Rolf Schimpf from “The Alte”: Charles M. Huber mourns the loss of colleagues

Sometimes it is the simplest compliments that at the same time let most of the meaning. Charles M. Huber (68) found exactly these words in conversation when he now spoke about the death of his former “the old” colleague Rolf Schimpf. “Rolf was just a good person with a great character. He was just a nice guy and never mean and never got to the fore.”

Even the TV series in the 1980s, when millions of people to the crime cases of main commissioner Leo Kress (Schimpf), criminal commissioner Henry Johnson (Huber) and crime assistant Gerd Heymann (Michael Andde, 80), never developed Starallen. “That also affected Michael Andde. Our collaboration was not just a job, it was an experience. We were just a grand team,” said Huber.

Although Huber said goodbye after about ten years and 120 episodes of “The Alte” and other projects were concerned, contact with Schimpf was never stopped. His death at the age of 100 makes him “stunned” and at the same time let him look back with gratitude: “The encounter with Rolf has changed my life significantly. It was the building block for everything that came in my life afterwards.”

Huber and Schimpf joined the crime series in 1986. For the former was the end of 225, Schimpf went to Commissioner pension in 2007, but had a guest appearance in “The Alte” in 2009.

the drama star died on Saturday morning in a nursing home in Munich. He should have fallen asleep peacefully. From 2010, Schimpf initially lived with his wife Ilse in a Munich senior residence. After the death of his wife, he apparently had to give up the apartment for financial reasons at the age of 99 and move to a retirement home.