Wilfried Baasner
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 28, 1940
- Died
- Mar 28, 2006 (aged 65)
- Place of birth
- Mohrungen, Germany
- Credits
- 34
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
2002TV
Markus Borell
Klinikum Berlin Mitte – Leben in Bereitschaft
2000TV
Manfred Dittrich
The Peppercorns
1999TV
Herr Raffmann
The Seventh Scroll
1999TV
Lord Intef
Operation Phoenix - Jäger zwischen den Welten
1997TV
Jochen Schütter
Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP
1997TV
Klinik unter Palmen
1996TV
Kaminsky
Unser Charly
1995TV
Manfred Völkel
Mit verbundenen Augen
1995Movie
Albert Steiner
Die Straßen von Berlin
1995TV
Hansi Prybilla
Der schwarze Fluch
1995Movie
Attorney General Winston
Im Namen des Gesetzes
1994TV
Lutz Gerlach
Die Wache
1994TV
Cornetti
Die Trotzkis
1993TV
Der blaue Diamant
1993Movie
Boris Ottinski (Otto)
Hecht & Haie
1993TV
Voss
Wolffs Revier
1992TV
Walter Keilhoff
Four Junior Detectives
1992Movie
Hirnvogel
Novak
1991TV
Karl Kammerlocher
Die Frosch-Intrige
1991Movie
Bürgermeister Wutte
Die Männer vom K3
1988TV
Leo Biehl
The Legacy of Guldenburgs
1987TV
Achim Lauritzen
Lenz oder die Freiheit
1986TV
Glaubnitz
The Lenz Papers
1986Movie
Glaubnitz
Hautnah
1985Movie
Meilick
Coconuts
1985Movie
Kern
Tod eines Schaustellers
1984Movie
Schuster
Der Fahnder
1984TV
Jöckle
Karambolage
1983Movie
King
I.O.B. Spezialauftrag
1980TV
Staatsanwalt
Derrick
1974TV
Rotter, Koller
Die Montagsmaler
1974TV
Self
Scene of the Crime
1970TV
Jelenak, Diedrichs
Bezaubernde Mama
1964Movie
Yve Lemonnier