Manfred Krug

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.

• 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)

• 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

• 1998: Abgehauen (TV film), with Peter Lohmeyer as Manfred Krug