Günter Lamprecht
Günter Hans Lamprecht (21 January 1930 – 4 October 2022) was a German film and stage actor, best-known internationally for his leading role in the Fassbinder miniseries Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) and as a ship captain in the epic war film Das Boot (1981).
Günter Lamprecht

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- Full name
- Günter Hans Lamprecht.
- Born
- 1930. · Berlin.
- Died
- 2022. · Bad Godesberg.
- Nationality
- Germany.
- Occupation
- actor, screenwriter and writer.
- Education
- Max-Reinhardt-Schule für Schauspiel.
- Honours
- Goldene Kamera, Order of Merit of Berlin, Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia, Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Herbert Strate Award and Hessian film and cinema award.
- Languages
- German.
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Günter Hans Lamprecht (21 January 1930 – 4 October 2022) was a German film and stage actor, best-known internationally for his leading role in the Fassbinder miniseries Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) and as a ship captain in the epic war film Das Boot (1981).
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Günter Lamprecht studied at Max-Reinhardt-Schule für Schauspiel. The recorded working language is German. Distinctions recorded are Goldene Kamera, Order of Merit of Berlin, Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia and Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Lamprecht was born in Berlin, the son of a taxi driver. After training at the Max Reinhardt Seminar, he had his first theatre engagement at the Schauspielhaus Bochum. He joined the Theater Oberhausen in 1959, and remained with them until 1961. His roles there included Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire and John in Gerhart Hauptmann's The Rats. Lamprecht began appearing on television in the 1960s. He was cast in the series Kara Ben Nemsi Effendi, which ran from 1973 to 1975. His first film role was in Ottokar Runze's Knife in the Back (1975). In 1976, Lamprecht won the Ernst Lubitsch Award for his performance in Baker's Bread, and in 1978 won the Goldene Kamera award for Best German Actor for Rückfälle. He played the leading role in the 1979 TV movie Frontiers of Darkness (Schattengrenze). In 1973, filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder cast Lamprecht in his series World on a Wire. He recruited him again for The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979). Fassbinder then gave Lamprecht the lead role of Franz Biberkopf in his acclaimed 1980 miniseries Berlin Alexanderplatz, based on Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel of the same name. Turner Classic Movies wrote of his performance: "Lamprecht was quite extraordinary as the hapless center of gravity as Biberkopf is drawn into and betrayed by Berlin's underworld in the days spanning from the end of WWI to the Nazi era." The role won him Best Actor at the Munich Film Festival, and he came in third place at the American National Society of Film Critics Awards. Lamprecht had a role in the World War II submarine film Das Boot (1981), playing the captain of the SS Weser, and continued to appear regularly on German television. In the 1990s, he gained further popularity while playing the police commissioner Franz Markowitz in the Berlin episodes of the long-running crime series Tatort. One of his last roles was Paul von Hindenburg in the German TV production Babylon Berlin in 2017.
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Personal life
In 1999, Lamprecht and his partner, actress Claudia Amm, were badly injured in a mass shooting. Lamprecht's memoirs, And Sadly I'm Still: A Youth in Berlin was published in 2000, where he discusses his experiences in Nazi Germany and the postwar years. His second book, A Hellish Thing, Life was published in 2007. He died on 4 October 2022 in Bad Godesberg at the age of 92.
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Günter Lamprecht died on 4 October 2022.
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- 1.Andrea Rickers: Hier ist es menschlich, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. September 2010. In German.
- 2.Internet Movie Database. Günter Lamprecht Awards.
- 3.Gunter Lamprecht. Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
- 4.Eltern des Amokläufers von Reichenhall sollen vor Gericht. Spiegel Online. 17 November 1999.
- 5.Motiv bis heute unklar. Heimatzeitung (27 October 2009). In German.
- 6.Günter Lamprecht ist tot: "Tatort"-Kommissar im Alter von 92 Jahren gestorben. 7 October 2022.
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