Actor Michael Degen died at the age of 90

Created: 04/12/2022Updated: 04/12/2022 2:04 PM

The actor Michael Degen straightens his bow tie during a set appointment in the castle park.

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The actor Michael Degen is dead. The 90-year-old died on Saturday in Hamburg, as the Rowohlt publishing house announced on Tuesday in Berlin.

"We mourn and bow to a person and artist who touched and carried away with his warmth and enthusiasm, and whose diverse work will remain," it said.

Hamburg – Degen was recently familiar to a large TV audience mainly thanks to the ARD crime series “Donna Leon”.

In it he embodied the “Vice Questore Patta” for years.

The artist had previously enjoyed success in numerous classical, modern and entertaining roles on major stages, as well as in film and television.

He worked with great directors such as Peter Zadek, Claude Chabrol and Ingmar Bergman and also directed productions himself. dpa