Fritz Diez was a German actor, producer, director and theater manager.
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.
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Filmography (Movies)
The Great Commander Georgy Zhukov
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Release Date:01/05/1995
Backhouse Bliss
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Release Date:05/03/1980
Choice of Purpose
Character:Hitler
Release Date:21/12/1975
Neues aus der Florentiner 73
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Release Date:24/12/1974
Der wunderbare Schatz
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Release Date:25/12/1973
Hooray! We Have a Vacation!
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Release Date:01/09/1972
Liberation: The Last Assault
Character:Adolf Hitler
Release Date:05/11/1971
Liberation: The Battle of Berlin
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Release Date:04/11/1971
Tscheljuskin
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Release Date:01/11/1970
Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow
Character:Hitler
Release Date:21/10/1970
Liberation: Breakthrough
Character:Hitler
Release Date:08/05/1969
Liberation: The Fire Bulge
Character:Adolf Hitler
Release Date:07/05/1968
I, Justice
Character:Hitler
Release Date:12/04/1968
Marketa Lazarová
Character:Armiger (voice)
Release Date:24/11/1967
Frozen Flashes
Character:Adolf Hitler
Release Date:13/04/1967
Flucht ins Schweigen
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Release Date:27/05/1966
Carbide and Sorrel
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Release Date:27/12/1963
Carl von Ossietzky
Character:Hellmut von Gerlach
Release Date:01/09/1963
Der Teufelstaler
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Release Date:28/06/1963
Ein Mann und sein Schatten
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Release Date:21/05/1963
Die Nacht an der Autobahn
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Release Date:16/09/1962
Zwei Ziegen
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Release Date:13/10/1961
Da helfen keine Pillen
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:06/10/1961
Five Cartridges
Character:Major Balanos
Release Date:03/11/1960
Die Entscheidung des Dr. Ahrendt
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Release Date:08/06/1960
Zu jeder Stunde
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Release Date:29/01/1960
The Punch Bowl
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Release Date:04/12/1959
Musterknaben
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Release Date:27/11/1959
SAS 181 antwortet nicht
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Release Date:02/07/1959
Ware für Katalonien
Character:Captain Gerner
Release Date:06/03/1959
Im Sonderauftrag
Character:Lieutenant Wegner
Release Date:03/01/1959
Thomas Müntzer
Character:Feldhauptmann Hoffmann
Release Date:16/05/1956
Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class
Character:Hitler
Release Date:06/10/1955
Jacke wie Hose
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Release Date:29/04/1953
Schatten über den Inseln
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Release Date:15/05/1952
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