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Mourning for ARD star Heinz Baumann: The king of crime fiction

2023-03-07T19:48:57.533Z


The actor Heinz Baumann died in Munich at the age of 95. He was particularly well-known for "Soko 5513" and "Adelheid and her murderers". Our obituary.


The actor Heinz Baumann died in Munich at the age of 95.

He was particularly well-known for "Soko 5513" and "Adelheid and her murderers".

Our obituary.

Now they are both dead. And perhaps the news that actor Heinz Baumann has died at the age of 95 will shock you, which is also unusually strong for a person you didn't actually know at all, because it reminds you that Evelyn Hamann (1942- 2007) has been dead for 15 years now.

Heinz Baumann is of course the first person to associate with her.

The joint ARD series "Adelheid and her murderers" was one of his greatest successes.

From 1993 to 2007, this lovable, humorous Hamburg thriller ran.

Hamann played Adelheid Möbius, secretary of Murder Commission Zwo ("I'm just the tipster here"), Baumann played her superior, Chief Inspector Ewald Strobel.

What a pleasure it was always to watch

how she gradually exceeded her competence and solved the cases almost single-handedly - and meanwhile he skilfully avoided any excessive effort, preferring to delegate to his subordinates: "Since when does the chef peel the potatoes?".

His face as crumpled as his dress shirt.

His voice is so deep and unmistakable that one would have liked to have seen him live on the theater stage.

For a long time, Heinz Baumann was a member of the ensemble of the Munich Kammerspiele

Because Heinz Baumann was not only good at television.

Born on February 12, 1928 as the son of a ship's carpenter near Oldenburg into a family of showmen and farmers, he was drawn to the limelight.

He took acting classes, applied to theaters without a degree.

His first engagement took him to Quedlinburg at the age of 20.

From the Waterkant to Saxony-Anhalt in the Soviet occupation zone.

It's hard to imagine him, who liked to play the idiosyncratic stubborn character, in a political system where loyalty counted for everything.

So Baumann, who was married to Gardy Brombacher for 40 years until her death in 2003 and was the father of two children, did not last long in the East.

Before the Wall was built, he moved back to West Germany.

After engagements in Dortmund, Hamburg, Bremen, Cologne,

From 1966 he was a member of the ensemble of the Munich Kammerspiele in Frankfurt am Main and Stuttgart.

Here in the south they really liked the man from the north.

Another big series success for Heinz Baumann: the ZDF series "Soko 5113" about a team from the Munich criminal police.

Most recently he lived with his partner in Schwabing.

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Adelheid and her boss: From 1993 to 2007, Evelyn Hamann (1942-2007) and Heinz Baumann (1928-2023) delighted an audience of millions on ARD.

© Wolfgang Langenstrassen/dpa

Watching Kurt Hoffmann's 1960 comedy "Das Spukschloss im Spessart" from 1960 shows how smart the 1.91 meter tall actor looked when he was young.

He alongside Liselotte Pulver – what a charming couple.

And yet nothing went over him and Evelyn Hamann.

As Adelheid, she basically had the freedom to fool her boss.

The same ritual every morning.

She swings happily into his office: "Morning, boss!" And he, still completely taken aback and bleary-eyed, stutters: "Morning, Ms. Möbius." Then the puzzled postscript: "Morning again?" For this role he received the 2002 Bavarian TV Award.

It was completely clear that the series ended when Hamann died of cancer - the thrillers lived from the contrast between the two main characters.

And about the pretty, always the same dialogue between Hamann and Gisela May,

played by her mother Rosa.

Adelheid: "Come on, Muddi".

Rosa: "Don't always call me Muddi." Adelheid: "Yes, Muddi." May has also died since 2016.

All 65 episodes are available on DVD.

In addition, herring rolls and a cold beer.

On the Nordic bear.

Was one of the good guys.

Source: merkur

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