Known For
Acting
Born
May 28, 1940
Died
Mar 28, 2006
Place of Birth
Mohrungen, Germany
Credits
34 titles
Wilfried Baasner
Biography
Wilfried Baasner (born May 28, 1940, in Mohrungen; died March 28, 2006, in Athens) was a German actor. Baasner grew up in Lauenburg and Hamburg. At the age of 17, he left secondary school and began his acting training at the Hamburger Kammerspiele under Ida Ehre. This was followed by theater engagements at various venues, including the Stadttheater Bremerhaven, the Wiener Volkstheater, the Wiener Schauspielhaus, the Hamburger Kammerspiele, the Landesbühne Hannover, and the Renaissance-Theater in Berlin. In 1982, Baasner received the prestigious Kainz Medal for his portrayal of John Merrick in Bernard Pomerance's *The Elephant Man* at the Schauspielhaus Wien. He also garnered significant acclaim for his role in the television drama *Hautnah* (1985), which was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize. Baasner achieved nationwide fame through his role as the unscrupulous Achim Lauritzen in the ZDF television series *Das Erbe der Guldenburgs*. His bald head—originally shaved for a production of Bertolt Brecht's *The Threepenny Opera*, in which he played Mackie Messer—later became his trademark. During the final years of his life, Baasner lived primarily in Greece. He died in 2006 in a hospital in Athens.
Known For
Filmography
Edel & Starck
Markus Borell
Klinikum Berlin Mitte – Leben in Bereitschaft
Manfred Dittrich
The Peppercorns
Herr Raffmann
The Seventh Scroll
Lord Intef
Operation Phoenix - Jäger zwischen den Welten
Jochen Schütter
Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP
Klinik unter Palmen
Kaminsky
Unser Charly
Manfred Völkel
Mit verbundenen Augen
Albert Steiner
Die Straßen von Berlin
Hansi Prybilla
Der schwarze Fluch
Attorney General Winston
Im Namen des Gesetzes
Lutz Gerlach
Die Wache
Cornetti
Die Trotzkis
Der blaue Diamant
Boris Ottinski (Otto)
Hecht & Haie
Voss
Wolffs Revier
Walter Keilhoff
Four Junior Detectives
Hirnvogel
Novak
Karl Kammerlocher
Die Frosch-Intrige
Bürgermeister Wutte
Die Männer vom K3
Leo Biehl
The Legacy of Guldenburgs
Achim Lauritzen
Lenz oder die Freiheit
Glaubnitz
The Lenz Papers
Glaubnitz
Hautnah
Meilick
Coconuts
Kern
Tod eines Schaustellers
Schuster
Der Fahnder
Jöckle
Karambolage
King
I.O.B. Spezialauftrag
Staatsanwalt
Derrick
Rotter
Die Montagsmaler
Self
Scene of the Crime
Jelenak
Bezaubernde Mama
Yve Lemonnier