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Star from the “Großstadtrevier” – Arthur Brauss is dead
He played bad guys, villains, dodgy figures. His best -known role, however, was that of the police officer Richard Block from the “Grand City Tree”. Now actor Arthur Brauss has died.
The actor Arthur Brauss was one of the quiet stars of German television entertainment. Rummel around his person was not lay, he preferred to convince in front of the camera. During his more than 50 years of career, he participated in almost countless TV and cinema productions. A few days ago, Brauss died in Munich at the age of 89, as his wife Marie Pocolin-Brauss said of the German Press Agency.
In the past few years, the Augsburg -born had largely withdrawn from television and the public. Finally, he was very weak and was cared for around the clock, said his wife. The two had been a couple for 50 years and had married “very quietly” last year.
Her husband died at home in her Munich apartment, said Pocolin-Breauss on Sunday. She was with him until the end. “He fell asleep very peacefully. This is my only consolation: that he didn’t have to torture himself.” Your husband is to be buried in Munich.
Has been seen in more than 100 productions
Brauss had become a crowd favorite with the figure of the police officer Richard Block from the “Großstadtrevier”. The success series ran in the ARD evening program between 1986 and 1991.
In total, he participated in more than 100 productions at home and abroad: Among other things in “The Alte”, “Munich stories”, “Police call 110”, “The Black Forest Clinic”, “Derrick” and “Commissario Laurenti”, but also in “Der Zug” alongside Jeanne Moreau and Burt Lancaster and 1972 in the Wim Wenders film “The fear of the goalkeeper at Penalty “.
From athletics to acting
Brauss had come to acting through detours. In his hometown of Augsburg, he initially drew attention to himself as a athlete in his youth, became German youth champion in the pole vault.
After a commercial apprenticeship, he received a scholarship for the University of Wyoming in the USA, where he then studied mathematics and economics. There he also gained first experience on the student stage.
After his return to Germany, Brauss gave his acting debut in 1963 in the film “Delay in Marienborn” about German division and the Cold War. It was the start of a long and successful career.
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Source: Stern
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