He was not only involved in a dozen "Tatort" episodes, but also in "Liebling Kreuzberg" - now a great German film and series has died.
Bickenbach - The television director
Heinz Shirk
is less than two weeks before his 89th birthday
died
.
His death is known only after a considerable delay.
He died on December 10th - on December 23rd, the dpa reported the sad news.
Tatort director Heinz Schirk is dead - he also shot the first "Liebling Kreuzberg" season
As the
German press agency
learned from his family, the filmmaker died on December 10th in
Bickenbach
near Darmstadt.
Schirk was a
fixture in the television business
in the 70s, 80s and 90s
.
He shone as the maker of much-seen “
Tatort
” thrillers and as the director of the first season of “
Liebling Kreuzberg
” with Manfred Krug in 1986. He received a lot of praise for the excellent TV documentary “Die Wannseekonferenz” from 1984 with Dietrich Mattausch in the role of Reinhard Heydrich and Gerd Böckmann as Adolf Eichmann.
A kind of regular director was Schirk, who was born in Gdansk in 1931 and fled west at the end of the World War, with the
Hessischer Rundfunk
.
For HR he shot, among other things, the "Tatort: Zürcher Frucht" with Commissioner Bergmann (Heinz Treuke).
The episode, broadcast on February 12, 1978, had almost 25 million viewers and is still regarded by media researchers as the “crime scene” with the third highest number of viewers of all episodes - after “Red - red - dead” and “High school diploma”.
At “Tatort”, for example, Schirk was also responsible for the first Berlin case in 1971 and the crime novel “The man from room 22” from 1974 with Hansjörg Felmy as Essen investigator Heinz Haferkamp.
"Heinz Schirk was a
great director
because he loved the actors and not tortured them," said his good friend, the actor Walter Renneisen (80, "Derrick", "Tatort"), the dpa.
Schirk himself had short acting appearances in many of his films.
Tatort director Heinz Schirk is dead - he last lived in retirement
The lexicon of international film calls the television film “The Wannsee Conference” “an impressive and harrowing documentary play”.
“Der Spiegel” wrote 36 years ago: “The praise goes above all to the director Heinz Schirk, and rightly so.” Together with a group of proven actors, he knows how to give the film “the atmosphere of racist mania for cleansing and cold-blooded bureaucratic perfection that the Wannsee Conference deserves probably the most gruesome Hitler Germany made ”.
Most recently, Schirk lived
withdrawn in Bickenbach in southern Hesse
and devoted himself to painting, among other things, as his friend and former son-in-law, the actor Martin May, told dpa.
Fans also mourn a German rock star, as reported by tz.de *.
* tz.de is part of the Ippen-Digital network.
(dpa)