Günter Lamprecht

Lamprecht was born in Berlin, the son of a taxi driver. After training at the Max Reinhardt Seminar, he had his first theatre engagement at the Schauspielhaus Bochum. He joined the Theater Oberhausen in 1959, and remained with them until 1961.Andrea Rickers: Hier ist es menschlich, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. September 2010. In German. His roles there included Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire and John in Gerhart Hauptmann's The Rats.

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Lamprecht began appearing on television in the 1960s. He was cast in the series Kara Ben Nemsi Effendi, which ran from 1973 to 1975. His first film role was in Ottokar Runze's {{ill|Knife in the Back (film)|de|3=Das Messer im Rücken|lt=Knife in the Back}} (1975). In 1976, Lamprecht won the Ernst Lubitsch Award for his performance in {{Interlanguage link multi|Baker's Bread|de|Das Brot des Bäckers}}, and in 1978 won the Goldene Kamera award for Best German Actor for Rückfälle.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0483945/awards?ref_=nm_awd|title=Günter Lamprecht Awards|publisher=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=11 January 2015}} He played the leading role in the 1979 TV movie Frontiers of Darkness (Schattengrenze).[https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/107781%7C0/Gunter-Lamprecht/ Gunter Lamprecht]. Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 11 January 2015.

In 1973, filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder cast Lamprecht in his series World on a Wire. He recruited him again for The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979). Fassbinder then gave Lamprecht the lead role of Franz Biberkopf in his acclaimed 1980 miniseries Berlin Alexanderplatz, based on Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel of the same name. Turner Classic Movies wrote of his performance: "Lamprecht was quite extraordinary as the hapless center of gravity as Biberkopf is drawn into and betrayed by Berlin's underworld in the days spanning from the end of WWI to the Nazi era." The role won him Best Actor at the Munich Film Festival, and he came in third place at the American National Society of Film Critics Awards.

Lamprecht had a role in the World War II submarine film Das Boot (1981), playing the captain of the SS Weser, and continued to appear regularly on German television. One of his last roles was Paul von Hindenburg in the German TV production Babylon Berlin in 2017.

In 1999, Lamprecht and his partner, actress Claudia Amm, were badly injured in a mass shooting.{{cite web| url=http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/anwalt-bossi-eltern-des-amoklaeufers-von-reichenhall-sollen-vor-gericht-a-52703.html | title=Eltern des Amokläufers von Reichenhall sollen vor Gericht | work=Spiegel Online |date=17 November 1999 |accessdate=11 January 2015}} In German.[http://www.heimatzeitung.de/cho/archiv/734318_Motiv-bis-heute-unklar.html Motiv bis heute unklar]. Heimatzeitung (27 October 2009). In German.

Lamprecht's memoirs, And Sadly I'm Still: A Youth in Berlin was published in 2000, where he discusses his experiences in Nazi Germany and the postwar years. His second book, A Hellish Thing, Life was published in 2007. He died on 4 October 2022 in Bad Godesberg at the age of 92.{{cite web | url=https://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/leute/leute/guenter-lamprecht-ist-tot-tatort-kommissar-im-alter-von-92-jahren-gestorben-81543716.bild.html | title=Günter Lamprecht ist tot: "Tatort"-Kommissar im Alter von 92 Jahren gestorben | date=7 October 2022 }}

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