Dieter Franke
was born on October 13, 1934 in Harthau, Saxony, Germany. The son of a stage designer, Dieter began his work
in the theater in Greiz, where he was a prop master and Statist worker. He
attended from 1954 to 1958, the State Drama School in Berlin and subsequently
received a position at the Municipal Theater in Karl-Marx-Stadt.
In 1963 he
came to Berlin at the Volksbühne where he became a member of the ensemble of
the Deutsches Theater since 1964. Franke developed into a prominent stage
actor. He embodied important figures such as Mephisto in “Faust”, the electors
in “Prince Friedrich von Homburg” and the village judge Adam in “The Broken
Jug”.
From 1963 Franke
also appeared in films and on television. In numerous roles he could be both a
demonic comic (Devil in “Wer reißt denn gleich vor’m Teufel aus”, 1977, title
role in “The Grim Reaper” 1980, TV movie) and the everyday world of ordinary
characters (sick rider Adam Kowalski in “Mein lieber Robinson”, 1971, a
brigadier in “Dach überm Kopf Kotbuß”, 1980).
Dieter
Franke, had long suffered from a serious illness, but continued to work and in
1981 appeared in his only Euro-western “The Long Ride to School” in 1981 as
Sander. In 1982 he made his final appearance in the TV film ‘Generalprobe’.
Soon after, he died on October 23, 1982 in East Berlin, Germany.
Today we
remember Dieter Franke on what would have been his 80th birthday.
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