Dominique Horwitz
{{Short description|French actor and singer}}
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Dominique Horwitz (born 23 April 1957) is a French film and television actor and singer.
Life
Horwitz was born on 23 April 1957 in Paris, France, to German Jewish refugee parents, who had both fled Nazi Germany.{{cite news| author=Peter Craven| title=The relaxed alleskonner: Dominique Horwitz| url=http://blogs.dw-world.de/talkinggermany/archive/20090830| publisher=Deutsche Welle| date=30 August 2009| accessdate=15 January 2012| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110121050940/http://blogs.dw-world.de/talkinggermany/archive/20090830| archive-date=21 January 2011| url-status=dead}}{{cite news| title=Actor Dominique Horwitz| url=http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,1077353,00.html| publisher=Deutsche Welle| date=1 January 2004| accessdate=15 January 2012| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110209201228/http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0%2C%2C1077353%2C00.html| archive-date=9 February 2011| url-status=dead}} In 1971 the family moved to Berlin. He attended a Franco-German grammar-school. He has a sister and a brother. For about twenty years, Horwitz was located in Hamburg where he was married. From his first marriage with his wife Patricia he has two children, the actress Miriam and Laszlo. He currently lives with his second wife Anna and the children Mick and Marlene in Tiefengruben, Bad Berka, a village near Weimar in Thuringia. He is a prominent supporter of social institutions in Weimar, where he helps unemployed youths in a boxing club. He also organises boxing tournaments and links them with culture. Between the boxing matches musical newcomers can perform their music.
Career
He has appeared in over thirty films and over fifty television productions. His first screen role was appearing as Leo Singer in the film David (1979).
In 1992, Horwitz received the Golden Lion Award for the Best Actor from the Venice Film Festival.{{Cite web|url=http://www.kdschmid.de/en/Projekte/Dominique_Horwitz.php|title = Internationale Künstleragentur seit 1959 – KD Schmid}}
He played the role of the Devil (pegleg) in the theatre production The Black Rider (William S. Burroughs, Robert Wilson, Tom Waits).
Horwitz is perhaps best known for playing Obergefreiter Fritz Reiser in Stalingrad (1993).
= Selected filmography =
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! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Film ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Role ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Genre | |||
| 1979 | David | Leo Singer | war drama |
| 1987 | {{ill|The Madonna Man|de|Der Madonna-Mann}} | Flamm | crime |
| rowspan="2"| 1988 | {{ill|Fifty-Fifty (1988 film)|de|3=Fifty-Fifty (1988)|lt=Fifty-Fifty}} | Willi | comedy |
| Martha Jelleneck | Zivi Thomas | drama | |
| 1990 | The Black Rider | Pegleg | drama musical fantasy |
| rowspan="2"| 1991 | Hausmänner | | ||
| | comedy | |||
| Anna Goldin, the Last Witch | Kubli | historical drama | |
| 1992 | Dead Flowers | Willy De Ville | drama |
| 1993 | Stalingrad | Obergefreiter Fritz Reiser | war drama |
| rowspan="2"| 1998 | The Little Girl Who Fell from the Tree | Ben | thriller |
| Women Don't Lie | Xavier | romantic comedy | |
| 1999 | Nightshapes | Victor | |
| 2001 | Anne Frank: The Whole Story | Hans Goslar | mini-series |
| 2003 | {{Ill|Sams in Gefahr|de|Sams in Gefahr (Film)}} | Fitzgerald Daume | comedy |
| rowspan="2"| 2005 | {{Ill|A Quiet Love|de|Die blaue Grenze}} | Kommissar Poulsen | romantic comedy |
| Shooting Dogs | Capitaine Charles Delon | drama | |
| 2006 | Strike | Kazimierz Walczak | drama |
=Television work=
{{inc-tv|date=January 2010}}
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! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Title ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Role ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Genre | |||
| 1983 | Rote Erde | Rudi Schickert | TV series |
| 1986 | {{ill|The Lenz Papers (miniseries)|de|3=Lenz oder die Freiheit|lt=The Lenz Papers}} | Amand Goegg | TV miniseries |
| 1993 | The Secret of Coach 13 | Valentin | drama, television film |
| 1997 | Trickser | Erik | crime |
| 2007 | Krauses Fest | Forstarbeiter Leibmann | Weihnachtskomodie, Fernseh film |
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{IMDb name|395850}}
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Category:Jewish German male actors
Category:German male film actors
Category:German male television actors
Category:French people of German-Jewish descent
Category:French emigrants to Germany
Category:20th-century German male actors
Category:21st-century German male actors
Category:20th-century German Jews
Category:Französisches Gymnasium Berlin alumni