Overview

• Niece Nele Seifert confirmed that he died on July 15 at age 74.
• The exact cause of his death has not been disclosed.
• He spent nearly four decades with the Berliner Ensemble from 1978 to 2017 and taught at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts.
• His on-screen debut came in the 1979 DEFA drama Bis daß der Tod euch scheidet, and he later appeared in Babylon Berlin, Tatort, SOKO Wismar and Polizeiruf 110.
• His role as Butler Dagobert in four Bibi & Tina films from 2014 to 2017 endeared him to younger audiences.