Fritz Diez

Known for ActingBorn 1901-02-28Died 1979-10-19Meiningen, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Der Teufelstaler

Carl von Ossietzky

Die Nacht an der Autobahn

Die Entscheidung des Dr. Ahrendt

Jacke wie Hose

Schatten über den Inseln

Zu jeder Stunde

Musterknaben

Choice of Purpose

Hooray! We Have a Vacation!

Zwei Ziegen

Im Sonderauftrag

The Punch Bowl

SAS 181 antwortet nicht

Thomas Müntzer

Marketa Lazarová

Seventeen Moments of Spring

Frozen Flashes

Five Cartridges

Liberation - Part 1 : The Fire Bulge

The Great Commander Georgy Zhukov

Liberation - Part 5 : The Last Assault

Backhouse Bliss

Liberation - Part 2 : Breakthrough

Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class

Flucht ins Schweigen

Carbide and Sorrel

Liberation - Part 4 : The Battle of Berlin

I, Justice

Neues aus der Florentiner 73

Liberation - Part 3 : Direction of the Main Blow

Rote Bergsteiger

Ware für Katalonien

Soldiers of Freedom

Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort

Der wunderbare Schatz

Tscheljuskin

Ein Mann und sein Schatten

Da helfen keine Pillen