The television actor Arved Birnbaum is dead. He died on Sunday at the age of 59 after a short serious illness in the Cologne University Hospital, his wife Sabine Birnbaum told the German Press Agency on Tuesday.
Cologne - The native of Lusatia was often cast in shady roles.
In August of this year, TV viewers saw him in the ZDF series “A case for two” as a dubious animal dealer.
In 2015 he was a scheming innkeeper in the thriller series "Weinberg" (TNT series).
"Lindenstrasse" fans may remember him from 1999 in the role of neo-Nazi Hartung.
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In the Cologne "Tatort", however, he was a police officer, in several cases played the main master Heinz Obst.
In 2010, Birnbaum also worked on Dominik Graf's multi-part series “In the face of crime”.
Birnbaum began classical acting training, played in the theater and switched to film and television productions in 1997.
“The culmination of his acting career began with getting to know Dominik Graf, who cast him for several of his productions,” Birnbaum's agency recalled.
She quoted Graf as saying: "Arved makes every supporting role the main role." Dpa
