RIP Günter Lamprecht

 

Günter Lamprecht, the German character actor whose acclaimed performance anchored Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 14-part television epic, “Berlin Alexanderplatz,” died on October 4, 2022 in Bad Godesberg, Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was 92. Born on January 21,1930, in Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany, in the 1990s, Mr. Lamprecht became a familiar face to television viewers in the newly reunified Germany as the lovable police inspector Franz Markowitz on the long-running crime procedural “Tatort.”. Lamprecht’s only Euro-western was Sheriff File in the 1980 TV film “Der Regenmacher” a remake of “The Rainmaker”.