1901-02-28 ( 124 years old ) in Meiningen, Thuringia, Germany
Fritz Diez was a German actor, producer, director and theater manager.
Grew up in a poor family, started earning a living as a boy. He was a newspaper salesman, moonlighted on tennis courts, then learned to be an electrician. Graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Meiningen. Upon graduation, he was an actor in provincial theaters in Eisenach, Hanau, Flensburg, Eger, Baden-Baden. Fritz Dietz adhered to leftist views, so he emigrated with his wife to Switzerland in 1935. Played in theaters in Switzerland. In 1946 he returned to Germany. He worked as a general manager, actor and theater director in Dresden. Since the early 1960s at the Volksbühne Theater in Berlin. In the cinema since 1952 - "Shadow over the Islands" (Arne Roge, 1952). In 1955, for the first time, he played the role of Adolf Hitler in the famous film "Ernst Thalmann - the leader of his class". In 1967, he played the role of Hitler in two films of the DEFA studio at once. Soviet film director Yuri Ozerov invited Fritz Dietz to play the role of Hitler in the film epic "Liberation", but the actor was tired of portraying this image both in theater and in cinema, he was afraid of becoming a hostage to one role, and refused. Only under the influence of Erich Honecker, Fritz Dietz was forced to give his final consent to the performance of the role so hated by him. Fritz Dietz - the best performer of the role of Hitler of the XX century. An accurate psychological characterization of the character, an inflated and, at the same time, realistic drawing of the character of the Nazi leader - those features of Fritz Dietz's game that allowed him to play Hitler convincingly and non-cartoonically in the film epic "Liberation" (1968-1970). He played Hitler in the television series "Seventeen Moments of Spring" (1973), "Soldiers of Freedom" (1977) and other films. In 1980 Dietz's last film "Gluck im Hinterhaus" was released, in which he played the father of Karl Jägr.
Movies
The Great Commander Georgy Zhukov
1995-05-01
Glück im Hinterhaus
1980-03-05
Neues aus der Florentiner 73
1974-12-24
Der wunderbare Schatz
1973-12-25
Hooray! We Have a Vacation!
1972-09-01
Liberation: The Last Assault
1971-11-05
Liberation: Battle for Berlin
1971-11-04
Tscheljuskin
1970-11-01
Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow
1970-10-21
Liberation: The Break Through
1970-05-08
Liberation: The Fire Bulge
1970-05-07
I, Justice
1968-04-12
Marketa Lazarová
1967-11-24
Frozen Flashes
1967-04-13
Flucht ins Schweigen
1966-05-27
Carbide and Sorrel
1963-12-27
Carl von Ossietzky
1963-09-01
Der Teufelstaler
1963-06-28
Ein Mann und sein Schatten
1963-05-21
Die Nacht an der Autobahn
1962-09-16
Zwei Ziegen
1961-10-13
Da helfen keine Pillen
1961-10-06
Five Cartridges
1960-11-03
Die Entscheidung des Dr. Ahrendt
1960-06-08
Zu jeder Stunde
1960-01-29
The Punch Bowl
1959-12-04
Musterknaben
1959-11-27
SAS 181 antwortet nicht
1959-07-02
Ware für Katalonien
1959-03-06
Im Sonderauftrag
1959-01-03
Thomas Müntzer
1956-05-16
Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class
1955-10-06
Jacke wie Hose
1953-04-29
Schatten über den Inseln
1952-05-15
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