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Manfred Krug (; 8 February 1937 – 21 October 2016) was a German actor, singer and author.

Life and work

Born in

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, Krug moved to East Germany at the age of 13, and worked at a steel plant before beginning his acting career on the stage and, ultimately, in film. By the end of the 1950s he had several film roles, and in 1960 he appeared in

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's successful war movie ''Fünf Patronenhülsen'' ('' Five Cartridges''). Many more film roles followed, with Krug often cast as a socialist hero. Krug also achieved notability as a popular jazz singer, often in collaboration with composer Günther Fischer. In 1976 the East German government (GDR) forbade Krug to work as an actor and singer because he participated in protests against the expulsion and stripping of GDR citizenship of

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. On 20 April 1977 he requested to leave the GDR and as soon as he got the approval he left the GDR and moved to

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. After moving back to West Germany he very soon got new roles as an actor but very rarely sang in public for a long time. In 1978 Krug appeared as one of the male leads of the action-drama television series ''

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'', and would continue to appear on the series until 1995, one year before the show ended its long run. Krug's various television roles even included a two-year stint on the children's program ''

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'', the German version of the American children's program ''

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''. In the 1980s and 1990s, he also starred as Hauptkommissar Paul Stoever in the ''

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'' series of TV crime movies, which would eventually run for forty installments in total. He died on 21 October 2016 in

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Filmography

Film

* 1957: ''Ein Mädchen von 16½'' * 1959: '' Goods for Catalonia'' * 1959: ''Der Freischütz'' * 1959: ''

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'' * 1959: '' Before the Lightning Strikes'' (cameo) * 1960: '' Was wäre, wenn...?'' * 1960: ' * 1960: '' Five Cartridges'' * 1961: '' Professor Mamlock'' * 1961: ''Guten Tag, lieber Tag'' * 1961: ''Urfaust'' * 1961: ''Bei Anruf Mord'' * 1961: ''Drei Kapitel Glück'' * 1961: '' On the Sunny Side'' * 1962: ''

Midnight Revue ''Midnight Revue'' (german: Revue um Mitternacht) is an East German musical film directed by Gottfried Kolditz and starring Christel Bodenstein, Manfred Krug and Werner Lierck Werner may refer to: People * Werner (name), origin of the name an ...

'' * 1962: ' * 1962: ''

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'' * 1962: ' * 1962: '' The Boxer and Death'' * 1963: ' * 1963: '' Beschreibung eines Sommers'' * 1964: '' Follow Me, Scoundrels'' * 1965: ' * 1965: '' Die antike Münze'' * 1966: '' Trace of Stones'' (released: 1990) * 1967: '' Frau Venus und ihr Teufel'' * 1967: '' The Banner of Krivoi Rog'' * 1968: '' Hauptmann Florian von der Mühle'' * 1968: ' * 1969: '' Weite Straßen – stille Liebe'' * 1969: ''

Käuzchenkuhle ''Käuzchenkuhle'' is an East German film. It was released in 1968. Plot Jean-Paul Fontanon, known as Jampoll, comes from Berlin and travels to his grandparents in the country in Wolfsruh every year during the summer holidays. But this time e ...

'' * 1969: ' * 1970: '' Netzwerk'' * 1970: ' * 1970: ' * 1971: '' Husaren in Berlin'' * 1971: ''Die Verschworenen'' * 1972: '' Ukradená bitva'' * 1973: ' * 1974: ' * 1976: ''Daniel Druskat'' * 1977: ' * 1977: ' (released: 1979) * 1978: ' * 1987: ''Whopper Punch 777'' * 1990: ' * 1990: ' * 1994: '' The Blue One''

Television

* 1968: '' Ways across the Country'' (TV miniseries) * 1973: ''

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'' (TV miniseries) * 1978: ''Paul kommt zurück'' * 1979: ''Phantasten'' * 1980–1993: ''

'' (TV series, 73 episodes) * 1980: ''Ein Mann fürs Leben'' * 1981: '' Flächenbrand'' * 1981–1983: ''

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'' (TV series, 2 episodes) * 1982: ' (TV series, 14 episodes) * 1982–1988: ''Die Krimistunde'' (TV series, 2 episodes) * 1982: ''Väter'' (anthology film) * 1982–1984: ''

'' (TV series, 292 episodes) * 1983: ''Rendevous der Damen'' (anthology film) * 1983: ''Wer raucht die Letzte?'' * 1983: ''Konsul Möllers Erben'' (TV miniseries) * 1983: ''

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'' (TV series, 1 episode) * 1983: '' Geschichten aus der Heimat'' (TV series, 1 episode) * 1984: ''Joseph Süß Oppenheimer'' * 1984–2001: ''

'' (TV series, 41 episodes) * 1984: ''Krumme Touren'' (anthology film) * 1985: '' Ein Heim für Tiere: Caesar'' (TV series episode) * 1986–1998: ''

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'' (TV series, 58 episodes) * 1986–1987: '' Detektivbüro Roth'' (TV series, 34 episodes) * 1994–1995: ''Wir sind auch nur ein Volk'' (TV miniseries)

Film about Manfred Krug

* 1998: ''

Abgehauen ''Abgehauen'' is a 1998 German television docudrama Docudrama (or documentary drama) is a genre of television and film, which features dramatized re-enactments of actual events. It is described as a hybrid of documentary and drama and "a fa ...

'' (TV film), with Peter Lohmeyer as Manfred Krug

Discography

* 1962: ''Auf der Sonnenseite'' * 1964: ''Jazz und Lyrik'' * 1965: ''Manfred Krug und die Modern Jazz Big Band'' * 1966: '' Lyrik - Jazz - Prosa'' (with Eberhard Esche, Annekathrin Bürger and others, in different editions and under different names, some of them in censored versions without Manfred Krug) * 1969: ''Onkel Toms Hütte'' (audiobook, Krug singing to spirituals) * 1970: ''Fredmanns Episteln an diese und jene aber hauptsächlich an

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'' (after

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) * 1971: ''Das war nur ein Moment'' * 1973: ''Ein Hauch von Frühling'' * 1974: ''Greens'' * 1976: ''Du bist heute wie neu'' * 1977: ''Abgehauen'' * 1979: ''Da bist Du ja'' * 1997: ''Anthologie'' * 2000: ''Tatort – die Songs'' (with

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) * 2000: ''Evergreens - Das Beste von Manfred Krug - 1962–1977'' * 2000: ''Deutsche Schlager'' * 2000: ''Schlafstörung'' * 2001: ''Manfred Krug Live mit Fanny'' (with

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) * 2002: ''Leben bis Männer'' (Audiobook; from Thomas Brussig) * 2002: ''Der Weihnachtskrug'' * 2003: ''Sweet Nothings'' (with Decebal Badila and Fanny Krug) * 2005: ''Geschichten Vom Herrn K.'' (Audiobook; from

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) * 2005: ''Lust des Beginnens'' (Audiobook; from Bertolt Brecht) * 2005: ''Neuigkeiten an Manfred Krug und Otti'' (Audiobook; from

Jurek Becker Jurek Becker (, probably 30 September 1937 – 14 March 1997) was a Polish-born German writer, screenwriter and East German dissident. His most famous novel is ''Jacob the Liar'', which has been made into two films. He lived in Łódź during Wo ...

)

Literature

* ''Abgehauen'' (1997) * ''Mein schönes Leben'' (2003)

Awards

*1962 Heinrich-Greif-Preis First Class for '' On the Sunny Side'', ensemble award *1963 Erich-Weinert-Medaille for '' Beschreibung eines Sommers'' with Christel Bodenstein *1965 Erich-Weinert-Medaille for '' The Adventures of Werner Holt'', ensemble award *1968

National Prize of East Germany The National Prize of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) (german: Nationalpreis der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik) was an award of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) given out in three different classes for scientific, artistic, ...

First Class for '' Ways across the Country'', ensemble award *1971 National Prize of East Germany Second Class *1972 "Ehrende Anerkennung" (Special Award) at Workers' Filmfestival of

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for '' Ukradená bitva'' *1973 Verdienstmedaille der DDR *1979

Goldene Europa Goldene Europa award is the oldest German Television award for artists and entertainers. It was awarded from 1968 to 2003. In the years 1989 and 2001, there were no ceremonies. Since 1981, the gala was broadcast on television. The original sculptu ...

of Europawelle Saar *1984 Goldener

Bambi ''Bambi'' is a 1942 American animated drama film directed by David Hand (supervising a team of sequence directors), produced by Walt Disney and based on the 1923 book '' Bambi, a Life in the Woods'' by Austrian author and hunter Felix Sal ...

*1990

Bayerischer Fernsehpreis Bayerischer Fernsehpreis (the Bavarian TV award) is an award presented by the government of Bavaria, Germany since 1989. The prize symbol is the "Blue Panther", a figure from the Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory. The prize money is €10,000 (Spec ...

for TV series

(SFB/NDR/WDR), together with

and

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*1990

Bavarian Film Awards The Bavarian Film Awards (german: Bayerischer Filmpreis) have been awarded annually since 1979 by the state government of Bavaria in Germany for “exceptional achievement in German filmmaking.” Along with the German Film Awards, these are the ...

, Best Actor *2006 Platin Romy lifetime award

External links

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Krug, Manfred 1937 births 2016 deaths German male television actors German male stage actors German male film actors 20th-century German male actors Recipients of the Heinrich Greif Prize Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni Recipients of the Medal of Merit of the GDR