps him young, he had repeatedly emphasized.

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Source: spiegel

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