Police call 110: The eternal village policeman – Horst Krause is dead

The actor Horst Krause, known from the crime series “Police Call 110”, is dead. He died on Friday at the age of 83 in a retirement home in Teltow near Berlin, as his family told RBB on Monday. His most prominent television figure was called: Horst Krause became known as a spherical and grumpy village police officer Horst Krause. Television viewers liked the actor how he drove his dog as a passenger through Brandenburg on an old motorcycle or rumbled through the warm -hearted stories. In addition to the “police call”, there was also the ARD offshoot “police chief Krause”. It dealt with the private life of the village police officer, ie “Hotti” and his sisters Elsa and Meta, who run an inn in the fictional town of Schönhorst.

Already known in GDR times

Krause was born near Gdansk in 1941, later he grew up in Ludwigsfelde in Brandenburg, and he is said to have been the class clown at school. He originally learned the profession of the shooter and then studied at the state drama school in Berlin-Schöneweide. He played at the Landestheater Parchim, at the Schauspielhaus Karl-Marx-Stadt and at the Dresden state spectacle.

He was already on TV in GDR times, for example in “The prosecutor has the floor”. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he became known in 1993 by the comedy “We can do it differently …”, directed by Detlev Buck.

“Actor of the people, the stage, the heart”

The actor Roman Knizka, who was a mentor, had already said goodbye to the TV star emotionally on the weekend before the official death report. “You were an asket, if you wanted, a berserk if you had to. An actor of the people, the stage, the heart. A mentor, a connoisseur, one of the demand and one who fulfilled,” he wrote on Instagram. He added: “Your jokes were pretentious, your game was not. I learned a lot through you. Thank you forever.”

From the end of the 1990s, Krause turned many “police call” sequences, at that time the series established itself as a popular counterpart to the “crime scene”. He had the leading role in the much -noticed movie “Schultze Gets the Blues”. There was little private to hear about him. Whether in “The Girl Rosemarie” or “Boxhagener Platz”: he played in many productions, but the village police officer Krause was the role of his life. Many liked it because he embodied a piece of the old village life and homeland. RBB director Ulrike Demmer said that the broadcaster mourning for the actor. “Last but not least, his art was to let the border between the people of Krause and the figure Krause continue to blur.”

The actress Carmen-Maja Antoni, who played the sister of the village police officer in the films as Elsa Krause, told the “Superillu”: “We will be very absent as our” brother “, our Hotti, our police chief Krause, as Krüger and lovable colleague.”

Krause received the Brandenburg Order of Merit in 2012. Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke (SPD) recognized Krause as a person with heart and attitude. “We not only lose a great artist with him, but also a lovable ambassador in our country.”

What the name was all about

In the “police call”, Krause played with colleagues like Jutta Hoffmann and Imogen Kogge. With the village police officer, the broadcaster hit a nerve with the audience – for himself it was a role to live out, as he said. His colleague Maria Simon found: “With him you can laugh excellently and shred yourself well.” Why Krause was as called as himself, the actor once explained in an interview: “The figure of the director Bernd Böhlich was invented and named. I asked him why the policeman is called as I do,” You answered “You look like Krause, and the police officer also looks like Krause – why should we change the name?”

The RBB changes its television program to memory of Krause. In the evening an obituary should be broadcast; A long Horst-Krause-Nacht follows on Friday.