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The police confirm Jan Fedder’s death.
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Imago
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The actor was found in his Hamburg apartment.
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Jan Fedder was 64 years old.
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Imago
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There he played the Hamburg policeman Dirk Matthies.
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Jan Fedder was married.
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The German actor Jan Fedder died in Hamburg at the age of 64. «There was an assignment in Jan Fedder’s apartment. The honorary commissioner of the Hamburg police died at 6.47 p.m., »a police spokesman told the« Bild ». According to the newspaper, the cause of death is his cancer.
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Fedder spoke for the first time in more detail about his illness on the talk show “Reinhold Beckmann meets…”: “I was in rehab for ten months, and now it’s really good again. It is astonishing what this body can do and that it keeps coming up. »But the treatment was very difficult for him:« The 30 exposures, which were slightly higher than normal, because this was in the mouth, that was the one worst time of my life because I had no strength at all. I couldn’t even pick up the phone. »
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Then he had an operation: “The professor took a third out of my tongue. He wanted to get the voice. He did all of this wonderfully – with oh and noises. »His big problem:« I drank like a sow. I have now stopped, have not been drinking for ten months. I think it’s enough for the rest of life. The body no longer wants. »
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Awareness through ARD series
Fedder made the television evening series “Grossstadtrevier” famous in particular: Since 1992 he has been seen in the long-running ARD as Hamburg police officer Dirk Matthies. He also shot four Siegfried Lenz films. In 2006 he received the German Television Award for his portrayal in “The Man in the Stream”.
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Fedder had his first major role on the screen: in Wolfgang Petersen’s classic “Das Boot” (1981) he played Bootsmaat Pilgrim. Fedder rarely went on trips to the cinema, television became his profession. He was involved in more than 400 productions and made North German characters his trademark with his unmistakable voice and accent.
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The NDR series “News from Büttenwarder” with Fedder as farmer Brakelmann and Peter Heinrich Brix as his buddy “Adsche” became a cult, especially in the north.
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The son of a pub owner who grew up in St. Pauli was a genuine Hamburg boy. He was considered a folk actor – and “rightly so,” as Fedder once said. (SDA / Bang)
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