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Dieter Hallervorden is not wrong if one describes some entries of its late years as unnecessary provocations, even as a sense of age. Wetting about the gender, an open letter to Gaza and the sentence “I bring the” Romy “home into the empire!” At the Austrian Fim Prize, which he had won for “honey in the head”, even his long -term son Johannes was a little embarrassed. But Hallervorden, characterized by the early years of the GDR, nothing can be forbidden – and certainly not in old age.
On September 5, 1935, he was born in Dessau as the son of an engineer who was ampouched after an illness. He remembers the bombing raids in World War II very well. He studied Romance studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin and worked as an interpreter. Even then he did not take a leaf out of his mouth and complained about the GDR with foreign state guests. One evening in East Berlin, he frankly spoke to a diplomat and overlooked that a microphone was hidden in the flower decoration. He immediately fled over the then open border to the West. The Stasi was already in his apartment.
In West Berlin, medium and unemployed, he registered with the show teacher Marlise Ludwig, who initially asked no money for his training- he should pay it back later. She believed in Hallervorden’s talent. There he met his wife Rotraud Schindler, with whom he played together for many years. And in Berlin the cabaret founded “Die Wühlmäuse”. At first, most places remained empty, but the small group established itself.
Early years and escape from the GDR
In 1966 Hallervorden was arrested from the stage: a prostitute had accused him of murder. Hallervorden sat in prison for two weeks before the woman was transferred to the false statement. He was angry with the tabloid.
In the spectacular television film “Das Grielmiel”, Hallervorden gave the notched villain in 1970, which is supposed to shoot the candidate in front of the camera. Dieter Thomas Heck played the showmaster of the cynical Hatz. Hallervorden was given to popularity in 1975 at the best show time, the sketch series “Nonstop Nonsens”. The played joke and his figure Didi became literally. It is unforgettable to remain “palim, palim!”, The “bottle of fries” and the sketch over a casserole on the street, when Didi asked a passerby about the middle part of the melody of “Dr. Schiwago” and ultimately increasing the song. There are still people who imitate these numbers – although Otto Waalkes conceded that one could impossible to imitate Hallervorden.
From 1981 on, didi was the tolpathy hero in genre film parodies such as “Alles in the bucket”, “Didi-the doppelganger” and “Didi and the revenge of the disinherited”. In the 1990s he succeeded at Sat.1 with “Hallervordens Spott-Light”, was the host of “Do you understand fun?” And at the turn of the millennium, not very successful with the satire “Zebralla”. He bought for one, be careful: ridicule price with an island with a castle in Brittany.
From TV star to the theater actor
In 2008 he acquired the dilapidated Schlosspark Theater in Berlin-Steglitz, in which he appears again and again, most recently in “The Skip”. After his brilliant game as an elderly marathon runner in “his last race” (2013), Til Schweiger hired him for “honey in the head” (2014), in which he represents an Alzheimer’s patient. Now he was finally taken seriously as an actor, and now the prizes came. Dieter Hallervorden was proud like Bolle.
In 2022, the Kregle comedian married Christiane Zander, a stunt woman. Already in the Didi films, Hallervorden liked to make his stunts himself (and seriously injured a car carambolage). He has plans.
On Friday (September 5th) the language lover, the comedian, the great actor Dieter Hallervorden will be 90 years old.