Ohb Theatre, film or television: Herbert Köfer worked in East Germany and beyond The collapse of the wall Busy actors. Even as a pensioner, he never has time-just like his main role.
When he was almost 100 years old, he was still on stage. Herbert Köfer is one of the most famous actors in East Germany. He also succeeded after the fall of the Berlin Wall. He died on Saturday at the age of 100. His widow Heike Köfer announced the news to the German News Agency on Sunday evening.
He was born in Berlin and has performed on stage for about 80 years. He is a theater and film actor, host and voice actor. Especially when he played the role of Grandpa Paul Schmidt in the East German TV series “Pensioners Never Have Time”, he has made himself into the hearts of the audience.
From the beginning, Köfer was an iconic figure in East German television: in 1952, he read the first news there-in “Current Camera”. He was there for the last broadcast on New Year’s Eve in 1991. The mime actor starred in DEFA movies such as “Nackt unter Wölfen” (1963) and popular TV series “In allerfreund”, “SOKO Leipzig” and “Ein starkes Team” after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
“I live in every performance, every reading and every day I play,” he himself described his elixir, from which he drew strength and energy. Work keeps him young, he repeatedly emphasized.
