Manfred Krug
Illustration — Manfred Krug, 1971 • Illustration — Manfred Krug, 2003 Manfred Krug (8 February 1937 – 21 October 2016) was a German actor, singer and author.
Manfred Krug

Blaues Sofa from Berlin, Deutschland · Manfred Krug im Gespräch mit Luzia Braun · CC BY 2.0
- Born
- 1937. · Duisburg.
- Died
- 2016. · Berlin.
- Nationality
- German Democratic Republic and Germany.
- Occupation
- actor, writer, singer, screenwriter and composer.
- Education
- Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts.
- Honours
- Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, National Prize of East Germany, Romy, Steiger Award, Medal of Merit of the GDR and Bavarian TV Awards.
- Languages
- German.
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Illustration — Manfred Krug, 1971 • Illustration — Manfred Krug, 2003 Manfred Krug (8 February 1937 – 21 October 2016) was a German actor, singer and author.
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Manfred Krug (1937–2016) was an actor, composer and screenwriter, among other activities and a national of German Democratic Republic and Germany. Born in Duisburg, the actor died in Berlin. Manfred Krug was also known as Clemens Kerber and Isa Karfunkelstein. Manfred Krug studied at Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Languages used include German. The actor received Bavarian TV Awards, Medal of Merit of the GDR and National Prize of East Germany, among others.
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Life and work
Life and work
Manfred Krug studied at Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts. The recorded working language is German. Distinctions recorded are Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, National Prize of East Germany, Romy and Steiger Award.
Born in Duisburg, 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 Frank Beyer'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 singer and dissident Wolf Biermann. 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 Schöneberg in West Berlin. 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 Auf Achse, 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 Sesamstraße, the German version of the American children's program Sesame Street. In the 1980s and 1990s, he also starred as Hauptkommissar Paul Stoever in the Tatort series of TV crime movies, which would eventually run for forty instalments in total. He died on 21 October 2016 in Berlin and was buried at the Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery.
Television
Television
• 1968: Ways across the Country (TV miniseries) • 1973: Stülpner-Legende (TV miniseries) • 1978: Paul kommt zurück • 1979: Phantasten • 1980–1993: Auf Achse (TV series, 73 episodes) • 1980: Ein Mann fürs Leben • 1981: Flächenbrand • 1981–1983: Das Traumschiff (TV series, 2 episodes) • 1982: Die Fischer von Moorhövd (TV series, 14 episodes) • 1982–1988: Die Krimistunde (TV series, 2 episodes) • 1982: Väter (anthology film) • 1982–1984: Sesamstraße (TV series, 292 episodes) • 1983: Rendezvous der Damen (anthology film) • 1983: Wer raucht die Letzte? • 1983: Konsul Möllers Erben (TV miniseries) • 1983: Jakob und Adele (TV series, 1 episode) • 1983: Geschichten aus der Heimat (TV series, 1 episode) • 1984: Joseph Süß Oppenheimer • 1984–2001: Tatort (TV series, 41 episodes) • 1984: Krumme Touren (anthology film) • 1985: Ein Heim für Tiere: Caesar (TV series episode) • 1986–1998: Liebling Kreuzberg (TV series, 58 episodes) • 1986–1987: Detektivbüro Roth (TV series, 34 episodes) • 1994–1995: Wir sind auch nur ein Volk (TV miniseries)
Life and career
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Life and career
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1937
Manfred Krug was born on 8 February 1937.
1965
Manfred Krug - ES STEHT EIN HAUS IN NEW ORLEANS (1965) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
1979
Manfred Krug - Da bist du ja (1979) (1979) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
1999
Jurek Beckers Neuigkeiten. An Manfred Krug und Otti is dated 1999.
2016
Manfred Krug died on 21 October 2016.
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Duisburg.
Birth place
Berlin.
Death place
Film
Film
• 1957: Ein Mädchen von 16½ • 1959: Goods for Catalonia • 1959: Der Freischütz • 1959: Reportage 57 • 1959: Before the Lightning Strikes (cameo) • 1960: Was wäre, wenn...? • 1960: Leute mit Flügeln • 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 • 1962: Minna von Barnhelm oder Das Soldatenglück • 1962: Star-Crossed Lovers • 1962: Der Kinnhaken • 1962: The Boxer and Death • 1963: Nebel (film) • 1963: Beschreibung eines Sommers • 1964: Follow Me, Scoundrels • 1965: König Drosselbart • 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: Abschied (film) • 1969: Weite Straßen – stille Liebe • 1969: Käuzchenkuhle • 1969: Mit mir nicht, Madam! • 1970: Netzwerk • 1970: Meine Stunde Null • 1970: Junge Frau von 1914 (film) • 1971: Husaren in Berlin • 1971: Die Verschworenen • 1972: The Stolen Battle • 1973: Wie füttert man einen Esel • 1974: Kit & Co • 1976: Daniel Druskat • 1977: Das Versteck • 1977: Feuer unter Deck (released: 1979) • 1978: Fist in the Pocket • 1987: Whopper Punch 777 • 1990: ' • 1990: Neuner (film) • 1994: The Blue One
Film about Manfred Krug
Film about Manfred Krug
• 1998: Abgehauen (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 Ulla Winblad (after Carl Michael Bellman) • 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 Charles Brauer) • 2000: Evergreens - Das Beste von Manfred Krug - 1962–1977 • 2000: Deutsche Schlager • 2000: Schlafstörung • 2001: Manfred Krug Live mit Fanny (with Fanny Krug) • 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 Bertolt Brecht) • 2005: Lust des Beginnens (Audiobook; from Bertolt Brecht) • 2005: Neuigkeiten an Manfred Krug und Otti (Audiobook; from Jurek Becker)
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1125149256, Das war nur ein Moment (Zusammenstellung, Manfred Krug, 2017).
Unverified · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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- “Manfred Krug”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q91587: Manfred Krug
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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 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 Czechoslovakia for The Stolen Battle • 1973 Verdienstmedaille der DDR • 1979 Goldene Europa of Europawelle Saar • 1984 Goldener Bambi • 1990 Bayerischer Fernsehpreis for TV series Liebling Kreuzberg (SFB/NDR/WDR), together with Jurek Becker and Werner Masten • 1990 Bavarian Film Awards, Best Actor • 2006 Platin Romy lifetime award

For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Zentralbild-Mittelstädt Bre-At. AV v. 1.11.65 Erfolgreiche Premier von "Lyrik-Jazz-Prosa" Mit begeistertem Applaus wurde die große Berliner Premiere von "Lyrik-Jazz-Prosa", der neuen Veranstaltungsserie des Verlages Volk und Welt-Kultur
Rainer Mittelstädt · Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-B1101-0010-001 / Mittelstädt, Rainer / CC-BY-SA 3.0 · This image was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the German Federal Archive (Deutsches Bundesarchiv) as part of a cooperation project. The German Federal Archive guarantees an authentic representation

For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Zentralbild-Spremberg Nl-At. 26.7.1964 Sommerfilmtage in Berlin eröffnet Die Uraufführung des DEFA-Abenteuerfilms "Mir nach Canaillen" leitete am 25.7.1964 auf der malerischen Grünauer Freilichtbühne an der Regattastrecke zugleich die So
Hans-Joachim Spremberg · Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-C0726-0006-001 / Spremberg, Joachim / CC-BY-SA 3.0 · This image was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the German Federal Archive (Deutsches Bundesarchiv) as part of a cooperation project. The German Federal Archive guarantees an authentic representation
Literature
• Abgehauen (1997) • Mein schönes Leben (2003)
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 1125149256, Das war nur ein Moment (Zusammenstellung, Manfred Krug, 2017).Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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