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It is impossible to imagine the film without Günther Maria Halmer. I was a teenager in 1982 when I saw him in Gandhi. Then he was in Sophie’s Choice with Meryl Streep.
A German in Hollywood!
Who was this man, born in Rosenheim in 1945?
A loner, although married since 1976. He went to the mountains of Canada for two years. And if you will, he retained the angularity. His face was Mount Rushmore.
He went to the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich. In 1974 Helmut Dietl hired him for his television series “Munich Stories”.
He was Charlie. Halmer was the first Stenz, but he looked nothing like Dietl. Günther Maria Halmer was something very strange: not a Bierdimpfel, not a Hallodri, but an intellectual who was actually an architect or craftsman.
He played these roles again and again. He appeared in “Dream Ship” and in countless television films that were made so good by him.
His legacy is two films, his last: “Trapp’s Summer” and “Do You Remember?”
Only now have we learned that the brilliant actor Günther Maria Halmer died on May 10th at the age of 83.
