Alfred Struwe, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Alfred Struwe

actor

Date of Birth: 22-Apr-1927

Place of Birth: Malbork, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 13-Feb-1998

Profession: stage actor, television actor, film actor

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Alfred Struwe

  • Alfred Struwe (April 22, 1927 – February 13, 1998) was a German actor, best known for his television role as Dr.
  • Alexander Wittkugel in Zahn um Zahn. Struwe was born in Marienburg, West Prussia (today Malbork in Poland), the son of a postman, and grew up there with five siblings.
  • His first acting experience was in Hitler Youth summer camps.
  • In 1944 he was called up first into the Reich Labour Service, then into the military.
  • After attending officer training school in Hanover, he was sent along with other young contemporaries into battle in the final days of World War II.
  • In 1945 he rejoined his family in Leipzig.
  • Since his father, Gustav, was opposed to his making acting his career, he instead had to attend a police academy, until in 1948 it closed and he was also discharged.
  • From then on, he was able to dedicate himself entirely to acting.
  • He had already performed part-time in amateur productions and taken private acting lessons during his police training.
  • In 1949 he joined the theater company in Greiz and subsequently was engaged in Brandenburg, Zittau, Cottbus, Karl-Marx-Stadt and Dresden. Struwe made his first appearance before the cameras in 1954, in the DEFA co-production Leuchtfeuer.
  • Then beginning in the 1960s, his face was often seen on both movie and television screens.
  • Several times he played the part of the would-be assassin of Hitler, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg.
  • In 1985 he played what would become his signature role, the eccentric dentist Dr.
  • Alexander Wittkugel in the television series Zahn um Zahn ("A Tooth for a Tooth").
  • This was so successful that in response to viewer demand the 7 projected episodes were extended and in the end 21 stories of "Dr.
  • Wittkugel's Practices" were produced.Struwe's daughter Catharina Struwe is likewise an actress, with, for example, a longstanding engagement at the Neue Bühne in Senftenberg. With the dissolution of the Iron Curtain, the popular actor's life became quieter.
  • Struwe made occasional further appearances on stage and on television, but otherwise enjoyed his retirement.
  • He died in Potsdam in 1998 after a lengthy illness caused by pneumonia and was buried in the Southwest Cemetery in Stahnsdorf.

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