A reading with Walter Plathe
He played comic and serious roles in film, television and theater, and for seventeen years was the down-to-earth, likeable
down-to-earth, likeable "country doctor" for seventeen years. As dazzling and versatile as the actor's roles are, as
straightforward and direct is the character behind them. Walter Plathe - a real Berlin plant, a guy with heart
and snout, a popular actor who sticks to his credo: "The mother of Janze is the theater!"
Walther Plathe reads from his biography "Ich habe nichts ausgelassen".
Walter Plathe studied at the state drama school in Berlin and was hired by the Staatstheater Schwerin in 1971 and
1976 to the Berlin Theater der Freundschaft, today Theater an der Parkaue. His TV career began
with "Märkische Chronik" and "Das Puppenheim in Pinnow". He was voted the GDR's TV favorite five times.
From 1992-2008, he played the title role in the ZDF series "Der Landarzt", the doctor Dr. Ulrich Teschner, 130 times. Since
2010, he has been in front of the camera as the mayor in the series "Familie Dr. Kleist". Despite his all-German TV career
including "Tatort", "Der Alte", "Derrick" and "Das Traumschiff", he remains loyal to the theater. With the
Otto Reutter evening "Alles weg'n de' Leut'" he made his debut at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm in 1990. For his
For his solo play "Heute kein Hamlet", he received the Golden Curtain (Audience Award of the Berlin Theater Club) for the first time in 2001.
Theaterclub). This was followed by further awards with the Berlin Theater Prize for his performances in the
productions "The Adventures of the Good Soldier Schwejk" in 2005, "An Imaginary Sick Man" in 2007, "Zille" in 2009
and in 2014 "Zille and Der eiserne Gustav". He has played the leading roles in Berlin, Hamburg, Düsseldorf and Cologne in
"Zille", "Die Abenteuer des braven Soldaten Schwejk", "Der blaue Engel", "Der eiserne Gustav" and in the Dieter
Wedel productions of "Nibelungen" in Worms, where he played the leading role of Joseph Süß in "Das Vermögen des Herrn Süß". 2009
he was awarded the Georg Scheu Prize for his role as "Volker von Alzey" at the 2008 Nibelungen Festival. 2015-
2017 he played Götz von Berlichingen in the play of the same name at the castle festival in Jagsthausen. The
audience in Berlin last saw him at the Theater am Kurfüstendamm in "Jacobowsky und der Oberst" and in
"Monsieure Pierre goes online". In 2019, he was also awarded the BZ Culture Prize. In the past
years he has thrilled audiences as Sir Toby Rülp in "Was ihr wollt" at the Seefestival.
