Tilo Prückner
Tilo Prückner (born 26 October 1940, in Augsburg) is a German television and film actor. His career has spanned five decades and more than 100 films.
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Born | Augsburg, Germany | 26 October 1940
Years active | 1967–present |
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Early life
Tilo Prückner was born as the son of the paediatrician Alfred Prückner and his wife Dorothea née Krause in Augsburg. The family Prückner has a long reaching family tradition Hof. He first went to the St. Anna-Gymnasium in Augsburg and changed then to the school Melanchthon-Gymnasium in Nürnberg, where he passed his Abitur in 1960. He dropped his study of the laws to begin an actors education in Munich with Hans Josef Becher and Ellen Mahlke.
Career
From 1962 till 1964 he was employed at the Schauburg (Munich), and afterwards worked at the Theater St. Gallen, from 1966 till 1968 at the Theater Oberhausen [1] and 1968/1969 at the Schauspielhaus Zürich.
From 1970 till 1973 he played at Berlin's Schaubühne, whose founding member he was. Since 1973 he worked as a freelance actor at the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel in Munich.
After his participation in the TV-recordings of productions at the Schaubühne his work with directors of the New German Cinema increased. He specialised in portraying sick or handicapped people. In 1976 Prückner received the German Actors Award for his role as the violinist Hännschen Wurlitzer in Bomber & Paganini.
In later years Prückner proofed his art of interpreting diverse characters in a great number of movie and TV productions. Especially his characterisation of eccentricity is famous. Tilo Prückner had a great success, when he played the hyprochondiac detective Gernot Schubert in the TV-series Adelheid und ihre Mörder for 6 years, together with Evelyn Hamann and Heinz Baumann. Since 2003 he is a regular guest in the TV- series Kommissarin Lucas as the landlord of the main character played by Ulrike Kriener.
Publication
In 2013 he published his first novel Willi Merkatz wird verlassen.
Selected filmography
- Wilder Reiter GmbH (dir. Franz-Josef Spieker, 1967), as Stiglitz
- Apokal (dir. Paul Anczykowski, 1971), as Miles
- One or the Other of Us (dir. Wolfgang Petersen, 1974), as Drögnitz
- Die Verrohung des Franz Blum (dir. Reinhard Hauff, 1974), as Zick Zack
- Hauptlehrer Hofer (dir. Peter Lilienthal, 1975), as Custodian
- Das Tal der tanzenden Witwen (dir. Volker Vogeler, 1975), as Crazy Butch
- John Glückstadt (dir. Ulf Miehe, 1975), as Michel
- Familienglück (dir. Marianne Lüdcke, Ingo Kratisch, 1975), as Manfred
- Berlinger (dir. Bernhard Sinkel, Alf Brustellin, 1975), as Laski
- The Sternstein Manor (dir. Hans W. Geißendörfer, 1976), as Muckerl
- Paule Pauländer (dir. Reinhard Hauff, 1976), as Charly
- Bomber & Paganini (dir. Nikos Perakis, 1976), as Hänschen "Paganini" Wurlitzer
- Grete Minde (dir. Heidi Genée, 1977), as Gerd Minde
- SOKO 5113 (1978, TV series, 11 episodes), as Kriminalhauptmeister Neubert
- The Man in the Rushes (dir. Manfred Purzer, 1978), as Tramp
- The Tailor from Ulm (dir. Edgar Reitz, 1978), as Albrecht Berblinger
- Lena Rais (dir. Christian Rischert, 1979), as Albert Rais
- The Willi Busch Report (dir. Niklaus Schilling, 1979), as Willi Busch
- The Hamburg Syndrome (dir. Peter Fleischmann, 1979), as Fritz
- Der Schatz des Priamos (dir. Karl Fruchtmann, 1981, TV film), as Heinrich Schliemann
- The Magic Mountain (dir. Hans W. Geißendörfer, 1982), as Popov
- Der Schnüffler (dir. Ottokar Runze, 1983), as Fred
- Unser Mann vom Südpol (dir. Peter Adam, 1984, TV film), as Fred
- Didi – Der Doppelgänger (dir. Reinhard Schwabenitzky, 1984), as Bazille
- The NeverEnding Story (dir. Wolfgang Petersen, 1984), as Night Hob
- Wenn ich mich fürchte... (dir. Christian Rischert, 1984), as Theo Schuster
- Deutschfieber (dir. Niklaus Schilling, 1992), as Willi Busch
- Adelheid und ihre Mörder (1993–2000, TV series, 26 episodes), as Kriminalhauptmeister Gernot Schubert
- Tatort (2001–2008, TV series, 15 episodes), as Kriminaloberkommissar Eduard Holicek
- Kommissarin Lucas (since 2003, TV series, 28 episodes), as Max Kirchhoff
- The Counterfeiters (2007)
- Iron Sky (2012)
- Windstorm (2013)
Awards and nominations
- 1976 - German Actors Award (Deutscher Darstellerpreis) - Won
- 1980 - Reader Jury Award - Won
Books
Willi Merkatz wird verlassen. Roman. Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2013. ISBN 978-3-943167-40-5
References
- Deutsches Bühnenjahrbuch 1968, p 423