Horst Krause will be eighty on Saturday – THE Horst Krause.
Meatballs with Spreewald horseradish, medium-spicy, with a molle are probably also mandatory on this day. The wide suspenders over the turtleneck or the plaid shirt that stretches over the mighty belly, too? Probably the most famous bachelor in the East, who has lived in Moabit for years, will celebrate his eightieth birthday with the Ludwigsfeld family on Saturday. And the loved ones will serve him what he likes best, but only his dodgy film sister Elsa alias Carmen Maja Antoni from the eight RBB “Krause” films (the ninth is currently being shot) can do it perfectly.
Hard to believe that Horst Krause will appear in a tuxedo for the occasion. But maybe he’ll dance. Acting colleagues from the more mature generation report that he is a gifted old-school dancer.
Eighty? Age doesn’t matter at all with this mime. He just keeps on playing his role as a grumpy village policeman in unrest in “Police Call 110”. Everything was always shot by director Bernd Böhlich in Brandenburg, including a cross-border investigation with Polish officials. The shepherd dog Vera sat in the sidecar of the old Ural motorcycle, and in recent years her sister Elsa, who is no longer so good on foot, has often been sitting in the sidecar.
Police chief Krause had a number of well-known police officers at his side: Jutta Hoffmann, Imogen Kogge, Maria Simon, and in between the exalted Sophie Rois. In the sometimes crude, but always entertaining Krause TV pieces, Andreas Schmidt (box office hit “Summer in front of the balcony”) played the inimitably lovable village idiot. His early death unfortunately robbed the humorous Krause series of a shaken amount of heart-aching comic flavor.
Family problem solver
Even in the four “Krüger” TV episodes so far, in which Krause even had to travel to Mediterranean European countries as a family problem solver, the one-off always played itself across the screen. Unison as a mixture of a good-natured grumpy bear and an apparently coarse, but in truth always gentle and empathic guy. So he gave the mostly pretty well-tailored stories tasty.
After the Defa era, when he liked to act as villains in 16 Indian films, he was only rarely allowed to go to the great cinema. For example in Detlev Buck’s “We Can Be Different” 2003, and immediately afterwards Michael Schorr shot the laconic film “Schultze gets the Blues” with him, which was awarded the Stockholm Film Prize. The retired Kali buddy Schultze from a desolate village near Halle plays polka on the accordion and wins the folk music competition with a Zydeco melody from Louisiana heard on the radio at night. The prize: Festival participation in Texas.
There he experiences a caricature of his noisy Saxon-Anhalt “sausage celebrations”, escapes on a Mississippi boat to a mysterious woman of color. And find the blues.
